[Indianlc] Linuxchix in Bangalore

[Vid Ayer]

Ok, sorry but i am doing something i usually dislike ...top-post !
That grrl was Nethra, dunno if she created a blog as she promised.

On Dec 14, 2007 3:08 PM, Ankita Garg <gargankita at w480Eu2_y05UgHXu0KhF_gmpCgZdSSRCAjWC1KeBNfdvOxHdtRXO-IEd0Krh2H9XNt_rCm3MkTzS4k4.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

>   Hi Priya,
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> On Dec 14, 2007 1:22 PM, priya venkateshan <priyaven at YRnSidxGQKwjikk9ooB73fQyF_eHzY6Jq9DNGEGQag7xR0qsEGrscjB5vp5bcYDbjof0Cy1GN4GbxsrinQ.yahoo.invalid<priyaven%40gmail.com>>
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> > On Dec 14, 2007 12:45 PM, Vid Ayer <svaksha at POi3BRPyrUqC6HFN5bvgEfJQtzM808W4IsY42jgnoboz2Jm6RslNYTErfXvPPFRiMY13mxN7eUx_GdM.yahoo.invalid<svaksha%40gmail.com>>
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> > > On Dec 14, 2007 11:27 AM, priya venkateshan
> > <priyaven at YRnSidxGQKwjikk9ooB73fQyF_eHzY6Jq9DNGEGQag7xR0qsEGrscjB5vp5bcYDbjof0Cy1GN4GbxsrinQ.yahoo.invalid <priyaven%40gmail.com><priyaven%40gmail.com>>
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> > > wrote:
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> > > > Hi,
> > > > Great to hear about this.
> > > > For starters...
> > > > How about getting girls in engineering colleges interested in linux
> and
> > > > linuxchix? I know for a fact that most people in Bangalore colleges
> > > don't
> > > > use linux all that extensively, and the number is even worse among
> > > girls.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Not difficult, provided you are able to encourage your friends
> > > (irrespective
> > > of gender) to start using Linux. Rather than a stranger talking about
> > > Linux,
> > > it makes more sense for you to promote linux among your friends, and
> > those
> > > in other colleges. They will listen to a friend more as compared to a
> > > stranger evangelising about freedom or the merits of the GPL.
> > >
> > > You can talk to your HOD about it and ask them if they are willing to
> > keep
> > > a
> > > lab session (which may be outside your curriculum, so you may not get
> any
> > > marks for it and probably not many will want to attend. So be prepared
> > for
> > > a
> > > negative response too.) and when you have decided the $subject (say
> > > Openoffice) then we can get the appropriate 'chixpert to talk about it
> > > ...thoughts ?
> > >
> > > Wishes,
> > >
> > > Vid
> > >
> > > <http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/VidAyer>
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> > In my college (NITK, Surathkal), we already have active forums for Linux
> > users, and a fair amount of linux evangelism, and a good number of linux
> > users, and a growing number of people whose primary operating system is
> > some
> > flavor of linux.
> > But I haven't seen the same level of enthusiasm or interest for linux in
> > engineering colleges in Bangalore, like RVCE or PESIT, or for that
> matter,
> > much interest in FOSS, kernel hacking, etc. And I guess something needs
> to
> > be done, considering this is Bangalore, Silicon Valley of India and all.
> > So if we can interest atleast a few from each college, I'm sure there
> must
> > already be quite a few who are interested, we can tie-up with them, or
> with
> > alumni of these colleges who are active in the linux scene, to make the
> > rest
> > aware of the world of foss and linux.
> >
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> I am aware of the large number of Linux activities that go on in
> NITK..esp with the active Open group that you guys have! Regarding
> colleges like PESIT (where I come from ;) ) & RVCE, yeah, there are
> not too many things going on. My company is in touch with PESIT and we
> have already started a Linux course there (but this mostly a kernel
> course). I had conducted a session there. But inpsite of this,
> students still do not use Linux as there primary OS for Lab work. I
> guess the push needs to come from the department. I am not sure if
> that is in our agenda at the moment.
>
> I guess once we have some volunteers from some of the colleges, we can
> get started. We could help them establish a Linux users group in their
> college and they could take it from there.
>
> /me looks for the bright lady from RVCE who had attended the BoF and
> had volunteered for LinuxChix...I forget her name though (sorry!).
>
> > cheers
> > priya
> >
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