Event Title: GNU/Linux India Expo 2003
Dates: End Feb / Early March (Not early/mid Feb please!)
Duration: 3 days / 1 week
Objectives:
[1] Conference on GNU/Linux, FS/OSS
[2] Exhibition of FS/OSS Student Projects from across the nation
[3] Stalls for commercial activity related to hardware/software
[4] Some fun events (Geeks vs. Nerds quiz? Geek of the yr. award?)
[5] Promotion of GNU/Linux user networking (Stalls of various LUGs)
[6] A press conference a day ??
DETAILS:
[1] This is quite well-known to us and needs no elaboration
[2] We provide a display area for students to demo their FS/OSS projects. "Students" means people who are not employed/have been employed earlier and are studying in an educational institution, incl. an open university.
[3] People desirous of Commercial activity will be charged for space. It would be great if we can have assemblers there who can offer pre-loaded PCs... how about a workshop for these before the event? Cheap CDs, on-the-spot installation etc. could be possible attractions.
[4] Ah! what's an expo without fun?
[5] We've gotta have a platform for representatives of various LUGs across India share information, develop contacts and highlight their achievements and aspirations.
[6] Sounds incredible but who knows, the Press might actually be interested. Anyway, we can post daily coverage on the web.
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To qualify for exhibition in the Expo, any given software may or may not be proprietary. However, the software MUST be available for GNU/Linux or any other FS/OSS based platform. This is necessary since there's no dearth of Free Software available for other dominant proprietary platoforms.
Attendance the conference must be charged. Entry to the Expo however should be inexpensive. I am in favor of a nominal (say Rs. 10 to 30) entry fee for the expo too avoid wanderers on the site.
Only stalls being covered under [3] must be charged. [4] May have an entry fee for participation but definitely not for audience.
Let us not think of management (outsourced vs. voluntary) currently. Of course, Saswata, Gurpreet and other volunteers can collect details about professional management and have them ready when the time for decision comes.
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We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed
Please dont plan things so early. Also in February an international level meet is being organized in Kerala by the govt with support from FSF-india. You may better push it to July so that the students who will be working on projects this year will be able to submit their proposals.
Nagarjuna
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:39:10AM +0530, Tahir Hashmi wrote:
Event Title: GNU/Linux India Expo 2003
Dates: End Feb / Early March (Not early/mid Feb please!)
Duration: 3 days / 1 week
Objectives:
[1] Conference on GNU/Linux, FS/OSS
[2] Exhibition of FS/OSS Student Projects from across the nation
[3] Stalls for commercial activity related to hardware/software
[4] Some fun events (Geeks vs. Nerds quiz? Geek of the yr. award?)
[5] Promotion of GNU/Linux user networking (Stalls of various LUGs)
[6] A press conference a day ??
DETAILS:
[1] This is quite well-known to us and needs no elaboration
[2] We provide a display area for students to demo their FS/OSS projects. "Students" means people who are not employed/have been employed earlier and are studying in an educational institution, incl. an open university.
[3] People desirous of Commercial activity will be charged for space. It would be great if we can have assemblers there who can offer pre-loaded PCs... how about a workshop for these before the event? Cheap CDs, on-the-spot installation etc. could be possible attractions.
[4] Ah! what's an expo without fun?
[5] We've gotta have a platform for representatives of various LUGs across India share information, develop contacts and highlight their achievements and aspirations.
[6] Sounds incredible but who knows, the Press might actually be interested. Anyway, we can post daily coverage on the web.
To qualify for exhibition in the Expo, any given software may or may not be proprietary. However, the software MUST be available for GNU/Linux or any other FS/OSS based platform. This is necessary since there's no dearth of Free Software available for other dominant proprietary platoforms.
Attendance the conference must be charged. Entry to the Expo however should be inexpensive. I am in favor of a nominal (say Rs. 10 to 30) entry fee for the expo too avoid wanderers on the site.
Only stalls being covered under [3] must be charged. [4] May have an entry fee for participation but definitely not for audience.
Let us not think of management (outsourced vs. voluntary) currently. Of course, Saswata, Gurpreet and other volunteers can collect details about professional management and have them ready when the time for decision comes.
Everyone is free to comment on the above, make additions/changes/deletions and even fubar it.
Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in
We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:52:51 +0530 Nagarjuna G. wrote:
Please dont plan things so early. Also in February an international level meet is being organized in Kerala by the govt with support from FSF-india. You may better push it to July so that the students who will be working on projects this year will be able to submit their proposals.
Yes, Feb/March was indeed rather early. For students projects, let's get the PRC site in place and send notifications to colleges so that students may register on the PRC. Later on, the most successful of the projects can be exhibited in the Expo.
I can help with managing the content of PRC site once the set-up is ready.
Please dont plan things so early. Also in February an international level meet is being organized in Kerala by the govt with support from FSF-india. You may better push it to July so that the students who will be working on projects this year will be able to submit their proposals.
hmmm.... thats right. We must take time... even August goes by me. Couple it with Independence day celebrations or something?
Regards,
Amol Hatwar.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:46:27PM +0530, Amol Hatwar wrote:
Please dont plan things so early. Also in February an international level meet is being organized in Kerala by the govt with support from FSF-india. You may better push it to July so that the students who will be working on projects this year will be able to submit their proposals.
hmmm.... thats right. We must take time... even August goes by me. Couple it with Independence day celebrations or something?
Yes, coupling with Independence day will pass the message of freedom and independence, and swaraj etc. Talking about self-reliance will help people to think and turn towards free software.
Nagarjuna
August goes by me. Couple it with Independence day celebrations or something?
Yes, coupling with Independence day will pass the message of freedom and independence, and swaraj etc. Talking about self-reliance will help people to think and turn towards free software.
That's the idea!
Amol Hatwar.
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:52:51 +0530 "Nagarjuna G." nagarjun@hbcse.tifr.res.in wrote:
Please dont plan things so early. Also in February an international level meet is being organized in Kerala by the govt with support from FSF-india. You may better push it to July so that the students who will be working on projects this year will be able to submit their proposals.
[snip]
Hmm....yeppie. Seems okie to have to delayed it a bit. But still lets have things planned and ideas flowing.
How about March-April.....???
Bye for now.
Trevor
Nagarjuna
Dont try end march to early may. Most corporates will be busy with accounts and year ending. Plus college / university exams are held around april / may. In contrast, July seems a better time....year-end is over, colleges about to open, so students return to town, and generally considered dull period.
Ofcourse, if it pours and mumbai gets flooded, it could be a mess
Regards Saswata ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trevor Warren" trevor.w@media.mit.edu To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 3:16 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] GNU/Linux India Expo 2003 ... tentative outline
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:52:51 +0530 "Nagarjuna G." nagarjun@hbcse.tifr.res.in wrote:
Please dont plan things so early. Also in February an international level meet is being organized in Kerala by the govt with support from FSF-india. You may better push it to July so that the students who will be working on projects this year will be able to submit their proposals.
[snip]
Hmm....yeppie. Seems okie to have to delayed it a bit. But still lets have things planned and ideas flowing.
How about March-April.....???
Bye for now.
Trevor
Nagarjuna
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:31:31PM +0530, Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
Dont try end march to early may. Most corporates will be busy with accounts and year ending. Plus college / university exams are held around april / may. In contrast, July seems a better time....year-end is over, colleges about to open, so students return to town, and generally considered dull period.
Ofcourse, if it pours and mumbai gets flooded, it could be a mess
yes yes yes .. please avoid Mumbai Monsoons!
Feb/March is ideal.
April/May - exam time ... or "year-ending"
Then Monsoons ..
Then the October heat.
And then, you'll be too close to Linux Bangalore 2003.
Hmmm ... 2004?
Please find my suggestions inline.
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Tahir Hashmi wrote:
Event Title: GNU/Linux India Expo 2003
Dates: End Feb / Early March (Not early/mid Feb please!)
Just check out that the dates dont clash with highschool/collage exams otherwise we will miss some very good audience. May be we can postpone it till July/August when all the studants are relatively free.
Duration: 3 days / 1 week
Objectives:
[1] Conference on GNU/Linux, FS/OSS
[2] Exhibition of FS/OSS Student Projects from across the nation
[3] Stalls for commercial activity related to hardware/software
[4] Some fun events (Geeks vs. Nerds quiz? Geek of the yr. award?)
[5] Promotion of GNU/Linux user networking (Stalls of various LUGs)
[6] A press conference a day ??
DETAILS:
[1] This is quite well-known to us and needs no elaboration
[2] We provide a display area for students to demo their FS/OSS projects. "Students" means people who are not employed/have been employed earlier and are studying in an educational institution, incl. an open university.
[3] People desirous of Commercial activity will be charged for space. It would be great if we can have assemblers there who can offer pre-loaded PCs... how about a workshop for these before the event? Cheap CDs, on-the-spot installation etc. could be possible attractions.
We can contact Publishers or Book vendors like "Computer Book Shop" to have a stall there. Somebody like GTCDROM can also have a stall there to sell T-shirts, stickers, coffee mugs and similer stuff having Tux on it.. I am sure they will have a good sell there.
[4] Ah! what's an expo without fun?
LUG members from collages can suggest a lot of events. :-)
[5] We've gotta have a platform for representatives of various LUGs across India share information, develop contacts and highlight their achievements and aspirations.
[6] Sounds incredible but who knows, the Press might actually be interested. Anyway, we can post daily coverage on the web.
I think The press WILL be interested. I will contact a few leading Marathi news papers to cover the event.
To qualify for exhibition in the Expo, any given software may or may not be proprietary. However, the software MUST be available for GNU/Linux or any other FS/OSS based platform. This is necessary since there's no dearth of Free Software available for other dominant proprietary platoforms.
Attendance the conference must be charged. Entry to the Expo however should be inexpensive. I am in favor of a nominal (say Rs. 10 to 30) entry fee for the expo too avoid wanderers on the site.
Only stalls being covered under [3] must be charged. [4] May have an entry fee for participation but definitely not for audience.
I too second the thought of having a NOMINAL entry fee. Rs. 300-500 charged by "Linux Bangalore" seems too much for me even if I get stuff worth Rs. 300. I think our intended audience should include people who have heard about linux but are skeptical about different aspects. These people wont bother to come to the event if we charge too much.
Let us not think of management (outsourced vs. voluntary) currently. Of course, Saswata, Gurpreet and other volunteers can collect details about professional management and have them ready when the time for decision comes.
Everyone is free to comment on the above, make additions/changes/deletions and even fubar it.
Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in
We can Also have a small exibition where a number of PCs running Linux can be made available for public access so that new ones can get a feel of Linux. we can show different window managers at work, different applications can be loaded on the PCs so that everybody can know that Linux has applications which are as easy or even easier to operate. we can have different posters/banners highlighting some of the Miths/facts which keep normal user away from Linux. eg. Having a dual boot system wont harm your Windose installation or ================================================= Properietary Software | Free alternative | ================================================ Internet Explorer |Netscape, Mozilla | MS Office |OpenOffice, KOffice | Outlook |Kmail, Evolution | Photoshop |Gimp | . | . | . | . | ================================================ etc.
My 2 paise.
Regards Aseem
With this kind of an expo, I woule like to be a participant and not into the management, Am I lucky, I never said, I am in :-)
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