Hello munshi dear,
I have some suggestions that i want to make to all the luggers about the tour.
About Gnu-Linux Picnic:
About the Gnu-Linux Picnic....thats a totally different story and it is something we should have as a small get together outside of bombay so that all of us can chill have fun and learn at the same time.
About Gnu-Linux tour:
Now about the tour that you had in mind. It isn't possible for us to go around all the Hardware Vendors/ISV's/VAR's around the country holding seminars/workshops for all of them indivizually.
Instead, in the context of the workshops that we have outlined starting next month there will be .....
--> Commercial Workshops around the country for Developers on Free Software --> Non-Commercial Workshops for Students from accross the country on Free Software ang Gnu-Linux --> Workshops in and around Bombay on Gnu-Linux for the ISV's/VAR's/Hardware Vendors which we will subsidise with out other commercial activities as mentioned above.
Hold on to your guns....we aldready have linuxers executing their tasks and we will be on schedule towards fulfilling our commitment ot 1 workshop every Fortnight.
Lemme know your observations on the same.
Bye for now and have a nice day all.
Trevor
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 02:00:26 -0500 (EST) mails@munshi.dyndns.org wrote:
Hi,
How about having a tour around the city, visiting as many hardware assemblers and teaching them basic installation of linux (hope we agree on a distribution which we can install in front of them). My hardware vendor have engineers who are prety smart but have never used linux so do not know much about it and can not support my system. Since many assemblers take a risk by giving pirated softwares with their PC's they may like this idea. Also Linux will gain a upper hand in being the first OS that people get on their PC and problems with learning a new OS will not exist for linux anymore. We will be fighting propritary software right the at the root. The negative side will be that their software modems and printers (which are cheaper) will not make a market so they may even resist this. We also can ask them (the assemblers and the new users) to subscribe to our mailing list to ask for help. I would suggest an easy to use distribution like Mandrake, or caldera. I would really prefer caldera since it fits on a single CD and assemblers can easily provide a copy of with every comp they sell. Also caldera has limited number of applications, for example just 1-2 broswers, which can be quiet helpful for newbies to computers, also I have not heard a lot of flames for caldera as there are for RH and mandrake. On the other hand, Mr. Rajeev had a problem with Myson NIC which worked under Mandrake, but the kernel module would not compile under most of the other distributions.
This is finally just an idea guys, may be there is something very wrong in this idea and may not work at all.
Bye