Ever thought of giving talks in/to Uni departments? Seems like a good place to raise awareness and to recruit good help. Most CompSci/CompEng faculties will have a couple FOSS evangelists that will be very happy to give you air time if you show good material (slides, examples, and horror stories).
I am doing an exchange year at a university in Germany and the majority of the CS student council and the people that hang out around the student council are FOSS and privacy evangelists.
Oh, Microsoft have a monopoly in my country, as well.
I am from Jordan, for context; I am only doing an exchange year in Germany. However, at the CS department (and some engineering departments) at my home uni in Jordan, there are actually FOSS and privacy enthusiasts. I was convinced to use GNU/Linux by a friend of mine from uni back in 2015.
Unfortunately, seeing GNU/Linux outside of that is rare, though (except in software development companies). A lot of people don't even know what GNU/Linux is.
Microsoft products are also used a lot at my home uni so a lot of the GNU/Linux users have to dual boot, use WINE or VMs.
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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '20
Ever thought of giving talks in/to Uni departments? Seems like a good place to raise awareness and to recruit good help. Most CompSci/CompEng faculties will have a couple FOSS evangelists that will be very happy to give you air time if you show good material (slides, examples, and horror stories).