On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 14:59 +0530, Easwar Hariharan wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Mathew > Carley<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Am new to ILUG, but this is not a silly idea. I'm a long-time member of > > WLUG in New Zealand, and they have monthly meetings, as well as > > workshops for normal people who want to do things such as try out linux, > > install linux on their computers and solve problems. > Infact I was going to propose this because off late I have been invited in many colleges to give a 1 day or 2 day workshop for shifting to gnu/linux (SNDT Joohu is migrating their entire lab to gnu, although I will put up more details on or after 4th).
But in many of these workshops we don't have enough time for the more interested people. So since I have the list for such people, I am also planning to propose a GLUG meet for such people in particular. I am looking at all aspects and may be in next 15 days I might arrange some thing like this and if ilug is ready to make it their event I am all for it. > We have monthly meetings,but not as regular as we wish. ;) > If I understand you correctly,you are speaking of installfests,which > we DON'T have. > Not a bad idea to have one, but we really need to plan this out seriously. > > > > The group usually has Ubuntu CDs to hand out, too. I myself order a > > couple for myself every release, and the time to expedite the CDs to > > India is quite short - my 9.04 CDs arrived only a couple weeks after the > > actual release, and, I don't know how many of you get them like I do, > > but the CDs are very nicely packaged and professionally pressed - > > especially the latest ones. LUGs can usually get bulk orders (25+) from > > Canonical. > Yeah, they create a professional impression and a sence of "support will be available " kind of feeling. > Probably,yes.The LUG is an informal organization,unlike the Bangalore > LUG which (was,once upon a time) a registered society,so I wonder who > could take delivery or whatever.BTW,we have CDs Required and CDs > Available pages on the wiki where "normal" people as you say,can ask > for CDs and a member nearby will meet them and provide them with the > requested disks.All this is done solely by private > communication,except for the Request for CDs part. > That's actually a good idea too. And talking about cds of distros. We can always establish freedom toasters in local colleges and may be charge for such services some thing like Rs. 100 for a cd + some kind of manual or may be a one time personal service for installation. happy hacking. Krishnakant. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
