[H-GEN] Room Bookings Update

[Arjen Lentz]

Hi Russell

On 15/01/2009, at 2:13 PM, Russell Stuart wrote:
> In any case - who says we can't play the same game?  Put together
> an Open Source CD, branded with Humbug's logo, with the sort of
> software on it Students might need for their studies - Open Office,
> Gimp, Firefox plugings (say for ripping Flash video streams),
> Wesnoth - that sort of thing.

Just burn theOpenCD, it's sane these days. and has a good menu and  
such. Don't reinvent.
Or use the Ubuntu live stuff, just check which tools it has on there -  
not sure it has OpenOffice.org.

Limit the scope way beyond what you would think, even if it would just  
have OOo that would be great.
The more is on there, the greater the change the whole will not get  
used.
(I say this because you mention Wesnoth)


> Put something on the CD along the lines of "Having trouble with
> this stuff or any other open source software?  Come along to
> Queenslands open source software club, Humbug and speak with the
> experts for fee.  We meet on the UQ Campus every second week."

That's good, you can just print that on the CDs using a capable inky.
This can be highly effective.


Cheers,
Arjen.
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