On Friday 09 July 2010 09:41:57 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/SiemaPresentation
I will make slides, incorporate the responses and feedback from the seminar into them and put it up somewhere for use of everyone.
slides are uploaded
the seminar took place and my presentation was very well received. I would like to thank those members of this list who contributed ideas and helped clarify my thoughts. A brief report:
1. The audience was 25% top management (CEO, CMD), 25% independent entrepreneurs and the remainder senior professors and senior students of B schools and engineering colleges - a total audience of around 200.
2. all the speakers (except one) were of national and international repute and the level of talks was very highly informed.
3. of the audience most of the speakers, some of the top brass, some of the entrepreneurs and one student had heard of open source software, so I stuck to the basics and a lot of them were thrilled. In the Q&A there was a note of anger - if all this was there why were we not told? one guy even demanded that the government pass a law compelling computer dealers to disclose alternative software available! Anyway it looks like a lot of open source is going to be adopted in this region shortly
4. Of interest to note, there were *two* speakers who used linux for presentation - and the projector worked flawlessly for both. The other linux guy used a uber-sexy tool called prezy for his presentation (prezy.com).
5. The one student who had heard about open source was very enthusiastic about FOSS, mainly because he studies at a private university that is very heavily into FOSS. But he was of the opinion the linux is no use because most of the peripherals do not work and there is no sound - I found out that this was because he was using an immature distro and advised him to try out a stable and sane distro where everything would work out of the box.
and finally, 100% of the linux users in the conference were golfers - shows linux is heading in the right direction ;-)