On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 12:41 +0530, Easwar Hariharan wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Rajeev R. K.<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Krishnakant <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> 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). > > > > Hmm, this sounds interesting... Can we work something out on these lines > > with any of the city colleges? > > > > Also, let's have an installfest soon.. i'll can volunteer my office space(in > > goregaon East) and infra for it even.. > > A installfest would only be feasible if there is an adequate demand > for people who want Linux on their boxes,but aren't confident enough > to do it themselves.Have any people contacted list members with such > requests?If so,we can pool these requests to individual members > together and hold an installfest,with the added advantage that the > newbies will be able to socialize with GLUG members and be reassured > about the availability of support.
I have about 8 such people contacting me off late but I personally find it just falling short of "critical mass ". Next 3 days I am in SNDT to help the lab migrate to gnu/linux using ubuntu. I will be holding a 3 day workshop there along with my colligues who themselves wish to form a group called fossers for this very purpose of awareness backed by support at the ground (field) level. So may be I might attain a figure of 15 + in the coming week, which is good to start with. happy hacking. Krishnakant. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
