My responses to everything wrong with this document are posted to the freed.in mailing list:
http://frodo.hserus.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freed Please continue the discussion there. -- Raju On Monday 15 October 2007 14:31, Gora Mohanty wrote: > 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 -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ Freedom in Technology & Software || September 2007 || http://freed.in/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ 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/
