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Hi everyone, I know in the past there has been talk of holding a seminar/event to promote OSS and I might have an opportunity to do this. I have been speaking to people from Business Link and the digital peninuslar network and there may be an opening for seminars in OSS with venue and mail shots etc done for us. At this time this would primarly be in Cornwall and for businesses but if we can pull of a sucessfull event we can certainly spread to Devon as BL cover devon and cornwall. What i need to do at this stage is put a basic proposal together of what we might like to do. So ideas on a post card please! We must keep this (seminar) business focused and BL and DPN tend to do most work with SME's so that is probably the target audience. Some of my ideas are :- * awarness that an alternitive exists to the proprity software people are using. * awareness of proprity data formats and lockin problems * awarness of licences in particular and an overview of free/open licences VS closed ones * The potential cost savings of using an alternitive office suite, *nix server with samba, apache, mail etc * Pointing out about licence infringments, ie I am sure many companies use illegal copies of office/ or XP etc due to the cost. Point out the legal situation they are in, potential fines etc and show there is an alternitive that saves money can acheieve same results. * Show how a mixed environment can be acheived, ie switching to a linux server, or simply going Firefox and thunderbird as a start. What would really make a difference is if we can get some people there who offer support for OSS. <my ignorance> Is the anyone on the list who works for a company that supplies OSS services and support? </my ignorance> It would also be useful for anybody who has integrated OSS into a business to make a presentation. I can certainly do this but a few case studies always looks good. Thanks for any input Regards Robin Cornelius -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html