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Written by Administrator @ LUG-JSR

Wednesday, 28 February 2007 19:29

Jamshedpur Linux User Group (LUG-JSR) is a community of GNU/Linux users in the city of Jamshedpur, India. It is a private, non-profit or not-for-profit organization that provides support and/or education for Linux users, particularly for inexperienced users or who are looking for alternative computing solution for personal or business use.

LUG-JSR wants to have an active user base with discussions covering a wide-range of matters from technical, installation and configuration help to software copyright ethics and holy wars. We intend to do a lot of promotion and support activities through the formal organization of our group, the LUG-JSR Group.

LUG-JSR intends to meet physically, once every month to exchange ideas and views, sort technical difficulties and drink coffee. But, beware! You could land up in a holy war. In that case, charge on, swords drawn.

The main objectives of LUG-JSR are as per following :

Educating the society at large about Linux and GNU:
- Funding such or similar projects having similar objects
- Giving consultancy and solutions based on Linux/GNU
- Distribution of awards for notable performance/achievements in the field
- Procurement of hardware/software/books
- Providing free of cost LINUX and GNU softwares.
- Spreading computer literacy through various media
Negotiating, associating with external agencies -profit oriented/non-profit oriented, registered or non-registered- with the objective to provide products/services as mentioned above.
Designing, customizing, procuring content of knowledge/information in various forms such as printed or electronic and distribute them as part of other services or independent to other services at a cost or otherwise.

How can we assist you ?

We can assist you in your efforts by way of following activities, which we can carry out for you

Conduct seminars/lectures for your members
Conduct training sessions for the members and/or students.
Conduct install-fest or any such interactive activity where many people can get involved and which can generate more interest
Providing suitable solution for your computerisation setup in respect of setting up low cost & highly reliable equipment and networks
Help you to design and implement courses for GNU/Linux related products/services.

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