Orna, I understand your point and agree with it, nevertheless, I believe there are a lot of skilled programmers and super users out there that tend to think Linux is no more than an old "dos window for geeks', unusable for the desktop user (i.e - them, while not doing sudo stuff) and so on...
I would like to show them the true face and powers of the GNU/Linux system - as I did with my friends. The series should target existing power / super users that currently work solely with Windows - kind of: "Look, this is how it looks like, this is how you do this task under Linux" I noticed the Haifux calendar is wide open for the neear future. I am willing to do the lectures myself (although, I am not a gifted lecturer as others I've seen). I'll need help with spreading the word through the right channels - to get to the right target audiance. Thanks! .:====================================================:. Amichai Rotman UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE READ: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ .:====================================================:. On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 15:08, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Amichai, > > On a personal note, I am tired of being a missionary and bored of > preaching. I feel Linux has become mainstream enough for Haifux to focus on > higher-level topics, which are more interesting for the hard core of the > Linux club, rather than working on PR/introductory lectures for strangers. > I would like to see Haifux more as a meeting place for enthusiasts, along > the original lines of guy's LUPG > (http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/<http://users.actcom.co.il/%7Echoo/lupg/>) > and along the lines of the first years of the club, where people would learn > a subject and then teach it to others. > We have been recycling lectures and generally stepping in place - I would > like to see Haifux moving on to new professional territories, one of which > is parallel programming. > > I would also like to see Haifux community collaborative projects alive and > kicking again. > > On a more general note, Shlomi Fish has a lot of energy for W2L, but he > spends it in Tel Aviv. A project such as W2L requires a lot of energy from > several people. If there are not enough energetic people, there is no W2L. > > Orna. > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Amichai Rotman <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello Haifa Linuxers! >> >> I wonder - why was it so long since we had Welcome 2 Linux lectures in >> Haifa? >> >> I had a couple of friends at home a week a go that have just installed >> Linux on their Laptops. One of them told me he haven't turned on his Window$ >> machine for more than a week and he is really happy with his Ubuntu 8.10 >> install (everything works - even WiFi) but he would like to know some more, >> have a better understanding of the inner workings of the Linux OS. >> >> I came across the Linux Reality <http://www.linuxreality.com> Podcast and >> thought we could hold a series of lectures along the lines of the Podcast >> outline. >> >> Please don't flame me too much [?] >> >> >> .:====================================================:. >> >> Amichai Rotman >> >> UIN#: 6401746 >> Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] >> Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> PLEASE READ: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> .:====================================================:. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haifux mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux >> >> >
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