hre....
dsicilamers apply
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Minutes of the meeting held on the 28th day of the 9th month of the year 2002 AD
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.....and to this list I - sdg - present the minutes of the meeting.
Time & Place
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Indra-da's office - 1730 hrs IST - Unix time will be calculated on request.
Head Count
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Taking the ancient and sacred belief that for each person, there is only one and *only*
one head to be true, the total number of tuxes that were visible in the meet was
eleven -
* Runa Bhattacharya (new face - welcome abroad)
* Siddharta Basu (download tux)
* Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
* Amitabha Das
* Sayamindu Dasgupta (minutes tux)
* Sayan Chakraborti (first timer in the meeting - improve your handwriting
please - my parser almost
brought the whole machine down while handling your
kaager-thyang boger-thyang)
* Manas Laha
* Saugata Ghosh
* Sutanu Ghosh
* Tathagata Banerjee
* Indranil Dasgupta (big tux)
Minutes
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The minutes tux reached a bit late - so he has no knowledge of how the meeting started
- but he is sure
that it started :). There were a number of umbrellas lying around - but as none of
them were the traditional
"Dadur Chata"/none of the meeting tuxes were in a violent mood/both, no scenes of
Extreme Violence involving
umbrella and the minutes tux occurred. At that time, Indra-da was showing the famous
Kalculate package (for
underinformed geeks: Kalculate is an accounting software for GNU/Linux). We had some
discussions on the merits
(and demerits) of Kalculate. Then there was a round of tea - and we went on to the
fireworks show - the
registration issue.
The question first raised was - Why register??
The answers are obvious - but considering the cons, it was proposed that instead of
iLUG-Cal itself, a projection
of the group be registered as a formal body. This projection group would be subset of
the LUG. However, at this
point the question of how to define a member of the LUG was raised, and it was
proposed that a voting member of
the LUG would have to
1. Attend a specified percentage of meetings (assuming that there is a meeting
every month)
2. Attend the annual AGM meeting.
However, the question of accountabilty also came up - money handling would be a major
issue - most of the penguins
said that there was bound to be questions like "Why was so much money spent on this?"
and "Where did my contribution
go?", etc. The charter issue was also discussed - with the senior members speaking of
the mud slinging and the flame
war that began as a result of the earlier attempt to form a constitution. Finally it
was proposed that we carry on as
it is for another year - and if we progress in the right direction in the right way,
we can do the registration after
a year.
The subject ofthe bookfair came up after that. Everyone agreed that to reach out to a
huge mass of the populace, the
bookfair would be ideal. However, the problem of dust also remains, and one of the
penguins also suggested that the
power supply at the book fair might not be a very good one - the boxes running there
might get burnt up.
COMPASS was discussed extensively, especially the sponsorship issue. Indra-da
announced that he has some preliminary
talks with PCQuest, IBM, and he proposed that for sponsorship, we can also approach
Samsung/LG both of which are
trying to project a "Linux-Friendly " image in India. HP-Compaq was also proposed as a
potential sponsor. It was noted
that getting sponsors would require some active pursuing of the matters, and some
intense legwork. It was also decided
that there should be *no* windows bashing in any of the public events - we cannot
afford to present a fanatical image.
It was also proposed, that as a spin-off from the COMPASS we can hold a Install Fest -
where newbies can bring their
boxes and we can install GNU/Linux in them (network install??). We would be needing
quite a few NICs for that.
Along with this, the topic of interacting with the assemblers came up - GNU/Linux
compatible assemblers are needed
badly :). The topic of getting school children was also discussed - with the actual
school tuxes saying that students
would definitely come if invited - though most of them will simply come in order to
bunk classes ;).
Regarding sponsors, it was finally proposed that we would proceed in a parallel
fashion - all probable sponsors should
be approached - and finally we take the best deal :).
It was also decided that the drupal site would be uploaded to ilug-cal.org asap - and
some work has already started in
this regard.
The meeting ended at around 2000 hrs (IST), and all the tuxes went back home - content
with the evening's proceedings :).
minutes tux falling asleep
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minutes tux waking up
...
minutes tux hitting the send button
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Sayamindu Dasgupta
http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/
Bennett's Laws of Horticulture:
(1) Houses are for people to live in.
(2) Gardens are for plants to live in.
(3) There is no such thing as a houseplant.
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