Hello everybody, I should have added my bit earlier on this issue as our work is with educational institutions. I was out of cal so had a load of ilug-cal emails waiting. As for the seminar idea, its great. 1.Select the school/college carefully, it would be great if it could be installed on a comp and people can use it on a day to day basis. 2.being user friendly rather than techie would get better response (atleast in the workshops that we organised) so I agree with riddhi 3. OStheory, or for that matter any theory is a strict no no. keep it for a advanced version of the workshop. 4. If possible make a live demo of some of the features with the GUI. A group of max-50 should be preferred. otherwise its very difficult to keep them interested for long. 5.windows bashing / linux praising would not be of great value. show them the difference. let them decide. given enough exposure they would select linux. remember linux is about choice. U could also make it some sort of PC orientation programme with special emphasis on Linux. 6. Also feature some software/packages which are most likely to be used ex. staroffice, games, .... 7.Think of a use the school can make of the linux pc/server. like as a proxy server or as a demo web server. or an internal email server. possibly implement it and let them use it. 8.I can offer some facilities/infra of my company for use in the seminar. Besides my services. 9.I do not think the funding requirement for a single school/college is going to be great. but still an estimate is needed. we could possibly provide sweat funding. like the school/college provides some infrastructure in return we provide some services to their comp lab (examples mentioned earlier) as of now thats it. more later. ciao alok ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
