Interested! Will sponsor! -- Re: [LUNI] Re: [ChicagoLinux] Chicago Free and Open Source Conference

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Kevin Harriss wrote:
>
> Can you explain what soho users are and what areas of linux would be
> suit their needs.
>
>   
SOHO :  Small Office / Home Office

People who use their computers at home for business.

Small business with maybe 5 computers

Uses : Primarily web browsing, email, word processing, spreadsheets, 
basic accounting

Linux areas of interest :  Desktop (Gnome / KDE),   OpenOffice, Firefox 
/ Opera, Thunderbird / Evolution, Quasar Accounting


>> Set up the audio/video/multimedia for the conference completely on linux
>> boxes (ubuntustudio) and allow that to become part of the display.
>>     
>
> This was the plan, maybe not with Ubuntu Studio but with some linux distro.
>
>   
Ubuntu Studio is Ubuntu  with audio/video and graphics applications set 
up to work correctly.  Also uses a low latency kernel for audio 
applications. 
You could make an argument for 64studio or planet ccrma on Fedora, but 
ubuntustudio works great !
Maybe someone out there has configured a more common(?)  'distro' to do 
the job, but then it could become harder to explain to a visitor how to 
achieve the same thing.




>> Set up an ubuntuCE demo and then promote the event on moody radio
>> (90.1FM) which will target families all over Chicago  who want a
>> free/safe operating system and thus you will also promote it to church
>> offices in the neighborhood who are a prime candidate for linux desktops.
>>     
>
> I am all for having a talk on safe computing for families.  If anybody
> knows who would be a good person to ask to talk about this please let
> me know.
>   
The developer of ubuntuCE is Jeremehancock, I will email him and see if 
he would be interested

http://www.jeremehancock.com/