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) > > > > > > On 23 May 2011 21:01, Barry Titterton > <barry.titter...@mail.adsl4less.com> wrote: > > 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 around September 2011. > > > > What do you suggest we cover? Has to be very basic too for > beginners > > and if they want to learn more, we'll be providing sheets > out to links > > etc. > > > > Dino T. > > > > I recently did a Linux Awareness talk for a local computer > club. I based > the talk around these points: > What is Linux and Open Source? > What do you get? > What are the advantages? > What are the disadvantages? (You need to be honest). > And because linux take up is poor in the UK I did a round up > of who uses > linux around the world to show that it isn't a niche Geek way > of > working. > Also students are very keen on Fairtrade so push the FOSS = > Fairtrade/Ethical Computing as well. > > Barry > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > Dino,
In addition to those already mentioned I used the following examples: UK retail group Specsavers run on linux. Great Ormond Street Hospital. There are many educational examples from around the world such as One Laptop Per Child charity, Indian states of Kerala, Assam and Tamil Nadu. National governments of Brazil and Russia are moving to open source, though this decision is probably more political than technical. In USA there is the Federal Aviation Authority, Federal Postal Service, and the Department of Defence. The US Army and Navy are alleged to run a version of Red Hat for reliability and security reasons. In Germany the City of Munich. The political arguments here revolve around keeping money spent on IT in the local community rather than the licence fees being exported to the west coast of America. Pixar, Dreamworks and Weta Digital do CGI on linux powered machines. Hope this helps. Barry -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
