just fyi seb :) we were already at a very advanced stage of planning such an event, we had had the venue sorted out, were working on the material to use and give out, contacted canonical for gutsy cds to give out and all the other items on the agenda...However at a point the hosting academy decided that it wouldnt go on with the plan and we were basically shut off from the event... I have no problem (or anyone else in the MLUG afaik) to restart the preparation process for such an event...anzi!
My plan stands like this right now: 1) Create Survey for Enterprise and Students 2) Create Posters for Uni with Shocking comments and statements 3) Organise Event on equal grounds such as LUGradio Live 4) ???? 5) Profit! I, for one, welcome our new Linus Overlord! :P:P:P sorry, but I'v been wanting to draw up one of these charts since I'v become at slashdot junkie at the age of 12 :D (studying systems developement while writing this) :O Mewt On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Sebastian Cachia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > >
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