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On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 05:36:37AM -0700, vinayak_hegde@softhome.net mailto:vinayak_hegde@softhome.net wrote:
Ok, so saturday should be a good time, anyone else having problems with this. One problem I can think of is getting a venue, Is IIT available on Saturday. I have decided to go for this one and take charge, preferrably saturday (7th December).
Someone has to voluteer for this part. And it is going to be human intensive. a AD is a better idea.
What will be the time duration ??? The course contents will have to be decided accordingly.
I am expecting that it will take approx 4-5 hours, so we need to get started with it at 3pm.
Lets not rush it. I feel it will be better to have it after another meeting of LUG on Dec 8 (i hope thats decided). That way we can get help/opinions from our fellow Luggers. Also some people can volunteer for the lectures. Those who are good can go ahead with the workshop. Also availability of IIT maybe an issue. Lets not take that for granted. Schedules will have to be setup and speakers have to be alloted. Let's not make hasty decisions.
The workshop should include the following stuff.
- Basic Installation of more than one .
- Openoffice (or may be some other, please list it here).
- Hardware supported presently and the ones that are widely sold in the
indian market.
really good idea!!!
I need help with this one (any volunteers).
- How to get those bad software devices to work on Linux if they have the
drivers avaiable for them. Most important one might be the SM56 modem of motorola since their ads have that in big names and they cant change that, and the HP printers, scanners.
Harsh can U handle this?? You seem to have some experience.
- Overview of the licences atleast GPL (sorry sandeep for a
repetition but we have a completely new crowd here). This is required so that they can know that they are giving proper software.
point #5 is a must I believe.
- probably arrange for a few CD's to be given to them (depends on the
charges we are going to take from them). 7. Basic trouble shooting (since they provide AMC for it). 8. Q&A part (give this lots of time).
Also I feel the Agenda will need some refinement. I think in 5 hours we cannot do justice to all the above topics.
I am planning to keep an entry fee of approx 500/= and include cds of some distribution with it,
[snip] The amount depends on the amount of effort/resources used. So that should be left till just before giving the AD i feel.
Also I had a plan, we should have our own accounts, rather than giving our extra profit to FSF, we can use it to arrange these events. And if at the end of a year we are left with any sizeable amount then we can donate it to FSF. All that I want to ensure is that in an unlikely event of falling short of funds we can borrow from our own accounts, someone needs to take charge of this and tha is the bad part of this idea.
I am not too sure about this. As long as part of the profits go to the FSF/popularisation of free s/w, I feel any approach is ok.
---> Vinayak Hegde