[dundee] Draft of article for Dundee Voluntary Action

[Angie]

Colin Brough wrote:

>At our January meeting, when Angie from webtrust talked us through
>opportunities for helping voluntary organisations, I (foolishly?)
>offered to do an article for the DVA newsletter. A draft is here
>(emphasise draft!!).
>
>	http://www.colinbrough.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/TLUGarticle.pdf
>
>Comments welcome.
>
>Cheers
>  
>
Can't open the article on this machine (recently installed Linux, not 
got a pdf reader for Mozilla on it yet). Had a quick read of it on the 
windows machine earlier though and it looks good (for it's target 
audience) - as was the "what is linux" link.

I think if you said anything like Linux is a Unix like operating it 
wouldn't make sence to the majority of the audience (charity 
managers/trustees/workers) who probably haven't even heard of Unix. The 
comparision to Windows is the best way to go; most charity workers I 
come into contact with don't even know what version of Windows they are 
using so the dumbing it down approach works well in this case.

I'll have another look over it later and scribble any ammendments/comments.

- Angie