[K12OSN] How to Promote Linux Training to a Library?

[Jim Hays]

You don't have to go into any dialogue about getting locked into a 
proprietary world.  Your selling point to do this is to show the public 
what software tools are available for FREE. 

I would show OpenOffice, Firefox, and Thunderbird making sure you show 
them on Windows AND Linux.  Only after showing these applications would 
I show and discuss Linux.  The "selling" point is that you don't have 
anything to sell. 


Jon Spriggs wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I've recently approached my local Library (which currently runs
>"Taster" sessions on the Internet, Word, Excel and so forth to the
>general public one night a month) about the possibility of running a
>"Free and Open Source Software" taster session...
>
>Now, I've been given the name of someone in the Local Council who can
>give the go ahead on running these taster sessions, but I was
>wondering whether anyone else here has done anything like this (I
>don't work for the council, nor the library, I just wanted to help)
>and whether anyone has any suggestions on topics one can cover on
>something like this.
>
>I'm thinking OpenOffice.Org and Firefox, then Linux.
>
>As always, the Library will be thinking about what I'm trying to
>achieve by this, but how do I persuade them that all I'm after is
>giving the library users a chance to avoid getting locked into a
>Proprietary world...?
>
>Any suggestions?
>
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