ideas please:

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Nik_nitdgp <nikhil....@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 15, 7:29 pm, Vishwas <vishwasnpra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> To everyone in this group, I'm Vishwas. I'm doing my 6th semester BE
>> in CSE in YDIT Bangalore. We started a glug in our college recently.
>> As we are new to this, I would be glad if you guys could give us some
>> ideas about the activities that can be done through the glug.
>
> It was nice to read your enthusiasm towards GNU/Linux.You can start
> ircs,mailing lists,motivate your college students to use open source
> softwares,invite speakers (those who have contributed to FOSS)
> regularly to your campus and more.Once you start, propagation will be
> much simpler.

I hope you will receive good suggestions from others. I want to add
one thing. Avoid forming that "core" group kind of things. Get away
with hierarchy and leaderships. My experience with a few Free Software
Communities tells me that usually people who get into such "core"
groups have nothing to do with free software- most of them haven't
even understood the philosophy. Instead, try to find out a group of
people already using free softwares, bring them together in an online
platform and start discussing plans there. Make information and
decisions as open as possible - for that I think one should prefer
online discussions over real-world "meetings", phone-conversations and
"decisions." Transparency and openness is the key.

I think a first activity could be an "install-fest" where you help
others install free softwares in their machine. Don't be heave on
philosophy first, show examples instead.

>> As we are new to this, I would be glad if you guys could give us some
>> ideas about the activities that can be done through the glug.
>
> It was nice to read your enthusiasm towards GNU/Linux.You can start
> ircs,mailing lists,motivate your college students to use open source
> softwares,invite speakers (those who have contributed to FOSS)
> regularly to your campus and more.Once you start, propagation will be
> much simpler.

I hope you will receive good suggestions from others. I want to add
one thing. Avoid forming that "core" group kind of things. Get away
with hierarchy and leaderships. My experience with a few Free Software
Communities tells me that usually people who get into such "core"
groups have nothing to do with free software- most of them haven't
even understood the philosophy. Instead, try to find out a group of
people already using free softwares, bring them together in an online
platform and start discussing plans there. Make information and
decisions as open as possible - for that I think one should prefer
online discussions over real-world "meetings", phone-conversations and
"decisions." Transparency and openness is the key.

I agree with this, my experiences are similar, you should announce it by some suitable
medium that you are planning something, find out "interested" people only.

 

I think a first activity could be an "install-fest" where you help
others install free softwares in their machine. Don't be heave on
philosophy first, show examples instead.