[CS-FSLUG] Possible Ministry with Local Church
Don Parris
evangelinux at thefreelyproject.org
Thu Jun 23 14:02:18 CDT 2005
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:58:45 -0700
David Aikema <daikema at gmail.com> wrote:
> So what exactly does such a position entail?
>
Well, I would be the System Administrator and webmaster. I would also
responsible for developing an educational ministry. It turns out the
secretary knows a fair bit about computers, and even used GNU/Linux on her
job in the past (it's been a while though). She is well aware of the
license compliance issues- her employer was fined $40,000 for improperly
licensed software.
I had a Microsoft moment though. I had just logged into GNOME so they could
compare it to KDE. I kept getting error messages and finally wound up using
[Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Backsp] to back out. but my system won't necessarily bring me
back to a boot prompt at such times, leaving me a blank screen and no
control. I wound up rebooting. Ouch! Otherwise, it went very well.
I will likely do a second presentation for a larger audience soon. I think
they were comfortable with my vision for a slow migration to a libre
software platform. I did not have time to get into the details of libre
software. But I think they got the general gist. I think they also liked
my vision for the computer ministry to be largely self-sustaining. Funds
from classes would make up the IT budget.
I hope to learn more about their thinking in the next couple of weeks.
Don
--
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