[ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

[alan c]

The French assembly have used Ubuntu for at least two years now, and 
the Gendarmerie are (or have ) migrated all of their 70,000 PCs to Ubuntu.

On 23/05/11 21:05, Dino T. wrote:
> Excellent, thanks. I plan on bringing up that Google use Ubuntu inhouse and
> have done since 2006 (that I'm aware of.) If you know of any huge companies
> that use it too, please let me know.'
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> *Dino Tassigiannis BA (Hons)*
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> <http://www.ubuntu.com/>
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> On 23 May 2011 21:01, Barry Titterton<barry.titterton at mail.adsl4less.com>wrote:
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>>  On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 14:07 +0100, Dino T. wrote:
>>  >  Hi
>>  >
>>  >  A friend and I are brainstorming on a 2 hour presentation to give to
>>  >  Universities and Colleges across Liverpool. To increase awareness and
>>  >  show students that they can save money using free/open source
>>  >  software. This is scheduled for around September 2011.
>>  >
>>  >  What do you suggest we cover? Has to be very basic too for beginners
>>  >  and if they want to learn more, we'll be providing sheets out to links
>>  >  etc.
>>  >
>>  >  Dino T.
>>  >
>>  I recently did a Linux Awareness talk for a local computer club. I based
>>  the talk around these points:
>>  What is Linux and Open Source?
>>  What do you get?
>>  What are the advantages?
>>  What are the disadvantages? (You need to be honest).
>>  And because linux take up is poor in the UK I did a round up of who uses
>>  linux around the world to show that it isn't a niche Geek way of
>>  working.
>>  Also students are very keen on Fairtrade so push the FOSS =
>>  Fairtrade/Ethical Computing as well.
>>
>>  Barry
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