Hi all
the event started 45 minutes late that is at 10.45 am and RMS spoke for 90 mins
RMS released the book http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/index.php/Book:Free_Software_Free_Society here is where you can involve yourself in translation also thanks for oam shiv prakash for making this happen in a beautiful way.
q & a session from 12-10 to 12-40 where RMS handled around 15 -20 q?
The Public talk was recorded ( both audio and video , will be updating soon )
well regarding turnout --there were only around 140- 150 participants ( hall capacity was 1000!!)
some lessons are:
we need to take a bit more care about publicity ----since it was for public we where not sure how many of the public are interested --so this is what the response we got , if it was a college campus then numbers would not be a proble, that is not the main concern ..
even though we had made our honest effort in giving huge publicity among colleges, may be because of exams we could not have many students but
we got very interested participants around 100 including from IIT-chennai , Mysore , from IBM,i2 , oracle , so on and so forth Most important success was that our management trust president was present for the whole talk and has annonced the interest to use free softwares in 25 institutions ----he has shown interest in those ,, i have to see how this is taken forward , that time help will be required from FSUG-bangalore , will let you know as soon as i will come to know more abt this.
Incase any body has missed the event -- still there is a event at christ college on 16th -- for you to see and hear RMS from 10 -12
we had a session where around 20- 25 students/participants were addressed by parithosh ( wikiocean ) where he addressed / gave ideas about the business models in free softwares , Dr nagarjuna was also present.
regards
Hey Renuka,
2008/12/13 renuka prasad renukaprasadb@gmail.com: <snip>
Keep up the good work. Yes, it is important to publicise the issues as much as possible. Due to the nearly one hour delay on the 12th more than half the students left the auditorium and we were left with only around 600 students and staff for Prof. Eben's talk. There are valuable lessons to be learnt and we shall definitely work harder.
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Vikram Vincent vincentvikram@gmail.comwrote:
Hey Renuka,
2008/12/13 renuka prasad renukaprasadb@gmail.com:
<snip>
Keep up the good work. Yes, it is important to publicise the issues as much as possible.
yes true for public talks
Due to the nearly one hour delay on the 12th more than half the students left the auditorium and we were left with only around 600 students and staff for Prof. Eben's talk.
thats ture-- it happens , ya colleges , no problem any time we can pull them
For a Public talk we will have to have a different strategy, may be next time some better approaches have to be done
There are valuable lessons to be learnt and we shall definitely work harder. -- Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://swatantra.org/ _______________________________________________ FSUG-Bangalore mailing list FSUG-Bangalore@mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsug-bangalore