[wplug-plan] Re: [wplug] What do you guys thing?

[Chris]

I was worried about that too.  I don't think that they are looking to
replace backend servers right now.  The meeting is just a monthly thing were
they all talk.  However, that gives us a chance to do this for a large
group.  I  think that our best bet is to start small.  Most of the schools
have hybrid systems that are a mix of novell and windows.  If we can show
them how they can replace some of them with linux, then they might consider
it for other things.  I think that most use novell as a file server, so
maybe a demo on Samba would be good.  Other things that come to mind would
be webserver or Firewall.  With all these attacks on Windows machines, I
think that they would consider this.  I am going to try and call my aunt and
talk more in depth with her and maybe see if she can contact the schools and
see what they would like to see.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-plan-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-plan-admin at wplug.org]On
Behalf Of James O'Kane
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:56 PM
To: wplug-plan at wplug.org
Cc: Chris
Subject: RE: [wplug-plan] Re: [wplug] What do you guys thing?


I biggest concern is that we will go there and stand in front of them and
say, 'Uh, linux is cool! you should use it'. If we can be more organized
than that, I can probably take a day off work to go give a presentation.
It also depends on what they want. Do they want a question and answer
session or would a slides on a projector be more appropriate? Are they
trying to replace backend servers or computers in the classroom? Do they
require special software that might not be available or supported on
linux? etc.etc.

-james



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