[fedora-india] [Ambassadors] Proposal to hold a Fedora meetup in Bangalore

[Rejy M Cyriac]

On 03/05/2014 02:20 PM, Ratnadeep Debnath wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Rejy M Cyriac <rcyriac at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Contact person for this meetup from Red Hat would be Rejy M Cyriac
>>> (rcyriac at redhat.com <mailto:rcyriac at redhat.com>).
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
>> The venue address:
>>
>> RED HAT INDIA PVT LTD.
>> 11TH FLOOR, TOWER-D
>> IBC KNOWLEDGE PARK
>> #4/1 BANNERGHATTA ROAD
>> NEAR DAIRY CIRCLE
>> BANGALORE - 560 029
>>
>> My Contact number: (+91) 9663777229
> 
> Cool!
> 
>> Do we have an agenda set for the meet ? Sorry if I missed it from an
>> earlier post.
> 
> The propose agenda is:
> 1. Share cool stuffs we have been doing
> 2. Evangelise project ideas for GSoC
> 3. Share the awesomeness of Fedora
> 4. Contributing to Fedora
> 5. Distribute installation media
> 
> I am not sure about student participation for the event. Saturday is a
> working day for many colleges. However, if students are interested,
> they can surely turn up for the event.
> 
> I spoke with the folks from FSMK about this. They said that a lot of
> students (around 60) are interested in GSoC and want to know more
> about it. But the agenda of our meeting is more Fedora specific.
> 
> * Will it be wise to invite the students who are solely interested in
> GSoC for the meetup?
>   - Constraints for the above are:
>     - seating space
>     - deviate from Fedora specific discussions
>   - Alternate solution:
>     Someone from us can take part in the FSMK's meetup for GSoC
> (proposed on 9th March) and put forward Fedora and it's project ideas
> for GSoC.
> 
> * Or, shall the meetup comprise of only Fedora enthusiasts? We can
> discuss on Fedora specific topics like:
>   - how to get more contributors from our neighbourhood
>   - evangelize Fedora as a GSoC organization in the neighbourhood
>   - Increase Fedora usage
> 
> Please share your feedback on this.
> 
> Regards
> 
I propose that we go for the second option, and focus on Fedora specific
topics. We could have a discussion on participating at the next day's
FSMK meetup for GSoC.

- rejy (rmc)