On Dec 11, 11:22 pm, "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.
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:51 PM, prabin gautam <[email protected]>wrote:
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> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Jitendra kumar <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
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> >> 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
We are waiting for such training to happen and be a part of it.
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