Hello Friends,

We had a Free Software Community meeting at Space Office, Trivandrum. The community has a special privilege of having few stalls in the upcoming conference(FSFS). The agenda of the meeting was to divide the stalls among the participating Free Software communities.

The following people took part in the meeting, I doubt if I have left anyone, if so please update me.

Ashik Salahudeen, Ranjith S Kumar, Anoop Jacob Thomas(myself), Saral, Mani, Cherry, Joju Joshua, Anoop S, Vimal Joseph, James P Mathews, Adhap, Rajiv S. R, Akhil Sasidharan

We have decided to divide the stalls as themes. And 10 themes have been decided. 1. Why Free Software (why anyone should be using Free Software) 2. Install Fest (GNU/Linux install fest) 3. Repository Counter (Distros, distro repos, applications, games etc) 4. Copylefted Materials Counter (Printed copylefted articles) 5. SMC (Swathanthra Malayalam Computing) 6. Developing in Free Software (IDEs,Linux Kernel and device driver programming, Embedded Systems), 7. General Applications (GIMP, Blender, Openoffice.org, etc), 8. Scientific Computing (Scilab, Mayavi, Octave, Stellarium, Marble etc), 9. More Free Operating Systems (showing GNU/Hurd, React OS,OpenSolaris etc,for information to the student community as they can help further in development) 10. Fosstronics (Fedora electronics lab, Open Hardware etc)

The main aim of the public event at Kanakakunnu(exhibition) is to educate the public. So we must be providing informative materials also. We need volunteers for this effort.

We will be having a poster exhibition at Kanakakunnu Palace, we need posters for that purpose and few people have shown interest in creating posters. Others if not able to meet us personally need not worry, you can send the posters to my email id and also post it in the group.

Eventhough themes have been decided we have not split up the themes among the communities. Members please throw in your ideas as to what all can be showcased among the 10 themes. So friends all of you can be a part of this Mega Event, you can take up any of the above themes. We can add more applications to theme 7 (general applications) if needed. And if anyone is ready to take a seminar on any topic related to Free Software please contact us.

In Why Free Software, Install Fest and Repository Counters we wish to give out fliers(notice) which will contain neccesary information about Free Software, Contact Information of volunteers who can assist in installation, Equivalent Softwares etc.

The copylefted articles counter will give information about Wikipedia. Printed copylefted articles will be showcased and we will be giving out a compilation of copylefted articles on CD or USB.

SMC will assist a common man on all queries regarding Malayalam Computing. We can give notices so that people will be provided with a reference material.

Developing in Free Software will showcase the IDEs like eclipse, anjuta etc. Linux Kernel and device driver programming will also be demonstrated.

So infact we need volunteers who can take up each activity in the stalls. Communities please come up with your ideas.

Those who have not joined FSFS-discuss please join the mailing list and be a part of the event. http://www.fsfs.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsfs-discuss

Friends please post information about the conference in all communities you know and pass it to all you friends and family members.

Anyone can contact me for information and suggestions. Please call me only on or after the 26th of Nov(as roaming incoming charges are high [:(]), but you can mail me.

-- Anoop Jacob Thomas Mobile: 9846670945 Email: anoopjt@gmail.com

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