[Ubuntu-us-ok] Anyone interesting in discussing rural Linux promotion?

[Travis Northrup]

NSU here in Tahlequah has been welcome to it through the linux club. You'll
need to contact the admins for the schools you want to approach and be sure
to have a presentation prepped to demostrate the ease of use, availability
of opensource applications through the software center and the integration
abilities that ubuntu provides for social interaction. Demonstrate the
compatability of LibreOffice to the document formats for word. Also promote
wine & winetricks for window application compatibility so that if they do
decide to utilize ubuntu, they will still have the window applications that
are most often used still available; this is important for licensing for
vendor applications they use.


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Anthony <anthony at cajuntechie.org> wrote:

> On 04/30/2013 03:41 PM, Travis Northrup wrote:
> > bro, your speaking to the choir here (Tahlequah). Promote Edubuntu and
> the
> > latest 13.04 ubuntu to the schools is about the only thing your going to
> > get any decent reception from.
>
> Wow, that sucks lol.
>
> I've talked to the schools here and, while they're "open" to open source
> in general, they appear to be locked up in contracts with big vendors
> like Microsoft for the foreseeable future. That locks out things like
> LibreOffice or even Edubuntu right now (maybe).  I *might* be able to
> get them interested in peripheral applications that aren't covered by
> traditional vendors. But it looks like a hard sell. Still going at it
> though.
>
> What type of success have you had with the education market in Tahlequah?
>
> Anthony
>
>
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