Regards OOo, I used to teach ECDL a few years back, and can back up what Anton said, that a number of students had bought PCs with OOo pre-installed, and either just stuck with it, or didn't even know they were using a different product. Getting people to switch to Linux would be great, but as Jean said, a number of other open source applications exist, and getting people to switch would be a great step forward. Also once people are used to using products like Firefox, OOo, Gimp, etc, the prospect of using Linux is no longer so bad. Afterall, for average user, the concept of the OS is purely at an Application layer, and has little to do with what kernel is running underneath.
Last year at Uni, we had an Introduction to Operating Systems course (or something like that) by the CIS department. It is however generally accepted to have been quite a disapointment. A good place to start might be some sort of Open Source seminar, organized by MLUG for Uni ICT students. A list of guest speakers could be identified, both from within MLUG, as well as the Uni staff. Also, it is generally better to get people interested through seeing and doing. Some sort of workshop, in a linux lab perhaps, where anybody can bring along a laptop and be led through a given topic by somebody. Perhaps these could all be joined together to form some sort of day long event.
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