CentOS Dojos In India

[Lalatendu Mohanty]

Hi All,

CentOS Dojos i.e.  user meet-ups  are happening first time in India i.e. 
in Pune and Bangaluru [1] [2]. Thought of sending it to Fedora India 
list as there are some community members overlaps between Fedora and 
CentOS.

The registration link for these events are present in the respective 
wiki page mentioned below.

About Dojo:
/
/The CentOS Dojo's are an one day event, organised around the world, 
that bring together people from the CentOS Communities to talk about 
systems administration, best practises in linux centric activities and 
emerging technologies of note. The emphasis is to find local speakers 
and tutors to come together and talk about things that they care about 
most, and to share stories from their experiences working with CentOS in 
various scenarios.

[1] http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Bangalore2014
[2] http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Pune2014

Thanks,
Lala

P:S: If you think I did a mistake , by sending this mail to Fedora India 
ML, feel free to let me know. I wont do it again.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Lalatendu Mohanty wrote:
> P:S: If you think I did a mistake , by sending this mail to Fedora India
> ML, feel free to let me know. I wont do it again.

Fedora is upstream for CentOS and some of the sub projects in Fedora
including EPEL serve the CentOS community already.  Now that Fedora has
server, cloud variants etc, there is even more opportunities for the
projects to work together.   There is nothing wrong with sending such
announcements to this list.  In fact, I would like to see more specific
agendas for contributors to collaborate.

Rahul

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 6 November 2014 20:56, Lalatendu Mohanty  wrote:
> P:S: If you think I did a mistake , by sending this mail to Fedora India ML,
> feel free to let me know. I wont do it again.

People who want to register now will have to pay a donation of a
denomination of their choice.  So in that context, I'd say that the
announcement was late, due to which one now won't get a chance to race
for the free registrations.  If you're looking to publicize an event
to invite attendees and have such a limited offer in place, it is best
to announce in all places at the same time since it otherwise does not
give everyone a fair and equal chance to compete for free seats.

Siddhesh

[Lalatendu Mohanty]

On 11/08/2014 06:44 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On 6 November 2014 20:56, Lalatendu Mohanty  wrote:
> > P:S: If you think I did a mistake , by sending this mail to Fedora India ML,
> > feel free to let me know. I wont do it again.
>
> People who want to register now will have to pay a donation of a
> denomination of their choice.  So in that context, I'd say that the
> announcement was late, due to which one now won't get a chance to race
> for the free registrations.  If you're looking to publicize an event
> to invite attendees and have such a limited offer in place, it is best
> to announce in all places at the same time since it otherwise does not
> give everyone a fair and equal chance to compete for free seats.
>
> Siddhesh

Yes, I agree, this could have been done better . This is something we 
need to improve from Dojo side. However we have not advertised Dojo 
anywhere as there were some issue finding out speakers for the event. 
But the registration link was available in public through CentOS wiki 
page and people registered spontaneously.

Thanks,
Lala

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 8 November 2014 11:25, Lalatendu Mohanty  wrote:
> Yes, I agree, this could have been done better . This is something we need
> to improve from Dojo side. However we have not advertised Dojo anywhere as
> there were some issue finding out speakers for the event. But the
> registration link was available in public through CentOS wiki page and
> people registered spontaneously.

Sharing event details early (and making a call for speakers in it) is
usually a good way to find speakers too.

Siddhesh

[Lalatendu Mohanty]

On 11/08/2014 06:44 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On 6 November 2014 20:56, Lalatendu Mohanty  wrote:
> > P:S: If you think I did a mistake , by sending this mail to Fedora India ML,
> > feel free to let me know. I wont do it again.
>
> People who want to register now will have to pay a donation of a
> denomination of their choice.  So in that context, I'd say that the
> announcement was late, due to which one now won't get a chance to race
> for the free registrations.  If you're looking to publicize an event
> to invite attendees and have such a limited offer in place, it is best
> to announce in all places at the same time since it otherwise does not
> give everyone a fair and equal chance to compete for free seats.
>
> Siddhesh

FYI,

60 seats have been added to  Pune Dojo some time back as the venue can 
handle more people.

http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Pune2014

Thanks,
Lala