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From: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Aug 8, 2007 3:02 PM
Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Fwd: [blug-non-tech] LUGs: Here's is an
opportunity]
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Subject: [blug-non-tech] LUGs: Here's is an opportunity
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:39:30 +0530 (IST)
From: Atul Chitnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: FOSS.IN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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For those of you following the debates on the FOSS.IN list, you will have
seen the annual complaint about newbie talks not being allowed.
There are essentially two sides to this:
1. It is no longer possible to give shallow, throw away, "easy" talks by
telling everyone how great FOSS is, or giving them the ABCs of MySQL,
for example, and then carry away the "speaker at FOSS.IN" tag.
2. There are no talks that introduce people to FOSS concepts.
I am less bothered with (1), but (2) is an opportunity for the LUGs to
benefit from the publicity that FOSS.IN inevitably has, and to provide a
truly useful service.
How about a "Get ready for FOSS.IN" series of LUG meetings? One where
people are introduced to the basics, and the applications and various
focus areas that you know are going to be covered in-depth at FOSS.IN?
We can all work together to get a sane set of topics and goals in place.
In fact, the folks at NRC-FOSS at the Anna University should be able to
help quickly get something like this together.
The end result of this will be that people who *need* newbie talks and
orientation get it (remember, it's four months to the event), and they
therefore will get so much more out of FOSS.IN than they would otherwise.
I am cc'ing the Goa LUG and the Bangalore LUG on this note, but any LUG
that wants to be part of the campaign can happily join in.
It would also bring about something that has been sorely missing all this
time - the Indian LUGs working with each other.
Note that this wouldn't be a FOSS.IN-coordinated thing, but an initiative
by the LUGs. The meetings would be the normal LUG meets, just with a topic
of getting people upto speed on FOSS matters.
The "Get ready for FOSS.IN" theme would simply help focus the efforts and
provide a goal for people who will want to attend the event in December.
Even if they don't actually attend the event, they will have benefitted
tremendously from the acquired basics.
Pointmen for this would be the LUG coordinators, NRC-FOSS people
(Dr.Srinivasan), community communicators (Fred Noronha) and of course any
community member who would want to contribute. People could even travel to
other LUGs to make take sessions there.
And of course FOSS.IN will provide the publicity it can to these efforts.
At FOSS.IN/2007 itself we could have a session where we could report on
how things went, who did what, and what the results were.
Comments? *Constructive* criticism?
Discuss!
Atul
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