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Shakthi Kannan (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Shakthimaan) & NIT Agartala GLUG to conduct the FAD
Details
- Date: 18 & 19 July 2009
- Time: 10am-6pm
- Location: NIT Agartala, India
Activities
- Various workshops & talks on FEL, Scilab, Octave, QUC and QCAD
- Install fest- newer features like Live USB also will be undertaken
- Talks via VoIP with Fedora & O'Reilly speakers(negotiations ongoing). Having Gordon Meyer to give a talk on DIYs as part of the extension of Open Source hardware via VoIP
- Presentations & workshops(including Qcad, QUCS & Scilab) by eminent speakers including Shakthi Kannan(key FOSS contributor & Fedora ambassador) & probably also Pradeepto Bhattacharya(KDE developer & Asia head) & a few NIT Agartala GLUG members
- Sun might also be sending a speaker. Not yet confirmed, referred by a contact
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(our Director is its joint head), 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 attract interested people
- Expected attendance of over 1,000 people over the two days.
- The faculties of Computer Science & Engineering & heads of institutions from in & around the city and nearby colleges(i.e. NIT Silchar & IIT Guwahati) will be invited officially
Travel
- Lodging to be arranged by the college
- Food is TBD
Remote Participation
- TBD
Sponsors
- Fedora, Open SUSE & 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 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