[K12OSN] Some "community friendly" presentation ideas

Jason Straw lists at misato.us
Sat Sep 10 15:14:59 UTC 2005


Every cool educational Program you can get your hands on for free,
Gimp, Firefox, OpenOffice

Maybe even their favorite windows educational programs running under wine

Basically you want to show then that for the price of hardware you get
everything you had in windows and then a bunch more.

Jason


Shawn Powers wrote:

> I'm presenting "Linux" to our local community and school board members
> on Monday.  It was going to be a small presentation to show our board
> what Linux was, but now it's in the local paper, and I expect quite a
> crowd.
>
> I don't have a lab of thin clients, so I'll be booting a lab of iMacs
> to a server.  It'll be a fresh install of 4.4.1 set up just for the
> session.  Any thing you suggest for some real "eye openers" that might
> get oohs and aaahs?
>
> Thanks for any advice.  I'm not used to presenting to non-geeks,
> normally I talk about Linux to a crowd of techies...
>
> -Shawn





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