Hi Everyone...
First of all let me profusely apologise for the rather delayed email... Its been pending for many days and I just got a chance to send it in.
Okay - first a short snapshot of major stuff that we discussed regarding the organisation of a GPLv3 event. I'm going to focus and quote only on that part of our discussion... please do feel to add in anything that you feel I left out.
1. We discussed venues like public halls, IISc and IIM. There is a small follow-up to this after our visit to IISc on Monday and IIM on Tuesday. Shivanand and I met Prof Gopinath at IISc. Due to other engagements that he has it would not be possible to involve him in organising the conference at IISc. However, he is very interested in the conference and would be willing to join ing.
We then met Prof Rahul De' and Prof Shankar Venkatgiri at IIM-B on Tuesday. They were very upbeat about the possiblities of organising the conference at IIM. Now we need to indicate some dates to them so that they can make a proposal to their committee (at the Centre of Public Policy at IIMB) and get a nod on whether they can hold the event there.
2. Kanti raised a very very important point about assembling an action team here in Bangalore. He said that as a precursor to organising an event on such a large scale, we should first organise series of smaller events. This will help us in proving to ourselves that we can indeed organise a much bigger event.
Based on Kanti's feedback, all of us decided that this is definitely needed and doable. Basically, working together as a team is very important and if we work together to do smaller events, it will help increase understanding amongst all of us who have volunteered to help out for the GPLv3 event.
To start with, we will have another meet at BMSCE to discuss and understand the GPLv2. I volunteered to make a presentation on this. (Don't know if I'm biting off more than I could chew, but lets see...) And then we decided that we will discuss about the license to ensure that all of us understand it very well.
This event will a more of a team-building event. The idea is to ensure that we all know and understand each other enough to be able to work together for organising the GPLv3 conference.
3. Of course, I can't miss out mentioning the coffee we had at Koshy's. And the fun that it was sitting in Cubbon Park to have our discussion... I think we can make Cubbon Part our regular meeting place. Not the same rock... maybe a different one every time.
4. Briefly, we also touched upon the topic of offering projects and seminars to students.
Many Many thanks to:
Rakesh (arky) - for setting the temper and direction for so many of the meeting topics. Rakesh was also the one, I guess, who knew almost everyone present.
Praveen A, Kushal Das, Ramkrishna Reddy, Anush Shetty, Nirmal Thacker, Kanti, and Bimal Mankara for contributing very actively to the healthy discussion.
Many thanks to all others who attended and volunteered. I could not quote everyone's name above. Please don't feel bad about it.
Here is a list of people who attended:
Kushal Das Isaac Praveen Akshay SasiKumar Basil Baby Bimal mankara Sajith K.C Anush Shetty Nirmal Thacker Praveen A Ramkrishna Reddy Parag Nemade Zabil CM Sweekar Pinto Sajith T S Nitin Numar Laxminarayan Kamath Shivanand V Edrami Abhas Abhinav Rakesh Ambati
Many thanks to Laxminarayan for typing this in. I've left out the phone numbers here since this will be publically archived on the Internet... Can mail that to all of us privately.
Further actions ---------------
1. Identify time and date for the BMSCE meeting. I think we were planning for Saturday. But there seems to be a BLUG meeting. Do we still want to hold it parallelly or should we postpone our meet to Sunday or next weekend? Or even mid week sometime. Any other venues that could accomodate all of us?
2. We need a discussion list of some sort. Any suggestions? How about a gnu.org.in mailing list? Currently, everyone is subscribed to the FSUG-Bangalore mailing list and we can continue our discussion here.
Fellows - please do build up on this email... I'm sorry if I did not cover everything.
Cheers, Abhas.