Hello everyone, Continuing the Indic mashup idea of Karunakar's, I would like to invite people to come to Freed.in 2008 ( http://freed.in/2008 ), being held from Feb. 22-24, at the School of Information Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The Indic component of this will consist of two parts: o A localisation component, that people in government are especially interested in. This also ties in with new initiatives in Assamese, Kashmiri, and Urdu, and recent contacts with groups like the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. o A workshop on Indic rendering. It is quite possible that representatives from Scribus, OpenOffice, and Harfbuzz will be present.
Please note that the theme for this year's event is a little different, as we are trying to reach out to like-minded people in areas beyond software. As the areas that we are tackling are very broad, this year's event is intended mainly as a planning conclave, with the goal of coming up with a roadmap to address these issues. This will be combined with a limited number of talks from people already working in these areas. For a more detailed invitation letter, please see the front page at http://freed.in/2008/ . The call for papers is still open, and we will reimburse travel for all speakers from within India up to a maximum of Rs. 7000. Please register talks at http://freed.in/2008/talk-registration . It is important that any talk submission make a case for how it ties into the theme of Freed.in 2008. While we do not wish to restrict your creativity, some potential areas of interest are at http://freed.in/2008/areas-of-interest . Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
