[Hamara-devel] Fwd: Re: Promoting Hamara

[saurabh]

Thank you Raju for this great effort of yours to promote Hamara.
I agree things got a bit delayed, but as you say we learn from our
mistakes will be prepared from next times onwards.
Reading about what all happened in there I am pretty much excited and
look forward to join you there next year.

A big thanks again.

Cheers.

On Monday 02 March 2015 02:25 PM, 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.
>
>
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Saurabh Jha
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