On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:01 PM, sankarshan <foss.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Roshan Singh <singh.roshan08@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am a student from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur. We organise
> a FOSS festival, Mukti(http://mkti.in) every year. Last year we had some
> Fedora contributors here during our fest. In continuation with that we are
> hopeful to get some more speakers from Fedora.

Would it be possible for you to talk a bit more about whether and how
the presence last year was helpful ?

It was helpful definitely since the number of linux users have grown considerably during the past year. Apart from that we have people who are waiting more events this year. It has helped Fedora to become the most used distro is my college :-), which was openSUSE earlier.

So now I want to get some contributors from the college which will not be possible if someone drives it.


> 1. I would like to know if we can get to some speaker to show their projects
> like a small hack session with the hope that we may get some contributors to
> the project. We will provide the necessary requirement for conducting the
> session

How about you doing this yourself ?

People listen to me through out the year. It will be better if some one from out side comes. Apart from that I would also like to be in the audience.
 

> 2. There is a panel discussion around the topic "Free software. Why is it
> important for students like us to contribute to them. Software Patents.".
> The number of speakers participating in this event will be 3-4.

Interesting mashup of panel talks.


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Roshan Kumar Singh
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