At 12:00 AM 8/14/01 +0530, you wrote:

Sometime Today, Kapil Karekar assembled some asciibets to say:

...

I have an idea. Why don't we form ourselves into groups on the 25th of August and visit engineering college campuses around Mumbai. We could spread awareness about Linux among students and answer their queries about Linux.

Sounds good. The 25th is a Saturday, which means many engineering colleges will be closed. Some offices will also be closed. What this means is that the college administration will not object to a talk. It also means that many students may be reluctant to attend.

as it is a third Saturday it wont be a holiday in most colleges (degree engineering). i could speak to ppl in my college, Fr crce bandra.

but what sort of talk would it be .. awareness or somthing ... (that would be nice) .. no agenda ppl who dont use linux have a thousand questions about it !

pls suggest

If we're just going to answer queries, then it shouldn't take too long. Maybe an hour or two. We'll have to inform students well in advance for them to get all their queries listed out and ready to ask us.

How many people are ready to visit colleges on the 25th?

Philip

-rahul

P.S. picnic would be fun ... but where would that be ?

_________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

--- Philip S Tellis philip.tellis@iname.com wrote:

Sometime Today, Kapil Karekar assembled some asciibets to say:

...

I have an idea. Why don't we form ourselves into

groups on the 25th

...

of August and visit engineering college campuses

around Mumbai. We

...

could spread awareness about Linux among students

and answer their

...

queries about Linux.

Sounds good. The 25th is a Saturday, which means many engineering colleges will be closed.

Why are we restricting ourselves to just engineering colleges? We need to also include other technical faculties such as Maths, Physics, etc., since there will be people there who will be just as interested, but with less access to computing information than the engineering crowd.

Some offices will also be

closed. What this means is that the college administration will not object to a talk. It also means that many students may be reluctant to attend.

IMO, this (the student attendance thing) should not be an issue - genuinely interested people will come, as has been the case with our LUG Sunday meetings.

If we're just going to answer queries, then it shouldn't take too long. Maybe an hour or two. We'll have to inform students well in advance for them to get all their queries listed out and ready to ask us.

How many people are ready to visit colleges on the 25th?

A very good idea - you can count me in. Philip, will you suggest a list of colleges, please?

Rgds,

Krishnan

__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Pankaj Jangid wrote:

Hi all, This is the output of "ifconfig" command

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:B7:8E:6D:C6 inet addr:202.141.152.14 Bcast:202.141.152.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:449 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2151 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:73826 (72.0 Kb) TX bytes:2996653 (2.8 Mb) Interrupt:11

It is showing Mask:202.141.152.0 whereas it should be 202.141.152.192 . In the /etc/network/interfaces file it is 202.141.152.192. I am using Debian(woody).

Sorry it should be 255.255.255.192. Problem is resolved.

regards - --------------------------------------- Pankaj Jangid National Centre for Software Technology - ---------------------------------------