[FSUG-Bangalore] Software Freedom Day at BMSCE

[mallikarjun arjun]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Madhusudan C.S <madhusudancs at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>          Last year unfortunately we did not celebrate SFD at BMSCE even
> though SFD - 2006 was a very big success. We still regret for that. So this
> year we need to make it bigger than SFD - 2006. Since this is also 25th year
> of GNU which I would like to call as "25th year of Software Freedom", this
> years' SFD should be something really special. Also we came to know that the
> SUN Club that exists in BMSCE, which is also pretty active, along with SUN
> was planning for an SFD at BMSCE (Seems like BMSCE is the hot spot ;-) ).
> They also approached us asking if we can do it together. Few of us, the
> BMSLUG members went to SUN office to talk to SUN people about this. SUN
> people want to collaborate with the Free and Open Source Community in
> general not just SUN clubs or groups. Also at the moment doing 2 SFDs at
> BMSCE is not a very good idea, because of the difficulty to get the
> permission and others. In addition since collaboration is the need of the
> hour for both groups to survive at BMSCE after we leave, since this is our
> last year at BMSCE, I think we must do it together to make the FOSS
> community at BMSCE bigger and the biggest possible in Bangalore at least. So
> I think its a good idea to collaborate with SUN club at BMSCE and SUN
> itself. Also I think SUN is willing to sponsor, so we can make use of the
> resources. I kindly request all of you to give your valuable suggestions on
> this.
>
> As far as dates are concerned, since we have internals from 18th - 20th of
> September, doing SFD on 20th September, the actual day on which it is
> celebrated world wide is nearly impossible. Also FSUG-Bangalore is
> celebrating this as a week long fest. So we are planning to do this on some
> other day than 20th September. Seems like September 25th works for both
> BMSLUG and SUN Club. So I think we must go with that date. What do you all
> think?
>
> --
> Thanks and regards,
> Madhusudan.C.S
>
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any help needed madhu?

mallikarjun
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