NewsForge: Promoting OSS: Show, Don't Tell
Oct 10, 2006, 12:00 (0 Talkback[s])
"Recently I gave a professional development seminar on effective
Internet searching to about 25 colleagues, most of whom have higher
degrees in the humanities. The response was overwhelmingly positive
and, although it was not the intent of the seminar, they are now
enthusiastic about the use of Firefox over Internet Explorer to the
point where a number of them asked for my notes to give to friends
and family. As the presentation was focused specifically on
increasing the productivity of online searching, it was a pleasant
surprise to have my co-workers respond so positively to the use of
Firefox, to the point where they were even promoting it themselves.
There are some lessons for OSS advocacy that can be drawn from
this.
"The audience for the seminar was test developers like myself
who write questions for a range of tests at all levels of
education, as well as for the private sector..."
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