Otto Kekäläinen presented on how the VALO-CD project helped introduce free and open source software to the general population in Finland. VALO-CD provided easy to use, high quality FOSS programs on a single disc, with the goal of making installation and use simple. The project saw success, with over 72,000 unique visitors since 2008 and about 1,000 downloads per month. Kekäläinen discussed how a focus on user experience was important to address issues people had installing new software. He concluded by announcing the English version of VALO-CD was released and they were looking for resellers.
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VALO-CD presentation (Akademy 2012)
1. Otto Kekäläinen
Akademy 2012
Tallin 2012-07-11
How to get the masses to use
Free Software
2. 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
6. 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
12. 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
