FUDCon APAC bids are about to start

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

Just talked to Robyn Bergeron, the Fedora program manager and there is
still potential room to organize a FUDCon around November/December this
year. November is slightly more preferable because December has a lot of
holidays and people tend to go on vacations.  We will have multiple
folks bidding likely including one from Malaysia and China so it is not
necessarily going to be a FUDCon India unless we put together a full
fledged plan including budget,  schedule etc.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:India_2011

Feel free to pitch in your ideas and lets to try to wrap things up
enough for a solid proposal by the next weekend.  The first item would
obviously be to secure a place. 

Rahul

[Aditya Patawari]

Hi,

I would suggest using Nimhans Convention Center, Bangalore. Hiemanshu
has already listed himself as a contact for the same. Chances are that
I'll be in Bangalore in a month and can help him out. Nimhans has
hosted FOSS.in for years successfully and would be a great choice.

--
Aditya Patawari
http://blog.adityapatawari.com/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adimania
India



On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hi
>
>  Just talked to Robyn Bergeron, the Fedora program manager and there is
>  still potential room to organize a FUDCon around November/December this
>  year. November is slightly more preferable because December has a lot of
>  holidays and people tend to go on vacations.  We will have multiple
>  folks bidding likely including one from Malaysia and China so it is not
>  necessarily going to be a FUDCon India unless we put together a full
>  fledged plan including budget,  schedule etc.
>
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:India_2011
>
>  Feel free to pitch in your ideas and lets to try to wrap things up
>  enough for a solid proposal by the next weekend.  The first item would
>  obviously be to secure a place.
>
>  Rahul
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[Rahul Sundaram]

On 05/21/2011 09:21 PM, Aditya Patawari wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I would suggest using Nimhans Convention Center, Bangalore. Hiemanshu
>  has already listed himself as a contact for the same. Chances are that
>  I'll be in Bangalore in a month and can help him out. Nimhans has
>  hosted FOSS.in for years successfully and would be a great choice. 
I am fine with Nimhans.   I just need to what it is going to cost if
anything and whether we can secure dates in November so that I can
compare choices.  My one that I have in mind is COEP in Pune which we
will likely get at no cost but I am happy to take proposals.

Rahul

[Aditya Patawari]

Hi,

I have talked to Hiemanshu and he'll be talking to Nimhans people as
well as some colleges in Bangalore and will update the wiki as soon as
possible.
Please let me know if I can help out with anything.

Aditya Patawari
http://blog.adityapatawari.com/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adimania
India



On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On 05/21/2011 09:21 PM, Aditya Patawari wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would suggest using Nimhans Convention Center, Bangalore. Hiemanshu
> > has already listed himself as a contact for the same. Chances are that
> > I'll be in Bangalore in a month and can help him out. Nimhans has
> > hosted FOSS.in for years successfully and would be a great choice.
>
>  I am fine with Nimhans.   I just need to what it is going to cost if
>  anything and whether we can secure dates in November so that I can
>  compare choices.  My one that I have in mind is COEP in Pune which we
>  will likely get at no cost but I am happy to take proposals.
>
>  Rahul
>  _______________________________________________
>  india mailing list
>  india(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india
>

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 05/21/2011 09:56 PM, Aditya Patawari wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I have talked to Hiemanshu and he'll be talking to Nimhans people as
>  well as some colleges in Bangalore and will update the wiki as soon as
>  possible.
>  Please let me know if I can help out with anything. 
There will be a lot of tasks to delegate but I first things first. 
Location is our first priority and needs to be sorted out asap and once
that is settled, a lot of things will fall in place.   Meanwhile,  if
you have talk proposals and can travel to say Bangalore or Pune in
November time-frame,  edit the wiki and add your ideas.    If you are
interested in particular talks,  add them to a wishlist section and
maybe we can get more people to sign up.   Once I get a better handle on
the budget,  I can figure out how to split it.  

Rahul

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hi 
[..]
>  Feel free to pitch in your ideas and lets to try to wrap things up
>  enough for a solid proposal by the next weekend.  The first item would
>  obviously be to secure a place. 
Just communicated with Abhijit Sir from College of Engineering, Pune
about the venue. He has given a positive response.
During the week me and Rahul will meet with him and Suchakra[cc] (a
student of CoEP) and take things ahead.


-- 
Peace and Love,
Shreyank Gupta
Blog: http://allsortsofshrink.blogspot.com

[Suchakra]

I have had a discussion with Prof Abhijit on this a few months back and
discussed the same with Rahul too. There is no problem on our side. Even the
wi-fi issue (which was there before) is supposedly going to be solved too.
If CoEP is finalized as the venue then I'll start pacing things up
accordingly.

Suchakra
http://suchakra.wordpress.com


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:30 AM, shreyankg(a)gmail.com
<shreyankg(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote:

>  On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> <metherid(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  wrote:
>  > Hi
>  [..]
>  > Feel free to pitch in your ideas and lets to try to wrap things up
>  > enough for a solid proposal by the next weekend.  The first item would
>  > obviously be to secure a place.
>
>  Just communicated with Abhijit Sir from College of Engineering, Pune
>  about the venue. He has given a positive response.
>  During the week me and Rahul will meet with him and Suchakra[cc] (a
>  student of CoEP) and take things ahead.
>
>
>  --
>  Peace and Love,
>  Shreyank Gupta
>  Blog: http://allsortsofshrink.blogspot.com
>

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 05/24/2011 12:11 PM, Suchakra wrote:
>  I have had a discussion with Prof Abhijit on this a few months back
>  and discussed the same with Rahul too. There is no problem on our
>  side. Even the wi-fi issue (which was there before) is supposedly
>  going to be solved too. If CoEP is finalized as the venue then I'll
>  start pacing things up accordingly. 
If I don't get a alternative and better venue proposal along with
someone taking ownership of that by the end of this week, I am inclined
to go with COEP.  Meanwhile , I have updated the wiki with the tentative
initial budget we will be granted if we win a bid.   In short,  we have
to plan within 15000 US Dollars

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2011-May/002350....

Let's start filling up the schedule. 

Rahul