[Haifux] Welcome2Linux?

Wed Jan 14 17:16:37 MSK 2009

OK, thanks!

I don''t know anyone at the Technion.

Can you tell me who to talk to to get another room?

Thanks again!

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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 Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 13:30, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladypine at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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>>
>> 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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