On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Andrew Lynn <lynn.and...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Gaurav Mishra <gauravtec...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Guys, >> >> It's been sometime since we had a general ILUGD meetup. >> >> Anyone interested ? >> >> >> Recovering this thread. This should be about belling the cat, not killing > kittens. > > Some ideas to take forward > > A. What? > > (1) I think we should plan for an ILUGD GBM (ILUGD - the society). It has > been a few years since we had our normal 5-member GBM's and probably a good > time to see if we can shake up the governing body, with - well - some new > bodies. >
+1 , for this. Also, before going into it we need to make sure that there are enough people who know about GBM and are willing to contest for elections. > (2) Incubating "expertise-based"-hubs for sub-communities, based on > disciplines/platforms/solutions... [There has been some sporadic discussion > among a group of us - with the ultimate aim of planning towards Freed.in > (201x - where x=1,2). This was one of the points which would concern ILUGD - > the community, and is a change in strategy to shift a general purpose ILUGD > community with now very diverse interests to LUG-D-interested-I's into > forming specialised self-organised-groups which will serve as hubs within > the wider community. > We knew that Pratul and kinshuk are working on the same, can anyone of two please come forward and present a session which talks more about current "expertise-based" communities we have in NCR. Three most prominent ones i see is of Open source gaming, Drupal and Security related. Are there any more which we are missing ? > (3) New Distros - The govt is now rolling out the National Knowledge > Network, and there is better bandwidth at educational institutions - as you > have probably noticed if you have downloaded from IIT-K and IIT-M over the > last few months. Anyone up to planning a community managed mirror to be > hosted at JNU for (at least) the Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and CentOS trees? > Diskspace and server will be provided from Localhost. > This would be a great project for any college group, simple but yet substantial to look into resume. > > B. When and Where? > [Probably best to NOT reply to these points on the list, as too many > one-liners on an unguided listing of Delhi's hell-holes/coffee shops is not > really in anyone's interest. Will leave this to the dependable Gora to kill > this kitten with one tome, hopefully at a later stage in the thread] > JNU , 17th April would be great. If almighty localhost agrees :) > :) > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
