On 12/31/06, Norm <maillist@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Guillermo Garron wrote: >> Ric >> Years ago Mac almost became the OS of choice after they started giving >> few equipment to schools. Most people will prefer to stay with the OS >> the first learn on. The Linux community is no where near as cohesive as >> a single company like Apple or Microsoft can be. This does not mean we >> can not take a page out of the marketing manual of the others, As a >> community we need to find projects that will bring new users into the >> community. How, each of us have specific ares of interest related to IT >> and and the world at large(in my other world I swing into an >> environmentalist mode), If as a New Years resolution we can each >> resolve to bring one more person into the Linux community, by finding >> ways to support projects like th One-Laptop-Per-Child we can make a >> difference. Support can take many forms from expanding the number of >> application they will need, of course money, providing recycled >> computers to those that miss out on the one laptop program, but probably >> the biggest area is in finding ways to supply individual support to >> encourage the child to stay with the program. Is there an online help >> or mail list focused towards the program that will be available? The >> challenge of setting up a useful multi-language help desk is big. As >> community do we have the resources to do this? If we can keep the new >> users on Linux for their first year the odds are they will stay for a >> lifetime. > You are right, that is specially helpfull in countries like mine > (Bolivia) where most of people do not have PCs, and if they have they > can't afford to pay Microsoft for using XP, or Vista, or anything. > Linux is a great chance to do it, but as you said, they need support > to stay on linux, as the most users are on windows. > I am starting one week ago a site > www.go2linux.org (where i will try to put the few things I know about > linux) also created jaws.go2linux.org (Spanish site) and > foro.go2linux.org (a spanish forum) > that will be my small help to the linux community. > Any ideas are welcome, and if some of you have documents or How-Tos to > share with me, or I can translate to spanish to publish here, will be > great! > > regards, > > Guillermo. > Guillermo. Good to see that you are doing your part. I don't have any recycled PC available at this time and none "promised". If I acquire several (enough to make shipping them worth while) are you in a position to distribute them?
Sure I can, I can work together with Universities, to make them help me distribute them. thanks a lot, and if you can that will be appreciated
Recently I found a well written howto on SSL certificates at http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/ssl-cert-howto.php, He does have a Spanish version on line already but it may be a good quick add to your site.
Thank you a lot, I will add both the English and the Spanish versions. regards, -- Guillermo Garron "Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are." (Using FC6, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06) http://www.go2linux.org
