Hi,
This mail is to inform all members of ILUGC about Bhavan's (my school)
Young Indian's Educational Fair.
One of the leading complaints of people whom I have switched to FOSS
is that there is virtually no "local PC guy" who knows FOSS software. So, if
they call them up for some help, they just reinstall *Windows*. So, I
realized the need for "Local PC guys" who know FOSS. I saw the opportunity
for that in the EduFair.
EduFair is a Educational Fair (you guessed it right) for school
drop-outs from slums of near-by areas for our school. It gives them a chance
to work and make a living. NGOs would be offering them various options in
the field of vocational training. Around 500+ school drop-outs would be
attending the EduFair.
I thought ILUGC would be a great "NGO" in teaching them various
simple FOSS skills like installing and configuring Ubuntu, etc., Zoho (the
SAAS Office Provider) is also coming. I hope the kind hearted persons in
ILUGC would be able to teach them the basic skills that "The Local PC Guy"
requires. The main problem as far as I can see now, is getting "The Local PC
Guys" to accept that there are better software that is free. We don't have
to make the school drop-outs unlearn the conventional *Windows* tricks. It
would be good deed to us all, because we can start consuming the resources
offered by the new FOSS-trained "Local PC Guys". By the way, it's not going
to be free, and we can expect Yi Net to give some money for the training
purposes. The event is to be held on the coming Sunday. Bhavan's is willing
to let us have a stall, so that the interested guys can come and have a look.
P.S: Most of school drop-outs are not totally unaware of computers. They do
know most basic stuff. The event is being organized this Sunday (5th December)
With Regards,
--Kumaran R
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