SFD/Bangalore/06

Lets discuss the ideas for this year's SFD and contact the co-ordinators if you are interested to participate in this effort.

We had an initial discussion on 27th Aug 3pm at Cubbon Park (enter from MG Road).

Event plan

• Blog about the event and preperation -- everyone
• Reach out to maximum people through -- Pavithran
  • Mailing lists
  • Orkut and other online communities
  • SMS, Rediff Bol, Yahoo messenger, Google Talk ...
• Mass media campaign -- Anivar & Praveen
  • FM Radio
  • Television
  • Print media
• Promotional materials -- Aanjhan
  • posters
  • T-shirts/Kurta
  • Distro/Free Software CDs/DVDs, Videos & audio ( Truth Happens, Trusted computing )
  • Pamphlets
• Sign up volunteers for -- Vikram
  • Localisation
  • Free Software {in,for,as} Education
• Collect and display news articles
• Mobilise colleges near to the centers (get a list of all colleges) -- Ramprasad
• Sponsorship -- Vikram

The plan is to focus on students in the morning session and others in the afternoon session.

The colleges we target at the moment are

1. BMSCE - BMS College of Engineering -- Praveen
2. SCE - Satpthagiri College of Engineering -- Kushal
3. MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology -- Thejesh
4. Mount Carmel College -- Neeldhara
5. St. Joseph College -- Vijoo Krishnan
6. Christ College -- Vikram

We will form a core group of 10 people in each college to co-ordinate the event there. 3 will be from FSUG, 2 active students and the rest teachers/members of campus clubs.

We will start with a video and discussion after that. It will be followed by a talk (one from FSUG) and further discussions based on the talk. Then we will demo Free Software (show off your favorite distro/application), students can also demo their favorite applications.

Evening session we will gather at one suitable place either one of these

• Cubbon park
• Townhall
• ITPL
• Electronic City

Stay tuned. Also join us on orkut if you are there. If you are on IRC come to #fci (Freenode)

Co-ordinators

  1. Praveen A. Email: pravi --dot-- a --at-- gmail --dot-- com
  2. Thejesh GN Email: thej  -- at -- techmag -- dot -- biz
  3. Vikram Vincent:   vincentvikram  --at --gmail --dot --com
  4. Ramprasad B: ramprasad_i82 --at --yahoo --dot --com

Volunteers can sign up here.

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