Hello everyone,
Here are the minutes for the annual general body meeting of
ILUG-Delhi, that was held at the JNU Bio-Informatics Centre on
the afternoon of Sun., July 9th:
1. The introductory address by the president, Raj Mathur.
explained what the meeting was about, and introduced
the current set of office-bearers.
2. The treasurer, Kishore Bhargava, presented the accounts
for the last financial year, and these were approved.
3. Kishore also presented the list of achievements for the
previous year, which included:
(a) The formation of the ILUG-Delhi society.
(b) Organisation of the Freedel event.
(c) Application to be part of the UNDP-APDIP IOSN network
(http://iosn.net), which was turned down by the UNDP.
(d) The initiation of a student mentorship program in FOSS,
which is just starting off with the joint workshop being
conducted by ILUG-Delhi, and the JNU Bio-Informatics
Centre. We have discussed further efforts in this area
with the National Resource Centre for FOSS (NRCF), and
might soon formally apply for partnership with their
programs.
(e) While ILUG-Delhi did not formally participate in Linux-
Asia, 2006, we used the occasion to organise informal
meetings between the Delhi FOSS community, and luminaries
like Klaus Knopper (of Knoppix fame), and Mark Shuttleworth
(of Canonical/Ubuntu). The freewheeling meetings, and the
subsequent dinner were a great success.
(f) A two-day workshop was organised at RKGIT in Ghazaiabad.
Several students of RKGIT are active participants in
ILUG-Delhi, and related activities.
(g) We participated in the Compufest held at Jamia Milia
University.
4. The issue of membership renewal was mooted, and a motion was tabled
to increase the society membership fees to Rs. 100 for a year, plus
an one-time registration fee of Rs. 100. This was later amended to
allow for the waiving of the registration fee for bonafide students,
as verified by a valid school/college ID. All present registered as
members, adding Rs. 1800 to the ILUG-D kitty. Please do remember that
you need to renew your membership for the current year.
5. Elections were held, and the following people have been elected to
posts in the society:
President Raj Mathur
Vice-president Andrew Lynn
General secretary Gora Mohanty
Joint secretary Nikhil Prabhakar
Treasurer Kishore Bhargava
Member #1 Devapriya Chaudhury
Member #2 Gaurav Mishra
6. The following special items of business were discussed:
(a) It was tentatively decided to hold Freedel 2007 on the 16th
and 17th of September, at JNU. An auditorium holding 250 people
can be provided for the seminar track, and three labs can be
made available for tutorials, hands-on sessions, and lightning
talks. While stalls can be made available for sponsors, which
they can also use for publicity, JNU has a policy against
corporate sponsorship banners. However, sponsor logos can be
part of banners announcing the event. A Linux install-fest,
as part of the event, was considered, but was decided against.
A formal letter from ILUG-Delhi will be sent to JNU, requesting
permission for the event. A meeting to plan for Freedel will
be held the coming Sun., the 16th, with details to be posted to
this mailing list.
(b) The JNU bio-informatics workshop was discussed, and the
following mentors were chosen:
Raj Mathur
Tirveni Yadav
Kishore Bhargava
Gora Mohanty
T. Meyarivan (Mary)
Shehjar
Sirtaj Singh Kang
and, possibly (depending on his availability)
Supreet Sethi
(c) The possibility of having a technical support organisation for
FOSS was discussed, as also the starting of a paid training
program to educate students in system administration and
programming. The idea is to have a self-sustaining, scalable
setup that caters only to non-profit organisations rather than
being entirely commercial. While there was some discussion on
this, it was decided that it needed to be more carefully thought
through, and discussed at a separate meeting.
(d) An idea was put forward of putting together a list of qualified
FOSS personnel, vetted by ILUG-Delhi. The aim is to provide
local businesses ready-made points of contact for their FOSS
needs. After quite a bit of discussion, it was agreed that what
could be done immediately was for ILUG-Delhi to charge local
companies for interviewing applicants for FOSS jobs listed at
these companies, and narrowing down the list to a set of well-
qualified people.
Regards,
Gora
(b)
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