Viksit Gaur wrote: > Possibly. But even if they are not, why don't we get > some sort of a strategy to actually contact those > colleges and see how many of them have inhouse LUGs, > failing which we could help them set it up. Ah! Finally a volunteer to write a strategy document. > With more Mini-LUGs in and around (which could maybe > be affliated to ilugd as a parent LUG or something), > you'd have intra meetings, which would give a boost to > the dwindling numbers of interested people. Well the Mini-LUGs are welcome to use the ILUGD mailing list as a home mailing list for solving problems and organizing meetings until they can have the critical mass by themselves.
> *) Another suggestion - Apart from just Discussions of > stuff, or presentations/demos of something, have a > monthly competition of some sort? The Dev meet could > have a programming challenge, the ilugd meet could > have something more oriented towards the average user > - best desktop, Linux Gaming challenges, GIMP art, > Blender Art.. the possiblities are endless. I would say excellent idea. > IMHO, we should dichotomize the evangelism track, and > assume that a large number of people ARE using Linux. We can do away with that if we get enough well-prepared talks. > Then, a kind of constitution could be established, http://www.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/anCMS/main.cgi?action=societification&mId=1047 I am still waiting for the President Designate's personal information to begin the process for societification. </mudslinging> > *) Random thought - If we form a non profit > organization, does the Government give us grants etc > to propogate Linux? (like they do to NGOs?) Nah! I wouldn't recommend asking money from the Indian Government and risk their meddlesome bureaucrats anywhere near ILUGD. The technocrats are however welcome to attend ILUGD meetings and learn about Linux and Open Source. -Tarun Dua _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
