Belinda A. Lopez wrote: > On Oct 25, 2007, at 6:13 AM, alan c wrote: > >> What does it take to create a new user, and how long is that process?
[...] >and the approach I like is to target certain > occupations and show how they can transition to FOSS. Nice idea of targetting yes. I have just thought of another target area - young children! I have just this evening finished and delivered a PII 266Mhz (128MB ram) 4GB hd crt, cheap speakers, machine for a friends 2 year old child. Loaded with a lot of edubuntu (7.10) and community games. The child user will be a non sudo user. If you could see this child climbing up onto a full height chair unaided, and energetically using mouse and keyboard with happy energy - mostly random - and the fascination achieved - it is a picture. Now the child has a perfectly usable kids games machine, which was otherwise only junk! The mother is delighted that her own family laptop is now less of an attraction for the toddler, and not least because the old PC she used years ago on dialup is now actually useful again as a bonus courtesy of Ubuntu. It happens to be the first linux machine in the household - which uses windows (and a MAC) professionally. Watch this space. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
