On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 09:18, vivek khurana wrote: > --- Raj Shekhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There will always be newbies in every meet, so does > it means introduction becomes a defato start up?? This > intro is good in newbies meet, but i would go against > having this intro in every meet. If you guyz want to > give intro, give it on "how your system can be broken > into by a cracker". As for introducing linux to > newbies, i dont belive we need to introduce linux to > any one, what we can do is make some document on > GNU.Linux philosophy and distro it to newbies for > free. > > Regards > Vivek [flamewar begins] argh! this is what i completely *hate* about ILUG-D. it is so newbie-unfriendly and aspires to be completely elitist! :-( fire and brimstone man! did you know that india has a population of over 1 billion people, and yet there are only 9 PCs per 1,000 people here. all factors included, that means actual pc users are just 5% to 10% of our population. with gnulinux diffusion at probably 1% to 2%, that means we are are a tiny droplet in a vast ocean. and we think we should further build walls around ourselves and tell the rest of our brethren to F.O. ! grrrrrr!!! every single day, there will be atleast 10 newbies to gnulinux born in this country, and this number should hopefully touch 100 a day. sarcastically speaking, i would be quite happy to see ilug-d shoot itself in the foot by alienating and brushing off newbies. and i know newbies won't speak up on this issue. they are usually quite terrified and nervous with the technojargon + flamewars + netequitte flames that they usually receive. so, every ilug-d meet must have a newbie orientation. for 15 minutes. a welcome to the community. a special gesture of encouragement and support on this precarious path of migration. AshLin, don't you agree? [flameware ends] :-( LL _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
