I vote for Stallman, Torvalds, Shuttleworth and Ballmer as guest speakers.
On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 13:30 +0200, Sebastian Cachia wrote: > Regards OOo, I used to teach ECDL a few years back, and can back up > what Anton said, that a number of students had bought PCs with OOo > pre-installed, and either just stuck with it, or didn't even know they > were using a different product. Getting people to switch to Linux > would be great, but as Jean said, a number of other open source > applications exist, and getting people to switch would be a great step > forward. Also once people are used to using products like Firefox, > OOo, Gimp, etc, the prospect of using Linux is no longer so bad. > Afterall, for average user, the concept of the OS is purely at an > Application layer, and has little to do with what kernel is running > underneath. > > Last year at Uni, we had an Introduction to Operating Systems course > (or something like that) by the CIS department. It is however > generally accepted to have been quite a disapointment. > > A good place to start might be some sort of Open Source seminar, > organized by MLUG for Uni ICT students. A list of guest speakers could > be identified, both from within MLUG, as well as the Uni staff. Also, > it is generally better to get people interested through seeing and > doing. Some sort of workshop, in a linux lab perhaps, where anybody > can bring along a laptop and be led through a given topic by somebody. > Perhaps these could all be joined together to form some sort of day > long event. > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
