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Mark Shuttleworth at Mumbai Linux Users Group

Mark Shuttleworth at Mumbai Linux Users Group

Mark Shuttleworth spoke at the Mumbai LUG yesterday. The event was attended by around 60 people. Mark was late due to traffic but he spoke well about Ubuntu, community building and his experiences of India. The question a lot of people wanted to ask: “How do you manage to send out so many free CDs?” was aptly answered when Mark remarked at the end: “(cause) I can afford it!”

But Mark is really an inspiring person. I was moved by how he spoke, answered the questions, and achieved so much at this age. I wish he could speak more and there was more time for interaction.

And yes, people ran to grab the Ubuntu CDs!

The pictures will be available on the LUG site soon!

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  1. Dear all Linux users,

    Myself, Prof. Abhijeet Kale, Incharge, IT Dept., B.N.Bandodkar College, Thane.

    My department is organizing two day conference on Linux namely LinuxThane 2006 on November 24, 25, 2006. The aim of the conference is

    1. Educating the society at large about Linux.
    2. Guiding current generation about Linux

    You can consider this conference as Linux Awareness Program. RedHat, Mumbai is taking part in this event.

    I herewith request all of you to help us to achive our goal.

    Activities conducted by the dept. for Linux awareness till now,
    1. Linux workshop for Teaching / Non Teaching Staff of our college.
    2. Two days Linux Traing Program in collaboration with Root Technologes, Authorized training centre of RedHat.
    3. One computer laboratory of my dept. installed with open source softwares.
    4. Out of 6 servers on our campus 4 are Linux based.
    5. We are about to conduct a workshop for M. Sc(I.T.) students of Mumbai University.

    Please visit http://www.vpmthane.org for more information.

    Hereby I again request you to guide me, help me for Linux awareness in Thane and surrounding area.

    Please reply.

    Abhijeet A. Kale
    Incharge
    Department of Information Technology
    B. N. Bandodkar College of Science, Thane
    Contact : 98208 41431