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*Photos and description of the location contributed by Sudhanshu*
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Our [Call for Locations](/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-4.0-Call-for-Locations/) showed a lot of interest. Several groups from different places in India have answered. Some only told in a short answer that they are interested but did not follow up, and 4 groups gave more detailed information and had a video meeting with us. In the end, the most convincing bid came from the Google Developer Group (GDG) IIIT Allahabad and we settled with them.
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Our [Call for Locations](/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-4.0-Call-for-Locations/) showed a lot of interest. Several groups from different places in India have answered (mainly on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/opportunity-open-source-40-call-locations-till-kamppeter-ktr2f/)). Some only told in a short answer that they are interested but did not follow up, and 4 groups gave more detailed information and had a video meeting with us. In the end, the most convincing bid came from the Google Developer Group (GDG) IIIT Allahabad and we settled with them.
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**IIIT Allahabad** stands among **India’s premier technology institutes**, located in the historic and intellectually vibrant city of **Prayagraj**, in the state **Uttar Pradesh** in India. Renowned for its rich cultural legacy, academic excellence, and deep-rooted scholarly atmosphere, Prayagraj has long been a meeting point of ideas, innovation, and learning.
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*IIT Allahabad: Main Auditorium and Admin Auditorium*
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Details regarding sponsors are currently being finalised and will be shared in due course.
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Details regarding sponsors are currently being finalized and will be shared in due course.
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**Rishu Kumar**, **Sudhanshu**, and **Aditya Ajay** will be the overall coordinators, and together with faculty coordinator **Prof. Bibhas Ghoshal** they will create a team of volunteers, mostly students who will do the **on-location organization**. They will look for local sponsors, reserve conference rooms and spaces for hallway track and exhibition, accommodation for speakers and non-local attendees, organize meals, prepare and test audio/video setup in the rooms, ...
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## Selecting the date
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The date we have set to be **some weeks after the summer break at the IIIT**, so that the **students volunteering in the organization team** are back for some weeks already to have time to **prepare the event**. On the other side we also had to care **not to fall into an exam week**, so that students have time to attend.
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Another criteria for the selection of the event date are **other national and internationsl conferences** happening at this time, especially the **aKademy** 2026 in Graz, Austria, on September 19-24, and the **IndiaFOSS** in Bengaluru, on September 26-27.
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Another criteria for the selection of the event date are **other national and international conferences** happening at this time, especially the **aKademy** 2026 in Graz, Austria, on September 19-24, and the **IndiaFOSS** in Bengaluru, on September 26-27.
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And in **October** we have the **festive season** in India.
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As in the other years we want to motivate students (and also professors and researchers) to learn about free and open-source software and to join the community of developers and contributors. Not only coding and debugging can be contributed, but also designers, technical authors, evangelists, … are highly welcome.
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And to make this event really great, we need your contributions: Talks, panels, workshops, demo tables, lightning talks ... Show us how you are contributing to free and open-source software, how you make our lifes better with it, You do not need to be a coder. also sessions about documentation, design, community, success stories, ... are highly welcome.
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And to make this event really great, we need your contributions: Talks, panels, workshops, demo tables, lightning talks ... Show us how you are contributing to free and open-source software, how you make our lives better with it, You do not need to be a coder. also sessions about documentation, design, community, success stories, ... are highly welcome.
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**Our [Call for Proposals](https://events.canonical.com/event/154/abstracts/) is open! Until July 3, 2026!**
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