Yes..or some hungarian students will get creative with some dairy products.
On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 13:48 +0200, Anton Xuereb wrote: > Something tells me that Ballmer wouldn't accept and for the love of > God don't expect me to stand still while so many chairs would be > waiting to be broken against his back :( > > ;) > > M > > On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Jean Azzopardi > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I vote for Stallman, Torvalds, Shuttleworth and Ballmer as > guest > speakers. > > > On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 13:30 +0200, Sebastian Cachia 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 > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
