[Ubuntu-SG] Speaker Request for NUS SFD, 19 Sept 2008 @ NUS

[John Thng]

Hi,

It's good someone get windows applications preinstalled on WINE first on the
demo set or so.
The steps to get some prominent stuff on WINE will turn people off on first
run.

Examples:
World of Warcraft
Office 2007
utorrent

And others.
Just don't focus too much on WINE ...

And also intro some cross-platform tools to ease the difficulty of switching
to linux.

And I wonder if NUS got services to help the students to load linux/ubuntu
on their thumbdrive on that day. If there is it'll be good using this,
http://klik.atekon.de/liveusb/ .
As for Wubi, it'll be great if there is a working demo set to show, it can
boot out, appeared in the control panel so they can remove it.

Regards
John

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Chew EK <chew4097 at gmail.com> wrote:

> We got one hour presentation.  It's not a lot of time, but also can be too
> long.  The presentation must be convincing in getting people to try Ubuntu.
> Yet, it mustn't be too anti Windows, to avoid misleading the audience (one
> of the complaints from newbies in the ubuntuforums ;-p ).
>
> It would be great if we can share the presentations among a few people,
> each talking about different areas.  For instance, I knows only a little
> about wine and even less about wubi, so it would be tough to talk about
> them.
>
> Let me throw out a list of topics.  I know it's a long list and might not
> be able to cover all; anyone want to have their 15 minutes of fame :-),
> please volunteer.
>
> -----
>
> What is Ubuntu?  Just a short intro about alternative OS to set the stage.
>
> Applications demo for normal computing
>
> Community service
> Ubuntu philosophy "Humanity towards others"
> The Ubuntu promise
> This part is talking about sharing and collaboration, rather than "me me
> me" philosophy, should be attractive to the young crowd?
>
> More demos
> Free games
> Compiz Fusion
>
> How to get Ubuntu, two ways to install: single/multi boot, wubi
>
> Two ways to install anything in Ubuntu: Add/Remove, Synaptics
>
> Switching from Windows issues
> Finding equivalent alternative software
> Install Windows application with wine
>
> Extras:
> Free and legal internet video, music.
>
> Joining Team Ubuntu Singapore
>
> -----
>
> regards
> Chew
>
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