Re: Formation of KGEC LUG.

[Rohit Gupta]

>     1. Re: Formation of GNU/LUG of KGEC.. (Ashok Gautham)
>  Well done Rohit! It is a great initiative. 
Thank you for your Support.

>  Anyway, I have the following things to say/ask
>
>  1) I feel too much of organization may ruin and demotivate as much
>  as motivate.
>          Have a barcamp like structure. Probably one head is OK 
I am also feeling the same but I also want to have a kick start. This
will, I think, create more awareness among students and some of them
will come up. If we are able to help them then it can have a long
lasting chain effect. The problem I feel here is the experience we
lack.
One head can be done easily. I don't know the barcamp structure. I
googled it and I think it is like getting everyone opinion and
starting the discussion. If you mean this, we will be doing this.

>  2) Use a parent LUG. Ensure that all members follow that LUG too. Try
>  solving problems by yourselves. Forward to parent LUG if needed. 
We will make NITDgp LUG the parent LUG and encourage members to follow that too.

>  3) How many people are there in the LUG at the moment? 
The Details of LUG is not yet announced. There are a bunch of students
trying out fedora after the KGEC installfest. I have mainly involved
all the active members of installfest.
There are 10 people in the core committee at the moment.
There are some more interested candidates and I plan to involve them
too. These include the few Linux users of our college.

>  4) Take up a project that could use some love. I had this plan for a LUG
>  at my college. But not many others were interested in a LUG.
>          Adopt a project. Read source for a month. Each member should take
>  up a module or two based on his/her competence and should explain in
>  brief what he/she understood. Then at the end of the month, one/many
>  members can take up the project and start contributing real time.
>
>  5) Have a PC holding git/mercurial/svn checkouts of projects you do and
>  constantly produce logs. This will motivate people to churn out more and
>  more code.
>  
We will surely try out all these stuff, but for the time being, I am
concentrating on establishing a stable LUG in our college.
I will do need the community guidance and help but presently, we need
to create users than developers.
We plan to do these stuff after we get sufficient response and users.

>  6) The one who contributes the most gets to be the next head. 
Yes this will be done.

> Have a badge for the head. 
We are going with certificates.

Thanks for your support and please do always guide us with the work we
need to do. Sorry the late reply. I am facing a lot of problems due to
limited hrs of internet access in my college. I will do try to give my
best.

Regards:
Rohit Gupta
Fedora Ambassador
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:rohit01
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Formation of KGEC LUG.

[susmit shannigrahi]

>  We will surely try out all these stuff, but for the time being, I am
>  concentrating on establishing a stable LUG in our college.
>  I will do need the community guidance and help but presently, we need
>  to create users than developers.
>  We plan to do these stuff after we get sufficient response and users. 
Just a word of advice, you need a stable mix of users and developers
to build a successful LUG. You may concentrate on uses right now, but
at the same time work on something.

Once you get some contribution from your lug to some upstream project,
visibility and support from community will automatically increase.
Also, it adds skills to your members.

What you are doing is great...but set the goal as not just usage, but
also contribution.


>  Thanks for your support and please do always guide us with the work
> we
>  need to do. Sorry the late reply. I am facing a lot of problems due to
>  limited hrs of internet access in my college. I will do try to give my
>  best. 
To say the other way, when you need any help, ask!!! :)

Thanks and keep up the good work.


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Susmit.

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