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Indian Team's Web Event on Cultural Freedom Day'2013
Dates/Location
20th May'2013.
Online Web Event in India.
Event Description
Cultural Freedom Day will be celebrated by the Indian team through the active collaboration of the following Free Software groups:
1. Women in Free Software and Culture
2. GLUG Kolkata
3. Fedora India
4. Mozilla India
5. Many Others
The focus will be on improving/increasing the participation of women in free software and improving related cultural aspects. This will be of much relevance in a backward country like India.
On the day we intend to organize at least two hackathons, a tutorial and a pair of competitions. All of these will be conducted through the Web.
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Event Owners
Fedora Representatives
List Incomplete.
Tentative Schedule
Expect More
1. Competition-1 will be on digital art using exclusively Free Software tools. The proposed theme is "Women and Gender Related Issues". Participants will be judged on their knowledge, expression, clarity and quality of work. Semantic part of this competition will be managed by A. Mani. One additional expert will judge the artistic quality.
2. Media-wiki Hackathon conducted by Sucheta Ghoshal. This hackathon will include an introduction and more advanced parts. These are outlined here.
3. Hackathon + Tutorial on Localization in Fedora Linux by Chandan Kumar.
4. GIMP/Inkscape Tutorial by Ashfaq Farooqui.
5. Competition-2 will be a quiz on Free Software, Fedora, GNU/Linux, Philosophy and Policy Conducted by a substantial part of organizers.
6. Educational Tutorials on Free software and Culture will also be part of the gallery.
Both competitions will involve interesting prizes.
We intend to publicize the event through various channels to ensure good participation.
Certificates will be awarded to all participants, while prizes will need to be fought for.
This page was registered for the Kolkata team, but due to lack of more participation from India, we decided to pool our efforts.
Ideas/Brainstorming
Still Open.
Important Deadlines
12th May'2013 for finalizing all details.
Event Budget
Budget Estimate:
Prizes: Pen drives with live Fedora
Cost per prize including postage = Rs 400 --500 Total number of prizes = 9
Publicity through Paid channels: Rs 1000
Printed Certificates for Event including postage : Rs 3000 (unsure, will be decided on 12th May)
Buffer : Rs 500.
Total Budget Estimate: Rs 6000 -- 9000
Event Report
Will be added on 23rd May'2013.