Hello luggers, good-morning.
Greetings of the season and wishes of a prosperous new year ahead to all of you.
I write this mail so as to invite suggestions on the events for the coming year....We ended last year with a bang and drowned in the gnu-linux waters at a linu lunacy trip. But this year we need to have a concrete plan on the following.....
--> Workshops --> Gnu-Linux lunacy trips --> Conferences --> Competitions --> National Level Paper Presentations --> App Development Contests --> FSF/OS Business plan Contests --> Corporate workshops
These are some very ambitious ideas i have in mind. I would like to use this podium as an idea to proliferate them into your minds.
Pls think about the same. We should move from being just passive members of this laid back society and make sure that a minimum contribution from our end goes to the FSF/OS movement towards furthering its cause in our own spheres.
Awaiting input from you on the same.
Bye for now and have a great day.
Trevor
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 12:45, sachin rase wrote:
May This year brings joy to everybody including bill and his stupXd will as i have got power of "ps" & "kill" the gnu takes us to new hill this is my will
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On 04 Jan 2003 10:23:55 +0530 Trevor Warren trevor.w@media.mit.edu wrote:
Hello luggers, good-morning.
Greetings of the season and wishes of a prosperous new year ahead to all of you.
I write this mail so as to invite suggestions on the events for the coming year....We ended last year with a bang and drowned in the gnu-linux waters at a linu lunacy trip. But this year we need to have a concrete plan on the following.....
--> Workshops
How about a monthly workshop, in some school or college. It would be a 1 day one. The school/college provide the hardware, room etc. & few luggers can do an install/demo & give short talks.
--> Gnu-Linux lunacy trips
We could/should have this at least once in 2/3 months ;-)
--> Conferences
I am toying with idea of a Linux localisation event ( taking up only linux issues & not overlapping with Indic-computing workshops ). First will try to do a virtual one, ie online on irc, will get all language team coordinators, translators, hackers etc to discuss localisation issues. Will do this probably sometime in Feb. Then maybe do a real one ,if we get some backup/sponsors . Or will continue the online ones making them monthly.
Regards, Karunakar
hello,
On Saturday 04 January 2003 14:08, you wrote:
- LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
On 04 Jan 2003 10:23:55 +0530
Trevor Warren trevor.w@media.mit.edu wrote:
Hello luggers, good-morning.
Greetings of the season and wishes of a prosperous new year ahead to all of you.
I write this mail so as to invite suggestions on the events for the coming year....We ended last year with a bang and drowned in the gnu-linux waters at a linu lunacy trip. But this year we need to have a concrete plan on the following.....
--> Workshops
How about a monthly workshop, in some school or college. It would be a 1 day one. The school/college provide the hardware, room etc. & few luggers can do an install/demo & give short talks.
As most of the people who have been involved with workshops have noticed, doing LINUX in 3 days in a college workshop, helps to the extent of only providing a look at linux for the curious student. The plan does not work because people cannot practise or try it out on their own.. AFTER they have been to the workshop. As you can imagine installing it is task, few are willing to take.
We need a distro which can run off the cdrom. That is how people can play with it and maximum benefit is derived from the whole process.
another suggestion is to setup a demo in college of just X running on a comupter an internet conenction would be a plus. It could be setup in the canteen or anywhere people can walk up and have a look at how it works and what apps are there. show them that they could probably run ANYTHING which they wanted. Show them that Quake runs on linux too. Show them that they could use latex to print like they havnt before and then probably they will realise that they could do a hundred things here, which they didnt even know about on windows.
But really, this view maybe biased as its based on the engg students.
Regards, Karunakar
-rahul
On 04/01/03 21:09 +0530, Rahul Saxena wrote: <snip>
We need a distro which can run off the cdrom. That is how people can play with it and maximum benefit is derived from the whole process.
Knoppix. Doesn't do Winmodems though. <snip>
Show them that Quake runs on linux too.
UT2K3 with gentoo.
Show them that they could use latex to print like they havnt before and then
Show then LyX too. People don't like the command line in the beginning. Oh, and Perl and python and Xchat and everybuddy and gcc and Apache.
Devdas Bhagat
On Jan 4, 2003 at 21:09, Rahul Saxena wrote:
We need a distro which can run off the cdrom. That is how people can play with it and maximum benefit is derived from the whole process.
This URL was posted in an article by Frederick Noronha in December, on this list.
Hello Rahul, good-morning.
This indeed is an idea we would like to delve into. Giving away non-installable cdroms may not be the best way to push people into knowing more about gnu-linux.
But setting up Kiosks/Gnu-linux terminals at various points of visibility would definitely provide exposure to the audience in general.
So...come forward and have the same chalked out. We would love to see this plan in action at any of the Educational institutions who would like to have the same implemented.
Bye for now and have a great day.
Trevor
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 21:09, Rahul Saxena wrote:
- LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
hello,
On Saturday 04 January 2003 14:08, you wrote:
- LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
On 04 Jan 2003 10:23:55 +0530
Trevor Warren trevor.w@media.mit.edu wrote:
Hello luggers, good-morning.
Greetings of the season and wishes of a prosperous new year ahead to all of you.
I write this mail so as to invite suggestions on the events for the coming year....We ended last year with a bang and drowned in the gnu-linux waters at a linu lunacy trip. But this year we need to have a concrete plan on the following.....
--> Workshops
How about a monthly workshop, in some school or college. It would be a 1 day one. The school/college provide the hardware, room etc. & few luggers can do an install/demo & give short talks.
As most of the people who have been involved with workshops have noticed, doing LINUX in 3 days in a college workshop, helps to the extent of only providing a look at linux for the curious student. The plan does not work because people cannot practise or try it out on their own.. AFTER they have been to the workshop. As you can imagine installing it is task, few are willing to take.
We need a distro which can run off the cdrom. That is how people can play with it and maximum benefit is derived from the whole process.
another suggestion is to setup a demo in college of just X running on a comupter an internet conenction would be a plus. It could be setup in the canteen or anywhere people can walk up and have a look at how it works and what apps are there. show them that they could probably run ANYTHING which they wanted. Show them that Quake runs on linux too. Show them that they could use latex to print like they havnt before and then probably they will realise that they could do a hundred things here, which they didnt even know about on windows.
But really, this view maybe biased as its based on the engg students.
Regards, Karunakar
-rahul
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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On Monday 06 January 2003 11:20, you wrote:
- LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
Hello Rahul, good-morning.
This indeed is an idea we would like to delve into. Giving away non-installable cdroms may not be the best way to push people into
But people really find it hard to partition disks and thigns like that. I did write somthing to help people about this somtime back.. but then the whole thing has been done by people.. redhat "getting started and installation" guide! Maybe we should have a 10 point listing of how to go about partition.. considering its basically aimed with Home Users - with WinXXXX - a possible empty partition - and an IDE disk, dont know how good current installers are for redhat and debian and things like that.
knowing more about gnu-linux.
But setting up Kiosks/Gnu-linux terminals at various points of visibility would definitely provide exposure to the audience in general.
So...come forward and have the same chalked out. We would love to see this plan in action at any of the Educational institutions who would like to have the same implemented.
Bye for now and have a great day.
Trevor
rahul
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:06:28PM +0530, Rahul Saxena wrote: | But people really find it hard to partition disks and thigns like that. I did | write somthing to help people about this somtime back.. but then the whole | thing has been done by people.. redhat "getting started and installation" | guide!
Probably the users can use knoppix distro which boots off the CD. No need to partition the disk and other hassles.
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 23:06, Rahul Saxena wrote:
But people really find it hard to partition disks and thigns like that.
I too have the experience that partitioning is one of the most important difficult areas when it comes to Linux installation. Even Third Year students of BSc Computer Science in at least 2 colleges which I visited had a *very* tiny idea about partitioning - that too only 1 or 2 in a class of ~50.
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