Re: sfd - volunteers please!!!

Quoting "Mahesh T. Pai" <[email protected]>:

> Hi folks!!!
>
> Softwware freedom  day is around  the corner, and Vivek  has announced
> the venue - Girinagar club hall.
>
> Vivek will be doing some demos of applications, and we are looking for
> some hardware  running GNU/Linux. Volunteers in  and around Girinagar,
> vytilla, Gandhi nagar, girinagar, kadavanthara, etc., willing to allow
> use of their brand new,  shining, ultrafast systems, with fancy gizmos
> - CD/DVD writers, cordless keyboards,  blue tooth dongles, usb sticks,
> digi/web cams,  etc, running on GNU/Linux, should  please come forward
> and post replies to  this list and also tell us if  you will bring the
> system to the venue on your own or whether we should pick it up.
>
> If you are a h/w vendor, (and  if others on the list do not object) we
> certainly can display some of your wares, provided they come with full
> support for the drivers, etc. and provide you some banner space too.
>
> We also  need some financial help -  to pay the hall  rent, PA system,
> help transporting the PCs to  and fro, etc. (people willing to provide
> a four  wheeler(s) -- with fuel of  course -- for the  purpose too are
> welcome !!!)
>
> Any other help / issue we have not foreseen is also welcome.
>
> --
> Mahesh T. Pai
>
> That men do not learn much from the lessons of history is the most
> important of all the lessons that history has to teach us.
>     --Aldous Huxley
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The venue is the Girinagar Ladies Club Hall, the one near the Mammooty Paalam (
the second bridge connecting Panampilly Nagar to Girinagar). We have the hall
booked for the whole day, though our event is scheduled from 2.30-6.30 PM.

I am open to sugessions for extending the time from morning to 2.30 P.M (In case
some one can come forward to demo something during that time slot), but i cannot
extend the event beyond 6.30 PM as i'll have to travel to Malapurram the same
night to provide a training session on GNU/Linux for some hardware vendors
there.

Vimal and Dileep have graciously agreed to donate Rs 250/ each. Any one willing
to sponsor the expenses of the hall, Rs 600/- (a part of it or the whole
amount), and the guest speaker's travel (Rs 580/ one way approx) by Shama
Travels are welcome.

I can sponsor the guest speaker's stay in Cochin and incur a part of the expense
for the hall.

Anirudth, can you inform a few schools nearby about the event ? , maybe team up
with Titty and print a few posters (the cost of one poster comes up to around
Rs 20/-) and put them up at MEC, and also invite a few intrested folks from
there. I am told there is a place opposite the Ernakulam Town Hall called
"Computer Park" that prints posters. Again *anyone* willing to undertake the
poster job cum public relations  are most welcome. Just don't forget to inform
everyone via the list about your plans.  ;-)

Anyone intrested please contact me off list for my phone number. I'll be free
*mostly* after 8.30 PM. In case you wish to contact Mahesh via phone i suggest
mailing him offlist for his number.

-- 
Vivek Varghese Cherian
Free as in Freedom <www.gnu.org>