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Active Vs Passive was..Why getting Shared Media rolling is important



The information I read on the Edu page talks about vocational training for students. What I'm talking about is a no-holds-bared *marketing* assault on the installed computer base in schools. I'm not talking about teaching a few-thousand like-minded students how to run Fedora so they can land a job as an Enterprise Admin. I'm talking about convincing Schools to spend their Computer/Technology budget rolling out Linux, so a few Million kids can enjoy the freedom OSS brings. By actively searching out people who have the authority (common term "decision maker") to say to their board... "By going Linux, we will save thousands of dollars on software. That money can then be used for [fill in the blank]." When it comes down to it, it's not about jobs operating Red Hat. My idea was about getting Fedora on Millions of class room PC's. Think beyond enterprise servers for a moment and see what millions of little kids using Fedora/Linux means to the big picture and to the RH bottom line in years to come. If my marketing ideas aren't helpful to you here, I won't waste any more of your time.

~Karlie


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