Shawn Powers, associate editor of Linux Journal, delivers the morning keynote at Ohio Linuxfest 2009.
Some central ideas: * So many different tools which do the same thing confuse users sometimes * When selling the idea of Linux to someone, it's important to be forthcoming about shortcomings and caveats: if they know all the bad, they can only discover the good. * Teach concepts, not specific applications * One catches more flies with flypaper, but pie works, too.
Credits
Colin Dean of BIOSLEVEL.com
Shawn Powers of Linux Journal