[Ubuntu-be] GRP in Liege

[Pierre Vorhagen]

Kevin Elaerts a écrit :

> The best example I have seen off people getting interested in Ubuntu,
> was an 70 year old retiered lady, who just bought her very first pc,
> second hand and without an OS.
> The grandson comes to her house and brought with him, indeed an Ubuntu
> disk, granny got interested and she even completed the installation off
> Ubuntu herselve, okey not that hard, but then she directly moved on to
> get stuff done on the computer and her very first OS ever, now she can
> even work herselve around in the filesystem, she can install software
> herselve and she is wild about her blazingfast computer.
> Need I tell you people any more, the persons we need to target are those
> who are willing to learn and that willingness should by no means be
> delimited to students or youngsters or young adults or even just adults.
> As long as they want to learn and want to face that it is different than
> other systems and want to change the way they work, or even want to
> discover it themselves, then we can get happy users, who will spread the
> word about Ubuntu or Linux in general.
> That is what we need to do, that is who we need to target.
>   
You are most certainly right. It is that I have never really had an occasion 
to completely "convert" someone older than 30 to Linux... I don't have a lot 
of experiences with elderly people willing to accept changes, so once they're 
actually used to an OS and have their little habits. Last time I accidentally 
changed something, the welcome screen in Windows XP, the person called me all 
panicked and insisted on having it back as it was... Don't even speak of 
changing the OS :-) Yet now that I think about it, I should try and take the 
time to explain Linux calmly to him...

Pierre