Allan, I would be very interested in the documentation of this event. It would provide a very good stance of a local case studies; in a dimension that is not easy to capture - individual experiences in FOSS Migration.
I hope you will profile persons and/or companies taking part in this event, so as to have a record of Ugandan FOSS Migration Case Studies. it would be great to know their ICT Policy/View on FOSS, their business Context, and why they think FOSS will help. Would be great to know their level of exposure to FOSS before the Migration, if they have used it else where or not. I do realise that some information - real accrued benefits and user experiences - will only be available after Migrated users use their new OS's for a while, but with the right profiling, I hope you will keep a tab on all. this is a very good opportunity to record these facts, figures and feelings - we should use this opportunity to get percentages, user preferences (of the Linux OS Flavours and Desktop versions), User Perceptions (before and after using the new SW kits), who or what influenced them towards this, and other stats. Kudos on this event - the documentation will go a long way in convincing the ugandan - and diaspora - community on FOSS in LDCs. I love everything else, i might consider paying (seriously? no way!) for the documentation - if released under CC-BY-SA !!! Cheers PS - When is it? How does someone take part? What are the modalities? do you have like a page - blog or whatever - giving details? Please avail this info soon. On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 02:28 -0700, Allan Kamukama wrote: > Hi guys, speaking of migrating i and the guys at EACOSS are planning a > funfilled event of migrating various computer users to linux. Most > guys out there think linux is complicated yet they are disgruntled > with windows. so they are stuck in between the two. I was requesting > guest speakers and tutors for the event to come from the LUG. Any > ideas are welcome. > > On 23 July 2010 02:00, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Send LUG mailing list submissions to > > [email protected] > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > [email protected] > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > [email protected] > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of LUG digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. RE: Re: FOSS Migration (Brian Ssennoga) > > 2. Re: Re: FOSS Migration (Noah Sematimba) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:38:55 +0300 > > From: Brian Ssennoga <[email protected]> > > Subject: RE: [LUG] Re: FOSS Migration > > To: Linux Users Group Uganda <[email protected]> > > Message-ID: <1279874335.10177.6.ca...@brian-laptop> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > > Stephen, > > That sure would be a plus - I, we and us, should actually come out to > > document instances that are simply wise NOT TO Migrate - if any. > > > > I must add, that my current assignment may not be as accommodative, but > > i totally agree - > > > > so LUG - is there a case of Migration that falls in Stephen's > > categorization below? Please share....comprehensively and conclusively! > > > > On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 10:40 +0300, Stephen S. Musoke wrote: > >> Brian, > >> > >> I would add my voice, which may not be well taken on this forum, but a > >> section on where FOSS may not be competitive against Proprietary > >> solutions because of training shortage, usability, rollout issues, > >> performance, end user resistance, and integration issues with existing > >> infrastructure, software and hardware. > >> > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: > > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/lug/attachments/20100723/7e324698/attachment.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 2 > > Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:50:17 +0300 > > From: Noah Sematimba <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [LUG] Re: FOSS Migration > > To: Brian Ssennoga <[email protected]> > > Cc: Linux Users Group Uganda <[email protected]> > > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > > > > > On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Brian Ssennoga wrote: > > > >> Stephen, > >> That sure would be a plus - I, we and us, should actually come out > >> to document instances that are simply wise NOT TO Migrate - if any. > >> > >> I must add, that my current assignment may not be as accommodative, > >> but i totally agree - > >> > >> so LUG - is there a case of Migration that falls in Stephen's > >> categorization below? Please share....comprehensively and > >> conclusively! > > > > Actually the most used argument against migration is usually the > > support issue. There is no one company that one can pay support to and > > be sure that when you need a patch or fix, they are going to produce > > it unlike proprietary software. This is usually a big issue for large > > corporates. > > > > Noah. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > > > > > End of LUG Digest, Vol 71, Issue 73 > > *********************************** > > > > > > -- > East African Centre for Open Source Software > System and Network Administrator > Plot 9- 12 Portbell Road Nakawa > P.O.Box 26192 Kampala-Uganda > Tel: +256(0) 312 29 48 51 > +256(0) 772657762 > "The new ICT Advisory, Innovations & Training Centre" > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). 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