Just an update on what's happening on various fronts. *** We have got requests for talks in colleges or wider events at (i) Chowgule College Margao via Sangeeta Naik (ii) St Xavier's Mapusa via Nelson Lobo and (iii) RIT Shiroda via Sandesh Patil.
We need champions to take up these causes and make things happen. Albert Gouveia is in touch with Xavier's, and maybe Dr Seth (that everwilling inspirer of the to-be geek) could help. Arvind Yadav can you take up Margao? The staff from there was also talking with Dr Seth, when we met up at last academic year's Quepem college function. Any suggestions how we can help at Shiroda? Amit SHIRODkAr ;-), Prof George Easaw, and the rest of the team at GEC? Just because they're at a little bit of a remote location, we should not ignore their request for help. *** Ajay Cuncolienkar is expected down from Mumbai around July 23 (in time for our LUG meet) and he's keen to make things happen at his alma mater in Khandola (Government College). *** When my hard-disk conked, I had the chance to discuss GNU/Linux with nel at arteksystems.com (Nel of Artek in Panjim). We spoke about the stability of Debian, and the ease of Mandrake's partitioning tool. Nel appreciated SuSE's user-friendliness, and said he himself had Fedora on his desktop. What Nel wanted to know was GNU/Linux equivalents for Windows users. So, as promised, am sending him this link which tells you which Free Software tools can replace proprietary http://www.asiaosc.org/enwiki/page/Open_source_replacements_for_proprietary_software.html and also another useful link (of GNU/Linux equivalents for Windows, thanks to Ankur Chakraborty) at http://www.linuxjunkies.org/articles/win-gnu-alt.html Check it out if interested, FN
