Hey, thanks for mentioning this! India is and has long been our biggest user base after the USA. So, if there’s sufficient interest to have two (or more) meet-ups, that would be absolutely awesome. Flights to Chennai right now are pretty reasonable too so if there ends up being little interest in a meet-up stateside we could just have the main/only event in India. Provided you are volunteering to take the lead in organizing! :)
Nathan > On Oct 28, 2014, at 3:54 AM, Noufal Ibrahim KV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I know that there are a lot of people from India who are members of > hcoop. It might be nice to have a smaller meetup in this part of the > world too. I myself joined in 2003 or so and I know several people from > back then. > > On Tue, Oct 28 2014, Nathan Kennedy wrote: > >> I floated the idea of a 10th anniversary HCoop meet-up at a meeting >> earlier in the year, and there was a little interest. While the >> HCoop’s origins (http://wiki.hcoop.net/OurHistory >> <http://wiki.hcoop.net/OurHistory>) as cooperative hosting go back to >> 2002 and the community has roots dating back even to 1996, the >> corporate birthdate of HCoop Inc. as a legal entity is February 17, >> 2005. >> >> It’s getting late but since I had volunteered myself to help organize >> this before, if this is going to be a thing it’s time to start picking >> venues, sending out announcements, inviting presenters and such. I >> think it would definitely be worth doing if we could get even half a >> dozen HCoopers together in the same place for the first time, as long >> as it’s not going to be just me. And it would be nice to promote it >> locally and draw in others from the free software/open >> source/Linux/UNIX/web communities and make it a somewhat legitimate >> geek event. I know I have a record of overcommitting but I do have >> time off in February to make it happen. >> >> Given HCoop’s center of gravity this would probably be in the >> northeastern USA, thinking Boston, NYC or Philly, but if more people >> would show up someplace warmer or such that’s fine by me, except that >> an executive decision will need to be made soon. >> >> I’ll put up a wiki page, but can we get some discussion of interest on >> the list first? Anyone up for an HCoop meetup some weekend in >> February? Better yet, anyone interested in coming AND helping out with >> organizing? >> >> Best, >> Nathan >> _______________________________________________ >> HCoop-Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/hcoop-discuss > > -- > Cordially, > Noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > > _______________________________________________ > HCoop-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/hcoop-discuss _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
