Re: [ILUG-BOM] Initial design document for FOSSDevConf , Please feel free to comment over it.

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:20 PM, steve steve@lonetwin.net wrote:

Hi,

I think some of these are fairly arbitrary ...

On 03/30/2010 05:50 PM, narendra sisodiya wrote:

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  - *OGG : *You are only allowed to use Ogg music/video for demo. Any

  video with .mp4 Or other format will disqualify your selection.

This should possibly be revised to allow for any Open media format[1].

   - *GNU/Linux : *You are allowed to carry Any Laptop with Any

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Operating

  System over it But you can only plug your laptop to projector if you

have GNU/Linux OS over it. If you do not carry such laptop then you can ask organiser to arrange one for you.

Again too restrictive. There are plenty of FOSS Operating Systems out there besides GNU/Linux.

Example ? we are basically want to deny for window and mac.

- *Copyright Policy : *Every Speakers are advised to make a account

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on

  main FOSSDevConf Server. They must submit their presentation Or

videos before the timeline. However your presentation will be made public during workshop. All your presentations and other stuff will be licensed under "CC-By-SA" Or public domain. You have to choose either of two license.

It's ok to mandate a license (as an organizer) but you might want to include a few more Open content licenses, like for instance: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Content_Licenses

Thanks I will prepare a list out of it., Thanks

   - *For Organiser*

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  - *Video Recording : *You must provide video recording for all
  speaker. All Video Recording must be uploaded to our common

server using Ogg format - *Images : *All the Images must be uploaded to our common server using PNG format.

See above comment on multimedia formats.

   - *Free Lunch* : You must provide free lunch and evening snacks to

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  all.
  - *No-Coke : *You must not use Cocacola during workshop.

I think this is random. What have these things got to do with FOSS ?

basically coke has trade secret , that is why Open-Cola exist.

   - *T-Shirt* : You must provide TShirt to all audience.

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Same as above.

   - Tshirt may or may not contain all sponsors but it should not

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     highlight a particular sponsors in misleading ways

Too general. What do you mean by highlighting ? Also, to take a step back, why is this restriction there in the first place ? If for example FSF-India becomes the largest sponsor for an event, I would think it fair for them to have the largest logo on the event tshirt. I think you might want to distinguish between 'rules' and 'guidelines'.

Yes, This is valid point, Ok, this point will left on organisers, I have not think about this !!

      - The Design of Tshirt must be uploaded in SVG/PNG format using

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     CC-By-SA license.

See above comment on content licenses.

   - *Gift to Speaker : *You must provide gifts to speakers.

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Random. See comment on rules Vs guidelines.

[...snip...] cheers,

• steve

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_file_format#Examples_of_open_formats

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