Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-24 Thread Timothy Rittman
On 23/05/11 21:02, Dino T. wrote: Oh definitely We'll be creating a presentation using Impress with primary source design and stock / free photography. I'll be citing sources for each slide and I'll try and get a few video recordings of the project being shown to students. I'll then try and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-24 Thread Barry Titterton
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 21:05 +0100, Dino T. wrote: > Excellent, thanks. I plan on bringing up that Google use Ubuntu > inhouse and have done since 2006 (that I'm aware of.) If you know of > any huge companies that use it too, please let me know.' > > > Dino Tassigiannis BA (Hons) > > > > > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-24 Thread Grant Sewell
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Alan Bell wrote: > On 24/05/11 08:27, Alan Lord (News) wrote: >> >> Oh yes, how about all those Mobile phones that run Android? Even Apple's >> OS X is built on Open Source core technology (although they chose the most >> liberally licensed code - MIT/Apache - so t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-24 Thread alan c
On 24/05/11 08:27, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 23/05/11 21:05, Dino T. wrote: Excellent, thanks. I plan on bringing up that Google use Ubuntu inhouse and have done since 2006 (that I'm aware of.) If you know of any huge companies that use it too, please let me know.' Erm, Pretty much every

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-24 Thread Alan Bell
On 24/05/11 08:27, Alan Lord (News) wrote: Oh yes, how about all those Mobile phones that run Android? Even Apple's OS X is built on Open Source core technology (although they chose the most liberally licensed code - MIT/Apache - so they can take and do not have to contribute). they take a *

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-24 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 23/05/11 21:05, Dino T. wrote: Excellent, thanks. I plan on bringing up that Google use Ubuntu inhouse and have done since 2006 (that I'm aware of.) If you know of any huge companies that use it too, please let me know.' Erm, Pretty much every company of any notable size in the world uses

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-23 Thread Andres
I just got around at reading "the cathedral and the bazaar" though some things are well over my head it seems to be current even at 8 years of age. Really fun read an a lot learnt for 7 quid. I would talk about the buisness model or the "gift culture" thing dpending who is the public. don't I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-23 Thread alan c
The French assembly have used Ubuntu for at least two years now, and the Gendarmerie are (or have ) migrated all of their 70,000 PCs to Ubuntu. On 23/05/11 21:05, Dino T. wrote: Excellent, thanks. I plan on bringing up that Google use Ubuntu inhouse and have done since 2006 (that I'm aware of.)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-23 Thread Dino T.
Excellent, thanks. I plan on bringing up that Google use Ubuntu inhouse and have done since 2006 (that I'm aware of.) If you know of any huge companies that use it too, please let me know.' *Dino Tassigiannis BA (Hons)* On 23 May 2011 21:01, Barry Titterton wrote: >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-23 Thread Dino T.
Oh definitely We'll be creating a presentation using Impress with primary source design and stock / free photography. I'll be citing sources for each slide and I'll try and get a few video recordings of the project being shown to students. I'll then try and edit them and upload to Youtube. *Dino

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-23 Thread Barry Titterton
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 14:07 +0100, Dino T. wrote: > Hi > > A friend and I are brainstorming on a 2 hour presentation to give to > Universities and Colleges across Liverpool. To increase awareness and > show students that they can save money using free/open source > software. This is scheduled for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-23 Thread Paul Sutton
On 23/05/11 20:05, Dino T. wrote: > > Re: Grant Sewell > > On Mon, 23 May 2011 14:07:08 +0100 > Dino T. wrote: > > > Hi > > > > A friend and I are brainstorming on a 2 hour presentation to give to > > Universities and Colleges across Liverpool. To increase awareness

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-23 Thread Dino T.
> > > Re: Grant Sewell On Mon, 23 May 2011 14:07:08 +0100 > Dino T. wrote: > > > Hi > > > > A friend and I are brainstorming on a 2 hour presentation to give to > > Universities and Colleges across Liverpool. To increase awareness and > > show students that they can save money using free/open sour

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-23 Thread Grant Sewell
On Mon, 23 May 2011 14:07:08 +0100 Dino T. wrote: > Hi > > A friend and I are brainstorming on a 2 hour presentation to give to > Universities and Colleges across Liverpool. To increase awareness and > show students that they can save money using free/open source > software. This is scheduled for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-23 Thread Dino T.
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness Re: Avi On 23/05/11 14:13, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Dino T. wrote: >> A friend and I are brainstorming on a 2 hour presentation to give to >> Universities and Colleges across Liverpool. > > Are you targeting the universities and c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-23 Thread Graham Smith
A little bit of a ramble here, but hopefully the concepts are clear. It probably depends on circumstances, but using specialist software such as stats and GIS, as an example R and QGIS allow students access to these programs at home, and not as is the case with the commercial alternatives force s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-23 Thread alan c
On 23/05/11 14:07, Dino T. wrote: Hi A friend and I are brainstorming on a 2 hour presentation to give to Universities and Colleges across Liverpool. To increase awareness and show students that they can save money using free/open source software. This is scheduled for around September 2011. Wh

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-23 Thread Alan Bell
On 23/05/11 14:07, Dino T. wrote: Hi A friend and I are brainstorming on a 2 hour presentation to give to Universities and Colleges across Liverpool. To increase awareness and show students that they can save money using free/open source software. This is scheduled for around September 2011.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-23 Thread Paul Sutton
On 23/05/11 14:13, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Dino T. wrote: >> A friend and I are brainstorming on a 2 hour presentation to give to >> Universities and Colleges across Liverpool. > > Are you targeting the universities and colleges themselves as > institutions, their staff, their students, or a mix of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-23 Thread Avi Greenbury
Dino T. wrote: A friend and I are brainstorming on a 2 hour presentation to give to Universities and Colleges across Liverpool. Are you targeting the universities and colleges themselves as institutions, their staff, their students, or a mix of the lot? -- Avi -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] Linux Awareness

2011-05-23 Thread Dino T.
Hi A friend and I are brainstorming on a 2 hour presentation to give to Universities and Colleges across Liverpool. To increase awareness and show students that they can save money using free/open source software. This is scheduled for around September 2011. What do you suggest we cover? Has to b