Hey Folks,
Its been really a socially active year for me and I added a lot to my surprise when my name got finalized to host the Microsoft Windows 7 launch party. Wonder what am I talking about ? Well some of you might have seen Microsoft advertising about this launch party since long now. Most of you might have blogged about it as well. But those who do not read blogs regularly or do not watch television that often, let me explain this.
Windows 7 Launch party
Microsoft, wants to make a difference this time. Instead of launching its products in the conventional way in front of few thousand people and then later shipping it to different parts of world. They want people to celebrate the launch of Windows7 at their places. In return they promise to give away free windows 7 – surprising ?
Although surprising but this is what they have promised. There might be some terms & conditions associated with the free windows license or some limited number of licenses which Microsoft is going to give away.
How am I going to organize ?
Microsoft has promised they will be posting a party kit at my address, which will include goodies to share among the people who are going to attend the party. Planning to host it as a big party. I will try approaching different companies for sponsoring the party. So then I can have the party in a club etc. I am also planning to demo Windows 7 on the Project Screen, the bigger the better.
When & Where ?
The date for the party will be 24th October, 2009 and the venue is still to be decided as I have talked to some event organizing agencies. Have to get confirmations from the sponsors etc.
Can I join the fun ?
Undoubtedly you can join us in the party provided you can travel to Ludhiana, Punjab where I am going to host the party. I am sure people residing at Ludhiana are pretty excited already to join me in the fun. Microsoft suggested to invite 9 or more people. So will have to check how much goodies are they going to ship ?And if you are invited then you already have the invitation in your mailbox.
How can I help ?
Well if you can arrange for the sponsors, then it will be more than enough. That will make the party bigger & better. I am trying to cover it in media so if you got links with some News Channels etc that will be awesome.
Do not forget to add your views and comments.
Stay Digified !!
Sachin Khosla
Why do not you support Ubuntu or Fedora instead of supporting Windows.
I support Ubuntu as well .. I can support both of them, right ?
You cannot support both because both have different principle and values behind them. define your principle and choose one the these two. Do you want Windows adaptation in India and thinking that every children for his course work buy a legal windows and M$ Office instead of Open Office ? Think for future of India. Before Independence of India, our money was going in “videshi” hand and now also it is going but way is different, You call yourself as social person then why cannot you understand that FOSS is all about collaborating and sharing. Supporting Evil Companies in any way is called supporting to Evil. You might now be knowing all evil ans sins of M$ Or they might not be affecting you directly but Evil is Evil. you can search on Internet Or if you got some time then read carefull thsi website – http://windows7sins.org/ . I can explain full day to make you understand you are going to do a very action in your life.
look dude, I am not here to argue with you. Don’t do this India & its poverty melodrama. Bang the phone which you carry, bang all the china made stuff you use. You cannot just live isolated as an India.
And a social person is not the one who dictates about his country, he is the one who interacts across the boundaries of country, religion, status etc.
Will be happy if you can write a blog post against this blog post.
Narendra – This windows 7 sins website you speak of is nothing but brainwash… they want 50$ to send 100 letter? I would not be surprised if the ones who are behind this are busy getting drunk and laughing their way to the bank right now.
You are thinking in term of indian moeny. RMS has done lots of work – you can read about him at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman , He is the most respected person in software world.
Good going Sachin – kudos to you for being active and making Ludhiana part of the worldwide launch and party.
Though, our Ludhiana development unit is OpenSource, we at 01Synergy are open to be associated and to sponsor to make this event a success in Ludhiana.
Thanks Preet, for your support. Should get back to you on the sponsorship part
Sure – work out the details as to what all you need and the relevant costs, we may be able to do all of it ourselves.
I’m getting Win7 for $30… Perks of being faculty at the university of illinois. Office 2007 for $40. How cool is that. Dirt cheap prices.
Wow that is great !!
way to go sachin..
waise i am planning to raid that party with some uber-OS installation disks – multiple flavors you know
sad, that you might have to miss OSScamp Chandigarh, scheduled for the same date
Sure you are welcome anytime.
Dude, my brain picked up a few keywords from your article, namely:
1. Free
2. Party
3. Windows
What’s the deal, assuming I can find the parties myself (so no problem there), and that leaving us with two keywords – how do I get the “free windows”?
Hahahaha .. MS has announced that it will give free windows to the host and that is me. But I am not sure if it is applicable to all the hosts or no.
In parties i am mostly invited ………
y or n
but how……..!!!!!!