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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/02/2015 02:53 PM, Vikas Tara
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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
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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 think some swags will definitely help. I am listing some here.<br>
1. Good Quality Hamara Laptop Stickers (more effort should be
given on its design and quality)<br>
2. DVD Covers for Hamara DVDs. ( I'll burn DVDs here)<br>
If you can think of any other items.<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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Past couple of months have been hectic for me. I think, I should
take a break for some duration now. <br>
Lets focus on actual development for Hamara. Report more bugs and
squash them. <br>
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I just forgot my Exams are coming up, Need to Study as well (Oh, I
hate Maths). <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) v will </span></span><br>
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Raju<br>
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