Hello all, Its always good to see projects like this take shape and grow solely because of the efforts of volunteers/enthusiasts.
However, there comes a point in time where only volunteer time does not suffice. (I dont know if its true yet in this case).
I would suggest that the core team come up with a estimated cost for getting a CD/DVD professionally cut using the material existing.
Once done, I for one would be more than happy to contribute a sum towards such a project and I am sure there would be more contributors like that.
This would ensure timely completion (and more importantly, availability) and many like myself would benefit from this.
any takers? abhi
On बà¥à¤§ , 2004-03-24 at 15:02, Prakash Advani wrote:
Nagarjuna,
Why don't we record it and then offer to send a copy at media cost to all the engineering colleges?
This needs recording, which means some one has to make the effort of doing this. CDAC/NCST had shown interest to record this, we need to pursue this idea. Otherwise, hbcse has the paraphernalia to do the recording etc. what we need are volunteers to convert the video into vcd's. Any volunteers? I will give them the lab with non-liniar editing etc, but they do have to work only in the late evenings. Several people had recorded ealrier, but they have not made efforts to give me or any one the copies. Kresit had also done a recording of a workshop, they must be having the recording too. may be we should do it again to get professional quality.
Secondly, regarding the live CD to be distributed, in fact all the programs demonstrated during my workshop are done using a specially developed CD for schools/colleges under the LIFE project, the CD is called School Gnoware, which was demonstrated and given to all the participants. Also another CD containing a wealth of documentation, called GNU DOC, prepared by warren, is also included. We also have another live CD called office Gnoware with Indian language support. Depending on where I do the workshop I give the appropriate live CD. Thanks to Debian and Knoppix projects, this has become very easy, and also thanks to my project students who developed the various versions of the CD with help from Amish Munshi, the expert remastering guy in town.
Nagarjuna