On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:00 PM, narendra sisodiya < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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, Thanks for putting such a huge amount of thought into what I said-- and for such a detailed reply. But I think you are missing the main point I am trying to put forward. Best Regards, Nalin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
