PLUG Talk : Introduction to Open Source
So, we are trying to resurrect the almost dead Linux User Group at Purdue (PLUG). We (I shouldn’t be using we, but anyways) had our first event today. A Talk on “Introduction to Open Source”. Seems like lack (none?) of advertisement did affect the turn out. 10-15 students were present including 2 apache contributors. I gave the talk. We had some nice questions at the end, and I am happy about that.
Below are the slides I used for the same. Some people from Navya suggested that I mixed up Free Culture ideas with Open Source in these slides, but I believe there is an overlap, and I used that overlap. But anyways, I still hope it gave some perspective to audience. I would love to hear your feedback on it.
For those who were curious about how I made the slides. I used Latex and a document style called “beamer” Think link might be useful : beamer
Cool stuff. Check this out too.
nice. I am going to give it a shot.
Yeah LUG at ND is also dead. The university provides Linux training 2-3 times every semester so people don’t feel the need to have a LUG.
@Ankit Rohatgi
Actually, I am not sure if LUG should be limited to teaching people how to use Linux. I am sure university doesn’t teach what DRM is, or what open source is. Thats what LUG should do. And thats what my aim is. PLUG gives the same arguement. Because of ubuntu, LUG is useless. But that shouldn’t be the case. Anyways, lets see what happens. I am not quite positive about fate of PLUG.
Yes you’re right, but most people don’t realize it. Almost everyone first starts off learning Linux then discovers the whole point behind opensource at a very later stage. It’s a lot harder to make people attend some talk on opensource alone – that’s why most LUGs die. The University classes never care enough to cover these things. They just provide working knowledge to people – exactly what they need and not what they should know.