Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (142 mails)

[Shashank <shashank.personal@xxxxxxxxx>]

Respected Community Members,
     We are group of students who deeply believe in principles of Open
Source, and in true spirit of freedom, we love to share our ideas /
knowledge with others .This is what motivated us to form a Linux user
group in our university (Jaypee University of Information
Technology,India), when we found out that our passion had caught on
with other students and people were taking interest in Open Source &
Linux in general. That was two years back.
After toiling for 2 years thence, we have been able to include our
events in our universities main Cultural Festival "Le Fiestus" only
this year. The events vary from "Hacking Challenges" to "Quiz"; though
small in number we expect the events to be more attractive and bigger
in upcoming years.
After Formation of Linux User Group, awareness of Open Source and
Linux in general has increased manifold, and we are taking small steps
toward complete shift towards Linux.
Due to popularity of Linux, our university decided to provide an
opt-in course to students for making students aware of Linux.
We are even trying to take this knowledge outside confines of our
university and make local computer vendor in our region sell Linux
laptops and Desktops.
All these factors contributed to what we see today in our university,
a healthy viewpoint of students towards Open Source without any
misconception, to further this cause the idea of organizing event in a
cultural fest was born, but without any prior organizing experience we
felt bit marooned.
More than fifty percent of our Linux users are OpenSuse users, that
made OpenSuse community natural choice for us to ask for help. We have
an open Request for OpenSuse Community and Linux community at large,
of helping us in our nascent steps of making Linux a natural concept
as freedom rather than just an alternative to Microsoft Windows.

Regards
Shashank Singh
Founding Member
Jape university of information Technology Linux User Group (Jlug)
Waknaghat
Solan
Himachal Pradesh
India

P.S:
Related links:
University Website: http://juit.ac.in/
Cultural Festival Website: http://www.juit.ac.in/lefiestus/index.php
Juit Linux User Group Event's List: http://events.techfreaks4u.com/
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