[fsug-bangalore] suggestion for software freedom day

[nivead]

Hello all,

> My suggestion is to have a "Linux Demo Day" in a
college.
+1

>But if have 3 people geared up to do it 'gnu/Linux
>Demo Day' kind of
>event then I think anything is possible.

Yeah, we r there. i think we can form a group of 3-4
and if we can do it in 2-3 colleges, it will be great.


> There were demos and CD distribution (Delhi LUG
> earned a good amount 
Can't we try to ship some Ubuntu CD's and  distribute
it ?

even we can try to get backup of some corporate
sponsor, If such participations have nothing to harm
with our basic philosophy of freedom....

Cheers,
Nivead

--- Raj shekhar <rajlist at rajshekhar.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I was talking to arky about what FSUG plans to do
> for the software 
> freedom day.  My suggestion is to have a "Linux Demo
> Day" in a college.
> 
> Delhi LUG had organised such an event in September
> last year (plans are 
> afoot to hold another one this year) in Jamia
> Hamdard University.  We 
> had a good response.  While we had expected around
> 100 people to turn 
> up, around 400 people came in.  Most of the students
> had tried Linux and 
> came up with very specific question on what they
> wanted to do - like 
> share drive between Linux and windows or connect
> windows and Linux.
> 
> We also had talks describing what is so different
> about Free Software. 
> How people are using it and how it s not just
> "command line" anymore. 
> There were demos and CD distribution (Delhi LUG
> earned a good amount 
> selling CDs ).
> 
> Can we have something similar in Bangalore ?
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
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