Hello all,
I'm Harish, a student from Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri campus. We are planning to conduct an event, namely a MiniDebConf in our college campus. We had made a few plans earlier on and despite the fact that we had a few discussions with a few members of the community, we still don't know what exactly to expect from the event. The event was initially planned to be hosted during the days 12,13 and 14 of September this year. However, after holding meetings with the Corporate and Industrial Relations department of our college, we now believe that organizing the event in the month of October serves better. The date is yet to be finalized. I hope the majority of you would be free in the month of October and will be able to attend the event. Let us know what you make of it and if any changes in the date might be required.
We now have an all clear from the college to go ahead and organize this event. What I need to know now is that how many speakers can we expect(from the debian community) ? Can those interested please reply in this thread ? We are expecting around 300 participants for the event. Can someone, who has been to previous debconf's tell if the estimate for the number of participants is realistic or off the mark ?
Finally, we need to chalk down an agenda for the event. That would be possible once we have an idea of the speaker(s) and the various topics/events that they plan to hold. It'd be nice if we were guided in setting up the funnel for the event, where the proposed talks can be voted up.
In a FOSS event, I hope it won't be an issue if we collect entry fees, which would be nominal, if at all we do collect it. After all, we need to help ourselves with funding if required. Please do let me know if doing that is okay. We'd also be starting our calls for sponsorship very soon. Again, if anyone is interested or can help in arranging something in this regard. Please feel free to drop me a mail anytime.
It'd be really helpful if we could find more volunteers for the event. If you're interested, please add your name in the Wiki-page for the event [1]
Thanking You,