I came up with a similar idea last year it just never got off the ground because of lack of participation. The idea was to have multiple people show how they use linux on a day to day basis excluding basic things like using firefox that everyone already knows how to do.
As far as what you could use in place of another program I covered that in my alternatives to proprietary software presentation which I will be giving again this year. It did not go into specific tasks though in a single program like saying here is how you make fractals in photoshop and here is how you make them in the gimp. And to be honest I haven't used anything but open source software in so long the only thing I could compare would be microsoft office vs. open office where the differences are minimal. But if someone else thinks they can put something together like that it would be interesting.
And speaking of the gimp it was on our presentation list last year but was never gotten around to in case anyone wants to pick that up this year.
Brandon Blackwell TLUG President awe008@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I saw a talk once where someone demonstrated stuff in photoshop and someone else did the same thing in gimp. I would like to expand on this a bit and have people ask or show how they do things on their mac/windows box and a panel shows how this is done with linux/oss. We could do this for a few minutes at the end of each meeting if people are interested, if there are no questions we could just show us using linux for a few minutes, explaining how to accomplish specific tasks.Andrew Quoting Brandon Russel Blackwell <brb023@xxxxxxxxxx>:It would just be up to the person to actually take it upon themselves. No need to track them and hark them if they do end up using windows or mac. I don't expect everyone to even attempt to do it though it would be nice. And there are those of us like me that have met the challenge twenty fold or more so it would be a bit senseless to keep up with us.Brandon Blackwell TLUG President Quoting Ted Winback <astraz123@xxxxxxxxx>:the challenge sounds like a good idea but how would we keep track of it?--- On Sun, 7/26/09, Brandon Russel Blackwell <brb023@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:From: Brandon Russel Blackwell <brb023@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [tlug] Linux Usage/Loose meeting Schedule To: tlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Sunday, July 26, 2009, 12:18 AMI just thought about an idea while with Sam on the phone that for one of our projects we have a use nothing but linux for a week challenge. Or at least if you have to use windows do it in a virtual machine.Or some of y'all could do like me and not use anything but linux for months and months at a time. Exclusions will include having to use windows or mac at work since you have no choice there. I would like to know people's thoughts on this idea.The loose schedule of meetings has no times except for the first one since I do not know if we will be on an every week or every other week schedule. It may change at any time and is not set in stone for the order since at this time outside of the presentations I will be doing myself I have no speakers for all the topics. And in fact I am putting my name besides the ones I will be doing for sure in case anyone wants to volunteer for the open ones.1st Meeting-Sept 15-Intro to TLUG/administrative matters -Brandon 2nd Meeting-Intro to Linux-whoever wants to redo droops' presentation from last year or make their own3rd Meeting-virtualbox/vmware -maybe Brandon if no one volunteers 4th Meeting-Install Fest -Brandon/officers 5th Meeting-Alternatives to Proprietary Software -Brandon 6th Meeting-WINE 7th Meeting-Gaming in Linux 8th Meeting-Compiz -Adele 9th Meeting-The Command Line Brandon Blackwell TLUG President ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
