On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Nalin Savara <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:29 AM, narendra sisodiya > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Just a thought-- more than the specific talks-- the interesting >> > technical >> > discussions on the sidelines are what I look forward to-- in such >> > events. >> > >> > That's why I suggested (to you and Mayank)-- about going beyond newbies >> > to >> > have events of a high technical standard, where newbies are welcomed and >> > brought up to speed. >> > >> > would suggest that we should also seriously consider that-- and apart >> > from >> > doing newbie events in colleges-- we should encourage youngsters to come >> > to >> > other "higher tech level" events... by making them more friendly to >> > sceptical visitors who may not be sure of the usefulness or >> > value-addition >> > of such events. >> > >> > What say ? >> > >> > Best Wishes and Regards, >> > >> > NS >> Yes, we can always have such event but Organising event at big a pain >> in organiser's head (we have very few organisers in IITD) , >> >> We can organise such tech event, once/twice in a year but that need >> good sponsors and good speakers too. We still have a less number of >> serious and active members. we are still not good at planning and >> approach to sponsors. >> > > No Narender-- even if you dont have "good sponsors"-- even then, for the > budget of a IIT-workshop event-- you can just spread the word-- and I am > sure a lot of people will be eager to come. > > The only thing essential is-- that you make it worthwhile for the people who > come:-- > > (1) in terms of level of knowledge shared > (2) and sensitivity to their schedules-- by announcing well in advance and > sticking to plan, > (3) and by ensuring that it is a "high level" rather than a newbie level-- > lot of people-- whether from non-famous colleges or from Arena, MAAC or > xyz-local programming course-- would love to come and be exposed to high > knowledge-- even if they dont know the basics-- and the high knowledge would > inspire many to go brush up their basics. > > Just a thought... I suggest we experiment with "inspire people to brush up > basics by sharing advanced knowledge"-- in next IIT-LUG Workshop. > > What say ? > Would love to hear-- even criticisms and disadvantages... > > Best Regards, > > NS FOSS.in - dec Freed.in - feb I can find only two solution - either have such tech workshop in jan or march Or post july Or Just use freed.in (host in IITD), Even if we organise, workshop in Jan 2010, We need to make a separate Workshop site and dedicated SIG (special interest group) which comprise of students inside IITD and outsite IITD. We need to plan and publise it too. We will rather sell ticket for audience. 2-3 day celebration and make proper arrangement of accommodation of outside speaker's and audience too. We need to make a full proof schedule and make a proper arrangement of WIFI and live transmission. We can call it as "National Conference on FOSS and Technology" where we can have difference sessions on - FOSS adaptation, case studies, - FOSS for college and schools - Software patent , DRM and other Evil technology and their effect on our culture - language Pycon, API, , XMPP etc - Hardware tracks , Linux for embedded device , - latest trends on Web development etc - other initiatives We can have a award schemes too, Best presentation wins something. Speaker do not need to pay to attend. during 2-3 days, we can have schedule 20-30 talks. their are other possibilities too. But this all need a highly dedicated and experienced team. Ofcourse this need a lot of energy to be invested.
As per my understanding, FOSS adaptation in colleges and schools are very less. How many colleges we have in NCR, I think it must be 200+, I am trying to make only newbies workshop in colleges to first make our team larger. Imagine an situation where after 2 years of efforts, we have a well connected student team in all NCR colleges. A much bigger foss community then today. Imagine various SIGs which have teams from various colleges. Imagine we have made full foss syllabus and student are using creative common books and contributing. At that situation we can have such big level conference and with the help of large community members we can do that with less energy. -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org │ Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a └─────────────────────────┘ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Do you have another question? Click here - http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post Read archive - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
