It's a good idea parin. But you know, imho along with newbie friendly stuff.. we need to go beyond newbie oriented activities and build a real computing culture- which can give birth to the next google /twitter or atleast the next bsd or linux.
For that i feel that a community where apart from converting newbies, expert level knowledge is shared and people interact; is important. Regards, Nalin Ps: nar.sis and mayank.Grd you'd remember the zeal with i like attacking folks like you with this idea.. On 10/6/09, parin sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > i have a different idea may b impractical here, why not organise a Install - > o - Fest where we will just ask people to come and will give them solutions > liike installing Linux on their systems laptops desktops or whatever they > have and other troubleshooting for their problems this will be the best way > to tell people about Linux and i think this can really bring the change > because a lot people are afraid of installing Linux and other FOSS this can > really bring the change according to me because "Action speak louder then > Words". > > On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Nalin Savara <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Guys, Narendra, >> >> These thoughts had been passing through my mind for some days-- and I >> thought that instead of phoning/meeting Narendra and doing a "unicast bore >> Narendra"; I will do a "Multicast Spam and Bore the whole group" (just >> kiddingf!!!) >> >> 1. I suggest that we have a IIT-LUG meet in coming days. >> >> 2. I also suggest that we/Narendra+various other IIT-LUG >> organizer/volunteer folks decide the venue and date-time of meet atleast >> 2-3 >> weeks in advance-- and announce it-- maybe circulate PNG or PDF posters of >> the meet, which can be printed and put up at various colleges. >> >> eg: if oct 17th or 24th weekend meet-- then we should announce right away. >> >> 3. Based on a discussion Narendra, I and some more guys had at recent NSIT >> OSSCamp, we thought it will be great to facilitate file exchanges among >> participants-- especially ISOs of CDs/DVDs but in general any files that >> can >> be legally exchanged. >> >> I suggest that even if no wifi; for purpose of Linux DVD/CD sharing--- I >> suggest we bring wifi routers and ethernet cables-- and also encourage >> people to bring wifi routers and ethernet cables-- so that everybody can >> do >> file-exchanges etc on the fly; by attaching their routers to plug-points-- >> and copying/transferring files. >> >> Also, we can track who all is doing file-exchanges-- and make each one >> sign >> a document saying that they are doing at own risk-- and they will not use >> it >> for piracy or copyright violations. >> >> 4. I suggest apart from talks, we focus on having some demo sessions-- >> people can bring and demo applications they have built or worked with on >> Linux-- especially non-web applications >> >> 5. I personally would love to see robots; UAVs and other consumer >> electronic oriented uses of Open Source or even general non-open source >> consumer electronics built or worked on by LUG-meet participants. >> >> 6. We can also maybe set aside 1.5 hours or even 3 hours-- for a movie >> viewing. >> >> Just some thoughts... would love to hear comments, criticisms and rants... >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Nalin >> >> >> > >> > > > -- > Thanks and Regards, > Parin Sharma, > Another FOSS Lover, > New Delhi, > India. > > > > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Do you have another question? Click here - http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post Read archive - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
