Hi,
Here are the minutes of tonight's meeting, the first
one for planning Freed.in 2009. From now on, these will
be posted only to the Freed general list. You can
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1. Sponsors:
Sun
Intel?
IBM?
2. Outreach:
o Niyam's initiatives: Continue to be handled by Niyam
* Dr. Savithri. Wiki initiatives.
* Physics dept.
* Students, and other faculty
* 5+ colleges in Delhi
o Other people/institutions. Kiran Chandra: Gora to contact
o FOSS hardware: Gora
o Go into JNU through students
o Technology-related workshops
* Demonstrate an actual working application
* Entry barrier not too high
3. Committees:
o Content: Rajesh Lalwani
* Everybody else to contribute content
* Initial blog post on the journey of Freed.in: Gora, 30th Nov.
* Mind-map on Freed.in: Raj, 22nd Nov.
* Kishore to set up individual accounts on Freed.in
* Niyam has volunteered to blog regularly
* Andrew: Conclave notes from last year's events: By Mon.
4. Niyam to drive people contributing to Freed.in, including
individuals, and institutions. Niyam to blog about the
process.
5. Miscellaneous tasks:
o Raj to send out a mailing on the call for papers.
6. Tech. content committee. Charged with going around, and getting
students to decide on a list of technology tutorials to be covered.
Narendra Sisodiya, and Nitin Jaiswal.
o Start with a blog entry on strategy
o Registration form, including a place to suggest topics
Regards,
Gora
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