Dear group, It is heartening to see so many responses to my query and quest.
> I have received a couple of contacts as part of the replies. But can the >>>> group form a co-ordinated effort for helping in Linux installation and >>>> initial training? For eg, there could be an outreach programme to spread >>>> awareness at educational institutions, taking up a regular contract for >>>> network installations in laptops (yes, they mostly come of the same >>>> configuration) at every batch beginning(yes, with a revenue to sustain), >>>> and having a single contact number for Linux emergencies (like a call >>>> center), which can be handled by group members who know how-to in rotation. >>> >>> At one of the institutes where I teach, bulk Dell laptops arrived from Delhi for a batch of 50, preconfigured with a flavour of Linux kernel (trying to be technically accurate here), but the institute (and there is no IT staff there), could not go about configuring the wireless network, the projector, and didnt know of Open Office. Hence, they sent the whole lot back and got Windows systems instead. Sorry state of affairs, isnt it? I will not be able to attend this month's meeting on the 26th, but hope to attend sometime in the future. Wishing the best. (Mrs) Sony Krishna Swamy On Sun Feb 5, 2012 at 12:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Mailinglist mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Mailinglist digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Practicallly reaching Linux to the world (Aniyan Rajan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 10:50:07 +0530 > From: Aniyan Rajan <[email protected]> > To: "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Practicallly reaching Linux to the > world > Message-ID: > <camdu0fa4tm2axgy5pbvyk1tuj76slzv_lfqg+0kpwdbin4o...@mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Praseed Pai <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >I agree with you, Jos. Also by calling the Operating System "GNU", we > are > > giving the credit to the right >people, who worked on the GNU project > for a > > long period, instead of giving the credit to some one (Kernel >part) who > > did comparatively very less. At-least, they will get equal mention by > > calling it GNU/Linux, which >is also right. I believe that as the members > > of a Free Software Group (ILUG-Cochin), we are responsible to >do so. > Also > > that distinguishes us from others. > > > > > I tried calling it GNU/Linux and finally dropped GNU as the followers of > > GNU movement are irritatingly > > > > So you have changed yourself because of someone's behavior, which is funny. > "Irritation" is your own problem and others doesn't have that problem. You > are getting irritated because you are trying to impose your thoughts (may > be about proprietary software) on the ILUG-Members and no-one is accepting > them as they are ethically wrong. However, this activity has a notorious > publicity with in the group. :-() > > > > assertive about the freedom stuff. > > > > I think that is right. As a member of a Free Software group they should be > positive about the freedom stuff, which is the most important in this > group. > > - Ani > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/attachments/20120205/40d23654/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] > > End of Mailinglist Digest, Vol 104, Issue 5 > ******************************************* >
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