freedom in technology and software

Jan

20

Announcement for Freed.in 2009

Filed Under News

We have some good news, and some bad news for you about Freed.in 2009. The good news is that the third Freed.in will be held as scheduled on Feb. 20th, and 21st, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi. Please see the revised call for papers here, noting in particular that the new deadline for talk submissions is next Sun., the 25th of Jan. If you have already submitted a talk, you do not need to resubmit it, but all new submissions should be done through the “Talk Registration” link above, or sent to talks@freed.in. Registration for the event is now open through the “Delegate Registration” link above. While attending the event is still free for all participants, we do request that you register online.

The bad news is that due to various factors, including the economic recession, and an insufficient number of committed organisers, we have considerably scaled back the event. In particular, we do not plan to approach sponsors for this event, and everything will be done on a minimal budget. Unfortunately, this also means that we do not have a budget for local hospitality, and we are therefore asking all speakers to bear their own costs for travel and lodging. If you need a supporting letter from us in order to arrange for funds from your host institution, or other agency, we would be glad to oblige. We are also trying to arrange for accommodation for out-of-station speakers at the homes of local organisers. So, if you require accommodation in Delhi, please let us know, but sadly we cannot guarantee that at the moment.

We plan on having a total of about 15 talks over the two days, with each talk being 45 min., plus 15 min. of interacting with the audience. The call for papers lists potential interest areas, and we will be asking people from FOSS user groups across India to send a representative. Thank you for bearing with us through these difficult times. We do have plans for revamping Freed.in, and taking it on the road, so if you are interested, keep an eye on this site.

Comments

4 Responses to “Announcement for Freed.in 2009”

  1. confplans » freed.in revises CfP deadline, revamps into leaner mode on January 20th, 2009 11:59 pm

    […] freed.in blog has an update about the conference today. Among other things, the organizers have requested speakers to arrange […]

  2. Ajay Pal Singh Atwal on February 3rd, 2009 9:00 pm

    The venue for freed.in i.e. JNU New Delhi should be mentioned more prominently, form someone using www.freed.in as the only source of information, it is rather difficult to find on the website where the venue is mentioned.
    Looking forward to see you guys

  3. Dipan Roy on February 11th, 2009 3:34 pm

    My Submission is to distribute the resources and presentations by Presentators , either can be put on freed or distributed thru cds with nominal fee( Rs 10) at FReed. Also freed need to colloborate with the institutions which can impart free training to masses. Recently I came thru NITTTR Chandigarh who are giving free training to Faculty and Staff of Technical Institutions , All Over the Country. ( www.nitttrchd.ac.in)

    All The best to Freed and its great Success.

  4. gora mohanty on February 11th, 2009 5:58 pm

    Dear Dipan,

    The presentations will be made available on this site after the conference. However, we currently have no plans on distributing these on CDs, unless someone would like to volunteer to take on that task.

    Regards,
    Gora

Leave a Reply