Hi George, hi all, On Di 14 Mai 2024 23:32:17 CEST, Holger Levsen wrote:
I live in Australia. Here in Australia I think there are a few people who are willing to use Linux as their primary OS, mostly a few retired people, and a few IT professionals. When it comes to IT professionals even those who work with Linux servers tend to use Windows on their laptops (or company desktops). I think this is sad, but it is what I see happening.i'm cc:ing sunweaver@debian.org but I really suggest you mail debian-edu@lists.debian.org, because"sunweaver" can "only" tell you how Debian Edu is used in norther Germany and elsewhere, but also, he is way too busy :( so he will probably not reply.
I am quite busy indeed. With my company Fre(i)e Software GmbH we are consulting for companies and governmental entities in Germany and the Netherlands at the moment. We work a lot on Debian-centric development projects, but also do work based on openSUSE, Ubuntu, etc.
We also support / sponsor Debian Edu work (e.g. with staff power during q4/2023). Personally, I am also involved in Debian Edu development and in my freelancer business we support 3-4 schools (one NEW) that use (want to use) Debian Edu.
We are not doing heavy marketing for FLOSS, we let school teachers / decision makers find us and if they want a fully FLOSS stack, we are there.
As for schools, here in Australia many schools use either Windows or move to Google Chrome. Sadly I have never heard of an Australia school using Linux. I look forward to seeing a greater adoption of Linux by the general community. But will this ever be a reality?20y ago i was in a talk about the ghandi motto/mantra: first they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win20y ago, linux in india was already on the stage between fight and win. i'm sureaustralia will follow soon! ;)
I share Holgers foresight. The FLOSS train has started rolling in Europe, also in India, possibly elsewhere, too. At some point it will have an intrinsic impact, I believe that even large IT tech businesses will not be able to stop it or compete with it, their only chance will be to hop on.
At the moment, I am consulting for a governmental state (Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany) where we prepare the migration of +-/ 26.000 Windows notebooks to Linux notebooks.
If you have time, I would appreciate chatting with your (or anyone else who is involved in Debian-Edu), about Linux adoption, etc. While I know a few people who use Linux either personally or professionally, I don't know anyone who is actually interested in promoting or improving Linux.
I'd be happy to give a private session on Linux at schools or Linux in public sector in a video call session. To increase the impact, find me a group of people (not just you) who are interested in the topic, ideally with people from the Australian government, Australian school decision makers, etc. With an audience of 10-20 people, I am happy to do a non-profit 1.5h workshop on FLOSS in education or FLOSS @ government.
Thanks for getting in touch! Mike -- mike gabriel aka sunweaver (Debian Developer) mobile: +49 (1520) 1976 148 landline: +49 (4351) 486 14 27 GnuPG Fingerprint: 9BFB AEE8 6C0A A5FF BF22 0782 9AF4 6B30 2577 1B31 mail: sunweaver@debian.org, http://sunweavers.net
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