On 12/31/06, Norm <maillist(a)sios.ca> wrote:
Guillermo Garron wrote:
>> Ric
>> Years ago Mac almost became the OS of choice after they started giving
>> few equipment to schools. Most people will prefer to stay with the OS
>> the first learn on. The Linux community is no where near as cohesive as
>> a single company like Apple or Microsoft can be. This does not mean we
>> can not take a page out of the marketing manual of the others, As a
>> community we need to find projects that will bring new users into the
>> community. How, each of us have specific ares of interest related to IT
>> and and the world at large(in my other world I swing into an
>> environmentalist mode), If as a New Years resolution we can each
>> resolve to bring one more person into the Linux community, by finding
>> ways to support projects like th One-Laptop-Per-Child we can make a
>> difference. Support can take many forms from expanding the number of
>> application they will need, of course money, providing recycled
>> computers to those that miss out on the one laptop program, but probably
>> the biggest area is in finding ways to supply individual support to
>> encourage the child to stay with the program. Is there an online help
>> or mail list focused towards the program that will be available? The
>> challenge of setting up a useful multi-language help desk is big. As
>> community do we have the resources to do this? If we can keep the new
>> users on Linux for their first year the odds are they will stay for a
>> lifetime.
> You are right, that is specially helpfull in countries like mine
> (Bolivia) where most of people do not have PCs, and if they have they
> can't afford to pay Microsoft for using XP, or Vista, or anything.
> Linux is a great chance to do it, but as you said, they need support
> to stay on linux, as the most users are on windows.
> I am starting one week ago a site
>
www.go2linux.org (where i will try to put the few things I know about
> linux) also created
jaws.go2linux.org (Spanish site) and
>
foro.go2linux.org (a spanish forum)
> that will be my small help to the linux community.
> Any ideas are welcome, and if some of you have documents or How-Tos to
> share with me, or I can translate to spanish to publish here, will be
> great!
>
> regards,
>
> Guillermo.
>
Guillermo.
Good to see that you are doing your part. I don't have any recycled PC
available at this time and none "promised". If I acquire several
(enough to make shipping them worth while) are you in a position to
distribute them?
Sure I can, I can work together with Universities, to make them
help
me distribute them.
thanks a lot, and if you can that will be appreciated
Recently I found a well written howto on SSL certificates at
http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/ssl-cert-howto.php, He does have a Spanish
version on line already but it may be a good quick add to your site.
Thank you a
lot, I will add both the English and the Spanish versions.
regards,
--
Guillermo Garron
"Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are."
(Using FC6, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06)
http://www.go2linux.org