2005/11/15, Kelsey Hartigan Go <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Pablo Manalastas wrote: > > >The Dean of the School of Science and Engineering of > >Ateneo de Manila University, Dr. Toby Dayrit, is > >spear- > >heading the open source movement in the Ateneo. > >The movement is supported by the Department of > >Information Systems & Computer Science (DISCS), which > >aims to lead the School in the adaption of open > >source. > >For a start, all the teaching labs now dual boot to > >UbuntuLinux/WinXP, with Ubuntu as default. By the end > >of this week, even the open labs will dual boot also. > >The faculty are studying ways to teach the > >traditionally Windows-heavy courses like Multimedia > >(using Flash, Photoshop, etc.) with alternative open > >source tools. > > > > > > Hi. It would be nice to post the social impact of moving desktops to > open source...probably compile that to come up with best practices of > moving to desktop open source.
What social impact? Convince the person with the purse strings and you have 99.9% of the problem of migrating desktops to free software solved. Employees use whatever they're told to use. Of course, the technical aspects are different. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
