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Subject: Your LUG's Participation at LB/2004 Date: Monday 18 Oct 2004 7:40 am From: Kartik N kartikn79@symonds.net To: nagarjuna@hbcse.tifr.res.in

Dear User Group coordinators and members,

On behalf of Linux Bangalore/2004 (LB/2004) organisers, we invite your participation in the LB/2004 conference at Bangalore between Dec 1 and 3, 2004. More details at http://linux-bangalore.org/2004.

You may already be aware that we have been organising the Linux Bangalore Conference for the last three years and all the events have been very successful in the local community reach and knowledge dissemination. More details about the previous events are at http://linux-bangalore.org/2003, http://linux-bangalore.org/2002 and http://linux-bangalore.org/2001.

Your participation in LB/2004 will be of immense importance to the the Free and Open Source Software community, since it would help the User Groups in India to meet physically and exchange notes and ideas at a common place.

You could participate in several ways in addition to attending the conference, as such. Here are a few:

1. Showcase the efforts of your LUG (send a request for floor space at the conference venue to the managers at lb4-info at linux-bangalore.org). 2. Participate in sessions involving all User Groups, to discuss how to your User Groups have been active, what issues you have come across (and possibly how you resolved them), how to improve the quality of user group meets, etc. 3. Talk about LB/2004 at your User Group meets and encourage speakers to give talks or conduct tutorials at LB/2004. (Each such talk/tutorial proposal will be evaluated by a panel of experts). 4. Physically volunteer help at the venue 5. Coordinate and conduct BoFs. 6. Any other activity in coordination with the conference committee

In addition, the delegate registration will capture User Group affiliations as well, allowing us to get people together and talking, to quickly identify a member of a particular User Group if some other delegate wants to get in touch, etc.

Do let us know how you plan to participate. The community is keen to have your User Group participate and interact with other User Groups and their members.

Please do get in touch with us with your participation plan so we are able to plan resources for your User Group, in advance. You can contact us at lb4-info at linux-bangalore.org

We look forward to meeting up with you!

For the Linux Bangalore/2004 Team, Kartik N -- Linux Bangalore/2004 Dec 1, 2, 3 2004 http://linux-bangalore.org/2004

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