Hi Folks,
Just to let you know that I delivered my 5 minutes of Open
Source to Hamilton City Council.
Rob, Peter, Kyle, Noel and Bruce; many thanks for your e-mails
with hints/comments on the presenting.
My 20 x hand-out's included my home made copies of ubuntu 12.04
desktop i386. I did investigate Peters suggestion of handing out
the Ubuntu "business re-mix", but decided against it on the
grounds of having to agree to some EULA's before downloading
didn't make it suitable.
I parallel the handing out of home made Open Source CD's
somewhat like... going along to Council to promote a new type of
muffins, and in doing so I bring along a batch of muffins that
I've baked at home. The Councillors are welcome to eat the
muffins themselves, or take them home and give them to their
kids. At the end of my presentation I got in a plug for Peters
submission #365. This was somewhat like stating, that Peter has
supplied the recipe for the muffin's, and Council can get their
chief cook to investigate Peters recipe in more depth to see if
the Council want to get into making muffins.
So I don't think it mattered that my CD's had a "home made" look
about them.
The goal of my submission was: "To have included in the Hamilton
2012-22 10-year Plan: Reduce the costs of Hamilton City
Council's Information Technology, through the implementation of
Open Source Software."
On May 29-30 Council will decide on the submissions, and on June
29 the final plan will be adopted. So we will have to wait and
see if Open Source gets its foot in the door this time round.
cheers,
Ian.
PS: One Councillor asked me if he'd be able to use the ubuntu
12.04 i386 desktop CD on his Mac. I told him that I was not
knowledgeable on Mac's and I'd get back to him. I see there's
this...
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleIntelInstallation
...on installing ubuntu on Mac's that use intel chipset. I'm not
sure if I'd like to recommend he gives this a go unless he's
100% sure his Mac has no data on it. Maybe I'll suggest he comes
along to a wlug Saturday workshop and hopefully someone is there
that's done this sort of thing on Mac's.
cheers,
Ian.