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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/03/15 08:55, Raju D. Vindane
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<div class="moz-forward-container">On 03/01/2015 05:58 PM, Vikas
Tara wrote<br>
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Hey Vik, Hi<br>
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This year I will be Adding Hamara GNU/Linux to the
List as well as a BeagleBone Black. <br>
I'll also add the Raspberry pi 2(Given to me at
HamaraConference) to the booth this time. <br>
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I'll keep some DVDs burned with Hamara and Debian,
which I will distribute with the people. <br>
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How did you get on? Would love to hear people's feedback about
hamara linux <br>
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We had 4 different things at our booth. 2 SBC's and 2 Operating
Systems. RPi2 & BBB, as well as Debian and Hamara. <br>
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A big <b>Thank you to the Hamara Design Team</b>. 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.<br>
But we learn from our experiences. I will get them printed soon.
So I can use them for any other event next time. <br>
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Still, thanks for the efforts you put in - let's talk about
materials that we can supply you for future events?<br>
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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 "<b>What are the advantages you get
using Hamara over Windows?</b>", I answered them well. I did a
feature tour for people interested in Hamara. <br>
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I also told curios people about our efforts on <b>Hamara
Sugam</b>, 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. <br>
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This reinforces our current view then and also a big reason for
establishing the hamara project. People are unaware that these
things exist and the other distros are not particularly focussed on
educating users in this direction.<br>
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Not everything goes smooth. I got into a <b>fierce discussion</b>
with some person about Hamara. He was raising the question, "<b>Why
are you guys doing the same thing again & again?</b>
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.<br>
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Well done! Yes, you will face this everywhere - but I think the
example you have given above more than validates your position. If
most people don't know about linux, then we are achieving something
by making them aware and focussing particularly on the needs of the
Indian user base.<br>
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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. <br>
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. <br>
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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. <b>The second day was washed out due to heavy rains.</b>
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.<br>
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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 <b>will</b> <b>post the photos from
the event soon</b> on my Diaspora account (<a
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href="https://joindiaspora.com/u/rajudv">https://joindiaspora.com/u/rajudv</a>
). <br>
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This experience will definitely help further in building up the
Hamara GNU/Linux users and developers community and taking
Hamara to more people. <br>
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Thanks again for the effort you put in, please let us know about any
upcoming events that you are thinking of attending?<br>
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