[Freed] Minutes of Freed 2007 necropsy

[Raj Mathur]

On Wednesday 17 October 2007 21:21, H.S.Rai wrote:
> On 10/15/07, Gora Mohanty <gora at sarai.net> wrote:
> >    o Have fewer tracks, and more focussed, higher-quality
> >      talks. Tentative areas of interest for the Feb. 2008
> >      event:
> >        - Multimedia  - Games  - Content development?  - Education?
>
> Can we include issue of hardware support?
>
> Users, normally find difficulty to buy Linux loaded and supported
> computer :-(
>
> Following threads on LIG, may highlight problem.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=7.0.0.16.2.2
>0071007170852.03705c10%40pobox.com&forum_name=linux-india-general
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=7.0.0.16.2.2
>0071008064716.05770980%40pobox.com&forum_name=linux-india-general

Sounds like a great idea.  How would we want to achieve this?  One way I 
can think of is to start a Wiki page or something with lists of 
hardware items commonly sold in India (whole machines as well as 
individual components) and instructions and/or pointers for setting 
them up.  This should be done before the event.  At the event itself we 
could have a sprint session where a group of people get together, 
collect questions from the audience on their (the audience's) own 
problem areas and update all the information, with perhaps a 
presentation thrown in.  This could end up being a longer-lasting 
resource for new users.

Another is to invite a Linux-friendly vendor to sell their hardware at 
the event (we already did at freed.in 2007, but the buyer response 
wasn't all that great -- perhaps we didn't publicise it enough).

What else would you suggest?

Regards,

-- Raju
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