[mdlug] Linux promotional opportunity at Micro Center

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Jan 29, 2008 12:03 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen
<kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just wanted to followup.  That stunt, and many other unfilmed events
> at UMass, were very successful.  And to our knowledge, UMass was the
> first University in the country to support Linux campus-wide.  That
> means, not just for engineering students or physicists.  If you were a
> freshman, and had Linux on your laptop, you can now bring it into the
> University help desk and get your issues troubleshooted.  I don't know
> of any other University in the country that trained their employees on
> Linux this way before we did.  I think it was a great accomplishment
> on our part.  I ran the LUG as VP and President for three years and
> worked directly with IBM in this effort.  If you disagree, well then I
> am still on the lookout to add other Universities to the list of
> Linux-friendliness.  Does MIT, Stanford, or Carnegie Mellon even do
> this?  Thanks or your input :-)

http://www.oit.umass.edu/software/download/linux.html
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Kristian Erik Hermansen
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