Hello,
Here are the minutes of the last ILUG-Delhi meeting held at the JNU
Bio-Informatics Centre, at 2pm, on Sun., 1st April. (Please note the
apposite choice of date.):
A: Freedel 2007
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1. It will be held on the 28th, and 29th of September,
at the JNU Bio-Informatics Centre. Formal approval of this,
including the issue of how financing for the event will be
handled, will be worked on this week.
2. A mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED], has been created to
discuss the event. As usual, you can join the list by sending a
mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with "Subscribe" (no
quotes) in the Subject line.
3. Two sets of letters will go out this week, one to Linux User
Groups and FOSS organisations, and the other to non-profit
institutions like government departments, academic units, and
NGOs.
4. A call for papers will also go out this week.
5. We need volunteers for handling publicity, making sure that the
above letters go out, etc. Given the work that they did for their
college festival, and the enthusiastic response (see below),
locally this might best be best handled by Gaurav Mishra, and his
team from RKGIT.
B: E-zine
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1. Atul apparently has some six articles in hand, with 4-5 more in
the pipeline, including articles from Frederick Noronha, and
Rahul Sundaram of Redhat.
2. There was a discussion on doing away with the current division of
the e-zine over two sites, as it was felt that this would cause
confusion. Atul now has complete administration rights over the
Drupal installation at ezine.linux-delhi.or, and will work with
Kenneth to automatically duplicate users from the Wiki site on
this site.
3. There was a lively discussion on what format the e-zine should
have, with people arguing for a continuously updated site, with
regular editorials, etc., but finally, Atul wanted to have a
format where there were periodic single issues. The first issue
should come out at the end of April.
4. Issues with layout of text, formatting, and conversion to PDF
were discussed.
5. Various items need to be clarified, including guidelines for
submission, review, and acceptance of articles. All authors will
be asked to release their work under one form of the Creative
Commons Licence. An editorial team also needs to be organised
for the e-zine. A discussion should be initiated on this list to
finalise all this.
C: Account of Jagriti, the RKGIT festival, held on 17th/18th Mar.
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1. Gaurav, and Honey, described their experience at the RKGIT
festival, Jagriti, which included a technical component.
Apparently, they expected some 700-800 users, but got some
1300 registrations. 170 free CDs of Linux distributions were
handed out, and 33 laptops had Ubuntu installed on them.
Beryl, 3D effects, and other eye-candy was very effective
in getting people interested.
2. The publicity for the event was handled by a marketing team
of some 30 people, who went around to various local colleges
to popularise the event. It was felt that it would be useful
to recruit these same people to do publicity for Freedel 2007.
Gaurav to look into what is needed, and report back.
3. Gaurav has also been volunteered for organising a Linux
install-fest at Freedel 2007.
4. Honey apparently has a very popular blog, and he will be posting
a link to a write-up on the festival.
D: Technical talk
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1. Soumyadeep Nandi of the JNU Bio-Informatics Centre presented an
interesting talk on data mining, and classification, using open
source tools. This will soon be made available online.
E: Action items.
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1. Formal approval for JNU BIC as a venue for Freedel:
Andrew Lynn, due 5/4.
2. Set up twiki, with project management plugin:
Raj Mathur: due 4/4.
3. Finalise letter to LUGs, NGOs:
Gora Mohanty, due 5/4.
4. Call for proposals:
Raj Mathur, due 5/4.
5. Email addresses for LUGs:
All to gather addresses. Gaurav Mishra to coordinate
mailings: First set to be sent out 7/4.
6. E-zine, first draft:
Atul Jha, 15/4.
E-zine, release of first issue:
Atul Jha, 30/4.
Also, Atul Jha to initiate discussion on e-zine guidelines,
etc.
Regards,
Gora
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