kindly send your suggestion for the Event of Linux at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar

[suvayu ali]

Hi Navdeep,

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
> On 06/15/2011 10:54 AM, Navdeep Singh Sidhu wrote:
>> If anybody want to help us with their ideas , they can share their
>> precious ideas with us and suggest us for this event. We are very
>> thankful to you for your help & support.
>
> I like to show friends who've never seen Linux in action the Desktop
> Cube, especially as I have Compiz set to show the open windows floating
> above the cube instead of resting on the surface.

Since this is at an university, I would be inclined to showing them how
easy it is to do certain academic tasks. For example:

1. The ease with which one can install TexLive and get started making
   beautiful reports. How all the tutorials are available as a package
   and can be accessed through texdoc and texdoctk. No need for
   searching online every time. And editors like Emacs and Texmaker
   makes writing any documents with TeX/LaTeX even easier.
2. Easily installed and used plotting tools like gnuplot.
3. Easy access to various programming languages like Python, C/C++, Ruby
   and specialised modules and tools like GSL, Boost and all the various
   Python libraries.
4. Availability of specialised apps: electronic circuit design tools
   available with the electronics lab spin, the very specialised data
   analysis C++ framework ROOT.
5. You might also want to introduce them to shell scripts and how they
   can be used to automate repetitive tasks (rather common in
   academics I would say).

I hope these ideas help get you started.

-- 
Suvayu

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