Promoting FOSS should be a consistent and an ongoing thing: I think we have several categories of people to continue to reach out to:
1.The business community (day to day traders, exporters, companies, NGOs, etc) 2.The school communities (colleges, universities, elementary, junior, upper graders, primary, secondary, high, etc depending on the country's school set up) 3.The public sector or gov't (this is harder, coz we need to be able to quantify certain things within the legal framework of the state; some hardware vendors do not support Linux, etc) 4.Individuals (An advert on TV would do i think, developers could donate FOSS projects and code to the community, etc) There is also a lot of hype about Uganda@50, we could organize something maybe (We need to devise more means to reach out to the particular targets that need linux in the above categories. I think in the least, everyone on the continent should be aware that Linux is an operating system, it exists, this is where you go to get it if you need it, this is where you go to update it, etc. Linux mobile would be a good thing, so folks could just download it free onto their devices, etc) Support and updates can be headache at times (the updates may fail midway with some ISPs, and you have to redo it at the expense of more bandwidth, even some ISPs dongles do not support linux OOTB ...) Standards standards standards, we need to convince the public that FOSS meets software standards despite clients quoting some FOSS license agreements that say....... > Hi, > > I saw this message on facebook: > > Yesterday, it was confirmed that Marion Mpanga, Milton Aineruhanga and > Brian > Ssennoga all made it to the new FOSSFA Council. Congratulations to COSS! > https://www.facebook.com/COSSug/posts/346813282079387 > > So, Uganda has 3 representatives in a continental open source initiative, > yet, > there has not been 1 single Linux User Group (or Free Software Day) event > for > about a year. (A lot of talk about doing them, though) > > So, is there need at all to *do* something? Or is the LUG/FLOSS community > something virtual? > And if we should do/organise something, what should it be, and who should > do > it? > > > -- > rgds, > > Reinier Battenberg > Director > Mountbatten Ltd. > www.mountbatten.net > tel: +256 758 801749 > twitter: @batje > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. > _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
