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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi people,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>First let me introduce myself. My name is Manish Sinha and
am a 4<sup>th</sup> year Computer Science student at Manipal Institute of
Technology, Manipal, Karnataka. I am quite interested in Linux and have been
using it for around 2 years. Ubuntu is my favourite distro. I started off with
this and never moved away even after trying many others. This is my first mail
out in mailing lists, hope am greeted with lots of love.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Now coming to the point. We people (me with my friends) have
founded LUG in our college without any help from the college. I would like to
get great ideas from people out at India Loco Team mailing lists. Initially we had
very few members and even if we had, not all had ideas of Linux. At the
beginning itself we organized an Install Fest where we installed Fedora 8 on 48
student’s laptop in 3 hours. We 8 people were only to get things working.
We have become tough in all these things. Well you might be thinking why Fedora
8? This is because there were some problems in the default ATI graphics card
driver bundled and the XServer used to crash. We could figure the solution for
fedora as time was less.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Now I would like to be flooded with ideas of how to organise
new events. We have till now organised events like orientation meets, install
fest, using Linux workshop, web development using FOSS tools. We need some
really great ideas as college is the time when each student get s a chance to
try Linux, after getting a job, people don’t have time. The topics should
be of such level that normal students can be able to understand it. We don’t
want just geeks to use it, but every Tom, Dick and Harry should be able to use
it with ease. College is opening in after 40 and still we have ample time to
prepare for it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>If you have any queries, feel free to ask. There may be
chances that I have missed out some obvious points.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We have a website with hosting by our sponsor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.lugmanipal.org/">http://www.lugmanipal.org/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Sponsor: Racked Hosting <a
href="http://www.rackedhosting.com">http://www.rackedhosting.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We even tried to create proper wiki’s but due to lack
of time, we are not able to complete it <a href="http://wiki.lugmanipal.org/">http://wiki.lugmanipal.org/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Manish<o:p></o:p></p>
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