Hi All,<br><br>This is to inform you that we here at Digital Bridge Foundation (DBF)
have been given a stall in the main exhibition hall for IIT - Bombay
Technology festival. (<a href="http://www.techfest.org/" target="_blank">http://www.techfest.org/</a>). <br>
<br><b>Introduction :-</b><br><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">"</span><b style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Techfest</b><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"> is the Annual Science and Technology Festival of </span><a style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Technology_Bombay" title="Indian Institute of Technology Bombay" target="_blank">Indian Institute of Technology Bombay</a><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"> (IITB), </span><a style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai" title="Mumbai" target="_blank">Mumbai</a><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">, (</span><a style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India" target="_blank">India</a><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">). </span><b style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Techfest</b><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">
is held every January over a period of three days on the IIT Bombay
campus. Techfest started off on a small scale in 1998 with the aim of
providing a platform for students to showcase their technical skills
and in the short period of 10 years has grown to become Asia's largest
festival of its kind. The last few editions of Techfest have seen more
than 45,000 participants from more than 1,500 colleges across India
along with teams from countries like the </span><a style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" target="_blank">USA</a><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">, </span><a style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore" target="_blank">Singapore</a><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">, </span><a style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal" target="_blank">Nepal</a><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">, </span><a style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" title="Iran" target="_blank">Iran</a><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">, </span><a style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh" target="_blank">Bangladesh</a><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">, </span><a style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka" target="_blank">Sri Lanka</a><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">, </span><a style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAE" title="UAE" target="_blank">UAE</a><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"> and </span><a style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan" target="_blank">Pakistan</a><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">. Apart from student involvement, Techfest also sees more than 2,000 faculty and corporate participants." (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techfest" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techfest</a>)<br>
</span><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">We plan to use the IIT Tech Fest event as an opportunity to:</span></p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span>1. Share information on the XO<br>
2. Have students touch and feel the experience of an XO<br>3. Sign up volunteers in different areas of work to support our projects in India.<br><br><b><br>Now we are looking for enthusiastic volunteers who would like to be with us at the stall for achieving the above mentioned points.<br>
<br>Also if anyone is interested in doing video for the event as a volunteer is welcomed. <br><br><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"> Count Required :- </span><br style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">
<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">OLPC - DBF Volunteer :- 4 - 5</span><br style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Video Volunteer :- 1 - 2</span><br style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">
<br>Please get back to us ASAP as the event starts on 24th January,2009.<br><br>Email Address to contact us :- <i><a href="mailto:dbfolpcvolunteer@gmail.com" target="_blank">dbfolpcvolunteer@gmail.com</a><br><br>Any new ideas for promoting OLPC Project on the day of the event are welcomed.<br>
<br></i><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">"Together we can and we will"</span><br><br>Thanks,<br>Amit<br><br></b><br>-- <br>Don't think you are, know you are"<br>