Philip Serrracino Inglott wrote:
Mario Debono wrote:
An outing sounds good. But it should be with a specific purpose in
mind, such as the possibility of setting up a stand at the next IT
fair. Projects to set up at the stand could include:
What about an outing with the aim of socialising? (oh sorry geeks don't
do that right? :-p)
I mean of course we would end up discissing relevant matters, but just
getting to know eachother
face to face is also important!
1. Introducing Linux to people seeing it for the first time (two
areas here, home and business)
2. Comparing specific distributions.
Hmmmmm not sure it's such a good Idea! my favoutite distro is Debian,
but in this case
I would suggest pushing Mandrake/KDE, which has the best support for
Maltese out-of-the box.
This is an advantage which is tangable and easy to promote. Promoting
open source because
of the Immense Choice and Variaty it offers is MUCH harder, especially
to the un-washed who do not even know that a choice can exist!
I don't quite agree with your point of view. The goal of a linux mirror
shouldn't only be to promote the easiest distribution in Malta but
should also be a service for all linux users in Malta. The long term
benefit of such a mirror is to make a maltese linux user group self
sustainable rather than dependent on the services of our nearest country
(Italy). The choice of a distro is the mere choice of the user in
question. I don't think our role is that of promoting any one of the
particular distros but trying to accomodate as much as possible all
possible choices out there.
For whoever watched the "Matrix Reloaded":
--- The problem is choice.
Regarding the hosting of various distros, I am ready to donate a >60Gb
hard drive to host a gentoo mirror. I hope we don't run out of IDE
connectors !! :-)
Also, please post the type of ram needed for donation. I doubt you are
interested in some fast page sticks!!
ir-Rej
3. Evaluating Linux for a company solution
4. Offering advice on migrating to Linux
Also - about the mirror project - I'm not sure how many members we
have but I'm thinking HDD space will be the biggest problem to
overcome, so why don't we chip in a few pounds each and get say an 80
or 120 Gig HDD. We are really talking about LM50 total !
Ouch! money! Well if 50 of us could pledge Lm1 each It could be done!
but if only 45 of us do
there is not much of a point.
so that's me and you makes Lm2
who's chipping in for the good of Manking (as waesel of I M weasel used
to say)?
What do you think guys (and girls of course)?
Oh yes Girls!! are there any girls using linux in Malta? It seems to me
that OSS is so
heavly dominated by males! is it just my impression? if there are any
female users of linux
out there please raise your hand
Mario
On Monday 24 May 2004 10:25 am, Keith Vassallo wrote:
Hello everybody,
It has now been around 4 months since a committee was elected and we
have started some projects regarding the MLUG. We would like more
participation between MLUG members and so here is a short list of
things
you can do to contribute to the MLUG:
1) Ideas. We have always discussed the prospect of organizing some form
of "outing" between MLUG members. This can be in the form of an
informal
meeting, a seminar etc... If anyone of you has ideas regarding what we
can do, please send them here :)
2) Creations. We have only received one potential logo for the new MLUG
logo. This was contributed by Philip (and by the way Philip, I really
like version 2). If you'd like to have a go at re-designing the MLUG's
new logo, have a look at my previous email here:
http://mailserv.megabyte.net/pipermail/mlug-list/2004-March/001204.html
3) Hardware. As you probably know by now, we're setting up a local
GNU/Linux mirror. Needless to say, "this ain't cheap" and we need your
contributions. Currently, we really need storage space (i.e. hard
disks)
and DDR RAM. We're not asking you to buy new stuff (altough you're more
then welcome to do so, hehe), we're simply asking you to dontate any
hardware which you don't use anymore.
That's bascially it - three ways to contribute to the MLUG, now it's up
to you :)
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