hi ,
I WAS busy, so could not check mail.
I agree with Riddhi, JU responsibility is ours.
Give us some pointer how U plan to chalk out complete event.
Bye
Ketan
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 01:45:23 Indranil Das Gupta wrote:
>> From: Joseph Mathew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Thath's (Sudhakar Chandrasekharan) visit to
>Calcutta
>> Date: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 3:14 PM
>>
><snip>
>> Dear Indra:
>> Let us utilize Thaths visit to increase ilug-cal members and in general
>> increase the awareness on Linux by the College Students and the IT
>> community.
>> I suggest that we arrange a seminar
><snip>
>
>Dear JPM,
>
>The idea of a seminar/workshop involving the industry-college & university
>students and users from around Calcutta is a wonderful one. Till date it
>has been on our minds that the corporates and s/w biggies should be
>addressed, but the "how" embedded in that question has been very fuzzy to
>us. Your suggestion to sponser the event seems to me to a be a likely way
>to for Linux to make major inroads in here.
>
>I welcome and look forward to see the active participation from all our
>members in order to make it a success....but I have extra expectation from
>some of you, whom I will mention very shortly.
>
>Mr Subrata Debnath is an engineer with CESC, and an ILUG-Cal member. He
>recently told me about successfully shifting some of their databases to
>Sybase on Linux, from the venerable SCO....the savings in terms of license
>fees are truly enormous. I suggest we capture him and if possible a few
>others in his/their dept....maybe invite his boss(es) as well, and have
>them speak about how they went about it..what difficulties they may have
>faced....and what they plan to do based on their short experience with
>Linux. (Subrata....and Tapas....are you listening? what do you say??)
>
>Mr. Kamal Karnatak & Navneet Chola, both members of ILUG-Cal, also has been
>experimenting with Linux internally at their company's IS dept. in a way to
>take a fresh look past the HP-UX they have been using so long (IIRC, they
>are with Jayshree Textiles, a Birla Group company)....can you guys speak
>about that...??
>
>The most important thing here is to get the word out....and as we are
>having you behind us it should not be too difficult to approach an invite
>the biggies...as some of the ILUG-Cal members are CS students at JU (Ketan,
>Riddhi....are you guys listening??) I will be counting on your help to
>have JU interact in the event. For B.E Shibpur, I think there are a few
>people in ILUG-cal who can help us get accross to the Shibpur folks.
>
>Linux is also being used at CMC, ISI at VECC, and IIMC Joka, lets us see if
>we can pull some of these folks in... Darshan, can you see to the part
>about inviting CMC.. ??
>
>One of our present members is from Shipping Corporation of India Ltd...are
>you using Linux internally, can you tell us something about it?
>
>This may also be a good time to get some media mileage out of this whole
>affair, for Linux in Calcutta, ILUG-Cal and of course Astralsys ;) Once we
>have decided on the format of the event and themes to use for it, the event
>should be announced well in advance on Linux-India,. and
>Linux-India-general list. We could approach the Express Computer weekly (of
>the Indian Express group) to give the event some coverage, and on my own I
>can try to convince a couple of people in the ABP group to do some articles
>on Linux with reference to the event. Any help in terms of media contact
>from any of the members is most welcome.
>
>We need to decide how many people we are planning to invite....whether the
>event will be invitees-only or a open-door, open-forum one (I favour the
>second one). And based on that we have to decide where to hold the meeting,
>however this area is best let to you (ie. JPM).
>
>I'm working on the format and content, basically a day-long
>seminar-workshop-demo-Installfest fomat. I will try to post the draft
>format by around the end of this week (sorry to take so long, but I having
>to attend to some urgent family business).
>
>In the meanwhile a request to all the members -- keep sending in your
>suggestions, objections, comments -- anything that may help us to make this
>event a success. THIS IS IMPORTANT --- Please suggest a suitable name for
>this event....
>
>
>Cheers,
>--Indra.
>
>
>
>Indian Linux User Group -- CALCUTTA Chapter
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