[GNOME-India] A warm welcome to all those who have joined...

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshanmukhopadhyay vsnl net>]

hi,

a warm welcome to all those who have already joined, and of course to
them who wanted to know all about GNOME-India but were clueless about
where to ask <smile>

Sayamindu wrote::

> As you may know, Nat and Miguel has been in Bangalore for Linux
> Bangalore 2k3, and you can read all about it at the Planet GNOME
> (www.gnome.org/~jdub/planetgnome). Also, if someone has attended their
> talks in LB 2003, please do share you experience with us.

am more interested in the usability and Gnome talk given, and all of us
would benefit if the talks/slides could be made available.

> Also, Miguel mentions that GNOME Bangalore has been created - can
> someone get more info on that please?

yup !! second this. let's interact and work in sync with the aim of
promoting GNOME

> Also, one thing that bugs me is that the news of GNOME IN has not
> been spread much amongst the LUGs and other UGs of India - I would
> request all those who get this message to spread the news.
> (SM - could you fwd the original announcement to Fred and LFY ??
> That should take care of a lot of things :-D)

hunh ?? well let's see, the page now contains a welcome note to all
members of GNOME-India, that should suffice. otherwise here is something
that could be used to spread the word - use a sig line that proclaims
you to be a member of GNOME-India. have sent the announcement to FN &
LFY also, someone could do the same for DIGIT, PCQ and EFY.

> (but we were mentioned in the Developers' section of Slashdot :-)

good show

> Also, just FYI, we have been offered webspace by the people who are
> hosting GNOME Malaysia - but IMHO, it would be too early to have a
> website at this stage. Let this list gather up some momentum first.

and also let us have some threads to ponder over.

in an earlier mail Jeff Waugh had announced a few points for the
GNOME-Marketing. now we have done the thing by setting up the regional
list (for India). the next step is to talk about strategic goals

for the short term i do think the one suggested below is a prime
candidate - the more you show and the more you talk the greater people
know.

> ..and since one of the major aims of this list is GNOME advocacy, I
> would recommend that you take a look at gnoppix.org (if you haven't
done
> so already). It is an ideal tool for a hands on demo :-).
> And of course, on a local note, Karunakar and myself were discussing
> about a Indic Live CD running GNOME localized into
> Bengali/Hindi/Malayalam/Tamil/XX.

on a long term basis, i believe that it is important to build up a
repository of slides, articles talks and notes that address in a
comprehensive manner aspects of GNOME and especially addressing
differing levels of audience. a few of us here are involved in L10n
efforts in various Indian languages, GNOME has been our DE of choice.
let's have threads on how effectively eye candy has been used to 'lure'
eyeballs.

> ..and finally, I checked out GNOME 2.5 from CVS yesterday - and it
> rocks!! (and it is quite stable for a <unstable>.0 release too).

paradoxical as it may sound, i believe that sayamindu has a new toy to
play with now <duck>

> Well, that's it for the introductory mail.

whew for me too...hope this one does get through..

good to have you with us, have a wonderful day

warm regards
sankarshan



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