Introduction Ubuntu/Foss to my university

[malcolmb]

I'm in the process of introducing my university to Ubuntu and the idea of FOSS software. It's a big challenge and I'm wondering if people are aware of any materials that are out there I can use that will help me:

Write presentations to present to faculty (interesting information that will grab their attention)
Lists of open source alternatives to windows software
Information about Linux/FOSS at other universities (success stories)


I'm asking so that I will be able to spend less time searching for these resources myself and have more time to focus on moving this effort forward.

If anybody else is also in the process of or has experience introducing linux/foss in a proprietary environment I'd like to hear about it.

[jonathan.lees]

I work at a high school in the UK, we've be running floss on XP workstations for quite some time, this year we're going to introduce edubuntu so that our students will have the choice to either use windows or linux.

Here's a link (http://www.schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/Free%2C_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_solutions_f or_Education) to floss software solutions for education

You might also be interested in the edubuntu (http://www.edubuntu.org/Community) community

This (http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/) is also useful to look at.

good luck!

[dinda]

http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog/presentations/

Joey Stanford of the Colorado Loco Team has some good presentation material.

[Lord Illidan]

I think EduUbuntu might be a bit too babyish for University. Give them the real thing.

And mention freedom.

[LaserJock]

Edubuntu is in fact working on targeting Secondary and University level schools as well. If the Feisty specs go well Edubuntu 7.04 should be very good for universities.

-LaserJock

[Lord Illidan]

Edubuntu is in fact working on targeting Secondary and University level schools as well. If the Feisty specs go well Edubuntu 7.04 should be very good for universities.

-LaserJock

Cool..so what kind of sofware will it have with it?

[az]

I'm in the process of introducing my university to Ubuntu and the idea of FOSS software. It's a big challenge and I'm wondering if people are aware of any materials that are out there I can use that will help me:

Write presentations to present to faculty (interesting information that will grab their attention)
Lists of open source alternatives to windows software
Information about Linux/FOSS at other universities (success stories)


This is important for migration:
http://www.theopencd.org/

As well as this:
http://softwarefreedomday.org/
http://softwarefreedomday.org/about

[malcolmb]

Thanks for all the links people I'm sure I'll be able to put them to good use.

And I was thinking of just using vanilla Ubuntu and not Edubuntu. I looked into it a bit, but installing software isn't very hard, so I don't see the advantage of using a different package that just includes it by default. As well as most of the software my program needs is just OO and some MS Project like software, no astronomy, or crazy biology type software.

[sloggerkhan]

I'm interested in this sort of info also.

[UbuWu]

I'm in the process of introducing my university to Ubuntu and the idea of FOSS software. It's a big challenge and I'm wondering if people are aware of any materials that are out there I can use that will help me:

Write presentations to present to faculty (interesting information that will grab their attention)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Presentations