-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey Doodz & Dood3tt3z,
Quick update on what's happening with the Linux Demo Day 2004, September 25: 1. Volunteers. We have 4 confirmed volunteers so far. Send in your name and contact details to me quick and be part of the ILUG-Delhi elite! Be guaranteed a T-shirt for a lower-than-market yet still extortionate price! Learn how to sprain your back lifting heavy equipment! Be in an unenviable position to deal with cranky prima donna speakers and mob-like crowds! Be screamed at when the equipment doesn't work, the power goes out and rain wets the beautiful poster on the open-air notice board! Be an ILUG-Delhi volunteer and learn about life! ;) 2. Venue. Mr Suri of Jamia Hamdard University (JHU) has tentatively confirmed gratis use of the Auditorium for the event. A big hand to JHU for the support and to Mr Suri for the effort he has put in to make this happen. 3. Money. eSys (in the unlikely angelical shape of Sanjeev "Ghane" Gupta) has committed minimum Rs. 10,000 for the tea and snacks for all participants (delegates and volunteers). In return, sSys gets a logo banner over the tea and snacks counter and our everlasting gratitude. We're still looking for more sponsors, keep your fingers crossed. We're still working on the modalities of payment, since eSys will pay by cheque and we don't have a bank account yet. 4. Equipment. We're extremely short of equipment and infrastructure. High on the list are computers in decent working condition, CD writers, 17" monitors, UPS's for up to 3KVA, power lines and extension boards, ethernet hubs and cables, tables, tablecloths and chairs. If you can organise any of these please contact me ASAP. We'll have to hire out whatever equipment we don't manage to scrounge, which would make an unnecessary hole in the ILUGD kitty. 5. Posters. The poster bug bit Kishore and he's come up with what is arguably the best poster made so far, so after screaming at him for 1/2 hour (I'd just spent 3 hours fixing the problems I'd noted in Vivek Khurana's poster) I accepted his work with bad grace. The poster is available at: http://kandalaya.org/download/ldd2k4-kb-poster.sxi Sponsor logos will appear at the bottom. There's only one (eSys) currently, but Insh'allah we will be able to add another couple today. Posters DEFINITELY have to go for printing tomorrow (Friday). Get your poster-distribution-and-pasting muscles into shape for the weekend and let's splash them all over town. 6. Speakers. Raj Shekhar, would you please post the status of the various speakers for the event? 7. T-shirts. The T-shirt chap will take 4 days to make the T-shirts, so we have a couple of days before we decide. eSys has offered Rs. 50 per T for printing their logo on the sleeve. I'm open to the idea since it helps reduce the T cost to the end-user; however this is not my decision, so if you feel strongly about it one way or the other please let the list know. IMO what would be ideal would be what HCL did for the LDD 1999, which is provide T's with their logo and the Tux and linux-delhi.org for free, which are then distributed for free. Anyone up to spending Rs. 25,000 to sponsor T's for the event? 8. Transport. If we have the cash, we'll try to hire a Qualis or equivalent for the day to ferry loads around and make emergency trips. Not decided on that yet. Hmm, that seems to be it. If you can contribute, now is the time to step forward, and step fast! Regards, - -- Raju - -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFBSRCZyWjQ78xo0X8RAurKAJ0X3/IXVm7vZsX6ti8+yDhOgAKM/gCeMILq zqzshdr6tk6/LnCmrLlRfa0= =o9so -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
