[nylug-talk] Poll: What would you like to learn?

[Kevin Mark]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 10:55:22AM -0500, Lamia wrote:
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> On 3/1/08, Kevin Mark <kevin.mark at verizon.net> wrote:
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>     On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:35:46PM -0500, Lamia wrote:
>     > On 2/29/08, Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle at coredump.us> wrote:
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>     > The Student LUG was a good idea, but some *colleges* think its not a good
>     > idea since we can't exclude Windows and Mac users. :(
>     >
>     > -Lamia
>     Are you suggesting you are only allowed to have a 'computer club' and
>     not a 'gnu/linux club'. That sounds odd. College have french clubs, not
>     'language clubs', so I see no reason why you can't have a club for a
>     specfic thing. Also, if non-linux users come, well, they have a right to
>     lean linux, too! The skills are transferable to them, too! You can
>     install cywin on w32 (and soon KDE) and OS X is bsd-based and fink.
>     -K
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> Kevin,
> If I start to say *preach* GNU/Linux, the chances are I'll be crucified by the
> Windows and Mac users. Not many people want to leave their precious Windows and
> some are very ignorant. It might turn into a war. At our College, we already
> have a "Computer Technology Club" full of Script Kiddies who use methods of 
> *hacking* a PSP or iPod, etc....Many others also say that Linux is too hard for
> everyday computer use. My Brother is in the 8th grade, he uses Linux for
> everything. Even 5 year olds in China use Linux. Well, it's not like i've given
> up on the whole club thing, I'm still in negotiation with the College about
> creating a "linux" club.
> 
> -Lamia
If you were in a French class and folks knew spanish, your job would be
to teach french to those folks who wanted to learn it, not to preach how
great french is and how bad spanish is. So if folks come to the meeting
wanting to learn linux, great. If they dont want to learn it, they can
leave. Part of learning about FLOSS is learning about its licensing
terms. Even if you don't agree or like them, its still educational to
learn about it and the subject of copyright. Again, if folks don't want
to learn about, they are free to leave and not disrupt the learning from
others. In other works, if they don't want to be adults, you should not
be required to accept disruptive people.
my 2 yen,
Kev
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