In the thick of the (delayed) monsoons means one has to put up with an additional round of computer-related woes. So, this evening, I found myself at ASIC in Panjim, trying to sort out a bad sectored-hard disk.
One of the staff there raised the issue. "Why don't you teach us Linux?" he asked. Soon, two or three others were asking. In no time, they had put together a list of seven e-mail addresses, all of whom were hardware techies wanting to "learn Linux".
Maybe the question was not put to the best person. (I'm no GNU/Linux guru.) But it set one thinking....
What can be done to promote GNU/Linux among new users? And also among Windows techies and hardware people, who could then spread it further?
Two suggestions:
* Tips on GNU/Linux targetted at newbies, to help them take up a kind of self-learning process... Such tips could be of the how-to-get-started type.
* Holding a few demos of various installs. Andrew asked: "Please let us know when you'll will demo an install." He underlined the need for handholding for new users to get past the partitioning stage.
Any volunteers to take these possibilities forward? Pls contact me off-list. Thanks, FN