Pune (India) hosts countrys most dence engineering population in large number of engineering colleges... and each of the instituation usually helds a technical fest each year in jan-march months which lasts for around 3-6 days... ( http://www.bharatiyam.net/ will give you an idea i made this website ) there are around 15 major events covering thousands of participations....
now what i propose is to organise a linux confrence/fest during this time with events like 1. coding (c/perl/...) 2. artwork/look&feel (best customised desktop) 3. oss-made-desktop (best collections of oss packages to make pass general usability tests) 4. seminars on various oss topics 5. helpdesks
and likewise now the output of these events will provide informations like how people want and manages their linux desktops... the coding events will make familar the power tools and thus encourage people to use them...
(all the events using latest Fedora Core version avalible on the date)
the events promises large contributions from students ... prizes in form of various things like freebies and cash can be provided ....
looking forward to your reply..
Hello! Well, i am an engineering student too and i have attended your fest almost every year !
The idea looks quite alright to me.
I will provide you my full support ! I don't stay too far from the college either.
The competitions & seminars that you are talking about are really good and will really help a lot of people to know about FEDORA.
Well, Stuff like providing "HELPDESK" and stuff usually help a lot because students came just come to the desk and find out more info or a solution to a certain problem!
Let me know your future plans.
Rohan Dighe. Fedora Ambassador India, Pune. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RohanDighe
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