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[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 20:07, Marten Vijn <info at martenvijn.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 14:16 -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>> Marten
>>
>> +1 Can you organize this to happen?
>
> I am sorry but it is not where my talents are.
> I am bad at languages and teaching. (dyslectic and impacient).
>
> My role morely is using SOAS, testing it on some hardware, getting it to
> a localschool. And if possible getting people on board (+4 now). And
> also (as most of us) my time very limited. I really focus on local
> activities.
>
> >From this role I see a low acceptance by "normal" people. Normal is
> defined here: Teachers, kids, parents who are none ict aware. They don't
> know were to start to read and have short of time/attention span.
>
> If this kind of input is not wanted pls let me know (it would save a lot
> of typing time).
>
> Actually floss is bad at doing their PR is general. If i need a
> corporate firewall or storage device there are shiny flyers and
> documentation. Vendors will come to me and sell me their solution.
>
> So if I want a *BSD or OpenSolaris to run my storage/firewall it really
> is hard to convince my manager (and their directors) to use this FLOSS.
>
> To change this good materials are needed. So there is good reason to not
> have me for this job.

Wonder if there are FLOSS projects that are better than the others at
PR and on which we could inspire?

Regards,

Tomeu

> kind regards,
> Marten
>
>
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