Re: [lp-ca-on] FSOSS 2015 Accepting Presentation Proposals

[Blaise Alleyne]

On 14/07/15 08:49 AM, Lukas Berk wrote:
> Sergio Durigan Junior <address@hidden> writes:
>> On Monday, July 13 2015, Blaise Alleyne wrote:
>>> On 13/07/15 12:22 AM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>>>> On Sunday, July 12 2015, Blaise Alleyne wrote:
> [...]
>>> accounting/taxes), in terms of niche areas where there is still a
>>> pressing need for free software solutions, where we haven't yet or have
>>> only recently developed solutions, e.g. form accounting to BIOS software
>>> and LibreBoot,
>> 
>> Cool.  Lukas (if he's still reading the list) told me he wanted to buy a 
>> Libreboot from Gluglug.  It would be awesome to raise awareness about these
>> machines.  I am also saving to buy a ThinkPenguim notebook as well, but
>> last time I checked they are still coming with proprietary BIOS.
> 
> /me looks around to see if you were talking to somebody else.  No?  Me? 
> Uhhhh.  Yes, a Gluglug is on my radar.

I'm looking into this too, actually. With a recent hard drive failure, I'm
starting to look at at the Gluglug LibreBoot X200... and maybe with another
stable primary laptop, sending my current ThinkPad X60 in for a Gluglug
LibreBoot install...

But I'm not sure what I'll do at this point, so not sure what I'll be running in
October.


> Given the variety of topics in rest of the thread, perhaps it might be worth
> while to submit a talk/presentation on a practical guide to using free
> software in everyday life.  Identifying common proprietary tools, and how one
> might *easily* switch to a libre tool, and why it's important.  It has to 
> relate to the audience in an obvious way.
> 

A practical guide to using free software in everyday life -- I like that! I
think that could be a compelling subject for many people at FSOSS too. Sounds
like it could be a great breadth-first talk...