Do you know what time it is? It's "Welcome to Linux" time!

Well, we're getting closer to "Welcome to Linux". Here are my thoughts on the
matter as a pre-planning thing:

1. We'd better schedule a cross-club co-ordination meeting or two to talk
about it face-to-face. Eddie, can you reserve Schreiber 007 or 006 for this
sometimes soon?

2. We'd better see what lectures each club want to give. Speaking on behalf of
myself (representing Telux), I believe the previous year's Telux format was a
good one, and I'd like to repeat it again this year.

As opposed to last year, I hope the clubs will consolidate the efforts of
updating the material. So for example, I don't want to see the old "Linux for
the Technion student" presentation used instead of the newer
http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/W2L/Development/ . If a certain club has
problems with any presentation just shout and we'll try to prepare a format
that will be suitable for everybody.

3. The BIUX site has some serious issues, such as:

* Horizontal scrollbar on http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/biux/where.html and
elsewhere.

* The front page contains a picture of a Haredi Tux family that may invoke
some antagonism.

* The first link in the text links is not the home page.

* The site code ( http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/biux/about.html ) just directs to
the Haifux' code which is different. Plus, the URL reads "about.html".

* No links to the other clubs and to other Israeli sites on
http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/biux/links.html

* The tables' columns are ordered visually instead of logically.

These need to be fixed. I can fix them, if I'll be give the site's source
code.

4. The site is http://welcome.linux.org.il/ and needs to be updated once the
schedule is final. Some people suggested that we use Joomla or a different
CMS instead of the web-meta-language-generated pages that we have now.
However, there is already a lot of logic implemented in WML from the previous
years, and if we switch to a CMS, we'll lose a lot of it.

5. What we need from Hamakor? Just thinking out loud:

* CDs.
* Stickers.
* Postcards.
* Other stuff - ?

6. Linux Day - in Telux last year we decided to forego the Instaparty because
we figured out it was no longer a popular event or a necessary one. The sky
did not fall. I recommend other clubs to do the same.

An concentrated Linuxday with some activities like presentations, etc. could
be a good idea, though.

7. Preparing for the presentations - the club's contact at the university
should make sure that he's ready before the time, has his cell-phone on, etc.
All the material should be locally installed on the presentor's laptop, so
presentor's should prepare archive of what they prepared. (Hi Gilad!)

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That's it for now. Feel free to respond to this message in Hebrew.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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