Matt DeGoey wrote:
The products I've decided to highlight are: OpenOffice.org,
The GIMP, and the Mozilla Firefox browser (you don't buy browsers in
stores, but hey, it's better than IE).
Add in Inkscape as a substitute for Adobe Illustrator. Nvu as a substitute for MS Front Page Cinepaint as a Video Editor Audacity audio editor instead of Adobe Audition Mozilla Thunderbird as a Mail client Mozilla Sunbird as a Calendar/Planner FireBird as Oracle Database substitute
My desire for the workshop is to include a free CD to anyone who attends the workshop (max of 10 people per workshop), complete with all the software I would demonstrate durring the workshop. This way, if they like any of it, they can immediately go back to their dorm or home and try it out.
Excellent idea. Awareness is the biggest single hurdle that FLOSS has to overcome. We are after all, pitting basically word of mouth and an occasional magazine article against a multi Billion dollar marketing Machine
However, one of my managers has asked that IAll of the above come under the GPL or LGPL
make sure I am able to freely distribute copies to students before I
do anything.
You can read about those licenses here: http://www.openoffice.org/license.html
and here: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html
This leads me to my questions: 1) Am I able to provide attendees withThe short answer is yes with all of the above on the same CD.
a CD containing a full copy of OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 (or the latest
stable release at the time of the workshop);
If you want you can download a very neat install package from the OpenCD project
and 2) Are there anyThe easiest way to think of it is that it should be distributed/sold with the license intact
guidelines I must follow for distributing a CD with a copy of
OpenOffice.org, if I am permitted to do so.
I am intending to distribute all of the software on one CD if I can,Great, encourage the people that attend the workshop to take the cd and copy it as many times as they want and pass it to others. :) or if they haven't got anyone to pass it onto, put it in a box at the helpdesk as a giveaway.
but am willing to make a separate CD for each item. I have the
permission of my managers to distribute a CD with the software I
demonstrate, but we as a Helpdesk are not looking to become a
distributor as a whole.
I am wanting to provide copies as a means of
good gesture, and as an incentive for attending the workshop. We are
more than likely only going to do the workshop once this semester, but
I am looking at the workshop being available more than once next
semester, if all goes well that is. Please reply letting me know of
any guidelines I will need to follow, as well as any links or
documentation that may help as well, so that I might give them to my
managers.
Manuals are available in PDF format from http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html
and some early documentation is available for 2.0 from: http://oooauthors.org/groups/authors/userguide2
Certification is also available through the OOo Education project and http://www.theingots.org
Cheers Yo
Sincerely,
Matthew DeGoey
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