On Monday 28 June 2010 17:55:50 Sankar P wrote:
[...] So, in short, my 2 cents: If we want more student participation from India, we definitely cannot come up with a solution on a mailing list discussion(1). We may have to sit on a FOSS conference stall with limited number of stakeholders, and devise some plans and execute them. May be come over for FOSS.in or in OSC10 (if someone from India comes) or GNOME Asia summit or some such event and we can plan a solution for this. We discussing in mailing list in my opinion will just cause long threads and no results.
Novell has sponsored some FOSS events but this needs to be planned quite some time ahead. We have only a limited budget, so the question is which events to sponsor and how. We should not randomly sponsor events but define a plan on which regions we want to grow the community first and how. Even without sponsoring a lot of is possible as the German Linuxtag showed where we had no sponsoring, a free booth, banners and a great program. I've never been to India so don't know how e.g. FOSS.in looks like but hope that similar stuff works as well. From feedback of conference participants, I hear that sponsorship is not really something that makes an effect - what makes an effect are presentations, tutorials and conversations, e.g. at a booth. So, let's not say, we need sponsorship money to this or that - let's discuss what we can do with what we have to do. I'm with Gnokii that Launch events can be very easy to do so wonder why so few do them, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126