[Haifux] Welcome2Linux?

[Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda]

Hi Amichai,

Haifux Calendar is not really "wide open" - actually, it is booked until
May, which is four months from now.
However, regular Haifux lectures are only every other week. During W2L we
usually stop all Haifux activity, and give weekly lectures. This hurts the
club's activity.

If you (or anybody else) wishes to organize a W2L series (proposal -
targeting the next spring semester) you can make use of the open slots, that
is you can get the room every other week, without hurting the schedule. From
what I saw of the faculty's occupancy at this time, you can probably ask for
another room if you want to give the lectures every week.

Orna.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>wrote:

> 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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> 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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