Needed: GNU/Linux intro course ideas

[Sean]

What are these librarians going to be doing with it? Buying books for it
or implementing it? 

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Mark Szidik wrote:

> 
> I am planning to do a 3 hour demo/introduction of the Open Source
> software movement and in particular GNU/Linux to *librarians* sometime
> in April.  This will be the first is a series of courses that I will
> present that will get progressively more technical.
> 
> (I will give the presentation sometime thereafter at a GLLUG meeting if
> anyone wants it.)
> 
> Here is my working outline.  Suggestions?
> 
> 
> The Open Source movement
>   The Philosophy
> 	Free: as in beer
> 	Free: as in speech  (should ring well with librarians)
> 	RMS and the FSF
> 	ESR's Cathedral & bazaar and other writings
>   Licenses - GPL Vs. M$ EULA  Vs. BSD Vs. hundres of variants
> 
> Demonstration
>   System Software (the OS)
> 	Compare Linux to Windoze
> 
>   Applications
> 	Server Apps
> 		Apache + PHP
> 		PostgreSQL
> 		DNS
> 		Sendmail
> 	Desktop Apps
> 		X window system (show KDE and Gnome)
> 			(maybe even demo X server on another machine to
> 			 drive the cooless of it home to them)
> 		Gimp
> 		Gnumeric
> 		Abi word
> 		Mozilla / netscape
> 		StarOffice (don't know if I have time for it)
> 	(Any other flashy apps to dazzle them with?
> 	I Don't think they'd appreciate Python or bash scripts)
> 
> 
> Conclusion:
> 	How to put free software to work in libraries
> 
> 
> TIA for your recommendations.
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