I second this, as you do not have to do anything of enormous scale, that is to give a huge speech in front of big audience with big talks. You can actually sing opensource song with relative mild tone. Here are just few stuffs you can start off with. a. introduce about small opensource alternatives and promote their use. The well known applications come up here, firefox, openoffice, pidgin, tomboy, gimp, inkscape. For this, you can practically approach any person, technical or non technical and let them know, better alternatives exists and all you have to do is download them and install. Many people do not even realize that firefox is an OSS application. Once you tell them, its an OSS application, you should ignite a curiosity among them as to what OSS is, and then your speech can begin ;) b. communicate with teachers, lab assistants on introducing opensource alternatives to your lab. Sure you can program on TurboC compiler for many more years to come, but then you will always make dos applications then. Ask your lab assistant if you could have a linux and gcc. If you have a pentium2 computer, you could have a small distro which just boots into the prompt. c. Tell your seniors, juniors, friends to do projects on OpenSource platform. .NET and oracle are interesting / big platforms, but their community is tiny compared to what opensource platforms offer. The learning part and the developing experience in OpenSource is great. d. Start a small community in your college. Start with a LUG (Linux users group) or any other application user group. Spread the word around and be nice to new participants. Hold regular meetings and share information about whats happening in opensource world.
My best wishes!! Bibek Shrestha -- bibekshrestha at gmail dot com Blog: http://bibekshrestha.com.np Twitter: http://twitter.com/bibstha On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Hempal Shrestha <hempalshres...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear Akash, > > Just one of the many things that you can do is, try to work out with some > FOSS applications in your college and try to conduct some orientation lab > session, may be just for 10 mins. Sharing about the FOSS applications, (one > of the many) that you might have come across/used > > > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Akash <tosunil...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Can you give some idea to do FOSS activity. >> >> -- >> FOSS Nepal mailing list: foss-nepal@googlegroups.com >> http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> foss-nepal+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<foss-nepal%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> >> Mailing List Guidelines: >> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines >> Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > > > > > -- > Best Regards, > > Hempal Shrestha > Kathmandu, Nepal > 977-98510-77031 > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: foss-nepal@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > foss-nepal+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<foss-nepal%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: foss-nepal+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
