[IndiChix] LinuxChix @ TechKriti '08 (IIT Kanpur)

[Arun Raghavan]

Hello,

On Feb 3, 2008 1:09 PM, Ankita Garg <gargankita at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On Feb 3, 2008 1:02 PM, Hassath <hassath at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 3, 2008 12:42 PM, Ankita Garg <gargankita at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello folks,
> > >
> > > IIT Kanpur is having there tech fest from 14th -17th feb. Am glad to
> > > announce to the group that LinuxChix has been invited to conduct a
> session
> > > for the women FOSS enthusiasts taking part in the fest.
> >
> > That's nice. And who are the people who  will be representing the
> > group at the fest?

Unfortunately, we have only been able to invite Ankita this year due
to limited funding. We chose Ankita because she is a kernel
contributor, and thus a perfect example of a woman who is successful
in technical and open source communities (and there are few scarier
communities than the LKML).

That said, we're really happy to have Ankita represent LinuxChix at
FOSSKriti (http://www.techkriti.org/fosskriti). I believe that this is
a really great platform for students from around the country to be
introduced to the LC-IN community.

<snip>
> The duration of the talk has not been finalized yet. I am planning to create
> a presentation covering as much information as possible. Will send it out to
> the list for review once am done with that. The talk will be part of
> FOSSkriti, a FOSS event part of the techfest. So, I suppose folks would know
> about FOSS in general. But I will let Arun answer some of the
> quesitons..Arun, over to you :-)

The talk can go on for an hour (we can _try_ to squeeze in more time,
if needed). As for F/OSS awareness, we expect that most students are
aware of F/OSS, at least to some extent (it is a tech fest, after
all). We are planning to have a "Learn about F/OSS" stall (there is a
stall for LinuxChix as well) where people who can come and learn more.

The idea is to get people involved, rather than first drowning them
out in philosophy. We are trying to gear up the entire event in this
way.

Regards,
-- 
Arun Raghavan
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