Hey Billy, Thanks for forwarding the information. In the past three years since 2005, the LoCo Team in Pakistan has trained over 8500 people out which 4800 are endorsed by Public Sector training and software industry promotion organizations. The training material has been usually collected from the Internet and occasionally structured with mutual consultations.
The cost of these trainings for the end-users have always been free. No charges even for the institutions offering recognition or endorsements since its usually welfare and public service and that has been the greatest edge in promoting Ubuntu here. Recently banks, NGOs, schools and academic institutions have picked up Ubuntu at a fast pace and there are over 3000 specific commercial users I know about and I did case studies on some of the institutions that have deployed Ubuntu in over 20+ branches from server to client side. In Pakistan, Ubuntu has become a well known name in the industry. Are there any models where people could afford Ubuntu education in developing world countries and as for Pakistan a training complete with material and instruction is delivered at US$ 5.00 per learner. We have physically distributed over 20,000 CDs locally produced and packaged over these years and now as the Internet becomes more speedy, people have quite an interest towards downloading the ISOs. Maybe the US option is not usable in our region. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Billy Cina <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear U.S. Loco leads, > > This email is being sent to you in the hope that you will forward and > spread the word to all Ubuntu loco members in your team. > > Canonical has recently signed up two new training partners in the U.S. - > Fast Lane and Bridge Education. Both companies are already providing > Ubuntu training courses across the U.S., details of which you can find > here: http://webapps.ubuntu.com/course_locator/country_US/ > > As a special introduction offer and simply because they think we, well > you, are wonderful individuals, they are offering a 10% discount to any > Ubuntu loco member who takes a course over the next 6 months. > > If you have any questions, feel free to contact them directly (details > on the web site too), or you can also contact me :) > > Enjoy! > > -- > Billy Cina > Training Programmes Manager > Mob: +44 780 938 9862 > [email protected] > www.ubuntu.com > > > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > -- Regards. -------------------------- Fouad Bajwa @skBajwa Answering all your technology questions http://www.askbajwa.com http://twitter.com/fouadbajwa -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
