[fedora-india] Fwd: Planning for Fedora monthly meetup at Bangalore

[Rejy M Cyriac]

On 06/26/2014 01:17 PM, Ratnadeep Debnath wrote:
> By mistake, this mail did not make it to fedora-india's mailing list
> on time :(. Anyways, better late than never.
> 

:-)

> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ratnadeep Debnath <rtnpro at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:19 AM
> Subject: Planning for Fedora monthly meetup at Bangalore
> To: fedora-ambassadors-list at redhat.com, fedora-india at redhat.com
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We had a small meetup of Fedora enthusiasts at Red Hat's office in
> Bangalore on May 31, 2014 (last Saturday of May). We want to continue
> the same streak, that is, a Fedora meetup in Bangalore, every last
> Saturday of the month.
> 
> So, the next meetup is going to happen on June 28, 2014 at Red Hat, Bangalore.
> 
> Venue:
> RED HAT INDIA PVT LTD.
> 11TH FLOOR, TOWER-D
> IBC KNOWLEDGE PARK
> #4/1 BANNERGHATTA ROAD
> NEAR DAIRY CIRCLE
> BANGALORE – 560 029
> 

So, do we have enough time to spread the word, if the Fedora Activity
Day is to happen this Saturday ? Or should we propose it for the July slot ?

> However, from now on, we have decided that it will be less discussions
> and more contributions, something like a Fedora Activity Day. For a
> start, we plan to pick up tasks from
> https://fedoraproject.org/easyfix/ and submit our work at the end of
> the day.
> 
> We will posting about the event on social media and spreading the word
> in the surrounding colleges, so that someone interested may join too.
> 

This is where we need the help of all social-media savvy folks on this list.

> We are not biased about the distro anyone uses. Our primary focus is
> to create a hub, an environment for doing upstream contributions.
> 

We will still encourage folks to work on Fedora Infrastructure stuff,
but upstream project specific contributions are valuable to Fedora too.
So we can have a mix of all.

Contributions is not just about development, but includes testing,
documentation, and packaging.

We could also through in a few sessions/workshops on topics of interest
like packaging for example.

> How does this sound, folks?
> 
> Please share your valuable feedback.
> 
> Regards,
> --
> Ratnadeep Debnath,
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Regards,

Rejy M Cyriac (rmc)