[Fsuk-manchester] Helping Free Software by Beta Testing

[Michael Dorrington]

I received feedback on Debian BSP event announcement, where people
wanted to help out with Free Software but thought that a BSP was too
much for them. Well, another way to help with Free Software is to do
Beta Testing¹ of Beta versions² of Free Software.

A couple of current Beta versions that people might be interested in are
 Firefox 4 and LibreOffice 3.3.

Firefox 4 Beta:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-GB/firefox/beta/
This contains the WebM, the open video format, so, among other things,
allows the viewing of videos on youtube without the non-free Adobe Flash
plugin:
http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/05/firefox-youtube-and-webm/
http://www.youtube.com/html5

LibreOffice 3.3 Release Candidate:
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
Due to concerns about the stewardship OpenOffice.org, it has been forked
as LibreOffice. It has lots of new features and fixes:
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features/

Happy testing,
Mike.

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_testing#Beta_testing
² http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Beta

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