--- Philip S Tellis philip.tellis@iname.com wrote:
Sometime Today, Kapil Karekar assembled some asciibets to say:
I have an idea. Why don't we form ourselves into
groups on the 25th
of August and visit engineering college campuses
around Mumbai. We
could spread awareness about Linux among students
and answer their
queries about Linux.
Sounds good. The 25th is a Saturday, which means many engineering colleges will be closed.
Why are we restricting ourselves to just engineering colleges? We need to also include other technical faculties such as Maths, Physics, etc., since there will be people there who will be just as interested, but with less access to computing information than the engineering crowd.
Some offices will also be
closed. What this means is that the college administration will not object to a talk. It also means that many students may be reluctant to attend.
IMO, this (the student attendance thing) should not be an issue - genuinely interested people will come, as has been the case with our LUG Sunday meetings.
If we're just going to answer queries, then it shouldn't take too long. Maybe an hour or two. We'll have to inform students well in advance for them to get all their queries listed out and ready to ask us.
How many people are ready to visit colleges on the 25th?
A very good idea - you can count me in. Philip, will you suggest a list of colleges, please?
Rgds,
Krishnan
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