2008/8/16 Orr Dunkelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OK Haifuxers, > > here is a short discussion that has to be done before Rami's talk - do > we want to have a W2L event in haifa this year?
I would recommend a campain as opposed to an event. The campain would be on two fronts: 1) Getting people ready for Linux: Switching to FOSS cross-platform software even on Windows (OOo, Thunderbird and Firefox in particular) 2) Getting Linux ready for people: writing to software makers (Solidworks in particular) and asking about Linux or Wine 1.0 compatible versions. > Any other discussions about what is going to be in it, are sort of > giving gas in neutral if there are no people to carry out the > talks/ads. > > So I will give points in favor: > * It's good to have a short series of a few talks introducing Linux - > raises awareness, and helps people to get into Linux. Do this one-on-one with your friends, not in a lecture. > * This is a forum to let people know of the future possibilities. > * A good place to "recruit" new club members. > > Some points against: > * A lot of work (usually the PR). > * Should be very careful in the W2L not to discourage people (no > attacks on Microsoft, no internal jokes - people will get the wrong > impression). > * This year, the students are going to be still stressed with all the > artifacts of the last strike, so attendance will be slightly lower > than expected. Especially in Haifa: the Technion only this week finished classes from spring semester, and is now going into Moed A tests. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
