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Fedora 11 Release Party - Agartala, India
For 2 days between 15-20 July,2009(not yet finalized) at NIT Agartala, Agartala, India
- 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
Attendees
- 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
Reports
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Program
- 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(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
Other stuffs
- Will fully use the offline repository to be handed to us by Rangeen. Thanks a lot to NIT Durgapur folks
- Contacted Mozilla to have a Firefox event
Organizers / Team
- The NIT Agartala GLUG headed by its managing committee.
- View our GLUG's Google page-http://groups.google.co.in/group/nitalug