Event Title: GNU/Linux India Expo 2003

Dates: End Feb / Early March (Not early/mid Feb please!) ----- i second this (Not early/mid Feb please!) ----- Duration: 3 days / 1 week

Objectives:

[1] Conference on GNU/Linux, FS/OSS

[2] Exhibition of FS/OSS Student Projects from across the nation

---- Maybe we can have some kind of preliminary contest for the finals @ the expo. ----

[3] Stalls for commercial activity related to hardware/software

----- IBM,Redhat,TCS,etc will be interested. will bring in money to fund the event. Concessions for small companies who are starting out??? -----

[4] Some fun events (Geeks vs. Nerds quiz? Geek of the yr. award?) ----- Give away books on OSS by raffle / hourly quizzes Oreilly/Wrox etc will be interested. -----

[5] Promotion of GNU/Linux user networking (Stalls of various LUGs)

[6] A press conference a day ?? ----- This I believe is mandatory. ----- To qualify for exhibition in the Expo, any given software may or may not be proprietary. However, the software MUST be available for GNU/Linux or any other FS/OSS based platform. This is necessary since there's no dearth of Free Software available for other dominant proprietary platoforms.

Attendance the conference must be charged. Entry to the Expo however should be inexpensive. I am in favor of a nominal (say Rs. 10 to 30) entry fee for the expo too avoid wanderers on the site.

Only stalls being covered under [3] must be charged. [4] May have an entry fee for participation but definitely not for audience.

Let us not think of management (outsourced vs. voluntary) currently. Of course, Saswata, Gurpreet and other volunteers can collect details about professional management and have them ready when the time for decision comes. <snip> ***************** Vinayak Hegde APGDST Student NCST-JUHU. ***************