On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Nalin Savara <[email protected]> wrote: > > @narendra- (and also list.. Esp Gaurav us it, parin , nipun, sonu and others): > > Your (narendra) idea about 2-3 day high budget national conference is great - > > but even without the large scale and high budget we can (and should) > do something for non beginner level of people which has broad > participation and good tech level. > > That's the point I was making - which i felt narendra missed. > > What say ? > > Regards, > Nalin > On 10/17/09, Nalin Savara <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 >> > I am not denying to the having such high tech workshop. I can apply our energy on it also. Let try.
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