The first meeting of the Free and Open Source club will be at 18h30 on Monday 12 October 2009 in room B-32 in the Bosquet building (the room next to the grand salon). If you're interested in Free and Open Source software, come and join us (there will be food!).
We'll be talking about:
How to promote awareness of Free software (installfest? informational emails? SGN annoucements?)
What software to focus on getting out to the AUP community (VLC? budgeting software? Open Streetmap?)
A strategy for encouraging the adminstration to look at Open Source software when making strategic IT decisions (What to say? How to make the case convincing?)
What other resources do we need (wiki? web page? mailing list software? better logo?)
The idea of this group is that we want to increase the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) at AUP. Open source programs can help people do more with their computers without being IT experts and the principles behind software freedom are ideas that everyone living in the information age should be aware of.
Would you like to learn more? After Monday's meeting, we will begin sending out the promised informational emails. The first one will help teach how to play DVDs from any zone on a Mac and PC. To receive our emails, send me an email and I'll add you to our list.
The temporary club logo is taken from Wikipedia. It was adapted by Gregor Richards from the GNU logo and the OSI logo.
