On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:27:39PM +0545, Hempal Shrestha wrote:
> 
> Hi FOSSians, 
> 
> I think this would be great initiative indeed. As a part of it was
> planned in our SFD 06. Few things that I would like to add.

Glad you are supportive of it as well Hempal dai :-)
 
> 1. The time frame and timing must be good in planning this event. More
> than executing competition we will need to have more/diverse
> participation in the competition. 

I believe there should good amount of planning. ofcourse, no questions about 
that. :-)

> 2. We should plan to collaborate with various College's ICT events and
> do it with them in their own premises. Like NICT annual event, KCC ICT
> event, KEC event, NEC annual event on ICT to name few. This will be like
> a highlight of the event also and for this we need to start meeting with
> the college Principal's and start having their participation in it.

I'll do what can be done over Internet on my part over coming weeks.

> 3. It can be both Hackathon which will be a on the day competition
> whereas the FOSS Programming competition would be long term and we will
> be documenting/uploading the codes so that we can develop a Resource
> Bank of All entries.

Hackathon will be great for starter. :-) FHC will need more planning I believe. 
Also, maybe in Hackathon sessions, some other projects like Sugar activity, 
LTSP can be merged as well? (Shankar, Ankur??)


> So FOSSians, what do you say shall we start planning it out? I think for
> Hackathon we might not need that much time to execute, but for FOSS
> programming we need to plan well in time and May be around Dec would be
> good timing (synchronizing with other college events)

Yes! :-) I am up for it. Whatever I can do over Internet 

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