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On 02/03/15 08:33, Raju D. Vindane wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/01/2015 05:58 PM, Vikas Tara
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Raju <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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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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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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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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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Putting thread back on the list.<br>
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Raju - remember to reply list ;)
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