Hi all,
After the last meeting in April at Rajib's place... some of us Tathagata, Siddharta,
Rajib, Amitabh and myself over the post-meeting umpteenth cups of tea had been
discussing the possibility of resurrecting our annual workshop/seminar/exhibition etc
-- Linux Interact 2002 targetted at September 2002
Now that things are finally moving along on a fast track, IMHO the time has come to
make these thoughts public to all on the list...
Lets start by looking at a 2 - 3 day event
Proposed: Multi Track Programme --
- Targeting the New Users/Potential Users
- Targeting Potential Institutional Users like Schools and Colleges
- Targeting the Corporate Segment,
- Targeting the Advanced User Community and those involved in R & D
We would require rough equivalents of:
- Sponsorship sub-committee
- technical sub-committee
- exhibition sub-committee
- media relations sub-committee
The General Responsibilites briefly outlined
The Sponsership sub-committee would be looking at getting sponsorships for the event.
This would include:
- sponsorship for places for exhibition
- sponsorship for getting some big name guru to attend the event as key-note
speaker... (Sougata mentioned something abt his plans to get RMS to Calcutta sometime)
- sponsorship for covering misc. exhibition costs
- sponsorship for advertisements in media
The Technical Subcommittee would be looking in getting the tech stuff for exhibition
in place. This can range from enlisting speakers, getting hold of the presentations
and slides, managing the support functions to ensure everything runs on well-oiled
wheels
The Exhibition Subcommittee would be looking into organisation of the actual to-do. It
would be co-ordinating with all the other sub-committees to ensure planning is carried
thru to the final execution.
The Media Relations sub-committee would be focussed towards creating awareness among
the media at least 2 months before the event. This group's activities would be really
crucial in drawing in the crowds. The group should try to have articles published in
various newspapers and mags abt Linux in general and ILUG-Cal in particular... and
ensure coverage of the actual event.
The various TV news channels/production houses have to be approached in advance to
ensure TV coverage of the event. Just a suggestion.. to the general people User Groups
like ours are a novelty.. so why not ask them (TV channels) to cover one of our
upcoming meetings as part of a general interest story in some news magazine program??
We need to approach the schools and colleges in the months of July and August
informing them and asking them to send over their interested students. We need to tap
the user-base in JU and Rajabazar Science College... they can be invited to send
deligates/exhibitors to the event. JU in particular has been having a serious
user-community inside the campus... we shud also approach IIMC...
We also need to invite the ppl from the IT industry and seek their active
participation.. better still if we have a few IT companies demo-ing their products and
services at our exhibition. Some time back I had come to know that some of the COMPASS
folks had expressed serious interest in participating in workshop style programmes on
Linux... afterall more assembled PCs or local branded PCs that gets shipped with Linux
installed... more power to the Source!!! :-)
Just a few thots that I felt shud be shared at this moment when everyone is really
excited abt getting ILUG-Cal rolling ahead with full steam... we would need at least 3
- 4 months to work all these out... so lets get cracking... what say???
cheers,
--indra.
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