[ILUG] FLOSS support for SME

[Michael Jonker]

Are you a ISME member?

I am working on marketing and advocacy strategies, but also don't want 
to jump the gun and present OpenPoint to businesses before it's 
community is more established. This is my primary focus at the moment.

Here in Limerick the city council has moved over to Linux servers 
(Zentyal) and are busy migrating their workstations - so that is going 
to help in convincing people who have never heard of FOSS before.

On 26/03/12 21:32, frank.duignan at gmail.com wrote:
> ISME might be interested. At annual conference?
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> - Sent from my HTC on 3 -
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> From: "Ralph"<ron at valentia-island.com>
> To:<ilug at linux.ie>
> Cc:<support at kerry-linux.ie>
> Subject: [ILUG] FLOSS support for SME
> Date: Mon, Mar 26, 2012 1:02 pm
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> Michael Jonler writes:
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>> What it needs is the weight of a connected network of people and
>> businesses (such as yourself) across Ireland behind it.
> I see no problem to build that.
>
>> The framework for this is in the about/people section.
>> This will makegood on the promise of availability.
>> This community of people/businesses working around an
>> agreed and documented set of products/technologies will make
>> good on consistency (but still allow room for innovation).
> The world of FOSS is so rich, it'll be not much of a problem
> to agree on core technologies (apache, postfix, iptables, gnupg, mysql
> rsync, python, and various apps on top of it, the list goes on)
>
>> The documentation system is there for this purpose
>> (community/documentation)
> Agreed.
>
> But the one major question remains (and I insist):
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> How do we manage to get attention from the ones in the SME world
> that can definitely benefit from our support ?
>
> And the answer is not: by creating a website.
>
> We don't have an answer, let's admit it. (Wish that wasn't true)
>
> Ralph
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