__/ [ shrini ] on Monday 27 March 2006 08:58 \__
> Yes. We, Chennai Linux User Group. ILUGC, and the ARUNAI Engg. College,
> Thiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu jointly did this expo.
Excellent initiative!
> Here is the details.
>
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.ilugc/28762
>
> And Photos are at
> http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album26
>
> It is really a great success. Many college students are interested in
> FOSS.
>
> students were thinking linix as a pure console. While they saw the GUI,
> they got happy.
I see *exactly* the same problem. People believe Linux=command line. Others
think Linux=emacs; even in Britain, believe it or not. *EVEN* among IT
professionals who have experience and are sometimes seniors or veterans.
The stereotypes *must* be broken. They travel from mouth to ear otherwise.
When Linux penetrates more high-street stores and gets put on display
(despite the strong resistance from Microsoft stocks suppliers [1]), such
stereotypes will be broken immediately.
> Students put various stalls on various topics,as squid, firewall, web
> design, clustering, High availablility, LIRC, tamil computing, shell
> scripting, web scripting, networking etc.
>
> The wonder is, the students know linux for last one week only. within
> days, they learned to install, configure, prepare some topic and made a
> stall on that.
> they explained to lot of other college, other dept students.
>
> They realised the freedom they have now on their computers.
>
> Now, it is our part to continusly guide them on FOSS. We have to give
> them proper support on their admin, netrworkin and development
> processes.
>
> We hope we can do.
>
> Thanks to college and students.
>
> T.Shrinivasan.
> Indian Linux User Group, Chennai (ILUGC)
[1]
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=2044AB5A-59CA-4EC3-AD3F-73DF7BC4F8E0
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