IRC Meeting on 12th Jan 2010 @ 9 pm IST
We need to hear your ideas and what you are expecting from this FOSS Meet edition happening inside NITC Campus thins Feb. Also we need people to help us make this event a success. There are many ways you can help, even if you are not coming for the event. You can help with promoting the event among your friends, colleagues or you can help with promoting the event using your blog, microblog (twitter/identi.ca), social networking sites...
The limit is your creativity, after all this is your event too.
Location is
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#fossmeet.in, The Internet
Meeting Agenda:
* Online promotion
- Online publicity team
- web banners and buttons with count down
- call for papers in lists
* website comments
- facebook, orkut, twitter and identi.ca buttons
- sponsorship contact details in sponsorship page
- sponsorship details, brochure download, different levels and benefits
- single site for future and other campuses
- benefits, search ranking, always working links, don't have to reinvent every time, only have to improve or add features
- does not have to spent time on structure and procedures
- good reference for future organizors
* project/community huts
- focused on projects and communities
- all steps from a newbie to hacker covered
- just need to allote rooms
- proposal has to come from folks who are active
- user decides how far [s]he wants to go (down the rabbit hole)
* panel discussions on confusing or newbie issues
- how to make money with foss
- how do I contribute (panelists can share how they came to foss)
* on campus promotion
- notice boards
* sponsorship
- people who have experience with other events
- companies where we work
- at the least travel cost of delegates
* regular updates - communication is key
- any specific steps on the list
- anything for delegates/speakers on the site
- milestones on microblogs
- weekly meeting on irc
* mailing list policy
- public archive
- membership open
- new members moderated (spam prevention)
- removing from moderation after first legitimate post
* talk selection policy
- target areas
- more requests/votes
- budget/sponsorship
* promoting in nearby campuses/other engineering colleges
- banners, presentations
- volunteers in different colleges
- nitc students to go and invite in nearby campuses
* helpdesk
- any issues related to hardware/software support
- installation media
- workshop hardware vendors
* multimedia studio
- all kind of designing apps and expert guidance
- tutorial sessions
* google summer of code orientation
- by folks who have experience
- how to prepare
- application guidelines and reviewers
* involving other groups
- every group who does not have their own event should consider it their own
- every group who has an event should think of it like exchange (Surathkal and Calicut cultural events example)
other ideas, please add as comments here.
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