Linuxchix in Bangalore

[poornima.v.bharadwaj]

--- In Indianlc at yahoogroups.com, "Vid Ayer" <svaksha at ...> wrote:
>
> 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 ...> wrote:
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> >   Hi Priya,
> >
> >
> > On Dec 14, 2007 1:22 PM, priya venkateshan
<priyaven at ...<priyaven%40gmail.com>>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Dec 14, 2007 12:45 PM, Vid Ayer
<svaksha at ...<svaksha%40gmail.com>>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Dec 14, 2007 11:27 AM, priya venkateshan
> > > <priyaven at ... <priyaven%40gmail.com><priyaven%40gmail.com>>
> > >
> > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > 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>
> > > >
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > 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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Hi there!
I am from MSRIT. Our college mandates the use of Linux OS for labs
from 3rd year(that is when students are introduced to Unix according
to syllabus).
Our college has a linux users' group called VRLINUG.  The group keeps
in contact regularly via the active mailing list. VRLINUG has also
been successfully conducting a technical conference called  mukthi (
www.mukthi.vrlinug.org ) with people like Atul Chitnis, Andrew Cowie
and others as key speakers! The goal of this event is to inspire and
support innovation, advocate the use of free and open source software
and encourage contributions to the community in all forms.
However, more seminars and workshops could be conducted and thereby
bring in awareness.. :)

Regards,
Poornima