[fsug-bangalore] Follow-up to the meet on Saturday...

[प्रवीण् ए (Praveen A)]

2006/2/25, Abhas Abhinav <abhas at deeproot.co.in>:
>
> Hi Everyone...
>
> First of all let me profusely apologise for the rather delayed email...
> Its been pending for many days and I just got a chance to send it in.
>
> Okay - first a short snapshot of major stuff that we discussed regarding
> the organisation of a GPLv3 event. I'm going to focus and quote only on
> that part of our discussion... please do feel to add in anything that
> you feel I left out.
>
> 1. We discussed venues like public halls, IISc and IIM. There is a
> small follow-up to this after our visit to IISc on Monday and IIM on
> Tuesday. Shivanand and I met Prof Gopinath at IISc. Due to other
> engagements that he has it would not be possible to involve him in
> organising the conference at IISc. However, he is very interested in the
> conference and would be willing to join ing.
>
> We then met Prof Rahul De' and Prof Shankar Venkatgiri at IIM-B on
> Tuesday. They were very upbeat about the possiblities of organising the
> conference at IIM. Now we need to indicate some dates to them so that
> they can make a proposal to their committee (at the Centre of Public
> Policy at IIMB) and get a nod on whether they can hold the event there.


It is a nice development. Lets hope we can have it at IIMB.

2. Kanti raised a very very important point about assembling an action
> team here in Bangalore. He said that as a precursor to organising an
> event on such a large scale, we should first organise series of smaller
> events. This will help us in proving to ourselves that we can indeed
> organise a much bigger event.
>
> Based on Kanti's feedback, all of us decided that this is definitely
> needed and doable. Basically, working together as a team is very
> important and if we work together to do smaller events, it will help
> increase understanding amongst all of us who have volunteered to help
> out for the GPLv3 event.
>
> To start with, we will have another meet at BMSCE to discuss and
> understand the GPLv2. I volunteered to make a presentation on this.
> (Don't know if I'm biting off more than I could chew, but lets see...)
> And then we decided that we will discuss about the license to ensure
> that all of us understand it very well.


If we get a green signal from BMSCE then we can fix it this Saturaday or
Sunday. Nirmal  what do you think?

This event will a more of a team-building event. The idea is to ensure
> that we all know and understand each other enough to be able to work
> together for organising the GPLv3 conference.


Yup, I agree. We need to ub=nderstand each other and have a srong team.

3. Of course, I can't miss out mentioning the coffee we had at Koshy's.
> And the fun that it was sitting in Cubbon Park to have our discussion...
> I think we can make Cubbon Part our regular meeting place. Not the same
> rock... maybe a different one every time.


Hmm.. Last time there was a lady wearing a Microsoft T-shirt with an MSDN
logo watching us :-) ( I saw someone mentioning about it)

4. Briefly, we also touched upon the topic of offering projects and
> seminars to students.
>
> Many Many thanks to:
>
> Rakesh (arky) - for setting the temper and direction for so many of the
> meeting topics. Rakesh was also the one, I guess, who knew almost
> everyone present.
>
> Praveen A, Kushal Das, Ramkrishna Reddy, Anush Shetty, Nirmal Thacker,
> Kanti, and Bimal Mankara for contributing very actively to the healthy
> discussion.
>
> Many thanks to all others who attended and volunteered. I could not
> quote everyone's name above. Please don't feel bad about it.
>
> Here is a list of people who attended:
>
>    Kushal Das
>    Isaac Praveen
>    Akshay SasiKumar
>    Basil Baby
>    Bimal mankara
>    Sajith K.C
>    Anush Shetty
>    Nirmal Thacker
>    Praveen A
>    Ramkrishna Reddy
>    Parag Nemade
>    Zabil CM
>    Sweekar Pinto
>    Sajith T S
>    Nitin Numar
>    Laxminarayan Kamath
>    Shivanand V Edrami
>    Abhas Abhinav
>    Rakesh Ambati
>
> Many thanks to Laxminarayan for typing this in. I've left out the phone
> numbers here since this will be publically archived on the Internet...
> Can mail that to all of us privately.


Would love to have it.

Further actions
> ---------------
>
> 1. Identify time and date for the BMSCE meeting. I think we were
> planning for Saturday. But there seems to be a BLUG meeting. Do we still
> want to hold it parallelly or should we postpone our meet to Sunday or
> next weekend? Or even mid week sometime. Any other venues that could
> accomodate all of us?


Lets go ahead with BMS

2. We need a discussion list of some sort. Any suggestions? How about a
> gnu.org.in mailing list? Currently, everyone is subscribed to the
> FSUG-Bangalore mailing list and we can continue our discussion here.


Yeah, It would be great to have a gnu.org.in mailing list.
fsug-bangalore at gnu.org.in looks cool and we need to move the archives too.

Fellows - please do build up on this email... I'm sorry if I did not
> cover everything.
>
> Cheers, Abhas.
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