Hi, We had a meeting last Thu., 11/10, to analyse Freed 2007. Sorry for the delay in sending these minutes, especially as some important decisions were taken, but here they are: 1. The structure of the Freed organising committee will be majorly revamped: o Besides a core group, a much more active second layer of organisers will be set up, using the freed mailing list. Most organisational work will actually happen here, and the core group will only make sensitive decisions, such as those relating to sponsorship, and finances. o Direct employees of sponsoring organisations will no longer be part of the core group so as to avoid conflicts of interest. I hasten to add here that this has nothing to do with the organising of Freed 2007, and I will go on record as saying that without the involvement of Ms. Valsa Williams, the event would not have been nearly the success that it was. We do hope that she will continue to be part of the larger organising group. o Any member of ILUG-D can nominate themselves to be part of the core Freed organising group, but a decision will be taken by voting within the ILUG-D office bearers.
2. Freed 2008 is fixed for Fri./Sat., 22nd/23rd Feb., and will again be held at JNU. Please mark your calendars. Some ideas about the event: o Use independent sub-committees to handle different tasks. These will report to the main organising committee, but not everyone needs to be involved in everything. o We were successful, as usual, at getting students to attend the event. However we need more outreach efforts aimed at NGOs, government bodies, and other non-profit organisations that are part of our target group. o Have fewer tracks, and more focussed, higher-quality talks. Tentative areas of interest for the Feb. 2008 event: - Multimedia - Games - Content development? - Education? 3. Kapil Dua is writing a new conference management application, with a first version due the first week of Nov. o Raj Mathur: Specifications for application o Niyam Bhushan: Interface design 4. We will actively approach various people from outside Delhi to be remote organisers, participating in things like talk selection, outreach, etc. If you would like to nominate yourself for this, please send mail to the freed mailing list (copied on this message). Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/