I have read the preparations being done by the students and I must say that they are doing a great job. Do not get intimidated by the accomplishments and achievements of the other ACM Student Chapters. Bear in mind that we are just starting up (with a large number of student chapters folding up) but we can catch up.

How about a short seminar on how to create your webpage? I can help get a lab for you but make sure that you teach faculty members. I might be able to get the eMac lab for the training provided that it is free, of course. This may be too simple a topic but believe me, it will be very useful. It is just a matter of how you will market it. If you can find someone (besides me) who can give a short tutorial on Mac OS X, then that’ll be another topic.

I also have a Linux lab that can be used to teach faculty members. I can have my office sponsor it but it should be free and for faculty members only.

To summarize, we can do the following tutorials:

1. How to create an online presence using HTML
2. Mac OS X: testimonials from UP users
3. Managing your email using Open Source tools (Mozilla, Mozilla Thunderbird)
4. Using a low-cost, virus free desktop (Linux desktop tutorial)
5. Living with Open Source and Microsoft Windows (OS apps on Windows platform – Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, etc.)

We can more, of course.

I have read that there was a project involving more than a thousand computers with Linux or was it an anti-virus software of sorts. Anyway, we can also do the same thing with Linux. Schedule a one week install fest and have students and faculty members bring their CPUs for Linux installation. I am sure that we can get a lot of people to participate here. The key thing is – it should be free and voluntary. If we can get a sponsor, the better. Marketing is important, too.

We can do these, people!