[OLPC India] OLPC India Day Awareness Conference- Call on 25th July, 2008 - Outcome

[Sameer Verma]

amit gogna wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks for attending the conference call.
>
> So here are some key points discussed on the call.
>
> a) Joshua Pritikin from Nashik has already OLPC program running for
> ... school.
>       He is going to post about the event on Nashik LUG.
>
> b) We had volunteers from Make a Diff Foundation ( www.makeadiff.in
> <http://www.makeadiff.in>) supporting this OLPC mission from
> Cochin,Hyderabad, Pune , Chennai. They are going to spread awareness
> about the program in their respective cities. I have agreed to send an
> XO in each of these cities for them to get hands on and also let
> various other interest groups get abreast with technology and
> learnings that go with XO.
>
> c) Also we have a interest group in Chennai as well.  Lets hope we
> would be able to have enough people for doing a VC there.
>
> d) Sayamindu from Kolkata would explore various means of getting the
> word out in Kolkata.
>
Hi Amit,
Thanks for the notes. I couldn't join in because I was at OSCON 2008. I
did meet up with folks from Symbiosis/Gnunify (http://www.gnunify.in/)
and Technetra (http://www.technetra.com/). I'll send out introductory
e-mails to them soon. I've asked Harshad Gune
(http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/611/25B), the faculty at Symbiosis who
organizes Gnunify, to spread the word and get help from his students.

> Now I am wondering if we can have some work being done in North.
>
> Arjun ,Manu and Gaurav if you can look into that for Delhi and Punjab.
>

I can start gathering some contacts in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, around
Allahabad and Varanasi. Does anyone on the list have connections with IT
BHU? http://www.itbhu.ac.in/

> I request all the people who participated in the conference to post in
> their email ids  and also stating the city they belonged too. ( I
> forgot to take MOM :( )
>
I would suggest that one of us who is on the phone call records the call
using Skype or Gizmo or some other solution so that we have meeting
minutes. The other possibility is to use Gobby. Ubuntu Developer Summit
uses it to take meeting notes. Gobby is a collaborative editor, somewhat
like Write.http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/
> Cheers,
> Amit
>
>


cheers,

Sameer

-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/