Nice initiative guys ! It'd be really helpful to the community outreach n expansion, if such trainings could be done regularly, and since it'd be more introductury in nature, basically any one literate in Linux/FOSS could volunteer for the tutoring. I'm definitely in. Let's make this happen. On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:20 AM, prabin gautam <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
