[FSUG-Bangalore] Software Freedom Day at BMSCE

[mallikarjun arjun]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:49 PM, renuka prasad <renukaprasadb at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>  Also we came to know that the SUN Club that exists in BMSCE, which is also
>> pretty active,
>>
>
> SUN is paying around 6,000 rs per month for each ambassador in each college
> wherever they have selected to market / promote / products / courses /
> conducting seminars /workshops etc etc ......... and they have a year
> contract for each ambassador... this is what the information i have ........
> so this indicates SUN is very active ....
>
>
8000 INR i guess, I had a friend who was sun ambassador who is passed out.

Best Regards
mallikarjun



> 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,
>>
>
> Dont worry about different groups supporting free softwares ,
> GNU's                           ( free softwares ) philosophy and manifesto
> are very clear, we will have to only bother and take care if some other
> groups going against the philosophy and manifesto of free softwares and
> claiming that they are free software groups which i dont think we have any
> one right now in and around us -- so dont worry keep going on , sharing
> colloboration should be the main thing ....
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> SUN  sponsoring a lot , but take care about software feedom day celebration
> -----is the only suggestion..
>
>>
>> As far as dates are concerned, since we have internals from 18th - 20th of
>> September, doing SFD on 20th September,
>>
>
> same problem here in our college tooo
>
>  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.
>>
>
> we are also planning on the fourth week --
>
> 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?
>>
>
> All the best for all your events..
>
>
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