<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Great job, my friend.<div>That's exact what we do everyday here so we should keep in touch to share/learn our experience.</div><div><br><div><span name="x"></span><div><div><font size="2">Kind regards,<br>Tuan</font></div></div><span name="x"></span><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Buddhika Kurera" <bckurera@fedoraproject.org><br><b>To: </b>"Fedora Marketing team" <marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org>, "ambassadors" <ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:59:10 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Review on Corporate needs and Fedora<br><br>Hello,<div><br></div><div>I have visited to some corporate here in Sri Lanka last few weeks and discuss with them regarding converting their business to Free Software.</div><div><br></div><div>The visited business are small and medium type entities involving in production or sale or sometimes both.<br>
<div><br></div><div>Small business almost using pirated copies and they do not care about the copyright issues. </div><div>I have some discussion and was able to convince that soon the law regulations will impose on such misuses.</div>
<div>Some people have interested in research if they are getting required knowledge on this. </div><div>Few are every much interested and enthusiastic about trying them, so I have introduced them Fedora 15 DVDs.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Then I approached to medium size business entities, where they are almost using license software, they almost network </div><div>their PCs so moving to another system was far of their reach as they implied. </div>
<div><br></div><div>One business (in producing iron in my home town area) has facilitated me to have a 2 hour meeting with their tech crew to introduce them Fedora.<br>I have noted the advantages and some tech stuffs with some examples with how to use this in their PCs.</div>
<div>They have agreed to try this in their computers(outside the network). In the discussion I have shown them how to install Fedora to a PC by installing it.</div><div>At the end of the day they have 3 fedora running PCs.</div>
<div><br>The biggest blocker to approach medium size business is their network. Most of the crew and hardware are MS oriented.</div><div><br></div><div>I have visited 8 companies (small and medium) all of them are really important and interested.</div>
<div>I took an appointment from the manager and just went their with my laptop and some fedora DVDs.</div><div>When they hear about this wonderful free thing every one was inspired and interested.<br>I open my laptop and show them THIS IS WHAT WE CALLED FEDORA. They were more and more interested.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I like to invite all my FAms and Marketing team members please go and explore the corporate. There are enough opportunities out their.</div><div>I know the number is low but the impact you can make is more.</div>
<div>They liked KDE interface and some of them are really like it. I use F15 and distributed around 50 Fedora 15 DVDs.</div><div><br></div><div>My next goal is to arrange a F16 release party, a corporate one.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Thanks for your time. </div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><font color="#888888" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><div>Regards,</div><div><div><b>Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera</b></div></div><div><b>Fedora Ambassador Sri Lanka</b></div>
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