Hi, My thoughts below:
--- David Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any tips or points for catching the attention of > mostly IT 'dumb' ales > staff ? 1. A typical question will be, "can we dual-boot windoze and Ubuntu, initially?" Need to give them time to migrate. 2. Do you want to give a demo of Samba? 3. Mention the important of open documentation standards (.odp or .pdf), and use of Openoffice for their day-to-day activites. 4. Network printing support demo will be helpful. 5. Firefox or Iceweasel browser that they can use. 6. For "IT" folks, they will want to run both windoze and GNU/Linux servers until they fully migrate. You might want to give them time for the learning curve. 7. Can show demo of different services (FTP, ssh, cvs, backups etc.), and how to use it on Ubuntu. 8. If IT doesn't know scripting, they might not appreciate the power of scripting, initially. If you can demo some scripts, it will be helpful. 9. Demo of USB support, some external hard-disk. Most of them don't know that it is plug-and-play. 10. Demo of Live-CD for rescue purpose. > I am thinking Beryl/Compiz, the mention of > no spyware and > viruses and the backing of big name companies like > Dell, IBM and Novell. Red Hat, HP, Google, Yahoo. Regards, SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
