**************************************** * LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI ****************************************
hello, On Saturday 04 January 2003 14:08, you wrote: > **************************************** > * LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI > **************************************** > > On 04 Jan 2003 10:23:55 +0530 > > Trevor Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello luggers, > > good-morning. > > > > Greetings of the season and wishes of a prosperous new year ahead > > to > > all of you. > > > > I write this mail so as to invite suggestions on the events for > > the > > coming year....We ended last year with a bang and drowned in the > > gnu-linux waters at a linu lunacy trip. But this year we need to > > have a concrete plan on the following..... > > > > --> Workshops > > How about a monthly workshop, in some school or college. It would be a > 1 day one. The school/college provide the hardware, room etc. & few > luggers can do an install/demo & give short talks. > As most of the people who have been involved with workshops have noticed, doing LINUX in 3 days in a college workshop, helps to the extent of only providing a look at linux for the curious student. The plan does not work because people cannot practise or try it out on their own.. AFTER they have been to the workshop. As you can imagine installing it is task, few are willing to take. We need a distro which can run off the cdrom. That is how people can play with it and maximum benefit is derived from the whole process. another suggestion is to setup a demo in college of just X running on a comupter an internet conenction would be a plus. It could be setup in the canteen or anywhere people can walk up and have a look at how it works and what apps are there. show them that they could probably run ANYTHING which they wanted. Show them that Quake runs on linux too. Show them that they could use latex to print like they havnt before and then probably they will realise that they could do a hundred things here, which they didnt even know about on windows. But really, this view maybe biased as its based on the engg students. > > Regards, > Karunakar -rahul -- Change your thoughts and you change your world. -- _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
