That's what I heard in the background when my sister called me this evening. I got her to pick up the pamplet and found that a company named Vinsoft Technologies was doing this. It's providing packages of computers+AMC+training. Also, apparently there's some big poster on Churchgate station on Linux as well. I didn't get a chance to see that though.
Publicity is good :) At least it will make the name familiar to those who don't have a clue.
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 00:30 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
That's what I heard in the background when my sister called me this evening. I got her to pick up the pamplet and found that a company named Vinsoft Technologies was doing this. It's providing packages of computers+AMC+training. Also, apparently there's some big poster on Churchgate station on Linux as well. I didn't get a chance to see that though.
Publicity is good :) At least it will make the name familiar to those who don't have a clue.
My cousin sis who lives in some remote part of India has heard of Linux and was very impressed when she saw Beryl on my new FC6 system! Linux is the buzz word! :)
On 02-Feb-07, at 4:31 PM, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Publicity is good :) At least it will make the name familiar to those who don't have a clue.
My cousin sis who lives in some remote part of India has heard of Linux
how do you define 'remote part of India'? There *is* civilisation outside the metros - in fact one wonders whether there is civilisation *inside* the metros
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 02-Feb-07, at 4:31 PM, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Publicity is good :) At least it will make the name familiar to those who don't have a clue.
My cousin sis who lives in some remote part of India has heard of Linux
how do you define 'remote part of India'? There *is* civilisation outside the metros - in fact one wonders whether there is civilisation *inside* the metros
He simply mentioned 'remote part of India' NOT 'a part of India that yet lacks civilization'.
I recently went to a remote part of India (Uttar Pradesh someplace) that has only one school and 3 computers (with pirated XP not linux).. and was quite a civilized place and guess what they don't know linux and are not even aware of a concept called 'Unix/Linux'.
- dhawal
On 02-Feb-07, at 5:39 PM, Dhawal Doshy wrote:
whether there is civilisation *inside* the metros
He simply mentioned 'remote part of India' NOT 'a part of India that yet lacks civilization'.
I recently went to a remote part of India (Uttar Pradesh someplace) that has only one school and 3 computers (with pirated XP not linux).. and was quite a civilized place and guess what they don't know linux and are not even aware of a concept called 'Unix/Linux'.
the 3 computers are in the school? i bet there is some guy somewhere there, possibly in a browsing centre who knows about linux
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 02-Feb-07, at 5:39 PM, Dhawal Doshy wrote:
whether there is civilisation *inside* the metros
He simply mentioned 'remote part of India' NOT 'a part of India that yet lacks civilization'.
I recently went to a remote part of India (Uttar Pradesh someplace) that has only one school and 3 computers (with pirated XP not linux).. and was quite a civilized place and guess what they don't know linux and are not even aware of a concept called 'Unix/Linux'.
the 3 computers are in the school? i bet there is some guy somewhere there, possibly in a browsing centre who knows about linux
Kids are simply thankful that they have a school around.. the grown-ups envy as they had to go out of the town for higher (secondary) education.
The town (Gokul near Mathura) is a religious place and has only one trainer (in the school), who is not aware of Linux. The town has no browsing center though I could be wrong..
- dhawal
On 02-Feb-07, at 5:56 PM, Anant Narayanan wrote:
*inside* the metros
remote part of India = place that you can't reach by plane / direct train.
and where you cant get pizza - the nearest pizza to me is in the next town and they dont deliver
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