Re: [OS:N:] Open office community classes

An interesting take would be since these are in a community farm, folks
won't be adding software, and shouldn't be digging around, so the OS
should be irrelevant to them.

Last time I did a demo, folks thought it looked like OSX or XP... the
familiarity of the menu and look and feel of the basic productivity apps
is comforting enough. The advantage to this is that they can try before
they buy. I wonder if they wouldn't be willing to let you convert half
the machines?

--jeremy

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 14:59, Chris Spencer wrote:
> Keep the picture of grandmas and grandpas in your head.
> 
> I don't think I could push Linux to them yet.  First I need to get the
> seed in there.  Then I can plug Linux a bit more.  
> 
> It's a baby step world out there.  We have to overcome the monopolies
> hold on their own turf...before people will accept that maybe the grass
> really is greener on the other side!
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 13:45, Jeremy Hogan wrote:
> > I always do:
> > 
> > OpenOffice.org, Gaim, Evolution, and Mozilla
> > 
> > Then sometimes add:
> > 
> > Games, the Gimp, Pilot syncing, and some GUI config tools
> > 
> > For the newbier crowd.
> > 
> > --jeremy
> > 
> > On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 10:48, Chris Spencer wrote:
> > > Tonight I am going to be pitching open source products to a local
> > > community college for use in their community classes.  (think grandma's
> > > and grandpa's).  
> > > 
> > > For starters I know I will be pitching openoffice and gimp.  I may touch
> > > on Linux in general.  Are there any other products that anyone thinks I
> > > should push?
> > > 
> > > I was also thinking of mentioning tuxpaint and offering it as something
> > > fun for parents to do with their children for a night...and at home
> > > too.  I could see my wife and I going to the class with our kids and at
> > > the end giving all the parents a gnuwin CD so that they could install
> > > Tux Paint (and all the other open source software available on it).
> > > 
> > > -Chris
> > > 
> > > ------------
> > > "Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of
> > > all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily
> > > defeat us." - Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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