[K12OSN] Some "community friendly" presentation ideas

[Curt Craig]

Shawn,
Sounds like a great opportunity!
All semantical arguments aside, if presenting to admins, GET THEIR ATTENTION.  
Have the oldest, ugliest PC/MAC you have available in front with you, hold it 
up, and open with, "so how many of your districts have store-rooms with a few 
of these in them?  What if I could show you how they can be re-vitalized, and 
perform as well or better than the PCs/MACS you've been buying for the last 5 
years, with only a fraction of the ongoing maintenance required of your new 
PCs?"  (or something along those lines...the visual is powerful...speak to 
their fear of "now he's asking me to consider MORE technology in addition to 
everything I've already spent".  (then get into some of the suggestions 
posted to this string)

Good Luck!
-- 
Curt Craig
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On Friday 09 September 2005 20:15, 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