[Hamara-devel] Promoting Hamara

[Vikas Tara]

On 02/03/15 08:33, Raju D. Vindane wrote:
>
> On 03/01/2015 05:58 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
>> Hi Raju
> Hey Vik, Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This year I will be Adding Hamara GNU/Linux to the List as well 
>>>>>> as a BeagleBone Black.
>>>>>> I'll also add the Raspberry pi 2(Given to me at HamaraConference) 
>>>>>> to the booth this time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll keep some DVDs burned with Hamara and Debian, which I will 
>>>>>> distribute with the people.
>> How did you get on? Would love to hear people's feedback about hamara 
>> linux
> We had 4 different things at our booth. 2 SBC's and 2 Operating 
> Systems. RPi2 & BBB, as well as Debian and Hamara.
>
> A big *Thank you to the Hamara Design Team*. My request for some 
> designed material for the booth was handled well by Hamara Design 
> team. But Due to delay from my side informing the Design team of 
> Hamara, not everything was happening on time. I informed the team 
> late, the sent me the designs late. And I couldn't get the Hamara Flex 
> printed for the booth.
> But we learn from our experiences. I will get them printed soon. So I 
> can use them for any other event next time.
>
> I did kept the Hamara Flex design on an External monitor attached to 
> one laptop. So people coming to the booth were seeing and asking about 
> it. I was wearing the Hamara T-shirt there. Some people were curious 
> about it. Some people who knew nothing about Linux asked "*What are 
> the advantages you get using Hamara over Windows?*", I answered them 
> well. I did a feature tour for people interested in Hamara.
>
> I also told curios people about  our efforts on *Hamara Sugam*, and 
> its availability on different SBCs. I explained the use cases where 
> SBC's can be used by people. Like creating Low cost Computer labs in 
> schools. I also made them aware of our plans on creating the networks 
> for enabling communications in remote parts of the country.
>
> Not everything goes smooth. I got into a *fierce discussion* with some 
> person about Hamara. He was raising the question, "*Why are you guys 
> doing the same thing again & again?* Instead of contributing to the 
> main parent Projects." He was well aware with the GNU/Linux 
> ecosystems. It was tough to talk with him, but I did handled this guy 
> well. I assured him that we do take care of our Upstream and 
> Downstream and will always do. We will not do what Canonical is doing 
> with Ubuntu, taking everything from the community and returning back 
> very little. And we are more focused on the needs and requirements of 
> Indian users. At the end I managed him to try Hamara. He said that he 
> will give a try to Hamara for sure.
>
> We were also having Debian GNU/Linux on another system. We were 
> getting good questions and Interest there as well. On two more systems 
> We had the RPi2 and BBB as well. Still very few people know about 
> Single Board Computers, and were amazed to see a full computer running 
> from a credit card sized board.
> The school kids from nearby goverment schools were amazed as well. I 
> had gcompris and tux paint installed on the RPi2 so these kids can 
> play with it. I kept the Big Buck Bunny video running up on one 
> System. The schools kids enjoyed it well.
>
> FYI, GMRT is the worlds largest Radio Telescopic centre. And a Science 
> Day event happening there gets a footfall of over 20,000 people in 2 
> days. But this year it happened only for the first day. *The second 
> day was washed out due to heavy rains.* The booths are setup on 
> grounds and it all was wet on the second day. The second day got 
> cancelled and we had to wrap up there.
>
> Overall the event was a good experience. We did commit some mistakes, 
> but we'll learn from it and will not repeat them again. Present along 
> with me there were 5 more people at our booth, who handled the people 
> with the explanations  and resolved there queries. I *will* *post the 
> photos from the event soon* on my Diaspora account 
> (https://joindiaspora.com/u/rajudv ).
>
> This experience will definitely help further in building up the Hamara 
> GNU/Linux users and developers community and taking Hamara to more 
> people.
>
Putting thread back on the list.

Raju - remember to reply list ;)
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