[Ilugc] Conference in Chennai
- From: linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
- Date: Fri Sep 7 16:07:17 2007
balachandar muruganantham wrote [Fri 9/7/2007 3:55 PM]:
lets give more weight to "what's gonna happen in conference?"
You just described what happens at just about every foss conference .. but you
can have far more focused conferences than that, you know, instead of wasting
your time doing all that you described.
Let us do a short, focused one or two day event on something that Madras is
well known for. If you organize "yet another" FOSS conference of the sort you
have gone and described, with everything from kernel hacking competitions to
booths selling RHEL, nobody in particular will want to come to it, as you are
going to be competing with a bunch of other, established FOSS conferences.
What I said applies for sponsorship as well - the Indian branches of several
FOSS companies have a limited budget, and a lot of it will be committed to
other conferences / will have to be gained by you in competition with those
other conferences.
You don?t need to measure the success of a conference by the crowd of people
coming to it, the number of vendors putting up booths at the conference etc.
Some serious work can be done at such events.
Given the number of people fanatic about i18n and typing random list emails in
tamil, you might want to do one focused on i18n (and invite people like CDAC,
the Hyderabad Central University etc who are also doing i18n work), or given
the work that ELCOT is doing in deploying FOSS in governments, and NRC-FOSS is
doing in deploying FOSS in colleges, you could do some focused on that.
srs
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