Bottom :- > For most of the students who are attending, they would be looking at > survival options as well. All said and done, I can only volunteer if > my stomach is full. So having some commercial FOSS presence as in way > of sponsors would be good. For a student his main motivation would be > to find work after finishing his education. I am of the opinion that > we should encourage students to start small businesses on free > software or/and hardware and there is enough demand for alternatives > that has not been explored. Using some of the products to articulate > the same idea would be a good thing as well. Ofcourse. And from my experience, during my B.Tech time, whenever I asked my HOD permission to go (so as to get duty leave. :P), his first question would be "Will they recruit?". We should definitely expect that question. :) Having some companies like Zyxware as sponsors would be great. > Unlike in the west, in India most of the time we have to prod students to ask questions or even stupid questions just so they open up. I know lot of students self-censure themselves even if they have a good question or weren't able to understand something. True. Students always have the fear of being embarassed in case their question is silly. Less formal talks could lower that fear. :) > c. BOF's (Birds of a Feather) :- If there is an idea that some people > are passionate about or at least you are passionate about and want > others to help you refine the idea and probably help you in creating > it. This would be awesome. > @Vasudev - I am not sure by what you mean by giving back to Debian ? > Maybe some idea or example would help us know what you mean by that. From what I understood, I think he meant that through this conference, we should inspire more students to contribute to debian. So the hacknights would be more debian-centric. Not sure if I got it right. :) -- Regards, Balasankar C http://balasankarc.in "Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny." - Trent Lott
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