Hi!
this seems interesting :)
-iti-
sayamindu
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I have sent the proposal to RMS, who will get back soon. Meanwhile
keep me informed about any possibilties there. A well publicised
public meeting will be good, with a meet the press event after the
talk. and then one or two closed door meetings with the Govt (CM,
Ministers or/and Anil Biswas etc.), and other free software companies
in Calcutta. I or another board member of FSF-India can either
accompany him or come there separately depending on where RMS will be.
Presently he is going to Bangalore and GOA. This is necessary to keep
the contacts and programmes continue in future.
For the expenses and all you may have to ask the state govt, as it
happened say in kerala before. They have actually announced him as
State Guest. It depends on what kind of lobbying you can do. Usually
the expenses are to take care of the travel within India (say from GOA
to Calcutta to Delhi) for RMS and one FSF-I board member, and local
hospitality. The local user group may identify all sources and make
this happen.
FSF-India has managed a good begenning and started working with Kerala
Govt. and is keen to do the same in West Bengal. Being a very stable
left govt a lot could be achieved in Bengal if we begin working with
them.
best wishes
Nagarjuna
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 12:50:24PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> hello,
> as we had discussed in bangalore, i spoke to our lug co-ordinator
> indranil dasgupta, and he is very enthusiatic about rms coming to
> kolkata
> we are going to send out a letter on behalf of the LUG to our IT
> secretary/IT minister trying to get an appointment for the meet
> also, Indranil-da will be trying to get someone in alimuddin street
> (anil biswas or some one like that) to meet rms
> however, what we are sure about is that we can arrange a small talk by
> rms in here, and then a "meet the press" event
> this will create a lot of exposure for free software in this part of
> india :)
> can you please send in a possible estimate of the costs involved, where
> rms will be coming from, for how long he will stay, who else will be
> coming with him - that would help us chalk out the sponsorship issues
> -regds-
> sayamindu
>
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