| Open Source presentation |
[Oct. 17th, 2005|11:16 am] |
Here's the presentation on Open Source I gave to the company on Friday:
http://bradfitz.com/words/2005-10-open-source/
I'm sure there's a lot omitted and partially inaccurate, but keep in mind the point of this presentation was to introduce Open Source to a lot of Windows users who might not understand the difference between source and binary. And to keep it light-hearted so said users didn't get too bored. |
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gutenberg.org not gutenburg.org
just so people don't get popups and spyware etc..
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/996772/447266) | From: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ydna
2005-10-17 06:47 pm (UTC)
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I love the Source vs. Binary slide!
"Windows, Photoshop, Macromedia Breeze"
One of these things is not like the others... did you give the preso via Breeze or something?
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/54541970/2) | From: brad
2005-10-17 08:34 pm (UTC)
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Yup.
Well done!
Thank you!
I have been trying to explain Open Source to my boss/owner of company for awhile, and he just could not grasp it. (i.e. But how does one make money?) I am going to give him another pass with your slideshow and hopefully get him to understand.
You would have thought when I put together an Asterisk system for pennies instead of a Cisco VoIP system it would have become clear. ;)
hilarious clip art all around! did anyone notice the MS Word boxmod?
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/34474992/3171) | From: mart
2005-10-17 07:23 pm (UTC)
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That dork picture looks familiar! ;)
Where did you find that picture in the first place, anyway?
Where do i send my stack of punchcards for evan to compile down? (Presentation looks like a good introduction overall, thanks for sharing it! One foible: slide 32, "not others'." really, really looks like a '!' at the end of the line. I had to stare at it for a second to figure it out. Maybe just add "code" to the end of the sentence?)
Slides were so much more boring before google image search.
| From: brad
2005-10-17 08:36 pm (UTC)
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Yup.
I didn't know there was an Word for Ebonics. :)
Oh, and nice to see that some parts of LJ made it into the slide. That Source vs. Binary slide looked so familiar ...
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/9624370/1571) | From: evan
2005-10-17 09:31 pm (UTC)
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I'm a compiler!
My favorite slide is the RMS caption.
(You misspelled anecdote on slide 14, extra d on "share" on slide 26.)
| From: brad
2005-10-17 09:43 pm (UTC)
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Yeah, I told the Legos story.
My favorite part was the venn diagram...
mostly because i like circles
| From: brad
2005-10-18 05:14 am (UTC)
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omg, you are a genius... i may have to use the second one sometime... i hope you're not exercising a copyright on that or anything...
This is such a good presentation! You got it all there!
not exactly on topic, but i wanted to share... i'm in san francisco this week at the zend php '05 conference and expo and there was a talk given by george schlossnagle on scalability, and memcached was discussed. pardon the horrible quality of the picture... my phone's camera sucks, but i thought you'd like to know that memcached is being promoted: 
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2005-10-19 05:46 am (UTC)
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Nice! I like the Schlossnagles... nice people. | |
