[Sending on behalf of Gora Mohanty -- Raju]
A meeting was held at BB/3G, DDA flats, Munirka. Present were
Andrew Lynn
Gora Mohanty
Kishore Bhargava
Mary
Raja Mohanty
Raj Mathur
Saurabh Nanda
Sudev Barar
Tirveni Yadav
Vivek Iyyer
1. We decided on the talks accepted for the Freedel event, all
speakers will be notified soon, and the list of talks will be put
on the Freedel site.
2. There will be four workshops held during the event:
(a) FOSS tools in education and research: Andrew Lynn
This will include Moodle, Edubuntu, terminal servers,
and collaboration tools suited for the classroom.
(b) System administration: Designed by Kishore, run by Tirveni
and others. The emphasis will be on listing Linux equivalents
for commonly used Microsoft Windows services.
(c) Localisation and multi-lingual computing: Gora, and others.
(d) Asterix, the open-source Internet telephony tool: Mitul Limbani.
3. Kishore Bhargava will set up content on the Freedel site for
2006. Deadline 1/9.
4. Raj Mathur will be mailing out the break-up of estimated expenses.
Deadline 31/8.
5. Posters for the event will be designed by Kishore Bhargava,
with input from Andrew Lynn. Deadline 1/9 evening.
6. Printing of posters will be handled by Andrew Lynn, and Gora
Mohanty. These will be sent out to educational institutions through
JNU by 1/9, and the remainder will be handled by Gora by 3/9.
7. Gora will follow up on a potential sponsorship through MAIT.
Deadline 1/9.
8. Wireless access at JNU will be set up by Kishore Bhargava,
shortly before the even.
9. Letter to speakers: Raj Mathur. Deadline 1/9.
10. Call for local volunteers to put up out-station participants: Gora.
Deadline 31/8.
11. Making available Linux distributions on DVD, and repositories for
syncing laptops, etc.
(a) DVD distributions:
CentOS: Kishore Bhargava
Debian: Raj Mathur
Ubuntu: available courtesy of shipit.ubuntu.com
Knoppix: Raj Mathur
(b) Repositories:
Debian: Mary
Fedora: Andrew Lynn
Ubuntu: Gora Mohanty
12. Making badges for speakers (50), volunteers (50), delegates (100),
and participants (250): Gora Mohanty. Deadline, shortly before the
event.
13. Next meeting shall be held on Sunday, 3 September at the
Bio-Informatics Centre, JNU at 4pm. All contributors are welcome.
Regards,
Gora
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