On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 05:21:52PM +0530, Dinesh Shah wrote:
What I suggest is as following.
- Free S/W philosophy (Why Free S/W?)
- Installation of Debian (Has any one tried GUI Debian Installer?)
- Various Distros and Package Management (APT, RPM, tgz, Sources).
- Hardware Competibility issues and resources.
- Networking - Ethernet and PPP (Dial-up)
- Over view of basic apps - OpenOffice, WWW, Mail, Graphics, IM, Chat
- Basic SysAdmin - User Management, File Perms, Mount/umount, basic CLI
- Basic Troubleshooting and various resources to get help.
There you go! That just about sums up what we want to cover. But I do suggest that we show either RedHat or Mandrake rather than Debian ... remember, this is not for geeky techies but for a bunch of PC Vendors who need to be able to support the installations they do later. No matter what we know about various distros, when it comes to normal people who don't really care about computer systems, what's popular is what goes.
We can definitely hand out Knoppix CDs for demo purposes and if we can get RedHat to give us free CDs as well, nothing like it!
So far, Amish, Trevor, Dinesh, Nikhil have wrote in about the workshop, but we definitely need help to get this done.
Here's a few things that need to be addressed: 1. Slides - due to the distance medium, there are a few constraints to be followed when preparing slides to make sure they all show up well in the remote centers. The DEP has a few templates for that, we need a one or two guys who can help create the slides and make sure they fit the requirements. 2. Printed handouts - if we want the DEP to get the handouts done and sent to the remote centers, the final versions will have to be ready and handed over to DEP by 15th August, Friday. 3. Speakers - For the pamphlet, since the time was short, I just put in Nag and my name as speakers. But we really need good people who understand the issues in a small office or home who can talk to the participants. Things like dial-up networking, cable-modems, gateway and proxy setups, laptop installations ... 4. Publicity - unfortunately, I was wrong about this part. DEP does not take out advertisements in local newspapers and all. They can send out official DEP pamphlets if we can suggest addresses to them. So this is mostly upto us. Good idea would be to post on the LUGs in Pune, Hyderabad, Nanded and Indore with a link to http://www.dep.iitb.ac.in/rc.html for information on the remote centers. 5. Handing out CDs - the people at DEP unofficially promised they can lend me their five CD writers if we need to churn out CDs, but again, if more people can help out, even better!
Sameer.