[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : Fedora meetup, Bangalore

[Ratnadeep Debnath]

Dear all,

You are kindly invited to the meeting:
   Fedora meetup, Bangalore on 2016-06-25 from 18:00:00 to 20:00:00 Asia/Kolkata
   At Bangalore

The meeting will be about:
# Monthly Fedora meetup, Bangalore

A monthly get together of Fedora enthusiasts in Bangalore to discuss about the latest things happening in the Fedora ecosystem and contribute back to the community. The meetup usually takes place at:
Starbucks Coffee
Samrat No.2013, 100 Ft Road, HAL 2nd Stage, Indiranagar
Bangalore, Karnataka - 560008

Map: http://goo.gl/2d1WtN

People who cannot make it to the venue can also join us over IRC: #fedora-india on Freenode

Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/2806/

[Rejy M Cyriac]

On 06/24/2016 11:30 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> You are kindly invited to the meeting:
>    Fedora meetup, Bangalore on 2016-06-25 from 18:00:00 to 20:00:00 Asia/Kolkata
>    At Bangalore
>
> The meeting will be about:
> # Monthly Fedora meetup, Bangalore
>
> A monthly get together of Fedora enthusiasts in Bangalore to discuss about the latest things happening in the Fedora ecosystem and contribute back to the community. The meetup usually takes place at:
> Starbucks Coffee
> Samrat No.2013, 100 Ft Road, HAL 2nd Stage, Indiranagar
> Bangalore, Karnataka - 560008

I am surprised that the Monthly Fedora meet-up at Bangalore is now quite
regularly being held at a Starbucks Coffee outlet. Fedora activities at
college campuses I can understand, and should be encouraged, but why
Starbucks ?!

We used to have the Monthly Fedora meet-up much earlier being held at
the Red Hat Bangalore office, with free coffee/tea, free snacks, and
free WiFi always available. I think we could have the meet-up at the Red
Hat Bangalore office at least once in two months.

Red Hat being the sponsor of Fedora, it would be good to utilize the
facilities of Red Hat for Fedora activities, especially when there is no
good reason to have it done elsewhere.

- rejy (rmc)
> Map: http://goo.gl/2d1WtN
>
> People who cannot make it to the venue can also join us over IRC: #fedora-india on Freenode
>
> Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/2806/
>
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> [e-mail]
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[Ratnadeep Debnath]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Rejy M Cyriac  wrote:
> On 06/24/2016 11:30 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > You are kindly invited to the meeting:
> >    Fedora meetup, Bangalore on 2016-06-25 from 18:00:00 to 20:00:00 Asia/Kolkata
> >    At Bangalore
> >
> > The meeting will be about:
> > # Monthly Fedora meetup, Bangalore
> >
> > A monthly get together of Fedora enthusiasts in Bangalore to discuss about the latest things happening in the Fedora ecosystem and contribute back to the community. The meetup usually takes place at:
> > Starbucks Coffee
> > Samrat No.2013, 100 Ft Road, HAL 2nd Stage, Indiranagar
> > Bangalore, Karnataka - 560008

This event in Fedocal was already disabled for quite some time. It
seems like because of some, reasons, it started sending notifications
since last month. I have now deleted the event from the calendar.

That said, we need to chalk out plans to reboot this meetup.

Thanks,
rtnpro

[Rejy M Cyriac]

On 06/27/2016 03:30 PM, Ratnadeep Debnath wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Rejy M Cyriac  wrote:
> > On 06/24/2016 11:30 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > You are kindly invited to the meeting:
> > >    Fedora meetup, Bangalore on 2016-06-25 from 18:00:00 to 20:00:00 Asia/Kolkata
> > >    At Bangalore
> > >
> > > The meeting will be about:
> > > # Monthly Fedora meetup, Bangalore
> > >
> > > A monthly get together of Fedora enthusiasts in Bangalore to discuss about the latest things happening in the Fedora ecosystem and contribute back to the community. The meetup usually takes place at:
> > > Starbucks Coffee
> > > Samrat No.2013, 100 Ft Road, HAL 2nd Stage, Indiranagar
> > > Bangalore, Karnataka - 560008
>
> This event in Fedocal was already disabled for quite some time. It
> seems like because of some, reasons, it started sending notifications
> since last month. I have now deleted the event from the calendar.
>
> That said, we need to chalk out plans to reboot this meetup.
>
> Thanks,
> rtnpro

Oh! Then the situation is worse than the issue that I had raised about
the location!

I was under the impression that regular meetings, even if at Starbucks
Coffee, was happening.

We urgently need to get the monthly Fedora meetings running.

Need for some young passionate folks to invigorate the scene ? Sumantro,
maybe you can help ?

[Sayan Chowdhury]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Rejy M Cyriac  wrote:
> On 06/24/2016 11:30 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > You are kindly invited to the meeting:
> >    Fedora meetup, Bangalore on 2016-06-25 from 18:00:00 to 20:00:00 Asia/Kolkata
> >    At Bangalore
> >
> > The meeting will be about:
> > # Monthly Fedora meetup, Bangalore
> >
> > A monthly get together of Fedora enthusiasts in Bangalore to discuss about the latest things happening in the Fedora ecosystem and contribute back to the community. The meetup usually takes place at:
> > Starbucks Coffee
> > Samrat No.2013, 100 Ft Road, HAL 2nd Stage, Indiranagar
> > Bangalore, Karnataka - 560008
>
> I am surprised that the Monthly Fedora meet-up at Bangalore is now quite
> regularly being held at a Starbucks Coffee outlet. Fedora activities at
> college campuses I can understand, and should be encouraged, but why
> Starbucks ?!
>
> We used to have the Monthly Fedora meet-up much earlier being held at
> the Red Hat Bangalore office, with free coffee/tea, free snacks, and
> free WiFi always available. I think we could have the meet-up at the Red
> Hat Bangalore office at least once in two months.
>
> Red Hat being the sponsor of Fedora, it would be good to utilize the
> facilities of Red Hat for Fedora activities, especially when there is no
> good reason to have it done elsewhere.

The meetups should not be centralized to a single location like Red
Hat as there are people coming from various parts of the city. It's
good to move the meetup around the city.

As the crowd was low and the mainly concentrated in Koramangala and
Indiranagar, we chose meetup location in either of these two places
and not only Starbucks. I remember doing it in Hasgeek and HackerEarth
office couple of times. One of reason of choosing Starbucks was to
keep the meetups informal.

[sankarshan]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Sayan Chowdhury
 wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Rejy M Cyriac  wrote:
> > On 06/24/2016 11:30 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > You are kindly invited to the meeting:
> > >    Fedora meetup, Bangalore on 2016-06-25 from 18:00:00 to 20:00:00 Asia/Kolkata
> > >    At Bangalore
> > >
> > > The meeting will be about:
> > > # Monthly Fedora meetup, Bangalore
> > >
> > > A monthly get together of Fedora enthusiasts in Bangalore to discuss about the latest things happening in the Fedora ecosystem and contribute back to the community. The meetup usually takes place at:
> > > Starbucks Coffee
> > > Samrat No.2013, 100 Ft Road, HAL 2nd Stage, Indiranagar
> > > Bangalore, Karnataka - 560008
> >
> > I am surprised that the Monthly Fedora meet-up at Bangalore is now quite
> > regularly being held at a Starbucks Coffee outlet. Fedora activities at
> > college campuses I can understand, and should be encouraged, but why
> > Starbucks ?!

Anecdote of one (at least from someone who has attended a few such
events at this cafe chain) is that Starbucks is generally receptive to
the idea of a small group meeting regularly. The calendar invite is
reminiscent of how various clubs have a regular schedule including
date and location.
> > We used to have the Monthly Fedora meet-up much earlier being held at
> > the Red Hat Bangalore office, with free coffee/tea, free snacks, and
> > free WiFi always available. I think we could have the meet-up at the Red
> > Hat Bangalore office at least once in two months.
> >
> > Red Hat being the sponsor of Fedora, it would be good to utilize the
> > facilities of Red Hat for Fedora activities, especially when there is no
> > good reason to have it done elsewhere.

Actually, I believe there is a very strong reason to have it at other
places. To be able to organize meetups at locations which involve the
various themes/workloads where Fedora adoption and awareness can be
raised is a good thing to do. Organizing every single meet at a Red
Hat office would encourage a system of monoculture. It may or, may not
be a good thing as we are trying to do outreach to new communities
(via SIGs and such) as well as new participants.
> The meetups should not be centralized to a single location like Red
> Hat as there are people coming from various parts of the city. It's
> good to move the meetup around the city.
>
> As the crowd was low and the mainly concentrated in Koramangala and
> Indiranagar, we chose meetup location in either of these two places
> and not only Starbucks. I remember doing it in Hasgeek and HackerEarth
> office couple of times. One of reason of choosing Starbucks was to
> keep the meetups informal.

Sound and pragmatic moves.