Hello everybody,
First of all let me congratulate everybody for a successful Interact '99.
Although i could not attend it b'cos of Friday being a working day but i
heard a lot about it from fellow linuxers in this list and also from Ridhi
( also a member of this list ).
I joined this list just a day before Interact '99 .Although i have been a
regular member of Linux - India mailing list i did not join this list for
quite some time ( all due to my laziness......). It is very encouraging to
see that we already have so many members on this list and i'm sure if all of
us work together we may see a Linux on every computer installed in Calcutta
( oops...Kolkata )
And as Indranil pointed out that the size of the list started growing after
the Interact '99 . I'm sure that it will further grow as the word of
Interact'99 and Linux has spread all over Calcutta which i guess was the
prime motive - to create a Linux awareness.
thats it from me now.
more later
rutvik
>Shalom fellow penguins,
>
>Some of you must be wondering why I hadn't posted any follow-up to our
Linux-Interact '99... for one, my uncle (kaka)
>passed away on the 4th September, and so I have to be with my family. And I
have gone down with a nasty flu since the
>last few days. Anyway, Linux-Interact was a _SUCCESS_, in the sense that it
will probably be instrumental in bringing
>together the Linux community in West Bengal. You see, although no one
posted anything, the word has gone out in a big
>way.
>
>Flu happens to make me slightly nostagic, and is the cause of this posting
:-)
>
>When we first met on the 26th of January, 1999 at SXC for our very first
meeting, there were four of us....Inigo would
>also have been there, if he hadn't missed up. Anyway, during those ancient
times, it was felt that if we even managed
>to get 10 or 15 members, we would be in great shape. In fact, I remember
that the day we crossed the 10-member mark, we
>celebrated the occassion.
>
>In the last 9 months, we had about 15 - 20 people leaving the list, still
when I checked it today, our mailing list had
>67 names & there are more people who are without internet access, who
although our members, are not on the list. We can
>assume the total membership of ILUG-Cal to be 70.
>
>Not all of us are from the city. Many are from outside, some due to their
place of work being outside, others -- well
>they live there. Some of the people who are active on the Linux-India list
have joined the list recently -- Rutvick and
>Swaps for instance. In the last 5 days we had as many members joining us.
May our tribe thus increase....
>
>Amen,
>--Indra.
>
>PS. In the excitment of Linux-Interact I forgot to invite upon the stage,
the first female penguin of our tribe who
>managed to come to the seminar....who says that geeks are only guys :)
>
>PPS. Sorry for babbling on like this...must be the fever...already feeling
light-headed.
>
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