Re: a page for job postings etc... is in place- comments?

[rnd@sampo.karelia.ru]

On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 EAMorical@aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 1/6/99 4:31:30 AM EST, brk@slip.net writes:
><< http://www.slip.net/~brk/linuxedpp.htm

Some problem with wording:

   These pages are intended for schools to post needs for their LINUX
                                                ^^^^^
   based needs.  There is also a section for volunteers to post contact
         ^^^^^
   information.  If a group or individual cannot Volunteer, but can
   provide services at a SUBSTANTIALLY discounted rate, you are welcome
   to post as well.

And also try to look at it with Lynx,  I  think,  it  complains
about something... ("bad partial reference"?)

It can also be stressed that [near]-volunteer service for local
schools could be a very  good  real-life  practise  for  future
system admins, while they learn! Some  people  even  give  free
accounts to their machines to perfect in administrating skills.

*

And I think better approach is  not  to  mention  about  "Linux
needs", but do it this way (wording could be smoother - english
is not my native...):

   Schools with a need for good Internet/WAN/LAN/Web/email/whatever
   software solutions are encouraged to post here their announces
   for reduced-cost (or even volunteer!) job vacancies.
   Our solutions are based on the best networking technology (Linux)
   and we have very friendly support.
     ...

Why? Because  schools  do  not  have  Linux  needs,  they  have
Internet/WAN/LAN/Web/email/whatever needs, which are  best  met
by Linux!

Better advertize "an instant car", when selling a teleporter!

This way we will gather more  school  attention  than  if  just
saying we have a job-vacancies for something called Linux.

If this page will  be  searchable  by  search  engines,  school
administration will find it.


In short, the focus must be  on  clients  desires  and  not  on
Linux. (This is how Linux moves,  not  because  its  mascot  is
nice!)

I understood it while had  long  battles  in  the  russian  edu
newsgroup. It doesn't work to tell how good  Linux  technically
is, what really counts is that is solves  problems  and  solves
them better.

Another possible way to promote Linux while  helping  charities
to save money for better use than  buying  MS  software  is  to
contact their headquaters and offer help.

It is always more cost-effective to pay a  consultant  and  use
free software and  have  a  stable  systems  than  to  pay  for
'intellisense'  software  AND  pay  to  the  consultant   after
discovering that  the  software  (it  turned  out)  requires  a
specialist to setup.


Sincerely yours,
Roman A. Suzi

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