Event report for Fedora meetup @ Bangalore on 8th March, 2014

[Ratnadeep Debnath]

Hi all,

Finally, after a long time, we had a Fedora meetup today (March 8,
2014) in Bangalore at Red Hat's office in Bangalore.

The attendees for the event were:
- Anil Shah
- Varun Shastry
- Rejy M Cyriac
- Ratnadeep Debnath
- Sayan Chowdhury
- Sarup Banskota

Following is a summary of the discussions that took place in today's meetup:

Fedora monthly meetup
=================
  We've decided to do a local Fedora meetup every month to discuss and
act on reaching out to more and more people in and around the city to
encourage usage of FOSS tools, Fedora and contributing back.

FAD
====
  Once in a while, we decided have FADs where fellow Fedora folks get
together to share knowledge and hack on cool projects.

Reach out to colleges
================
  In a slow and steady manner, we'd go to colleges and local LUGs and
conduct events and workshops to educate and inspire more people to
contribute to FOSS and Fedora.

Entry point for contributors
====================
  We'd be working on creating the necessary tools to help newbies get
started with contributing to Fedora very easily. This is inspired from
http://www.whatcanidoformozilla.org/.

Please feel free to drop your comments and opinions on the above
topics discussed in today's meetup to help us do better job in
evangelising Fedora and inspiring people to contribute.

Regards

[Rejy M Cyriac]

On 03/08/2014 11:37 PM, Ratnadeep Debnath wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Finally, after a long time, we had a Fedora meetup today (March 8,
> 2014) in Bangalore at Red Hat's office in Bangalore.
>
> The attendees for the event were:
> Anil Shah
> Varun Shastry
> Rejy M Cyriac
> Ratnadeep Debnath
> Sayan Chowdhury
> Sarup Banskota
>
> Following is a summary of the discussions that took place in today's meetup:
> Fedora monthly meetup
>
> We've decided to do a local Fedora meetup every month to discuss and
> act on reaching out to more and more people in and around the city to
> encourage usage of FOSS tools, Fedora and contributing back.

I propose that we put up a regular schedule to meet, so that everyone
can plan ahead to attend the Fedora Bangalore meeting any month of their
choice. I say let us schedule the Fedora meeting for 10:00 - 13:00, on
the *last Saturday* of every month, starting from April 2014.

The venue could always be the Red Hat Bangalore office, and in case
there is any change in the venue, day, or time, this can be communicated
ahead of time, to the list.

Can we make a general page at the Fedora wiki for 'Fedora User Group -
Bangalore', with the regular venue, day and time of meeting at the top.
Then we can add the agenda, and reports for every meeting that we have
at the page. We could also have links from the page to other wiki pages
where we might have project specific information, like for FAD, college
visits/events/workshops, Fedora infrastructure/tools improvement and so on.
> FAD
>
> Once in a while, we decided have FADs where fellow Fedora folks get
> together to share knowledge and hack on cool projects.

Let us put up some ideas for FAD events, and put in tentative dates to them.
> Reach out to colleges
>
> In a slow and steady manner, we'd go to colleges and local LUGs and
> conduct events and workshops to educate and inspire more people to
> contribute to FOSS and Fedora.

We need to make a list of colleges to reach out to, and then move on to
planning what kind of events/workshops to have.
> Entry point for contributors
>
> We'd be working on creating the necessary tools to help newbies get
> started with contributing to Fedora very easily. This is inspired from
> http://www.whatcanidoformozilla.org/.

What is the plan to get this done, and where are we now ? Do we have the
resources currently to get this done, or do we have to wait till we can
inspire more contributors to help out on it ?
> Please feel free to drop your comments and opinions on the above
> topics discussed in today's meetup to help us do better job in
> evangelising Fedora and inspiring people to contribute.
>
> Regards

How did the meeting at FSMK for GSoC students go ? Do we see interest
for Fedora there ?

Why the radio-silence ? Let us keep talking here, and not let the spark
we have got going for Fedora Bangalore group go out. :-)

- rejy (rmc)

[Rejy M Cyriac]

On 03/29/2014 07:47 PM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
> On 03/08/2014 11:37 PM, Ratnadeep Debnath wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Finally, after a long time, we had a Fedora meetup today (March 8,
> > 2014) in Bangalore at Red Hat's office in Bangalore.
> >
> > The attendees for the event were:
> > Anil Shah
> > Varun Shastry
> > Rejy M Cyriac
> > Ratnadeep Debnath
> > Sayan Chowdhury
> > Sarup Banskota
> >
> > Following is a summary of the discussions that took place in today's meetup:
> > Fedora monthly meetup
> >
> > We've decided to do a local Fedora meetup every month to discuss and
> > act on reaching out to more and more people in and around the city to
> > encourage usage of FOSS tools, Fedora and contributing back.
>
> I propose that we put up a regular schedule to meet, so that everyone
> can plan ahead to attend the Fedora Bangalore meeting any month of their
> choice. I say let us schedule the Fedora meeting for 10:00 - 13:00, on
> the *last Saturday* of every month, starting from April 2014.

With Parliament Elections scheduled for most of April, maybe we could
skip the Bangalore Fedora User meeting for April, and have the next one
on the last Saturday of May, which would be the 31st of May. Gives
everyone a lot of time to plan their schedules so as to attend the
meeting, and to get the agenda planned well. What do you folks say ?
> The venue could always be the Red Hat Bangalore office, and in case
> there is any change in the venue, day, or time, this can be communicated
> ahead of time, to the list.
>
> Can we make a general page at the Fedora wiki for 'Fedora User Group -
> Bangalore', with the regular venue, day and time of meeting at the top.
> Then we can add the agenda, and reports for every meeting that we have
> at the page. We could also have links from the page to other wiki pages
> where we might have project specific information, like for FAD, college
> visits/events/workshops, Fedora infrastructure/tools improvement and so on.

Calling creative people to volunteer for this.

- rejy (rmc)
> > FAD
> >
> > Once in a while, we decided have FADs where fellow Fedora folks get
> > together to share knowledge and hack on cool projects.
>
> Let us put up some ideas for FAD events, and put in tentative dates to them.
> > Reach out to colleges
> >
> > In a slow and steady manner, we'd go to colleges and local LUGs and
> > conduct events and workshops to educate and inspire more people to
> > contribute to FOSS and Fedora.
>
> We need to make a list of colleges to reach out to, and then move on to
> planning what kind of events/workshops to have.
> > Entry point for contributors
> >
> > We'd be working on creating the necessary tools to help newbies get
> > started with contributing to Fedora very easily. This is inspired from
> > http://www.whatcanidoformozilla.org/.
>
> What is the plan to get this done, and where are we now ? Do we have the
> resources currently to get this done, or do we have to wait till we can
> inspire more contributors to help out on it ?
> > Please feel free to drop your comments and opinions on the above
> > topics discussed in today's meetup to help us do better job in
> > evangelising Fedora and inspiring people to contribute.
> >
> > Regards
>
> How did the meeting at FSMK for GSoC students go ? Do we see interest
> for Fedora there ?
>
> Why the radio-silence ? Let us keep talking here, and not let the spark
> we have got going for Fedora Bangalore group go out. :-)
> rejy (rmc)
>
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