Hello everybody,
It is a great experience for all of us (Palash, Anshul, Arup, Triranjan (may be I spelled wrong, very sorry for that) and all other WBUT students who came there) for being there. We feel that no such Linux experience is required, most of the people are completely new in Linux and so no Linux technical questions we have to face except a few. A lots of people dont know about Linux and its features. They mainly surprised about how "Bangla" is displayed on the computer in menus. Everybody want to know more about Bangla and other language support for word processing. They want to know what are the packages available here comparing to Windows with printer support, we talk Photoshop/GIMP, PageMaker/Scribus, MSOffice/OpenOffice. Some people first dont believe that there is no Windows running into these machines, Linux is completely new to them - actually they fist heard about it (mostly aged people). Some people play various games including TuxRacer which runs nicely.
JayabrataDa gave us info-card (with his name, address, personal email, site address, phone number) to distribute into peoples who are interested into getting Linux CDs from him, we used it. But there is no mention of "ilug- cal.org" in JayabrataDa's info-card, which I think JayabrataDa missed. There must be indication of ilug-cal.org, as we are from ilug-cal to there. We have to write www.ilug-cal.org on top of the info-cards, for our online address each time we distribute it.
I was late there and entered around 4:30PM, and found Palash, Arup, Triranjan, JayabrataDa are already there. Anshul joined after his classes over. Arup, Triranjan handled people very good and their concept are really good. Triranjan will come today with OpenOffice patch for Bangla support and with some other packages. After some time Anshul started handling SUSE crowd, Palash and me are there for FC3 crowd. The crowd was there upto 8:15PM, then we left. Palash arranged Tea and Coffe for us (Many thanks to him from Anshul and me for that), sorry WBUT students you missed it.
Hi other lug-members, no need to be Linux expert, come join us and next day you will say this line to some other lug member. The traffic was mainly for free PC per day, and most of the people confused us with AamarPC, as they think Bangla OS will be distributed with AamarPC. Everybody came for that, and we present them Linux.
Soumyadip (sorry, I forgot others names), can we use some Linux posters inside the stall? I have some posters on Ilug-cal on A4 pages. As far I remember you talked with xinitis and for that we are there.
From the Linux interested crowd, I think we need some big Linux posters,handbills and visiting card like contact details of ilug-cal for the comming COMPASS event, if we participate.
Next day, Anshul will be there after his classes will over, Palash may not be there, and I will try my best, to present there, but I have some task, once I finish my task, I will be there.
People categorized by me on Monday:
40% first heard about Linux, but interested,
20% say "Woh, it is the Linux, I heard about", but not interested in using it,
20% say "Woh, it is the Linux, I heard about", with the interest for using it,
10% Students, who use it, and clarify some linux problems,
10% Will give it a try, and want to use now as a parallel OS.
We inform people about virus immunable feature, faster Internet browsing and secure file handling mainly due to rush. We can show them Wine also. Any more fast and quick topics or tips from elders of ilug-cal?
Ok, today (1stFeb), who will be there?
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3. . . . hope, you all will come and join,
Again, You dont need to be Linux expert, just come and join.
Sorry, for so small mail ;-) (comparing manpages of mkisofs, cdrecord, mplayer & ...)
bye prosun
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