Oh, I think http://fossevents.org/ would be a better place to do that. It also looks credible, since its not a page on a corporate website.
Why create something that already exists, with no efforts to check if the existing tool can be useful? (Not saying this against IftyTech or anyone else, just thinking out loud). On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:36 AM, vinay singh <vinnip...@gmail.com> wrote: > Today whenever we arrange any seminar or workshop on FOSS the first > question which strikes our mind is about the crowd. How many are going > to come ?? Arranging this workshop is worth?? The reason is that > eventhough today FOSS Community is not reachable to most of the > commons, the people who are already in this community only they get > the news regarding the events,meetups and most of them are not > interested to share that. FOSS events are the first step to enter > these communities, looking and listening hackers live creates an > enthusiasm and people become FOSS lovers like you and me. Could you > imagine for FOSS community only on IRC's and mailing groups without > any FOSS event?? To increase our reach we need a common Social Media. > > So, from this september month iftytech labs introduced a non-profit > section that is a social media for the FOSS > Events(http://iftytech.com/node/6). The idea behind this is to promote > open as well closed events through social media so tht people in > remote location can reach the event online or offline. This concept > can turn a closed and local event into a global one and will create a > competition sort of thing among small colleges in organizing such > events and which is good for the FOSS Community. > > iftytech labs request you to share the information of any FOSS > event,meetups, workshops in around you to us, we will promote that and > we will try to reach there to cover the event and to create after > event job. > You can share information simply on : iftytech[AT]gmail[DOT]com > > > Promoting this social media is quite simple > on Facebook : > http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/iftytech-labs/140462002634942 > on twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/iftytech_labs > > > > Regards > -- > > > "Feel Free as in Freedom,Freedom is the only law" > "Until the next time, keep living in victory everyday" > ------------------------------------------------------- > Victoriously, > Vinay G Singh Rawat > iftytech labs > www.iftytech.com > ------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
