On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 10:24:53AM +0545, Shankar Pokharel wrote: > FOSSians, > > HLCIT has asked us to do a presentation about FOSS and its use for > telecenter officials gathering. The audience will be about 46 personals from > different telecenters across the country. > > Any suggestions for the presentation?
Hey Shanku :), It's strange, rather unusual this topic's come up here. I was discussing about FOSS vs. Proprietary softwares in relation to adoption in government institution with one of my friend and I still couldn't convince him that FOSS would be better than Propietary software. :( It was rather heated discussion. I'll save it for next time. To the point now, I'd at least say covering these could help - 1) Introduction - FOSS philosophy 2) FOSS softwares available that can compete with it's proprietary counterpart (could be supplimented with real benchmarks if needed) 3) Global ethusiasm behind FOSS 4) Security, Usability, Cost metrics and Maintenability of FOSS softwares. 5) Throw in some FUDs - how braindead are Non-FOSS programmers. This is called marketing in today's age. Free softwares can & should market as much as possible. 6) Where FOSS is heading in Nepal and it's global state currently. 7) Limitations of FOSS (i.e, what it can't promise. This is a big one because not every software demand can be covered by FOSS). Cheers --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
