[Haifux] Welcome2Linux?

[Amichai Rotman]

Orna,

I understand your point and agree with it, nevertheless, I believe there are
a lot of skilled programmers and super users out there that tend to think
Linux is no more than an old "dos window for geeks', unusable for the
desktop user (i.e - them, while not doing sudo stuff) and so on...

I would like to show them the true face and powers of the GNU/Linux system -
as I did with my friends.

The series should target existing power / super users that currently work
solely with Windows - kind of: "Look, this is how it looks like, this is how
you do this task under Linux"

I noticed the Haifux calendar is wide open for the neear future. I am
willing to do the lectures myself (although, I am not a gifted lecturer as
others I've seen). I'll need help with spreading the word through the right
channels - to get to the right target audiance.

Thanks!

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Amichai Rotman

UIN#: 6401746
Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/]
Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net]

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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 15:08, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladypine at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Amichai,
>
> On a personal note, I am tired of  being a missionary and bored of
> preaching.  I feel Linux has become mainstream enough for Haifux to focus on
> higher-level topics, which are more interesting for the hard core of the
> Linux club, rather than working on PR/introductory lectures for strangers.
> I would like to see Haifux more as a meeting place for enthusiasts, along
> the original lines of guy's LUPG (http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/<http://users.actcom.co.il/%7Echoo/lupg/>)
> and along the lines of the first years of the club, where people would learn
> a subject and then teach it to others.
> We have been recycling lectures and generally stepping in place - I would
> like to see Haifux moving on to new professional territories, one of which
> is parallel programming.
>
> I would also like to see Haifux community collaborative projects alive and
> kicking again.
>
> On a more general note, Shlomi Fish has a lot of energy for W2L, but he
> spends it in Tel Aviv. A project such as W2L requires a lot of energy from
> several people. If there are not enough energetic people, there is no W2L.
>
> Orna.
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>wrote:
>
>> Hello Haifa Linuxers!
>>
>> I wonder - why was it so long since we had Welcome 2 Linux lectures in
>> Haifa?
>>
>> I had a couple of friends at home a week a go that have just installed
>> Linux on their Laptops. One of them told me he haven't turned on his Window$
>> machine for more than a week and he is really happy with his Ubuntu 8.10
>> install (everything works - even WiFi) but he would like to know some more,
>> have a better understanding of the inner workings of the Linux OS.
>>
>> I came across the Linux Reality <http://www.linuxreality.com> Podcast and
>> thought we could hold a series of lectures along the lines of the Podcast
>> outline.
>>
>> Please don't flame me too much [?]
>>
>>
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>> Amichai Rotman
>>
>> UIN#: 6401746
>> Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/]
>> Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net]
>>
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