Is the presentation in Bhaktapur, Sano thimi at the training being organised by HLCIT for telecenter concerned people ??
On 6/30/07, Shishir Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess, LTSP will be the best presentation for the telecenters, because > it will be a firm base for FOSS related application and for government it > can be a good solution too. > > We did present it last time and had a pretty good response in the FOSS > intro presentation at HLCIT. If we can now target the telecenters officials > and give the presentation than we can definitely gain something out of it > for FOSS and our movement. Anyway when is the presentation scheduled for. > Please let me know I can help in that I have all the presentation materials > ready for LTSP's presentation with a server setup in my laptop for demo > purpose. > > As far as DOS based things are concerned, dos emulators available for > linux do pretty good job and we can demostrate that too, or may be their > alternatives will be the best idea > > On 6/30/07, nepbabu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Shishir Jha > EPC 1970,GPO 8975, > KTM,NEPAL -- Shishir Jha EPC 1970,GPO 8975, KTM,NEPAL --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
