o.s. office

[David J Patrick]

Austin wrote:

> I was walking through the new Technology Enhanced Learning Building 
> today at  work (YorkU/Seneca), and saw them installing this crazy 
> fancy new office  called the o.s. office.  It's got huge painted glass 
> windows with open source  slogans painted all over it, mentioning 
> Linux as possibly the largest  worldwide community effort ever or 
> something, and the value of open source  software, etc. etc.  It looks 
> very cool.
>
> I was almost late to teach a class and I didn't have my camera, but 
> I'll be  sure to take some pics on Monday and post a link.
>
> This is very surprising, becuase in the two years I've worked there, 
> my  exclusive use of linux on my three workstations has been 
> unsupported, mocked,  and disregarded.  Also, my hundreds of hours of 
> work on distributing  scientific software for linux got zero support 
> from the university.
>
> Maybe I can finally convince them to set up a Mandrake mirror.
>
> Austin
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>             Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
>           Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
>             MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com)
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verrry interesting!
Last spring, I taught a cinematography course at Humber, and my efforts 
to introduce linux (and windoze) open source to students and faculty was 
wildly unsuccessful. A handful of students had heard of linux. They were 
incredulus when I described it as featuring a rich GUI, not just CLI. A 
few more found the concept of free (non-pirated) community developed 
software interesting. Among staff members, only the guy in charge of the 
network had heard of linux, but he had never tried it.

David Patrick

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