On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:

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I don't know if this has ever been suggested in PLUG, but one thought might be to put together one or more canned presentations on Linux and/or FOSS and have a small group of presenters that can put the show on at area schools. Ideally, we could have someone familiar with the school systems to be a contact to arrange the schedules. The presentations should have a focus suitable for a school audience.

If this program did well, we might then consider other target audiences and how to adapt the presentations for those audiences.

I realized maybe I should clarify a little. When I said have a focus suitable for the school audience I meant things like "Getting In To the Future of Software" or "Rebelling With the Best", as opposed to a dry sounding topic like "Free and Open Source Software" even though they are the same thing. The presentations could also have more of a "do it like this" focus where there are practical presentations on things like photo manipulation or working with people using other OS's.

We would have to start with one but I would hope could expand to more than one topic/presentation. I would also want it to be a practiced and smooth presentation akin to those done professionally.

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Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry

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