[aklug] Re: Fwd: Re: FOSS users group

On 03/14/2011 12:25 PM, Allen Hill wrote:
> Why not eliminate some of those initial "fears" by using a live distro? I already have a few on hand: sabayon, fedora, ubuntu and dsl. I wouldn't mind burning a few disks in exchange for hanging out and learning a thing or two.

I can't, off the top of my head, think of anything I've ever done to eliminate fear for
anybody no matter how hard I've tried.

- Shane

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>> From: Royce Williams<royce@tycho.org>
>> Date: March 14, 2011 7:50:38 AKDT
>> To: aklug@aklug.org
>> Subject: [aklug] Re: FOSS users group
>>
>
>> barsalou said, on 03/09/2011 11:29 PM:
>>> Quoting Dale Rooney<dale.rooney@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Well then I guess the next question is, who wants to get involved in
>>>> promoting FOSS out in the community. I feel we need to be more active in
>>>> reaching out to computer users in general by posting flyers, handing out
>>>> discs and perhaps holding get-togethers in coffee shops to demonstrate
>>>> software and answer questions.
>>>> Who's up for that?
>>>>
>>>> Dale
>>>
>>> This seems like a fantastic idea. Anyone else?
>>
>> Sounds great - with our limited cycles, we need to home in on some solid
>> next actions with high leverage to make this happen.
>>
>> I see the big barriers to FOSS entry for Windows folks as:
>>
>> * Fear of breaking existing systems and processes.
>> * Fear of breaking something with the *new* system.
>> * Lack of confidence that the same activities are possible with FOSS.
>>
>> The most powerful way I know of to help people learn and transition is
>> to have the "safety net" of their existing system and processes intact,
>> and a way to put their "learning" system back the way it was if they
>> shoot themselves in the foot.
>>
>> So next actions might be:
>>
>> * Call for older laptops, and a mechanism for checking them in and out
>> on Fridays, perhaps by having someone leave a deposit.
>>
>> * Ask for volunteers to put appropriate distros on them, and come up
>> with a "restore" partition method that works similar to Dell's.
>>
>> * Prepare a couple of one pager "Rosetta Stone" docs with "here's how
>> you do it in Windows, and here's how you do the same thing in Ubuntu",
>> and "here's how to put your system back the way it was" and "So you have
>> a spare system, here's how to FOSS-ify it the AKLUG way."
>>
>>
>> In this way, by having a few "learning" systems at the ready to loan,
>> and make it easy for folks to create their own, both such that they can
>> be easily be reset back to the "AKLUG factory defaults", we lower those
>> barriers.
>>
>> Royce
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