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On 07/08/2018, Kumar Appaiah a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote:

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On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 08:19:49AM +0530, Rigved Rakshit wrote:

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Thanks everyone for submitting the bid for DebConf in India.

If we are thinking of IIT Mumbai as a venue for DebConf 20, then we need to make sure that IIT Mumbai gives us solid WiFi and mobile carrier signals in the campus. During the Mini-DebConf there, we had big issues with internet connectivity. This is something which we can easily fix with help of current students.

As someone who works in IIT Bombay and a member of Debian, I can make this happen. We have quite a big operation in IITB with regard to FOSS push, and Debian is one of our major work items.

True, our experience with IIT Mumbai (and FOSSEE team) was amazing and organized 4-5 OpenSource events (including MIniDebConf) in last couple of years and all went well.

As mentioned by Rigved, there was few challenge from the connectivity point of view, which I believe we can address very smartly, since we have enough time to plan. My company is working in the domain of Wireless Network/Internet, so getting a dedicated high speed Fiber connectivity for the event won't be a challenge.

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We have good volunteer numbers in Pune and Mumbai combined, for on the ground support before the event (if it does happen). Also, Mumbai has many hotels to accommodate a large contingent and the IIT campus is large enough to accommodate multiple parallel tracks. Plus, we have many good sightseeing places nearby the city.

Indeed. I'll be happy to facilitate and participate.

Kumar

Kumar Appaiah

We would be counting on you Kumar as well as people from IIT-B, people from Mumbai LUG for your co-operation in making this a reality but first we would need to do whole lot of minidebconfs to increase the bench-strength and making people more aware about Debian and free software practices.

I completely agree with you, we will be able to schedule 1-2 MiniDebConf in Mumbai before 2020. @rigved , @lugmum team, I think we should initialize this in our next Monthly meeting.

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