On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Shishir Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is the summary of the meeting that we had at BVS on 28th Nov. 2008 > > People Present where > > 1. Prabin Dai > 2. Subir Dai > 3. Prabin Gautam > 4. Shishir Jha > > The primary objective of the meeting was to discuss about the next AOSS > training visit and planning of the future event of the FOSS Training Center. > Apart from briefing of the AOSS Participant, following matter where > discussed and finalized > > 1. A LTSP TOT will be organized soon within the 3rd week of December. We have final exams :( > The date will be finalized by Monday and call for applicants will be out by > coming Wednesday. More comprehensive discussion needs to be done before all > the nuances of the training is finalized. I personally request the CCC to be > active soon and co-ordinate the news flow in different colleges. Also IOE > and KU LTSP Veterans please get in touch as we need to sit and plan the > training. We have done a little bit of homework on it. Sulabh and Ishwor is actively involving in this matter. So we can talk :). > > 2. To formally open the FOSS Training and Research Center, a FOSS Mela is > being planned which will also be conducted at the BVS Campus with in the > last week of december. The primary objective of the mela will be to have an > open ceremony for the center, advertise its presence, invite students from > all over the city to take part and have a look at FOSS based application and > Distros. Plans are to collect fund to distribute softwares (educational), > Linux distros and other relevant softwares with OSS in the center. nice idea, > > 3. From Prabin Dai's acquaintances, we have a channel in Himalayan Times > which can be convinced for publication of articles to advertise FOSS based > on Prabin Dai's NCP formula. So, I here upon call articles for that purpose. > Please me aware that the articles will be published in National newspaper, > so the article has to rightly advocate FOSS and its possibilities. > > Apart from this, BVS has agreed to put up posters all around the School's > External Extremities advertising about the FOSS Research and Training > Center. This will serve as attraction for future training which are being > planned for this winter and after SLC period, targeting school students. > > This is what I remember, I will add on as when I remember about the other > discussions of the meeting. > > For those who are not aware, FOSS nepal now has a training center with 24 > stand alone computers at BVS. It has been funded by help nepal network, > chahabhil. The main objective behind the setup of the lab is to develop and > facilitate HRD for LTSP and FOSS. The lab will also be available for hire > for OSS trainings to anyone interested, but please mind it, only for OSS > purpose not for Proprietary software training. > > -- > Shishir Jha > EPC 1970,GPO 8975, > KTM,NEPAL > > > > -- Regards Akash Deep Shakya "OpenAK" ~ Failure to prepare is preparing to fail ~ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
