[wplug] wanted: good resources for linux / free software advocacy

Duncan Hutty dhutty at ece.cmu.edu
Wed Apr 13 11:15:02 EDT 2011


Eric Cooper wrote:
> I may have the opportunity to advocate for the use of Linux and free
> software to a school board in the near future.  I expect the main
> selling point to be potential cost savings, and the main concerns to
> be about the differences from Windows and questions about equivalent
> free applications.
> 
> Does anyone have any favorite resources (white papers, websites, etc.)
> with this kind of material?  Any other relevant experience (success
> stories, or why you were shot down in flames) would be interesting too.

Did you get anywhere with this?
Did you manage to present to the school board? What approach did you take?
-- 
Duncan Hutty
Senior System Administrator, ECE
Carnegie Mellon University

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