Hi, On 1/9/07, Viksit Gaur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How exactly do you see web crawlers advocating a new > resource to newbies?
Google search returns documentation pages from wiki sites? > Lets see > you _do_ it. See further statements for what I mean. Hmmm ... http://www.shakthimaan.com/work.html ... (1) > Of course, I assumed you were savvy enough to realize > that I meant those who have access to a computer and > the web. You're *obviously* not going to go ask > farmers in Mizoram whether they use wikis or not. Of course, yeah. We want to achieve wide coverage of FLOSS in India, not just the metropolitan cities ... (2) > We're talking about people who attend events like > Freedel, Foss.in, various OSS conferences, people who > are web savvy, Linux and OSS savvy, and know what > we're talking about. See (2) above. > This is what I call trolling. We _Know_ you want to > advocate this. HOW do you suggest we advocate? TV ads? > More email messages? IRC conversations? Pamphlets? > Lets have a list of concrete steps. Need to go to schools/colleges and do workshops, conduct FLOSS Install Fests et. al, support people in IRC, mailing lists, participate in forums. Pamphlets are a good idea. ILUG-BOM have started one. > Seriously. Why don't _you_ step out from the ranks of > what you assume are people with no initiative and show > some yourself? See (1) above. Cheers, SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
