Release Party F11 at NIT Agartala

= Fedora 11 Release Party - Agartala, India =

18-19 July,2009 at NIT Agartala, Agartala, India

 * Inviting interested faculty members & students of our college, Tripura Institute of Technology(TIT), ICFAI, Tripura Medical College(TMC) & other local colleges & schools officially through college invitation
 * Also inviting IIT Guwahati, NIT Silchar(our Director is its joint head), NIT Durgapur, Jadavpur University & NERIST, Itanagar
 * Will send out official invitations through college & also via email to all the NITs & IITs
 * Will also put up few posters at important places in the city to attract interested people

Attendees

 * 1) Expected attendance of over 1,000 people over the two days.
 * 2) The faculties of Computer Science & Engineering & heads of institutions from in & around the city and nearby colleges(i.e. NIT Silchar & IIT Guwahati) will be invited officially

Program

 * Install fest- newer features like Live USB also will be undertaken
 * Talks via VoIP with Fedora & O'Reilly speakers(negotiations ongoing). Having Gordon Meyer to give a talk on DIYs as part of the extension of Open Source hardware via VoIP
 * Presentations & workshops(Qcad, QUCS & Scilab) by eminent speakers including Shakthi Kannan(key FOSS contributor & Fedora ambassador) & probably also Pradeepto Bhattacharya(KDE developer & Asia head) & a few NIT Agartala GLUG members
 * Sun might also be sending a speaker. Not yet confirmed, referred by a contact

Other stuffs

 * Will fully use the offline repository to be handed to us by Rangeen. Thanks a lot to NIT Durgapur folks
 * Mozilla desk focussing on Firefox

Organizers / Team

 * The NIT Agartala GLUG headed by its managing committee.
 * View our GLUG's Google page-http://groups.google.co.in/group/nitalug

Sponsors

 * Fedora, Open SUSE & Ubuntu sponsoring free CDs & DVDs
 * Mozilla sponsoring a swag pack
 * Media sponsors -Linux for You magazine-http://www.lfymag.com/index.asp?id=13 & pagalguy.com
 * Looking for travel & other sponsorships

Promotion

 * Ad "NIT Agartala Open Source & GNU/Linux fest" has been added to Clickindia Classifieds-www.clickindia.com/detail.php?id=1480637
 * Event details & Benefits for sponsors--Google document--http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgqr3n47_0dq82zcfj