Sorry for such a late response, fellows.
On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 21:00 +0530, Nirmal Thacker wrote:
hello lists!
A seminar was held on Saturday, 24th September, 2005 at the BMSCE library seminar hall at 11:30 AM. My feedback for the seminar is mainly from the staff of CSE and ISE. Students generally have no fixed opinion. this saddens me.
To bring about change is continuous process, it often takes strong, concentrated and constant effort on our part to create awareness and interest. The short event like the one recently conducted(kudos to all those who worked for it) will kindle the interest in few but you need to keep __that__ interest lighted with 'Free Software' related activities inside the campus.
Perhaps as the president of CSE group, you should find a few (one or two ) early adaptors to Gnu/Linux and let them brag or educate others about the cool new software (and freedom aspects of 'Free Software') they run .
It reminds me that one of the earliest installation of 0.9x kernel in North America was done on lab computer by a student who was promptly thrown out of the lab that day. But that simple act of vandalism (according to college system administrator) did generate so much interest that campus now produced many of the early Linux kernel developers and maintainers.
I had a similar experience in my college(when I went to college, that is), the person who helped me install my first gnu/Linux operating system also had a computer in college lab running an early gnu/linux with anyone's noticing it. I think he and myself were able to generate a lot of interest even though we didn't have a Glug speakers giving us a lot of interesting talks.
So, the bottom line is that one-to-one interaction between students often brings about a great deal of change. Hope that will help Nirmal in his Herculean task of changing the mind-set of college .
Thanks everyone again! it was a wonderful afternoon!
I think we need a round of applause to Nirmal , our youngest and most respected member of FSUG.
Give him a big hand folks, he has achieved what we I couldn't do in years ;o).
Cheers