Re: [Sheflug] GNU Generation: Bringing Pre-University Students into Free Software

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/08/gnu-generation-bringing-
pre-university.html

> > Might interest someone out there.

On Thursday 13 Aug 2009 09:52:16 Tim Dobson wrote:

> It's exciting isn't it!?

It's better than nowt :)  If you think about it there was just nothing 
out there when I started working on free software and open source 
software back in the 90's.  Just me and RMS and a few other people who 
were seen as a bunch of eccentrics who needed to go and talk to the 
doctor a lot more.  Not that any of us needed to go and talk to a 
doctor anyway.

Times have changes. We now produce magazines for a large and 
interested community.  Google and YouTube have endless videos about 
GNU/Linux and free software.  There are hundreds of international 
trade shows out there based on GNU/Linux alone.  I remember when the 
ShefLUG list and ManLUG lists and WyLUG were just about the only 
resource we had for help with GNU/Linux.  Now you can just go and find 
something somewhere.

> This is a similar kind of movement and I'm really looking forward
> to it gaining some momentum and really kicking off.
> If you haven't seen
> http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnugeneration I strongly
> recommend taking a look.

Yes.  Any excuse to get people interested.

-- 
Richard

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