Hi, --- On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Ashish Bhatia <[email protected]> wrote: | Why? | I never understood this tendency of creating new "college-specific" LUGs | What are you going to discuss there which cannot be discussed on | ILUG-D. \--
* A college-specific user group helps in catering to the needs of the college students, faculty, and management. * Students graduate and leave every year, but, having a local presence can help sustain the F/OSS activities through the years. * Many a time there are queries related to F/OSS in their respective labs, and people who are part of the college can discuss it in such a group. For example, IIT-M use cntlm for proxy authentication, and they share the configuration setup in their user group. As outsiders, we are not concerned about it. But, being a member in their group we can learn from each other. * If you need to organize events, workshops in colleges, it helps to contact the college user group, and such discussions happen there. Imagine if there are 70 colleges in and around Delhi and all of them had discussions simultaneously on the Delhi user group. * It gives the active participants of the college user group, recognition for their work. After all, it is only in our world, that true credit is given to people for their work, with no strict hierarchy. --- | Locality specific LUGs are good since the aim is to bring people | living in close proximity in | contact (eg. to discuss local ISP specific issues or for career opportunities) | but college specific? \-- The locality can be a college too to help them (online and offline) with: * Installing a distribution * Troubleshooting network connectivity * Programming help * System/network configuration help * Training * ... --- | and if its really college specific why is everyone being invited to join? \-- We believe that human knowledge belongs to the world, and it is important to share it with others. You don't need to join, if you don't want to help. Regards, SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
