Release Party F11 at NIT Agartala

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Fedora 11 Release Party - Agartala, India

Inviting interested faculty members & students of our college, Tripura Institute of Technology(TIT), ICFAI, Tripura Medical College(TMC) & other local colleges & schools officially through college invitation
Also inviting IIT Guwahati, NIT Silchar(our Director is its joint head), NIT Durgapur, Jadavpur University & NERIST, Itanagar
Will send out official invitations through college & also via email to all the NITs & IITs
Will also put up few posters at important places in the city to attract interested people

Expected attendance of over 1,000 people over the two days.
The faculties of Computer Science & Engineering & heads of institutions from in & around the city and nearby colleges(i.e. NIT Silchar & IIT Guwahati) will be invited officially

Install fest- newer features like Live USB also will be undertaken
Talks via VoIP with Fedora & O'Reilly speakers(negotiations ongoing). Having Gordon Meyer to give a talk on DIYs as part of the extension of Open Source hardware via VoIP
Presentations & workshops(Qcad, QUCS & Scilab) by eminent speakers including Shakthi Kannan(key FOSS contributor & Fedora ambassador) & probably also Pradeepto Bhattacharya(KDE developer & Asia head) & a few NIT Agartala GLUG members
Sun might also be sending a speaker. Not yet confirmed, referred by a contact

Will fully use the offline repository to be handed to us by Rangeen. Thanks a lot to NIT Durgapur folks
Mozilla desk focussing on Firefox

Ad "NIT Agartala Open Source & GNU/Linux fest" has been added to Clickindia Classifieds-www.clickindia.com/detail.php?id=1480637
Event details & Benefits for sponsors--Google document--http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgqr3n47_0dq82zcfj