GLUG: GNU/Linux User Group

Part of our 21st July campaign is formation of GLUGs all through the state of Andhra Pradesh and inspire these groups to spread the use of GNU/Linux. The GLUGs that we are thinking of are not just “users groups”, they are expected to go much beyond…

Though I would not completely agree with the fact that the rural India is ready for a rapid penetration of computers… I think it can slowly start. People need to know what computers can do for them, they have to feel the need for computers and that feeling and the dissatisfaction would bring the next revolution. Again, its my opinion and I would not mind trying other ways of spreading computing to rural India… after all, as bunny puts it, trying it out can only have a zero impact if not a positive impact.

Now, when people start using a computer
they would come across all those difficulties that we the so-called computer literates came across when
we first used the comps. Fortunately, we had our instructors and
friends who helped us out. A GLUG should be the same instructor/friend
to the people around their college. Only then a unit would be
self-supporting and that would infact improve usability and peneration
of computers in rural India. GLUG as defined by its role, will be a very important unit of the Free Software Revolution in India.

FSF AP now had a strong network of people trying to build GLUGs in the engineering colleges all through the AP and hope the GLUGs thus formed sustain the self-supporting units in their areas!