valo-cd presentation (akademy 2012)
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Otto KekäläinenAkademy 2012
Tallin 2012-07-11
How to get the masses to use Free Software
VALO-CD?
Vapaita ja Avoimen Lähdekoodin Ohjelmia Free and Open Soruce Software
Translated into Finnish Easy to use, high quality software One program for each usage 100% Free
Why VALO-CD?
General Linux/FOSS campaign2004-2007
Ubuntu.fi2006-2008
Problems
For the general population Installing anything is a strain Learing new stuff is difficult They just want to get stuff done – now!
Browser Text editor E-mail
Push vs. Pull Windows → Linux -migration not viable
Solution
Look and feel good – focus on UX
Look and feel good – focus on UX
Real software come in boxes?
Does it work?
Statistics
72 000 unique visitors since 2008 114 000 visits with 390 000 page loads About 1000 downloads per month
Firefox market share in Finland >50% in the end of 2008
Why it matters?
Network effects
ODT, SVG, OGG, HTML5...
valo-cd.net/wiki
VALO-CD in Englishwas released in Feb 2012.
Now we are looking for resellers, small and big!