Hello Sankarshan, > Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Surendra Singhi wrote: > > I guess it is a bit of both. Hardware has become a bit more tame > nowadays with a lot of distributions supporting a range of hardware and > peripheral devices, internal modems are seeing a downward spiral in use > and of course there are more mailing lists than ever before providing > pointers. Conversely, if you look at it - the IRC presence has dwindled. > LUG-Cal has/had an IRC presence on freenode, but folks rarely drop by. > In fact that would be a great place to hold virtual meetings (wherein > folks like myself, cybersiddhu etc) can join. Yeah, but there might still be lot of people who are having trouble installing Linux on their machines. Especially newbies, and people from non-CS disciplines, say arts, sciences, etc. Many of them even don't know what is IRC and don't know about mailing lists.
> Hacking on OpenSource project is a good way to begin but then you might > have to look at doing things ground up including teaching folks HowTo > Produce OpenSource Software (working with stuff like sf.net, CVS, IRC, > mailing lists, writing patches, debugging) which ideally should have > been taken care of by the education system. This idea was meant for people who already do so or want to (and not for everyone). The LUG should encourage and help people in such activities, I don't think teaching is feasible. > > Promotional events have been a traditional bugbear since LUG is not a > registered body and arranging for funds is a major miracle. If you do > manage to crack it - you are welcome to have a go. If we are able to create enough awareness among people, then arranging for funds and hopefully corporate sponsorship shouldn't be hard. Initially we should see if any college bodies or students groups are interested in having some question answer session where students can find out more about linux and open source movement. I am sure that there are many speakers in this group, who people will be even willing to pay to listen. More ideas and discussion about the activities are always welcome :) Cheers. -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com,http://www.kreeti.com See the Latest news at - http://news.kreeti.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/node.php?id=3
