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Guess how many people use Linux? Hardly a handful of them! Since I am a fan of Linux its my moral duty to accustom people with Linux and clear their doubts/myths and misconceptions. I have already installed it on numerous of my friend’s computers and still waiting for more.

Keeping up with the pace, last week on Saturday we 3 people- me,Shubhendra and Ayush organised the first meet of the Linux Users Group, Manipal which is a newly founded user group  for promoting Linux in Manipal. The response was awesome, some 80+ people turned out for the event/meet. The interaction with the juniors was also satisfying. It was really saddening to see the poor response in the third year itself. Third year students damn care about anything?

Before leaving we all asked them whether they want themselves to involve in some sort of group work. I had expected that some 10-15 students will stay back after the event. It was surprising to see around 35+ entries in the group work. More had called and asked themselves to be enrolled themselves as they were not able to turn up for the event due to some or the other reasons.

We have chalked out lots of plans. We intend to have a website for guiding newbies, we shall have an online magazine which is released once a month. We will have people for data collection so that they learn what they have to use.

And lastly we have more plans for next semester as this would be the first and last  event of the use group in this semester. Next semester on first saturday we hope to organize an install fest for students who want to install Linux on their systems. I have already given Live CD’s of Ubuntu Gutsy to some students and assigned some first and second year students with the work of distributing the CD ISO’s to those who want to try out this hot thing.

Since space and time is limited, I should conclude now without even mentioning hundreds of points which are still in my mind. Keep checking back soon, and you would be updated.

This entry was posted on Monday, November 12th, 2007 at 3:30 pm and is filed under Technical, Thoughts.