-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 July 2015 11:43 AM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah wrote:
> > This is not correct. Many companies have sponsored space and snacks > without expecting any thing in return. If a company offers space to > you to conduct meeting and competing companies go there to make 10 > minute presentation of job offers, then companies will have a > second thought to offer space. In my opinion the meetups should > remain neutral and be places for both businesses and individuals to > volunteer/ contribute. BangPypers meetups are primarily to share knowledge. How the knowledge is used then - to prepare for an interview or to do an open source project or whatever - is up to the people who attend it. It is not the right forum for a direct pitch by companies. Imagine a scenario where startup X is hosting a BangPypers meetup. Assume an employee of startup Y is pitching for his company at the end of the meetup. Let us say Startup Y happens to be a direct competitor of startup X. How do you think that will work ? It would be take a lot of effort to co-ordinate the logistics for this I am afraid the focus will move away from the core - the talks and meeting other like minded people. A big -1. > - sree > > - -- Regards, - --Anand - ---------------------------- Software Architect/Consultant anandpil...@letterboxes.org Cell: +919880078014 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVrJUhAAoJEHKU2n17CpvDk9QIALUVcANMPkRi+bCSsfbG+9ho 2AdQ447167Q1hjaTgrzCRMxRM/S+r50leWUS2zzKvJptL928WoKpAHhRcor4E2Wg MFmfeR/hd1DM/79Stdx0qpqYyS9P1mTr6Gjzyq75q9nQxWyvRmRzQwUNEv+It0IG ADccy5Q1ikmZujR1XHGtbLh9ZeN8aHSpoWlGyraJJu9hSJV0LZfcTztyvxbkwBJh Nro0tIZCIVTBumL3+n5OSZid7s449T2H4lSuaKCkl0LCHBntdScwajjjN7KKUCzn obbdxqBwpEfkjcjVb/mxUlG10l1SQr+L1qhW2ytyiIokU7N5hvhlG/93/9EmNTU= =ZV0n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers