[advocacy-discuss] [osug-leaders] User Kit - Small Step

[Teresa Giacomini]

Wow Rohan.  You have put your small kit to very good use!  Please let us 
know what you hear from both students and professors.  I am particularly 
interested in the academic area and would love to make sure we have the 
things students and teachers need.

Rohan a.k.a Roachboy wrote:
> As we were going through the user kit ...the books and dvd's we came 
> upon a brilliant Idea .. we are sending out the DVD's and Books to 
> various colleges under university of Mumbai ... and asking them to join 
> the user group and contribute as well.As have asked them to inform 
> students about the OpenSolaris.
> 
> Also .. we were thinking about sending letters to various school .so 
> that they can teach young school kids about opensource technology as a 
> part of their regular computer course.
> 
> Also while going through various academic courses we found ..only 10% 
> inculde opensource tehnology in their course.
> 
> So ... I think our small step of sending out the mini-books and DVD's 
> can help bring a bit of interest in students.
> 
> as we have limited books ..we have made copies of them ..and would send 
> it to rest of the college as there are 150+ college we will send to 
> atleast to 50 colleges.
> 
> Also we used the Visa Card ..to upgrade our system life the HardDisk , 
> memory and few books for our department.
> 
> Hope a small step can create major OpenSource revolution
> 
> Regards
> Rohan
> MUOSUG
> 
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