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Free software for Munich’s absent employees

Wow. I’m back from an evening event for employees beeing absent from duty, which took place in our old city hall. Of course, topics like successful come-back, possibilities of home-work and so on were much more important for the visitors, but for me it was quite impressive that many questions asked at our LiMux booth were “how can I become familiar with OpenOffice.org or Linux at home, before starting to work again”.

There were nearly no fears about the “new” desktop software the employees would have to use after their return; they are actively willing to use free software at home, like they will do at their offices in Munich.

That’s a great achievement, on the one hand side of our project including the manifold training offerings, the communication strategy and the strong support by our management. But it’s also an earning of the many free software communities and developers, improving the look and feel and the handling of “their” software during the last years.

Would you have expected, that common people with nearly no IT background are talking about free software as a real choice? That these people want to use free software at home? Not just due to the fact that they can save license fees, but because they want to use the software their employer have chosen for reasons they also agree, like independence and freedom.

That’s imho a huge progress, but also a reminder for us not to become carelessly in the future. It’s worth working on this item :-)

Good night.

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  1. LiMux (planetlimux) 's status on Wednesday, 18-Nov-09 02:09:31 UTC - Identi.ca sagt:
    18. November 2009 um 3:09

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    18. November 2009 um 14:24

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  3. Markus sagt:
    26. November 2009 um 11:34

    If the off-duty employees would be offered a usable VPN connection by The City of Munich’s IT (which even most of Munich’s on-duty IT employees unfortunately don’t have) they could learn to get accustomed to LiMux almost as easily as those people who are on duty.

  4. Florian Schießl sagt:
    26. November 2009 um 12:03

    Markus, exactly this is in the pipeline atm. But I think it’s not for the employees at whole in the first run, it’s step by step. So there’s progress on this topic ;-)

  5. DerMarkusnichtmehrausdemTAM sagt:
    27. November 2009 um 7:02

    Das ist genau der springende Punkt!!!
    Als wir damals unsere Basistage durchgeführt haben sind OpenOffice-CDs von uns verteilt worden (garniert mit Pinguinen und Gummibärchen)
    Die Leute waren begeistert:

    -Darf ich das daheim installieren?
    -Ist das wirklich kostenlos?
    -Das ist ja total praktisch, wenn ich daheim UND in der Arbeit dasgleiche habe.

    Dem Projekt empfehle ich mehr mit Gimmicks zu arbeiten. Das kommt an, das können die Anwender “greifen” und “nachvollziehen”

  6. Florian Schießl sagt:
    27. November 2009 um 8:00

    Yep, einer der springen Punkte. Vorschläge für solche Sachen gab’s schon früher, angenommen wurden sie halt nicht. Aber jetzt mit der Neuorg wird alles besser.

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