Message: 1 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 00:57:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Trevor Warren trevorwarren@yahoo.com To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Diff approach......towards popularising linux in ur college Reply-To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in

--- Mitul Limbani mitull@wrox.com wrote:

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Well i have no issues on Saturdays ....

[snip] Hello Luggers,

 Lemme add to the topic aldready under discussion.

Sometime ago Dr. Nagarjuna, Dinesh and me had been to Sangli to conduct a 2 day WorkShop on gnu-linux. It was quite an enriching experience and educatiing for us too on various fronts. The enthusiasm of the youngsters wanting to learn gnu-linux and being so receptive to the idea of Free Software meant a lot to all of us from the Ilug-Bom.

[snip] only a handful of those ppl who attended the workshop are actually in touch with linux as of now and the rest have just forgotten it... reason-- those ppl were from the auto mobile branch and most of the comp branch guys didnt know abt it. we plan to do it exclusively for the comp sc. students who need things like these(as a part of there cirriculum).

At the end of the workshop we had completed with half of Hands on Installation for all of the students. And i am pretty sure that some of them pple who Grasped some of the Basics are still around.

Instead of making it to the college again and conducting another workshop, i should suggest that now Rajaram Bapu College of Engineering form their own Free-Software Cell which would consist of Like minded pple interested in propogating the concept of Free Software and also have an Open Forum for solving Technical Problems related to Free Software implementation all over their own college and the surrounding colleges too.

[snip] we are from the lot that were there for the workshop and are very thankful to trevor and dr nag to introduce us to something as kewl as linux. but we are starters. we arent so well off with things that we can explain it to other ppl. i agree that we can introduce linux to ppl, but we wud need some experts to make things crystal clear and also to set up a fully equiped lab.. we have done as much as we cud by setting up a lab with a server for ftp and telnet but more needs to be done. we ourselves are having a few probs to which we need solutions.. SO PLZ I SUGGEST THAT LETS MAKE IT A COMBINED EFFORT, WE'LL HELP THE EXPERTS THAT COME BY TAKING UP PORTIONS OF THE WORKSHOP THAT WE ARE CONFIDENT WITH... I ALSO PROMISE A VERY GOOD RESPONSE THIS TIME. -Gurpreet

IF NEEDED, we can have a bootcamp in Bombay conducted by the Ilug-Bom and SPEARHEADED by the luggers who were ready to spare some time towards this noble cause. This bootcamp could cover teaching some core members of the College the core skills required to setup/maintain the servers/setup of the Labs and also indulge them in a HOWTO on setting up a local Free Software grp in college.

I think this is the right thing to do, since after a 2 day workshop @ Rajaram Bapu C.O.E by now some of the core canidates should be bold enough to Spearhead the Free Software Campaign with some amount Hand Holding from our side. I

I sincerely doubt re-conducting the whole workshop episode again.

Trevor Warren