Hi,

Lots of issue still left unaddressed.

1. Website - any takers ? 2. Press release - Arky is expected to send this to us today. 3. List of invitees - is there any one to help ? 4. Bank account - immediate. 5. Sponsorship - nothing will work with out this, a sad reality.

AB promissed to get some people from his company to help us in conference. Abhas please followup on this ?

regards, arun.

Brief summary of "GPLv3 conference preparation meeting".

Meeting was at Deeproot Linux office. Attended by Abhas, Praveen, Philip, Dinesh, Issac, Thejesh, Vikram and One person whose name I can't remember(sorry). Arun M. joined us on the speaker phone.

• Travel arrangements, accommodation-Thej, Infy
• Invitations.
• Media Coverage, press release.
• Opening a bank account for conference purpose. Must elect a

President and treasurer for this purpose(necessity).

• Open lecture by RMS on 22nd. venue information necessary-Vikram,

Dinesh.

• Video clip on introduction to FSF must be prepared for

presentations with prospective sponsors.

• Call for paper presentations on second day-Dinesh.
• Live questions to conference over dedicated IRC channel.
• Call for volunteers.
• Break up of labour(must be chalked out).
• technical back up-Thej, Praveen A
• Campaign material, merchandise, etc..

Hi Arun!

On Monday 10 July 2006 12:47 PM, Arun M wrote:

1. Website - any takers ?

Praveen and Thejesh will take care of the web site as also any other technical requirements.

2. Press release - Arky is expected to send this to us today.

Arky - can you send a draft to the list? Dinesh and Thejesh also volunteered to help freeze the draft so that we can start using it asap.

3. List of invitees - is there any one to help ?

Here is how we can step through this:

0. Freeze on the program so that it can be included in the press release. At least we should know the major topics of discussion. Once we have this we will also know whom to invite for which session.

1. Get the press release ready. The same can also be used to prepare a PDF note that can be used to invite people over email or postage invitations. This will be very important to invite people.

2. Identify foreign invitees so that we can ask IIMB to issue letters to them separately.

3. Based on the above, we can draw up a list of organisations / individuals who we need to formally invite.

4. Bank account - immediate.
5. Sponsorship - nothing will work with out this, a sad reality.

There were two offers in the meeting:

1. Thejesh volunteered to ask Mahendra (who works with him at Infosys) to see if they would be interested in sponsorship. If there is some interest from them, then I can get involved in this and follow it up.

2. Praveen also said that he will contact HP and see if they are interested in the sponsorship.

If none of these work out, then we can approach others as well. I personally don't have contacts here. If anyone will be kind enough to point out potential sponsors, Shivanand (my colleague) and I will be glad to call / meet people to get sponsorship for the event.

Meanwhile, we'll get back to you on the Travel Agent status by today. Shivanand will email you separately once we get a confirmation from the Travel Agent.

Regards, Abhas.

On 7/10/06, Baishampayan Ghose b.ghose@gnu.org wrote:

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On 07/10/2006 01:31 PM, Abhas Abhinav cobbled together some glyphs to say: [snip] There is one thing which I thought about reminding you, we must have some sort of Video recording facility in the conference. It will be a shame if we don't record the talks by RMS & Prof. Eben Moglen. All other GPLv3 Conferences have provided videos, we should too. If there is already some arrangements for this, please ignore what I just said.

Yeah, Video and Audio recording Streaming of the conference is important, I remember the organisers of last years World Information City conference had done it, I guess the Center for Film and Drama, had done it. Jace was streaming the event. "Arky" any contacts at the CFD would help.

Regards, BG

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On 07/12/2006 05:54 PM, Rakesh 'arky' Ambati cobbled together some glyphs to say:

One of the pre-requisites of the streaming setup is that only Free Software based streaming soultions (codecs/streaming server etc) should be used. Most of the media people in Bangalore still use proprietary system. Abhas of Deeproot have agreed to setup the streaming server and it was discussed that we could seek help from some others too.

And it may not be possible to stream every talk/panel discussion, then we can just record the session with the help of IIMB video team and place all videos on publicly access web server.

Streaming is not necessary. Indians rarely watch live streams and the people in the West would be asleep when the event in BLR will be going on. It'll suffice if we just record at least the talks by RMS and Prof. Moglen and provide the video (in Theora), the audio (in Vorbis) and transcripts (in text/plain). I volunteer to take care of these things if somebody else is not available. Regards, BG

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On 13/07/06, Vikram Vincent vincentvikram@gmail.com wrote:

Hello Abhas, Wanted to know if the invitations are ready, to invite the heads of a few major education institutions. With regard to the open session on 22nd, Senate Hall at Central college costs Rs.3000/ for half a day. It is at the centre of town, near Mysore Bank circle.

And Dinesh, what about Ashirwad? Can we use that place?

Maybe we could request either Christ college or St. Joseph's college to help

us out and an invitation in hand would be useful. Regards Vincent

...

0. Freeze on the program so that it can be included in the press

release. At least we should know the major topics of discussion. Once we have this we will also know whom to invite for which session.

Freezed but site is not updated. I will fix that.

Hi, I've updated the site, I am not sure how the change the menu. We can freeze the program. No need to mention that it is tentative.

regards arun.

--- Arun M arun@gnu.org.in wrote:

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2. Press release - Arky is expected to send this

to us today.

...

Arky - can you send a draft to the list? Dinesh

and Thejesh also

...

volunteered to help freeze the draft so that we

can start using it asap.

Oops, sorry I forgot about that.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bangalore to Host the Fourth International Conference on GPLv3

India will host the Fourth International GPLv3 Conference in Bangalore, this August 23-24, 2006. A part of the world-wide drive to create awareness about the upcoming version three of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3), the two-day conference is expected to draw delegates from across the communities - legal, bureaucrat and academia. While the first day will see Richard M Stallman and Eben Moglen, the original architects of the GPLv3 license, communicating latest updates on the GPLv3 final draft, the second day holds panel discussions on localisation, awareness and adoption of GPLv3 and threat of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM).

The event - to be held at the Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore - is a sequence to the Third International GPLv3 Conference that took place in Barcelona, Spain. Similar events have already been held in the USA and Brazil. The international GPLv3 conferences are part of a year-long public consultation process to update the GNU General Public License (GPL).

The version 3 of the GPL, essentially, takes into account changes in terms of legal and technical environment, in which software licenses operate, and the need to increase protection against new threats such as software patents and Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). The worldwide awareness drive for GPLv3, is to ensure that, all users of software distributed under its terms, have the freedom to examine, share, and modify that software.

For Details, kindly contact: -------

Venue

Time

Contact numbers: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Cheers

--arky

The registration form is ready: http://gnowledge.org/~anurag/gplv3/

Please test it out and bring any problems to my notice immediately. Also, can someone suggest some text to be put as ``Privacy Policy''?

Lets not worry abt Privacy policy.

I think form is fine, we should get it up on the main site as quickly as possible.

regards arun.

I will be donw with my exams this week and will be free for the next one month.

I can love to help you out with the invitations, technical help etc. I have some journalist friends. Will ask if a detailed writeup before the conference is possible.

Anush

A press release for the conference is prepared and sent to FSF-WG for review. It is expected to be released later today (Tuesday July 11th), perhaps you can pass it around to your friends in press and also to other mailing-lists across the country.

Hi Anurag,

Are you able to setup the registration form ? Press release should go only after the online registration facilty is up and running.

regards arun.