Hi, Arun, i happened to visit NIAS last year as part of Mozilla devcamp, it is aptly suited as you have said in the previous mail. I'll just give you points on how things were set up then, 1. The lobby just before the Main Audi was used to register the participants and also to distribute swags at the end of the event. 2. A small covered area which you had mentioned, was used to serve lunch. Most of them had to sit on the grass and have lunch then. 3. As the main audi doesnt have much of power plugin points, getting laptops wouldnt be viable. For registration : 1. I suggest using EventBrite http://www.eventbrite.com/fees/ as its free. It gives a compact registration derails of the delegates. Also we will be able to restrict the number of participants according to the capacity of the audi. 2. If one feels this is complicated then we can as well go with the Google Docs as registration form. For Publicty : 1. I saw Tinucherian would be able to do through main stream media, but once we get done with the registration form, we can start tweeting about it and also pass on to the numerous open source communities. That should help us get the proper audience. I've spread the word on the requirement for volunteers, I hope to see few joining the mailing list shortly Regards, Srikanta On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Arun Ramarathnam <arunram25(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-blr mailing list Wikimedia-in-blr(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-blr