Hello All, "INDEPENDENCE DAY GREETINGS" The reason I haven't used the word "happy" is because this is a day we observe, recollect the sacrifices of our forefathers and renew our pledge to uphold the values enshrined in the Preamble of our Constitution. Free Software Movement is all about Community and its Freedom. This means that we have the responsibility to protect and strengthen our Freedoms from the attacks by various vested interests, expand and strengthen our Community, using every available opportunity, to further the Movement.
Saying this, I will now give a brief summary of the volunteers' meeting on the 14th at St.Joseph's college, Shantinagar.
Attendance list: Dr. Vijoo Krishnan(St. Joseph's College), Dr. S. Chaterjee(IIA), Srikrishna (IIM), Senthil S.(CISCO), Praveen A.(HP), Ramprasad(), Kushal Das(), Gyanendra(IISc), Krishan(St. Joseph's), Surendra(Engg. College Lecturer), Jayakumar( Dept.of Commerce and Industries), and Myself.
Travel: a>Making travel arrangements and b>Manning all entry points. This can be finalised only when the list of participants is obtained, their Expected Time of Arrival(ETA), etc...
Help desk and Registration: Ramprasad, Krishan + 2. Ramprasad has already posted a detailed mail on this.
Assisting delegates: We require at least 20 people full time. IIM boys have classes and are available only part-time. We can expect the St. Joseph's Comp Science club boys to chip in. And major responsibility will be on the FSUG.
Event Publicity: Press-Vijoo, Abhas, Arky, Vikram RMS open session: 25th St. Joseph's College Auditorium, Langford road, Forum for Science and Development (FSD). Time not yet finalised.
Medical Aid, Security arrangements, catering: IIMB.
Copies of the Schedule for distribution- Krishan
Stage arrangements: FSF, IIMB.
Materials: Banners, badges, T-shirts for Organisers and volunteers, etc...<not decided>
Handling discussion sessions: FSF, Vikram + ....
Accommodation: James, Thejesh, Shivanand, Vikram.
Funds: This was a major point as there is a heavy shortage. We request those who can contribute to please contact<will be notified later>.
Accommodation for RMS: Ramkrishna Reddy(Redhat). Don't forget the 21 points. Accommodation for foreign delegates: IIMB+... Number of foreign delegates required???
Picking up Ciaran-Kushal
Update conference website- Vikram
Next volunteers' meeting : Saturday, 19th August, St. Joseph's college, Langford road At 4pm. All potential volunteers from Bangalore must not miss this meeting.
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 03:01 PM, Vikram Vincent wrote:
Materials: Banners, badges, T-shirts for Organisers and volunteers, etc...<not decided>
Vikram: at the moment, I don't think its feasible to have t-shirts for organisers and volunteers. Or rather - there is no one is who is currently taking care of these logistics. Additionally we are already short of funds.
If some of us are very particular about T-shirts for volunteers (provided all volunteers wear T-Shirts - I don't know if this is the case) the best thing would be to freeze on a design and print it for ourselves. These days there are many shops that do affordable printing on T-shirts. Yes one of us could do it for all of us - but then the problem is the initial cash and so on.
Accommodation for RMS: Ramkrishna Reddy(Redhat). Don't forget the 21 points.
Ramkrishna: Dr Chatterjee is trying to arrange accomodation at IISc or NIAS. We will get a complete picture by noon today. Otherwise we can book a hotel room. Do you have any other ideas?
Cheers, Abhas.
On 16/08/06, Abhas Abhinav abhas@deeproot.co.in wrote:
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 03:01 PM, Vikram Vincent wrote:
Materials: Banners, badges, T-shirts for Organisers and volunteers, etc...<not decided>
Vikram: at the moment, I don't think its feasible to have t-shirts for organisers and volunteers. Or rather - there is no one is who is currently taking care of these logistics. Additionally we are already short of funds.
If some of us are very particular about T-shirts for volunteers (provided all volunteers wear T-Shirts - I don't know if this is the case) the best thing would be to freeze on a design and print it for ourselves. These days there are many shops that do affordable printing on T-shirts. Yes one of us could do it for all of us - but then the problem is the initial cash and so on.
One of the selling points that was used to convince students to volunteer was that T-shirts would be provided. So if something urgent can be done on this front it would be good.
Hi,
What is the situation of the volunteer list? Vikram, please try to keep only the confirmed names there as decided earlier.
Regards, Kushal
On 16/08/06, Kushal Das kushaldas@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
What is the situation of the volunteer list? Vikram, please try to keep only the confirmed names there as decided earlier.
Regards, Kushal
The volunteers' list is building up. It will be confirmed at the volunteers' meeting on saturday at St. Joseph's college, Langford rd., (near Double rd.)
On 15/08/06, Vikram Vincent vincentvikram@gmail.com wrote:
Hello All, "INDEPENDENCE DAY GREETINGS" The reason I haven't used the word "happy" is because this is a day we observe, recollect the sacrifices of our forefathers and renew our pledge to uphold the values enshrined in the Preamble of our Constitution. Free Software Movement is all about Community and its Freedom. This means that we have the responsibility to protect and strengthen our Freedoms from the attacks by various vested interests, expand and strengthen our Community, using every available opportunity, to further the Movement.
Materials: Banners, badges, T-shirts for Organisers and volunteers, etc...
Someone needs to take this up immediately.
Funds: This was a major point as there is a heavy shortage. We request those
who can contribute to please contact
Contact Abhas/Shivanand @ Deeproot Linux.
Accommodation for RMS:
Dr. Chaterjee IISc.
Accommodation for foreign delegates: IIMB+... Number of foreign delegates
required???
Next volunteers' meeting : Saturday, 19th August, St. Joseph's college, Langford road At 4pm. All potential volunteers from Bangalore must not miss this meeting. --
On 16/08/06, Vikram Vincent vincentvikram@gmail.com wrote:
On 15/08/06, Vikram Vincent vincentvikram@gmail.com wrote:
Hello All, "INDEPENDENCE DAY GREETINGS" The reason I haven't used the word "happy" is because this is a day we observe, recollect the sacrifices of our forefathers and renew our pledge to uphold the values enshrined in the Preamble of our Constitution. Free Software Movement is all about Community and its Freedom. This means that we have the responsibility to protect and strengthen our Freedoms from the attacks by various vested interests, expand and strengthen our Community, using every available opportunity, to further the Movement.
FSF Associate membership:Enough number of copies of Associate membership
forms need to brought in.
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Abhas Abhinav -
Kushal Das -
Vikram Vincent