On Monday 15 Dec 2008, Bhargav Prasanna wrote: Please get into the habit of trimming your messages to include relevant excerpts only.
> > Conducting meetings on saturdays in our college (be it any saturday > of the month) is out of the question.. Its because the college works > 8.30 to 16.30 on saturdays (all of them).. Is it not possible conduct the meets after 16.30 hours? At most you will need only one room to be kept open. > We can try and get > permission for a Sunday meet though.. Again, getting permission > depends on who you're approaching.. Staff in my department (EEE) > don't know Linux has GUI.. Whats even worse is that there are many > teachers in IT and CSE departments hate Linux (for some reason).. For such people, a Saturday after hours meet could be an enlightening experience. > Ashok has even told me about a teacher explaining to his class "Why > Windows is the world's best OS" during an OS lab session.. To each his/her own opinion but such statement should be followed up with questions as to if he/she would use it in mission critical applications and why so. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
