On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Gora Mohanty <g...@sarai.net> wrote: > On Wed, 6 May 2009 17:23:27 +0530 > Anupam Jain <ajn...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] >> Well that's my point about informality. Meetings should be just >> meetings with a specific agenda but without presentations and >> presentors. A BOF meeting like that can be very successful with >> anywhere between 3-10 people. > > OK, informal BoFs on a specific subject, where 5-10 people is a > good attendance, are useful, and can lead to interesting > discussions. If needed, space for such meetings can be > provided at Sarai, JNU (if Andrew is willing), or at any other > place. Certainly, we can arrange that Sarai premises are available > at a specific time, say every Sat., on a first-come, first-serve > basis for anyone who wishes to hold such a BoF, with an announcement > being made at least by Thu. of that week. > > However, where is the role of the LUG in this, as presumably > a different set of people will be attending each meeting, and > there is little common interest among the groups? One possibility > is to have a monthly LUG meeting where the various groups come > together to discuss what each has done, and investigate whether > there are any shared interests. However, this would require some > kind of a commitment from the groups to send a representative to > such a generic meeting. How does that sound? Would it be possible > to have people from any such special-interest groups comment on > this idea.
Well if you think about it, it need not be a special interest "group" that holds a BOF. For example, we can have a meeting (I'm not sure if BOF is still the right word for this kind of a meting) on document sharing and collaboration in GNU/Linux i.e. what works NOW. The aim of the meeting would be to share experiences and come up with a draft set of guidelines on how to interoperate with your office colleagues. Then we put up that document on the Wiki and let the list members refine it and it would serve as a handy reference for anyone facing the same problem, for a long time to come. It would be a one time meeting really and I'm sure would generate a lot of interest. I can come up with a whole bunch of similar topics if needed. > > [...] >> Agreed. I say we throw around a whole bunch of ideas on BOF meeting >> topics, gauge interest and hold several of them every month. A few >> topics (off the top of my head) that I am personally interested in >> right now. Hold a BOF and I'll be there (schedule permitting) - > [...] > > Could you start a Wiki page on http://wiki.linux-delhi.org (you will > need to register), listing these topics, and announce the same here, > asking people to enter their names under the areas where they are > interested? Done! The wiki page is at http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/TopicsForFOSSRelatedBOFMeetings. Please feel free to add or edit topics as you see fit. -- Anupam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
