I think I might organize an Open Source Software Day at the University of Iowa. Visit the Iowa Open Source Meetup. It might be interesting to recruit volunteers to sit at tables, give demonstrations of software (ie laptops running OpenSolaris, Ubuntu, PCs with Gimp, OpenOffice), and talk to people about Open Source software. I think this could be a very exciting thing for the University and could do a lot to increase the visibility of the open source community at the University of Iowa. I'll need: volunteers, balloons, tables, laptops for demonstration, two hundred OpenSolaris & Ubuntu CDs, and five hundred Gimp/OpenOffice/Firefox/etc CDs.
In the meantime, take a moment to go download these Open Source pieces of software:
OpenOffice.org
Just released version 3 of this great office suite.
The GIMP
Excellent program for image manipulation and editing.
About Me
- Ryan Kopf
- I am an entrepreneur, business-owner, website developer, event organizer, and photographer. Some past accomplishments include working for Sun Microsystems, being the first Technology Director for University of Iowa Student Government, running for mayor, getting my AA, and opening a youth center. I do computer programming in Ruby on Rails, and I am studying Computer Science at the University of Iowa. I like to develop web applications, and manage several websites across the internet.