<div><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial">Hello! </span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"></span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial">I had been part of </span><a href="http://conf.kde.in/" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial">conf.kde.in</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"> in 2011 when it was held in RVCE, Bangalore.</span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"></span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial">This time I want to pitch </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">PESIT, Bangalore</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"> as a possible venue. </span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial">We have a very active Open source club which has already conducted two 24 hour hackathons and a 1 day open source conference as well. We are also organizing a design innovation workshop with people from MIT, USA coming in. <a href="http://india.media.mit.edu" target="_blank">[1]</a></span><br>
<a href="http://india.media.mit.edu/" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"></span></a><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial">Lydia and Sebastian had been to the most recent one in November 2012. Shantanu, Sinny, Sujith, Sai Dinesh, Gopalkrishna had attended the event in April, 2012 too. They could vouch for the enthusiasm of the students (not just the organizers) and the venue. We had 4 GSoCers for KDE from PESIT this year as well. </span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"></span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial">About the college : </span><br>
<ul style="font-family:'Times New Roman';margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Located closer than RVCE to the city centre </span><a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=PESIT,+Bangalore&hl=en&sll=12.974239,77.512295&sspn=0.078454,0.054502&hq=PESIT,+Bangalore&t=m&z=17" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[2]</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About 40+ active members interested in help organize the event. </span></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There is a very good hotel inside the college premises - the visiting speakers could stay there. Apart from this, there are private lodges 1km away from the campus (We are arranging for private accommodation from the college for the MIT event) There is a possibility of using the college hostel as well. (However, they will be available only during Jun - Aug)</span></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1 big auditorium which could seat about 1000 people. 2 mini conference rooms which could seat about 80-120 people. Another small conference room seating 50. All of them with good acoustics. </span></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It is easily accessible by students of other colleges in Bangalore</span></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The management is very accommodating and will approve the event</span></li>
</ul><div><font color="#222222" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial">We have a workshop already lined up in January and with exams for most students in May/June, we could have c.k.i in the </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">March - April</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"> period.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>Thanks!</b></div><div><b style="font-weight:normal">Phalgun<br><br></b>[1] <b style="font-weight:normal"><a href="http://india.media.mit.edu/" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial">india.media.mit.edu</span></a></b><b style="font-weight:normal"><br>
<br><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[2] </span><a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=PESIT,+Bangalore&hl=en&sll=12.974239,77.512295&sspn=0.078454,0.054502&hq=PESIT,+Bangalore&t=m&z=17" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://maps.google.com/maps?q=PESIT,+Bangalore&hl=en&sll=12.974239,77.512295&sspn=0.078454,0.054502&hq=PESIT,+Bangalore&t=m&z=17</span></a></b></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shaan7in@gmail.com" target="_blank">shaan7in@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Shrikrishna Holla <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shrikrishna.holla@gmail.com" target="_blank">shrikrishna.holla@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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@Yash:<div>I think the plan is to have <a href="http://conf.kde.in" target="_blank">conf.kde.in</a> 2013 in parallel with <a href="http://foss.in" target="_blank">foss.in</a> as it greatly increases visibility</div></blockquote>
</div><div><br>It was a suggestion, not a plan.<br> <br></div><div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div>
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On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Yash Shah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@yashshah.com" target="_blank">mail@yashshah.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Everyone,<br><br>I would like to suggest Dhirubhai Ambani Institute
of Information and Communication Technology ( DA-IICT), Gandhinagar as
the venue for <a href="http://conf.kde.in" target="_blank">conf.kde.in</a> 2013.<br><br>Few reasons: <br>
> There are huge no. of KDE people in DA-IICT. <br>> DA-IICT ranked #1 in India for most number of students selected in GSoC 2012. We have really nice open source community.<br>> We will also get plenty of volunteers for organizing it.<br>
> Venue is 20 km from Ahmedabad international airport<br>> It will also help us in promoting KDE in Gujarat. Currently huge no. of schools in Gujarat have Linux on their systems.<br><br>Currently i am lead of Google Developer group in our college. I am also member of student placement cell. <br>
<br>If everybody is interested, i can ask our college authority.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Yash<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Sebastian Kügler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebas@kde.org" target="_blank">sebas@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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A quick note: I'm now subscribed to this list. :)<br>
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Else, because I'm emailing anyway: Huge thanks to those who attended FOSS.in<br>
last week, and much respect for being such a great and lively community.<br>
<br>
Now let's think about <a href="http://conf.kde.in" target="_blank">conf.kde.in</a> 2013. I've just had a conference call with<br>
the KDE e.V. board, and all of us are happy to support <a href="http://conf.kde.in" target="_blank">conf.kde.in</a> 2013.<br>
<br>
Go KDE India!<br>
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