Rahul Sundaram wrote: Caveat: The FUDCon at foss.in2008 is subject to the organizers agree-ing to such a proposal. Having said that, it would be nice: [1] to start a discussion on this list and, once there are emerging agenda points to [2] hold an IRC meeting on this A preliminary set of discussion points could be around: o why do we want to do a FUDCon at foss.in o who is our audience o how do we determine the success of FUDCon(a)foss.in o what lessons do we have from Project Day last year o what 'activities' do we intend to do ~sankarshan ps: On a personal note, I'd love to see less emphasis on talks and more emphasis on 'doing things' ie actual hunkering down on desktops|laptops, whiteboards and coming up with stuff that can be translated into action points. Such stuff could be a mundane 'creating a spin' or 'packaging a random application for EPEL' or, creating artwork for the Fedora India Community website -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work

Kishore Bhargava wrote: Not at this point in time. Not formally. The reason being that there isn't much meat to be put on to a proposal. There are ideas (as you might see coming out in this thread), but they haven't been linked into some sort of a cohesive theme. We should start doing that as early as possible. I agree. And the list should take note of this suggestion from you. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work

We can extend this beyond packaging. Lets decide within the Fedora Project what are the things we want to be done, in a way similar to putting up possible ideas for Google Summer of Code. eg., implementing feature X for Koji, packaging program Y, documenting Z, etc.. Then we can invite possible FudCon attendees who are interested in doing these. Obviously some tasks might take much more than a day to complete, but atleast we can lay the foundations (eg., design, initial framework). Interestingly the event will be roughly 6 months after GSoC 2008 and 6 months before the next one (if held at all). I attended two project days last year -- those of GNOME and Fedora. In a way they were a failure. Atleast Fedora was. Being a co-proposer one can say I am partly responsible. :-) The issue here is that most of the talks were like "technology show-off" ones, except the one by Andrew Cowie on multi-threaded Gtk+ programming and a few others. Although most of the items did contain internal details and were delivered by the core contributors, there was not much oppurtunity for someone to walk in as an interested, non-contributor and walk out as a newbie, contributor. What happened was a large number of curious people came in and left with some amount of new information, which they quickly forget as Kushal pointed out. So if instead of having one talk after the other, we can interleave "technology show-off" sessions with hands-on ones on the technology that was shown off. Obviously the target levels and domains of expertise can vary. Cheers, Debarshi

Debarshi Ray wrote: Do you have specific ideas on what you would like to see get done? I have a proposal. Make sure all of the fonts listed in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Decorative_fonts are packaged, reviewed and built before FUDCon in India is over. Rahul

Rakesh Pandit wrote: If anybody has projects in this list they are willing to take up, yell. Also refer http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Potential_Projects The reason for taking up smaller chunks like packaging fonts is to have specific goals that we could accomplish by the end of the event and which can be taught to other new contributors relatively easily. Did you sign up for a Fedora account? If you need help with getting started, let us know. Sure. We are discussing everything out in the open. Rahul

On 04/07/2008, Rakesh Pandit <rakesh.pandit(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: [..] *s/sponsor/sponsored/ ;-) Recently, on #dgplug folks are organising a nice workshop. This workshop (Summer training camp for college people) looks to be great way of encouraging and spreading GNU/Linux to more people. May we have something like Fedora Workshops series before FOSS.in over different lugs, college campus where we can try reaching folks. May we during those workshops we can simultaneously work on those tasks also. But this looks too ambitious. I mean + How do we attract crowd? -- may be colleges, different irc channels , lugs, lists + What can be there in workshops? + Will it really be worth even an effort? Any suggestions? Do I sound too crazy? ;-) -- Regards, Rakesh Pandit

On Friday 04 July 2008 10:38:02 am Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ) wrote: I am one of the organizer of the Summer Training by dgplug. This whole training idea is totally working based on the volunteer trainers who agreed to teach the students after their daily job. Though my initial idea was (still is) to push Fedora among the students. Still have few plans on that, which we will try at the end of the session. so, when we can have the meeting on this ? Sunday ? Kushal -- Fedora Ambassador, India http://kushaldas.in http://dgplug.org (Linux User Group of Durgapur)