2006/8/27, Anush Shetty itsanushshetty@gmail.com:
Hi, I am happy that some initiatives are being planned. But in the end what matters is how the entire thing takes off. We just dont need any spl day to do anything.
Completely agree and that is why we did FOSS Month last time :-) And may be FOSS Year this time ;-)
Having external co-ordinators or GNU/Linux - Reps for colleges wont help.
The initiatives should be taken by the people (students) within the institution.
I agree, what I meant was just to co-ordinate the Software fredom Day efforts we need some one from FSUG to guide the students. But students have to take charge of their college's activity.
And thank you for volunteering to co-ordinate PESIT activities. You can tell us who (a student from that college) is in charge in each of the colleges we targeted. Again thanks for volunteering to come up with the list.
Secondly, how many us bother to teach someone ?
I do. http://www.pravi.co.nr/2005/01/14/when-teachers-became-students/whenever I get a chance.
I believe the more you keep talking, the more you hold someone from
programming.
Is programming the only important thing? We have so many of programmers in our country and how much the society benefit from it?
If you know perl, just go and teach your friend. If you know to install
GNU/Linux, just go and do it for your friend. Most of the stuffs are learnt by fixing up things.
Completely agree.
You can have tutorial sessions for various programming languages but no
talks. Probably stuffs like how to use Gdb, learning Php makes sense rather than just arguing about how what/how-to etc.
Thank you for volunteering to do a tutorial on python.
Make students aware of various technical-user-groups within the city which
will make them get involved in the community.
Agree. So it was great to see someone volunteering for a lot of stuff.
Cheers Praveen