[Ilugc] How to bring more people to ilugc meets?
- From: arun289@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Venkataswamy)
- Date: Tue Jun 15 17:57:54 2010
2010/6/15 Thyagarajan ?????????? <citizenofgnu@xxxxxxxxx>
1) One expert speaker presenting a talk.
2) One beginner talk.
3) One OSS project/product demo
4) Lightning talk(s).
5) Job opportunity discussions( probably this at gurunath).
At the end of the session, the attendee should feel that he had a worthy
time in learning something new.
All the suggestions seem to be targeted on the tech savvy.
Unless Linux can be used on a desktop at home by the entire family, it's
difficult for it to spread.
My own experience - I forcibly installed a Linux distro on my home computer.
I was forcibly made to revert back to Windows because my wife could not run
a 300 kb Windows game on it. I did try Wine, but it was neither easy
or worthwhile as the performance was bad. Simple. For her it was just not
the same...
I think we need talks and mainly demonstrations on "how to do things in
Linux which you were doing in Windows". Of course the regular ILUGC
participants can be bored, but what about Sundays? Probably once in 2 months
with more publicity to get the average potential user in?
Arun
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