On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Shishir Jha <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all, > Today group of guys, actually 3 of them from ASCOL up at BVS training > center with requests of including them to the LTSP TOT, because of lack of > experience in Linux, I had to softly turn them away. Though it didnt feel > right to do so, because it was not there mistake. At that very moment > something that struck me was, there are loads of people who want to learn > about Linux, or lets say just get started on it and since we have a training > center, we at FOSS nepal should take the initiative to cater to these people > by organizing either 2-3 full day training or may be 4-5 day 4 hrs a day > training to get them introduced them to Linux and OSS in general. It doesnot > have to be free, we could charge them some very minimum amount to cover the > cost of trainer and training center. > So sad to know this. But as u say we need to do lots of such training. > > Lets think about it and take some good steps, so that next time students > who have great interest in FOSS are not turned away from some training due > to their lack of knowledge. Our purpose is to educate people about FOSS and > now we have a great oppurtunity to do that practically too with the new > training center. So shakar, Ankur and all lets plan some regular training > and teach about FOSS practically too along with the theory and awareness > campaign that we do. > Ya, I think its a nice idea to start with a team which can plan and organize. K b ४ छ garne होइन त? > > Cheers > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:51 PM, prabin gautam <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Jitendra kumar < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Shankar Pokharel <[email protected] >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> I thought the message, "ravi" wrote while applying to join this list >>>> just a moment ago, needs to be shared with all. >>>> >>>> He wrote: >>>> >>>> "I am currently studying Computer Science in Amrit Campus and used few >>>> distros of linux. I have also tired Nepali Linux and have recently >>>> installed >>>> Fedora 10 in my system. I want to be involved in the localization project >>>> and FOSS Nepal is a platform to initiate a open source porjects." >>>> >>> >>> That is really great to see. We need more enthusiasts to work on >>> localization projects. >>> >> >> We need and we have a lot of enthusiasts. Sad to say but we are still not >> able to create platform for those people. >> >> Why not someone lead this localization section and start doing? Anyone >> interested to be committed and to lead? Its our community so anyone here can >> take a lead. >> >> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Jitendra. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Prabin Gautam >> Open Source Developer >> prabin AT prabin DOT net DOT np >> Mob: +९7७9८4१२5९00१ >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Shishir Jha > EPC 1970,GPO 8975, > KTM,NEPAL > > > > > -- Prabin Gautam Open Source Developer prabin AT prabin DOT net DOT np Mob: +९7७9८4१२5९00१ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
