[Ubuntu-SG] Update on the mailing list. Great News!!!

[Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint]

On Sunday 29 April 2007 17:49, Harris Ngan wrote:
> Those fairs are usually conducted and organised by the student society. We
> do not need direct participation in the induction 'cause they are usually
> induction camp for their own society or department. However, there are also
> some bazaar fair ongoing during sept till say nov (i can't remember the
> exact dates) and there are chances where people can set up stores (I
> suppose that needs a student to register). I didn't know that NP gives out
> software freely to students. That wasn't the case in NUS maybe even in NTU.

It wasn't ? Wow ... then how do you guys use dreamweaver or visual studio ? 
For that matter , reinstall windows if you got virus ? Surely , don't tell me 
students in NUS/NTU must buy those things? Office ? I thought schools paid 
for corporate accounts for all those softwares. 

> That's why I didn't aware the highly 'unpopular' choice in NP. Companies
> giving out goodies do not need special arrangement with the department but
> of course if that does, the organisers will get the necessary permit. So
> far, I don't realise there is unless you are putting a bomb in the goodie.
> Money wise, well, goodies will be the 'money' contribution. For example, I
> got some mouse pads last time by Ministry of Health and chocolates from a
> distributor. For the fair, we might need to pay a fee to get a store set up
> and of course man hour/arrangements/ etc will cost. Also if we produce a
> localised 'manual' to attach to the goodie, printing will cost. So CD/DVD
> itself will not cost at the moment but any associated stuff might cost abit
> and we do need to find funding in such cases.

No problem , if it isn't more than $500 , I think we can fork it out 
ourselves. 

> In the engineering faculty, 
> people tend to use alot of C++ as their key programming language. I think
> Linux has a couple of good compilers for that and I think it is also good
> that people can try Python in some sense.

That reminds me ... Ubuntu doesn't come with gcc ... it always annoys me :P

> We also need alot of Matlab and 
> that was used to be accomplished by either use remote servers in NUS or hmm
> trying to get some 'source'. So I think Octave might be a good option (of
> course for the more advanced), there is still abit of incompatibility in
> some areas like plotting.

We can check with the students for that. We can of course show all the free 
softwares , including beryl.

> How about we can start off with this 
> society?http://compclub.nus.edu.sg/ - I found it from the NUS website and
> it is directly under the Student
> Union.http://www.eng.nus.edu.sg/eir/students/student_engineering_club.html
> - Engineering clubs.http://liquidify.prettyskies.org/chess/about.html -
> Chemical Engineering Club (you might contact under marketing/O-day
> (Orientation)http://www.enginclub.nus.edu.sg/committees.html - General
> Engineering ClubI think in NTU, there should be something similar and well
> people from NTU can help out in that bit.

Both NUS and NTU has Linux User Groups. NUS head is in LUGS exco. In fact, he 
was the one who emailed to me that local sg server been fixed. So contacting 
the clubs have no problem. I will be emailing him tonight on how we can apply 
for a booth at NUS , if we can. 

> I can understand how tough it is 
> to distribute CD at Orchard road. 

Not tough , it was funny. We got gals queuing to take photos with the penguin. 
Needless to say , nobody was interested in the CDs. LOL

> Well we will have to try. Any suggestion 
> how shall we put the How-tos together systematically on our site? Do we do
> something similar to ubuntuguide? or we update the ubuntuguide and have a
> link to them? 'cause i think How-tos do help me alot in the past and I
> certainly would like to have a easy direction to find my solution.

Yup , linking would be a very good idea. Why reinvent the wheel ? 

> Cheers. I 
> can help out anything online with my free time but sad to say I can't be
> present in events.Harris

Thanks for the ideas Harris. I will be emailing the NUS tonight. I am not sure 
who is in charge at NTU though.. I will update the situation asap. Cheers!!!

regards
billy

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