OT - FOSS slide shows

[David Fletcher]

On Sunday 15 Feb 2009, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 15:27 +0000, David Fletcher wrote:
> > This morning I had a meeting with one of my friends at the central 
library, to 
> > arrange to hold some FOSS publicity events.
> > 
> > We think we can get hold of a digital projector, but what we need is some 
> > publicity material to show to attract some attention.
> > 
> > Does anybody please know of any slide shows we could use for this purpose?
> > 
> > Thanks for any help.
> 
> Are you looking for anything in particular? 
What we are thinking would be a good first approach, would be to try to 
introduce software that can be used on multiple operating systems such as 
Open Office. That is how I got started - by installing Open Office and using 
it with windoze instead of Word Perfect for a while, then did a dual boot 
installation, gradually moved my data from the MS partition over to Linux, 
learnt to do back ups, email, etc.

If we can catch some attention as people enter the library on a Saturday, it 
may be possible to interest them in free stuff and gradually start them 
sliding down the slippery slope towards using Linux :-)

So, what I think would be useful would be any slide shows, if any, that have 
been prepared on Open Office, the Gimp, Audacity I think, that run on both 
windoze and Linux. I know that there are also LaTeX packages for both 
systems, but that might be a bit hard core for our purposes.

Dave

> -- 
> 
> My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
> "There are two Great Sins in the world...
> ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
> Only the former may be overcome."
Agreed

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