On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I don't know if this topic has been discussed before or if I missed if > its aready there. But before a few weeks I had to explain to my > customer "what actually open source is". I have started to create some > slides myself, after I found nothing on the a.org sites. Then I was > aware of: > > * > http://opensource.org/osi-open-source-education#presentations_developed_by_osi > > which is pretty good for explaining open source. > However, my customer was doing stuff mostly in Java and so ASF > projects were used. He was esspecially interested in the ASF licensing > model, in "what people are working there" and in "what actually is the > ASF". I have done some slides, but I think this could be done better > if we would develop some official resources together. > > Of course some might say, that people who are not connected to the ASF > could use this official ASF slides. But they will talk about the same > things, just without ASF slides. And hopefully good slides help also > to clean up with some misunderstandings. Additionally we can make sure > that things, which are important to the ASF, like meritocracy are > pointed out in a good way and not only with one sentence between > coffee and cookie. > > That being said, I would love to have the chance to take some official > slides when I get to my customer next time. Is there anybody who feels > the same?
Definitely. I was just poking around this weekend seeing if a standard slide deck were out there but found nothing but extremely dated material. I think a good one would cover lots of ground and be easily tailorable - preferably in an open format (e.g. HTML:). I'm willing to help pull something together if nothing exists already. --tim
