I have done live demos.
Have a Plan B ready… eg a second computer.
A technical hitch ruin everything.
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Thanks for that, I will think of something. I have done a test with the system at home, now its a matter of doing this in front of everyone I feel like peeing my pants. Like getting all the equipment on before the hockey game,
hopping on the ice and woozier I got ta pee.
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I assume you cover “man pages and -h / –help”, probably with terminal commands.
Oh the envy!!! I do volunteer tech support through a local community center - Windows and Android. I tell everyone that I use Linux, and I use Linux for displaying Internet searches on the big screen, etc. BUT no one has expressed interest in Linux, even though they are often in an uproar about Windows does this and Windows does that, security issues, etc.
After a couple years of one-on-one and group sessions, I have finally had someone ask me to demonstrate Linux to him. The dam is breaking!!! ;^)
I will use your outline when I have the chat with the guy that is interested.
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@jackfrost how did the presentation go? I assume you took my advice to heart and attuned your presentation to the crowd you were getting?
If you didn’t do the presentation yet, I have another tip for you:
Look at what Microsoft provides for them. Do they want something like AD? Explain how Linux solves such situations. There is a company selling an AD solution for Linux. Do they want something office-like? Show them the various alternatives with pros and cons. What does the migration path look like? What are good and feasable alternatives for the stuff Microsoft provides? Staff traing costs? Are there any SLA providers (Suse, Red Hat, Canonical)? Costs?
Remember: these are people who view computers as things to get stuff done. Switching away from Microsoft needs to be attractive in ways beyond the low level technicalities, because that’s something business people are typically not interested in, unless it brings them a huge advantage.
Your presentation seemed, to me, to be geared at the people who would maintain those computers. If that, however, is the case, you may want to compare a few rock solid linux fs’ to ntfs, sing the song of lvm2, talk about how scripting is a first class citizen (with powerful examples), how the mentality that everything is a file is advantageous and ties right into scripting, how Linux shines when used through the cli; but don’t talk about vim or emacs, or xorg vs wayland. Do explain to them what the differences are between desktop environments and window managers.
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next week, snow storm cancelled
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