On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 05:36:37AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> Rather than have a road tour(like RH did), let us have a
> > installation with the help of a projector. But sunday might be a problem
> > for them to attend so preferable saturday evening will be better.
>
> I am not free on sundays too. Saturday would be preferable for me too.
Ok, so saturday should be a good time, anyone else having problems with this.
One problem I can think of is getting a venue, Is IIT available on Saturday.
I have decided to go for this one and take charge, preferrably saturday (7th
December).
> Someone has to voluteer for this part. And it is going to be human
> intensive. a AD is a better idea.
>
>
> What will be the time duration ??? The course contents will have to be
> decided accordingly.
>
I am expecting that it will take approx 4-5 hours, so we need to get started
with it at 3pm.
> > The workshop should include the following stuff.
>
> > 1. Basic Installation of more than one .
> > 2. Openoffice (or may be some other, please list it here).
> > 3. Hardware supported presently and the ones that are widely sold in the
> > indian market.
>
> really good idea!!!
I need help with this one (any volunteers).
>
> > 4. How to get those bad software devices to work on Linux if they have the
> > drivers avaiable for them. Most important one might be the SM56 modem of
> > motorola since their ads have that in big names and they cant change that,
> > and the HP printers, scanners.
>
> Harsh can U handle this?? You seem to have some experience.
>
> > 5. Overview of the licences atleast GPL (sorry sandeep for a
> > repetition but we have a completely new crowd here). This is required so
> > that they can know that they are giving proper software.
>
> point #5 is a must I believe.
>
> > 6. probably arrange for a few CD's to be given to them (depends on the
> > charges we are going to take from them).
> > 7. Basic trouble shooting (since they provide AMC for it).
> > 8. Q&A part (give this lots of time).
I am planning to keep an entry fee of approx 500/= and include cds of some
distribution with it, I would prefer Mandrake, I find mandrake to be as easy to use as
RedHat and with with nearly the same directory structure as RH all te support and
documentation of Rh is also applicable to mandrake, but if majority say RH or debian
then I do not mind changing my plans. Or also have slightly lower entry rates say
300/= and then charge for the CD's and let them select the distribution.
Also I had a plan, we should have our own accounts, rather than giving our
extra profit to FSF, we can use it to arrange these events. And if at the end of a
year we are left with any sizeable amount then we can donate it to FSF. All that I
want to ensure is that in an unlikely event of falling short of funds we can borrow
from our own accounts, someone needs to take charge of this and tha is the bad part of
this idea.
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