fossmeet in Delhi/NCR

@pavithrans this is a great suggestion. We can do a FOSS Meet@JMI 2016.0 as a small event with only Delhi/NCR speakers. Then we can do a bigger 2016.1 later with invited speakers (cfp/talk funnel). This will also give confidence to Shivam's juniors and community gets to interact with them as well.

@shivamrana @shreyas @vik what say you?

General Question on dates:

Isn't april too early for an event? We need call for talks and people booking tickets. Wouldnt it all take time? Or is it planned to be a local event where people come from NCR or max nearby states?

@pavithrans April seems too soon to me

Organizing it with the fest also helped in marketing of the event

I agree it becomes simple as they can be combined but the point I was making is we would be spreading ourselves too thin and the message might be lost. Another good reason to make it a dedicated FOSS event is to bring crowds and volunteers including marketing from other FOSS volunteers spread across the north. Its long time since there was a big event in the north after Freedel . Imagine that crowd and think if you want to combine such a potential event with another event.

I understand I am asking too much by asking to think big but there is a potential and we do have a growing Foss crowd in NCR region and around with no Foss event in big scale. :wink:

@vik - What do you suggest - 1st week of June is okay ?

@praveenarimbrathod - This seems fine, arranging a small event for Delhi/NCR but April first week seems a bit early to me. We can try and arrange it.

@vik - Please suggest ?

@vik @praveenarimbrathod I agree its too early. Do it small. :baby: It all depends now on @shivamrana about how to plan a event quickly. Normally if the college guys are comfortable with the date and time then they would do an event very easily as they are experienced in all these issues. What say shivam?
Marketing also could be handled by them for the first event as its small scale. :tada:

@praveenarimbrathod @shreyas It does seem short notice for an event - but it depends on the size and number of speakers. Personally I would rather spend time and effort on the bigger event but am open to both approaches.

I am so sorry guys I haven't replied yet. I had an internship, which ended this Saturday. So, I was busy for the past 2-3 days.

To summarize this whole thing,

• We are planning to organize a mini event (2016.0) this April and then we'll see for the bigger one (2016.1) later during the Summers.
• We (JMI) have to provide the infra for the event and of course majority of the marketing will be done by us as well.

[If something was left, then do mention it.]

I have some questions regarding the requirements.

• What support will we be getting from the Hamaralinux community? (Goodies, Food, Marketing, Volunteers, Speakers, etc)
• If we can get some specifics about the requirements (rooms, labs, auditorium, router, internet) then it'd be easy to move forward and plan accordingly. Also, I know, it mostly depends on the marketing, but still can we know a tentative strength based on your previous meetups?
• What else do they require from us?
• So the fest I mentioned previously, kind of, is getting converted more into a technical fest. So, there will be a hackathon as well. If you want then we can combine the hackathon with this event. This is just a suggestion. If we can't do that then its perfectly fine.
• We are still undecided on the date. Can we fix the date?

@vik @praveenarimbrathod @shreyas

Is the date confirmed now?