NITA FAD 2009

NIT Agartala GLUG

Details

• Date: July 18-19, 2009
• Time: 1000-1800 IST
• Location: NIT Agartala, Tripura, India

Activities

• FEL demo
• Installfests
• Talks via VoIP with Fedora & O'Reilly speakers (to be confirmed). Having Gordon Meyer to give a talk on DIYs as part of the extension of Free/Open Source hardware via VoIP.
• Shakthi Kannan (Fedora ambassador) - talks/demos/workshops.
• Paul Frields confirmed via VoIP
• Pradeepto Bhattacharya(KDE developer)
• Talks from NIT Agartala GLUG members.
• Speakers from Sun (now Oracle). To be confirmed.

Shakthi Kannan's(mbuf)schedule

Forenoon:

• i-want-2-do-project. tell-me-wat-2-do-fedora (2 hours)
• mailing list guidelines
• communication guidelines
• Fedora sub-projects
• Installation concepts (45 minutes)

Afternoon:

• GNU/Linux desktop demo (45 minutes)
• Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems (1 hour)
• FEL- Demo of pcb, qucs, gschem will be included.
• Packaging Red hot, Paneer (butter) masala (1 hour)
• Q&A or brainstorming session (30 minutes)

Attendees

• Inviting interested faculty members & students of our college, Tripura Institute of Technology(TIT), ICFAI, Tripura Medical College(TMC) & other local colleges & schools officially through college invitation.
• Also inviting IIT Guwahati, NIT Silchar, NIT Durgapur, Jadavpur University & NERIST, Itanagar.
• Will send out official invitations through college & also via email to all the NITs & IITs.
• Will also put up few posters at important places in the city to invite people.
• Expected attendance of over 1,000 people over the two days.

Travel

• Stay.
• Food arrangements (TBD)

Remote Participation

• TBD

Sponsors

• Fedora, openSUSE & Ubuntu sponsoring free CDs & DVDs
• Mozilla sponsoring a swag pack
• Media sponsors -Linux for You magazine-http://www.lfymag.com/index.asp?id=13
• pagalguy.com
• Looking for travel & other sponsorships

Promotion

• Ad "NIT Agartala Fre/Open Source & GNU/Linux fest" has been added to Clickindia Classifieds-www.clickindia.com/detail.php?id=1480637
• Event details & Benefits for sponsors--Google document--http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgqr3n47_0dq82zcfj