Re: Mauritius Smart Cities Conference

From: Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 03:38:56 +0000

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 5:44 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:

> Hi Logan,
> At 10:24 09-09-2015, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
>
>> At the minimum, they should provide
>>
>> 1) Money for transport
>> 2) Food allowances
>> 3) Sponsored booth
>> 4) Pay for RPI and other demo material. Right now, they expect us to
>> bring our own gear, which is fine for the first event, but not every time.
>>
>
> Did the president of your group write to the National Computer Board to
> ask for the above?
>
> We tend to look at the matter as the governmental organization doing up a
> favour by inviting a volunteer group to an event. Isn't it better to
> reverse that approach?
>
>
Depends on the PoV.

I think that it's a win-win. We get to advocate linux during those events,
and they get some more credibility :)



> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
Received on Thu Sep 10 2015 - 03:39:10 PST