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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/20/2015 07:58 PM, Vikas Tara
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:55350D24.1060307@hamaralinux.org" type="cite">On
16/04/15 20:32, shirish wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Hi all,
<br>
What do people think of having a Debian release party on the
24th or 27th of this month at Techblue's office in Delhi.
<br>
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Things to be done for organizing it :-
<br>
<br>
a. What would be needed are .iso images of Debian Jessie in
32-bit and
<br>
64-bit (guess 64-bit would be main), a projector, some people
trying
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it out on their lappy/lappies and maybe tea or some soft-drink,
a
<br>
samosa/ Pizza etc. and a Cake with the swirl decoration.
<br>
<br>
b. Take any topic from the release notes and share how they make
a difference in GNU/Linux.
<br>
<br>
This doesn't need to be big, at the most you will be spending
an hour or two and can tentatively be done on Friday or Monday
evening.
<br>
<br>
This could also be used as an opportunity to invite some of the
people from schools who were part of the conference and could be
used to share developments with each other in an informal way.
As have shared with Vikas some of the information which is
required and will be useful to us is unknown to me at least :-
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<br>
Also what information about such schools we have in terms of the
schools we know :-
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a. Size of school in number of teachers and students.
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b. Are the schools upto matriculation or even till 12th ?
<br>
c. Is there a computer lab ? If yes, how much of that lab is
used and which apps. or tools are used by the students most ?
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d. How many students sit or can sit in the lab at one point of
time ?
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e. Does the school follow the Delhi School Board or some other
board ?
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f. Do they have some sort of IT/Computer Science teacher ? If
yes what does s/he teach ?
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I am unaware of the current status of CBSE coverage not just of
computer science but other subjects as well.
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If such information is known to us it would help us enormously
in budgeting and understanding the dynamics when rolling out
hamara in schools.
<br>
<br>
Looking forward to feedback.
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I think it's a good idea - the only issue I see is logistics.
<br>
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The TBS office is located in IMT Manesar - so it's a little way
(20 mins drive) outside of Gurgaon.
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Do you think that might cause issues for people traveling?
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Hi Vikas, <br>
<br>
It all depends on people's passions. If people are passionate or
curious about Debian GNU/Linux then they will make the journey. <br>
<br>
While I can take the endeavour of announcing the same on the
various LUGs in and near Delhi/Gurgaon, what would be needed from
the staff from TBS are the following things :-<br>
<br>
a. Time of the party <br>
b. Approximate duration of the event. <br>
c. Topics to be covered at the event and what topic will be covered
by whom. <br>
d. Maximum number of people, students, professionals that TBS can
entertain/look after. Security, budgets are also a concern so those
needs to be taken into account while giving/sharing the final
number. <br>
e. How to reach TBS's office . If there is a Metro Station within a
km. or two which one it is and what land-marks, if any besides the
office. <br>
f. 2 people from the staff preferably, one being the 'Event
photographer' and the other who blogs about interesting things,
ideas or questions which are thrown about by people. <br>
g. Of course will need a cake depending upon number of people
expected to turn up at the event. Need to always account for 5-10
numbers more than expected. You always will get people who will
still turn up in the hopes that somebody is a no-show. The idea is
to be conservative while also allowing some flexibility in the
arrangements. <br>
h. If we are offering snacks, let people know. <br>
i. It could also be a theme party, say Debian swirl ( it's all upto
the people's imagination).<br>
j. Have some way that people can get both hamara .iso's as well as
debian 8 .iso's . This could be in form of just the images, they
need to bring a pen-drive or a CD/DVD or something or the other.
Mention in the invite how will you be distributing it so people
know. Preferably have an FTP server and share the details on the
whiteboard. <br>
k. Any other special instructions. <br>
<br>
Now how do we attract people will solely depend upon the topics we
choose, if people choose sys-admin topics, then we will probably
get people who would be interested in sys-admin/devops sort of
people, if we choose some development topic (say improvements in
c++11) or something like that then probably will get people who are
doing or wanting to learn C . It is not needed or recommended to
stay with only those topics which are mentioned in the Release notes
( as to what has improved or is new) but could also be used to
share a technology/tool which you find interesting and would like
others to know about it more. <br>
<br>
It's possible that there may be a point or two which I've left out.
Feel free to choose, add or/and modify it to your requirements. <br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org</pre>
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