Re: [ Visit in India]: Kerala Visit

[sooraj kenoth <soorajkenoth@gmail.com>]

Adding Shali and Vimal Kumar to the thread.

Shali is System Admin at vidya academy of science and
technology(Thrissur) who headed Free Software migration at his college
and maintainer of their own derivative(From Ubuntu). Vimal Kumar,
Librarian at MG University, a well known Koha Consultant. Vimal
Created a lot of derivative with customized Koha packages. Vimal
Joseph is already in the thread, the team lead of RithuOS(Customized
Ubuntu for Technical Students), which is no longer maintained. Vimal
was a colleague of Arun M.

In my personal experience people are some what ignorant about
Distro/Derivatives. The clients I met (Muthoot, V-Guard etc.) use free
software as Free Beer, and chose Ubuntu as their base. Then add
additional softwares as they require. Most of the people ignore the
stability risk when adding packages outside the distro.

I am requesting you to keep the schedule from 14 to 24 open for us.
Then we can make a schedule by ourself and we will update you.


2015-12-26 0:22 GMT+05:30 Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>:
> Hi Sooraj, and others,
>
> [added debian-dug-in mailinglist as cc]
>
> Quoting sooraj kenoth (2015-12-16 14:02:10)
>> I would like to organize some program in Kasaragod, in my college by
>> involving both students and public as whole day event. Along with I
>> wish to set up few meetings with officials of some government offices
>> and companies in Kerala, who already moved to Ubuntu/BOSS. Do you have
>> any other confirmed meetings with government officials in Kerala?
>>
>> I think we can organize some programs Calicut, Thrissur,
>> Erankulam(Cochin). We successfully organized debian release parties
>> across Kerala, during Jessie release. We have good network across
>> Kerala. We can get help from organizations like KSEB one of the Free
>> Software pioneer in Kerala, and developers of ORUMA(their billing
>> Software), SMC(Swathanthra Malayalam Computing), DAKF(Democratic Alice
>> for Knowledge Freedom), KSSP (Kerala Sasthr Sahithya Parishath).
>
> Sounds great with all your suggested activities.
>
> As we try communicate at https://couchdesign.dk/india/ Siri and I wants
> meetings related to distributions based on Debian (or on derivatives of
> Debian).  We seek collaboration.  We do not have a message we want to
> preach, so are not really interested in events where we give talks, but
> instead would dearly love round-table discussions about design choices
> of the various distributions.  Ideally we would spend more time at fewer
> places: It often takes a few hours to "break the ice" when meeting with
> a new crowd, so would be quite fruitful if there was more time than that
> - or that we meet twice or more with same crowd.
>
> Which subset of Debian was chosen? What was added from outside of
> Debian? What is special about look and feel?  How was that implemented?
> How could Debian improve to better support the derivative?  Would it
> perhaps even make sense to redo the derivative within Debian as a
> so-called Debian Pure Blend?
>
> If that interest area and meeting style resonates with you and those
> contacts you have, then please do look at our draft travel plan at
> https://couchdesign.dk/india/ and suggest more concretely how you
> imagine we could spend some time together.
>
> During our time in Kerala we will for certain be Siri and me, and likely
> also a non-geek primary school teacher and friend of ours, Maja.
>
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