On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:04:10 +0530 "Prakhar Agrawal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Gora, > > > Can you conduct a similar workshop in BITS-Pilani (Birla Inst. of Tech & > Sc, Pilani) ? A small point of order, especially in light of your follow-up. While I might be organising these workshops currently, it is not up to me personally to approve, or reject any of these. That would depend on the response from the ILUG-D community, and the level of interaction from the host organisation. > I am the head of the BITS-Pilani Student Chapter of the Association for > Computing Machinery (ACM). We wish to encourage the use of Linux in BITS > Pilani and also create an awareness towards the world of Open Source. > > We are in the process of opening a Ubuntu LoCo (Local Community) in BITS, > and a similar kind of workshop would be great for the launch event. [...] I do not see why this cannot be done, in principle, but there are several points at issue here: o As we are getting many requests for such workshops, I have started a list of potential venues under http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/CollegeExpo in the order in which the requests were received. We will have to decide soon on which ones are feasible. o Can we get enough volunteers to go from Delhi to BITS, Pilani? Given the distance, this involves at least two days for a one-day workshop. Would anyone who is willing to hold a tutorial please volunteer by following up? o Though our speakers volunteer their time, we expect travel and incidental costs to be reimbursed, and accommodation provided if an overnight stay outside Delhi is required, as would probably be the case for Pilani. Is that possible? o Finally, while an event showcasing Ubuntu is fine, I feel that ILUG-Delhi should never be seen as promoting one distribution over another. While we can discuss alternatives, the best way out would be to have separate events. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
