On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 05:21:52PM +0530, Dinesh Shah wrote:
> What I suggest is as following.
>
> 1. Free S/W philosophy (Why Free S/W?)
> 2. Installation of Debian (Has any one tried GUI Debian Installer?)
> 3. Various Distros and Package Management (APT, RPM, tgz, Sources).
> 4. Hardware Competibility issues and resources.
> 5. Networking - Ethernet and PPP (Dial-up)
> 6. Over view of basic apps - OpenOffice, WWW, Mail, Graphics, IM, Chat
> 7. Basic SysAdmin - User Management, File Perms, Mount/umount, basic CLI
> 8. Basic Troubleshooting and various resources to get help.
Ok, here's how things stand currently:
Nagarjuna - Free Software Philosophy.
Warren - Debian installation
Dinesh - Package Management / Networking / Basic SysAdmin /
Troubleshooting
Philip has agreed to pitch in as well ... he will be replacing me in
the speaker line up.
Warren, do you think you can do the tour of the desktop immediately
after installation?
Philip isn't sure what he should speak about, since I wasn't assigned
any particular topic either. Suggestion - he could either team up
with Dinesh to share his part, or he could also do a kinda
introduction to the GNU/Linux terminology and what-lies-where-and-why.
What do you say, Dinesh, Warren, Philip?
Some info:
Officially, workshop is a CEP workshop, not DEP, and "officially",
Prof. M. U. Deshpande will be co-ordinating the workshop, in order
not to break some CEP rules.
The DEP people say that any slides you present or files you edit
should have a minimum font size of 30pts! This is to ensure there is
no problem at the remote centers in terms of clarity. They recommend
Arial narrow, since that occupies the least space on each line.
The other option is to have only printed material instead of slides,
accompanied by live demos while speaking. In that case, fontsize is
not a problem, unless the participants need to stare at some small
button on the screen. Its generally easy to make out what application
is running on the screen and see button-clicks, but menu items could
be a problem.
Any printed material that we would like DEP to do for us, will have to
be ready by Friday the 15th of August.
Can someone put together a big stack of Knoppix CD's to be given out?
I could try asking the DEP guys if they can lend me their CD-writers,
but can't rely on that since the PGDIIT courses have started and
there's lots of lectures to burn every day!
Sameer.
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