Hi, Jorge! Sounds very exciting. Jorge Higueros wrote:

The first step is with the profesesors the university buy 4000 laptops with Ubuntu and and we are the training and the second is present the proyect to the migration to Free Software all University and timeline 2 years and is posible 1 year

Perhaps a disk-image or kickstart with customized applications, menus, settings, and other options can be worked out with the first focus groups. How are these 4000 to be phased in and who will be the first guinea pigs for the first few pilot projects? (They can be short, quick projects.) Can the OEM work with you on this? What plans are there for making and publishing online HOWTOs and other documentation? e.g. reference management, compound documents with OOo, etc. You're making a clean start so, maybe IPv6, too?

and the staff is maybe working with four organization and lugs we are 500 person working full time.

Have you made a list of applications you will actively support? Which applications are encouraged but not supported? Which applications are they on their own with? KDE is highly customizable and since your team is likely setting up highly configured desktops, it or Xfce are worth examining. Xfce will be fast. How about a disk or kit for those who want to follow progress but won't have the laptops?

And proyect it has to with a documentation of the other universities aruond the world working with free software

Are there plans to provide distribute, network accessible storage with or without web service? If so, OpenAFS is a useful tool for the infrastructure: http://workshop.openafs.org/afsbpw08/ AFS can be combined with Kerberos+ldap (or maybe hesiod) and the two can be part of providing a federated workspace. You have two tasks there. One is the technical infrastructure (e.g. AFS cells and cross-realm authentication) another is planning the taxonomy (for the whole institution and for various classes of users and groups). The file storage can have directories for each user or group or course. Subfolders there can be made available to the university's web server. Regards, -Lars

Hi all, In Bangladesh Open Source Network <http://www.bdosn.org>, we have a service to help other entities to migrate to open source. Right now we have two ongoing projects - one with D.net (a non-profit) and the other is Bangladesh Telecenter network. In every case, we try to categorize the softwares first in the following criteria - 1. Business critical/ Mission critical softwares, 2. Regular business process, 3. Ad-hoc softwares, 4. Miscellaneous. Different departments of the same entity may have different softwares in the same categories. Then we identify the group in the entity which should be the most tech-savvy. We start with them. We then provide localized version of manuals and training materials. Asynchronous workshops are also arranged. We also try to find out device drivers for Linux distributions. Although there are lots of challenges these efforts are worthy. Thanks, Shehab On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Leo Arias F. <elopio@softwarelibrecr.org> wrote:

Hola Jorge,

Last year I talked to Anderson Fernandes de Alencar, from the Paulo Freire Institute. He did an interesting work relating the migration to free software and Paulo Freire's ideas, and he worked on the migration of the institute. You can found the document at [1]. He's brazilian so the text it's in portuguese, but if you speak spanish you can understand almost everything with some help of a translation tool. You might want to talk to him, he speaks a kind of portuñol so there will be no problem. The problem is that I can't find his email, I'll continue searching.

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Thank you for the information, somebody know a list of universities using free software becouse I neen atach the inform of experience, cost, time of the migration and cost of migration aplication properity software to free software and create new aplication. On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Pia Waugh <greebo@pipka.org> wrote:

Hi Jorge,

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I need your Help becouse I am working in a migration of my university to Free Software, but in the proyect I need put other experiences of other universities of the world that they using free software, and I need a documentation of this work, like: experience, cost, time etc, helpme for this proyect the object is The migration to the 100% the University.

I would suggest checking out the following:

http://ask-oss.mq.edu.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10&Itemid=61

http://openeducation.org.au/

I could put you in contact with a few Australian universities using Open Source extensively.

Also, for other useful information about FOSS (including TCO docs, policy docs, etc) check out the following:

Business case for FOSS:

http://ask-oss.mq.edu.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=61

Governments around the world and FOSS:

http://ask-oss.mq.edu.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=61

Costs comparison templates:

http://ask-oss.mq.edu.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=61

Full disclosure: I was the research coordinator for ASK-OSS :)

Cheers, Pia

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