-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As time grows short, we finally move our dragging feet and decide we ought to do something about Linux Asia 2005 (LA2005). What do we have? What can we do?
What is it - ---------- The Linux Asia conference, February 9 to 11, 2005. http://linuxasia2005.com/ What do we have - --------------- We are getting the following from the organisers: - - A stall at a decent place (not tucked away in the back like last time) with enough space. - - A hall on the last day for holding our own talk sessions. What can we do - -------------- This is tentative and subject to change... First of all, we must make the stall a success just like last time. If you have an idea and equipment for a running demo, please speak now. State exactly what additional equipment (down to the last 3-pin 5-amp socket) you will need. Rope in at least one more friend to help you run the demo. Prepare a spiel for attracting visitors. Make sure the demo doesn't use any proprietary software. Specify what you will need on placards above your demo station. And do the demo! Apart from the demos we will have, like last time, CD sales. Mary has kindly volunteered to get CDs burnt and printed in advance, let's make up a list of the CDs that sell well along with quantities. We are also planning to have t-shirts printed for the event. Volunteers MAY get one free on the last day. Others are for sale @ Rs. 250 or so each. We need at least 3 people to handle billing -- making receipts and storing the cash. Hey, we're almost a society now, better get organised some time or the other! Apart from that we can have 4-5 talks on the last day. I strongly feel that at least one should be about software patents, the burning issue of the day. Others are yet to be decided, though one little birdie in South India is trying very hard to book a slot -- you know who you are :) LA2005 has also asked us to provide us with volunteers for their help desk, who would answer basic inquiries on Linux from visitors and redirect them to the ILUGD stall for complex queries. Volunteers for the help desk will be. uh, ``volunteered'' from the stall volunteers. What you can do - --------------- If you can spend 3 or even 2 days at the stall please sign up as a volunteer. As before, being a volunteer means the following: - - Hard work - - Being screamed at - - Carrot of a free t-shirt which you never get - - Interacting with all sorts of people - - Another carrot of being able to get into talks for free, which also never happens - - Meeting with all the members of the LUG - - Hanging around with luminaries of the FLOSS world - - A third carrot of joining up for the post-event booze and dinners, which you never... - - Another carrot of free connectivity to download tons of software - - Loads of fun If you have a talk or presentation please polish it up and prepare to give it at the last day. At least 2 talks will be kept as backup, so please don't be upset if you're called at the last minute to give a talk. You MUST make the slides of the talk available by February 1. If you have a demo idea, sit down and work it out in detail. Then make a list of: - - Equipment you will need - - Connectivity you will need - - Equipment you have - - The objective of the demo - - The target audience - - The length of each complete demo The mailing list for posting specific demo, volunteer and presentation stuff to is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (anyone can subscribe) Suggestions, flames, etc should be posted to this list. Let's meet up on Sunday if that suits everyone, or 90% of everyone and thrash things out in detail. Venue can be decided later today (Friday) -- Munirka if no other place. 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/> iD8DBQFB50DYyWjQ78xo0X8RAv6FAJ9gfbjrRlcymHEacp4IYwmI7bdX7ACffC9x XJdzhHWnqhcb3VHEgPgNgiM= =hsVC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
