Hi all<br><br>the event started 45 minutes late that is at 10.45 am and RMS spoke for 90 mins <br><br>RMS released the book <br><a href="http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/index.php/Book:Free_Software_Free_Society">http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/index.php/Book:Free_Software_Free_Society</a><br>
here is where you can involve yourself in translation also <br>thanks for oam shiv prakash for making this happen in a beautiful way.<br><br>q & a session from 12-10 to 12-40 where RMS handled around 15 -20 q?<br><br>
The Public talk was recorded ( both audio and video , will be updating soon )<br><br>well regarding turnout --there were only around 140- 150 participants ( hall capacity was 1000!!)<br><br>some lessons are:<br><br>we need to take a bit more care about publicity ----since it was for public we where not sure how many of the public are interested --so this is what the response we got , if it was a college campus then numbers would not be a proble, that is not the main concern ..<br>
<br>even though we had made our honest effort in giving huge publicity among colleges, may be because of exams we could not have many students but <br><br>we got very interested participants around 100 including from IIT-chennai , Mysore , from IBM,i2 , oracle , so on and so forth <br>
Most important success was that our management trust president was present for the whole talk and has annonced the interest to use free softwares in 25 institutions ----he has shown interest in those ,, i have to see how this is taken forward , that time help will be required from FSUG-bangalore , will let you know as soon as i will come to know more abt this.<br>
<br><br>Incase any body has missed the event -- still there is a event at christ college on 16th -- for you to see and hear RMS from 10 -12<br><br>we had a session where around 20- 25 students/participants were addressed by parithosh ( wikiocean ) where he addressed / gave ideas about the business models in free softwares , Dr nagarjuna was also present.<br>
<br>regards<br><br><br>