that egging video was hilarious On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Jean Azzopardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes..or some hungarian students will get creative with some dairy > products. > > On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 13:48 +0200, Anton Xuereb wrote: > > > Something tells me that Ballmer wouldn't accept and for the love of > > God don't expect me to stand still while so many chairs would be > > waiting to be broken against his back :( > > > > ;) > > > > M > > > > On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Jean Azzopardi > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >
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