Hi Navdeep, On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/15/2011 10:54 AM, Navdeep Singh Sidhu wrote: >> If anybody want to help us with their ideas , they can share their >> precious ideas with us and suggest us for this event. We are very >> thankful to you for your help & support. > > I like to show friends who've never seen Linux in action the Desktop > Cube, especially as I have Compiz set to show the open windows floating > above the cube instead of resting on the surface. Since this is at an university, I would be inclined to showing them how easy it is to do certain academic tasks. For example: 1. The ease with which one can install TexLive and get started making beautiful reports. How all the tutorials are available as a package and can be accessed through texdoc and texdoctk. No need for searching online every time. And editors like Emacs and Texmaker makes writing any documents with TeX/LaTeX even easier. 2. Easily installed and used plotting tools like gnuplot. 3. Easy access to various programming languages like Python, C/C++, Ruby and specialised modules and tools like GSL, Boost and all the various Python libraries. 4. Availability of specialised apps: electronic circuit design tools available with the electronics lab spin, the very specialised data analysis C++ framework ROOT. 5. You might also want to introduce them to shell scripts and how they can be used to automate repetitive tasks (rather common in academics I would say). I hope these ideas help get you started. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
