Hi,
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan
<bala150...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> My house is near central and say if I take the auto to come to IIT Chennai
> due to my personal reasons I have to shell out ~ RS. 250 one way and would
> take equally that much back to my house. I cannot shell out RS 500 just on
Same thing happens to me in Bangalore :( Travel takes the maximum expense.
> travel alone :-(, Since I am interested in sharing and gaining knowledge I
> feel it is more apt and easy for many people to join the meeting should
> this happen over the web.
>
We should possibly have physical + web, if at all. Because we
are still not a country where most people have unlimited high speed
broadband. So, people might have difficulty having it over the web.
But physical + web would mean have a phone/conferencing system at the
venue and it needs to be of a reasonable quality so that the people on
the phone/conference can hear every one in the venue. This setup, I
think, might get quite expensive. But we have quite a lot of people on
this list who have expertise is these kinds of
setups(conferencing/hardware setup). They might have some suggestions.
But there will be one pertinent counter point - Meetings over
the web are not the same as physical/real meetings where you actually
meet fellow volunteers. Because, when we have the free software user
groups meetings, it is not just the agenda that is followed - You meet
other people with similar interests as you and have a small chat and
by means of that get to know of more projects/tools etc. It is this
means of gathering/spreading knowledge that makes user group meetings
interesting. When you have the meetings over the web, you will lose
out on those aspects.
Of course, mostly my own thoughts - But good to consider when we
take these kind of decisions :) Thanks
--
Thank you
Balachandran Sivakumar
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