----- Original Message ----- From: peekay To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 2:38 PM Subject: Fw: Minutes - Re: [ilug-cal] January Meeting .. additional points beyond the earlier additional points
----- Original Message ----- From: peekay To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 2:30 PM Subject: Re: Minutes - Re: [ilug-cal] January Meeting two more issues were talked about NINE fund raising for compass2005 participation .. points raised - b) follow the ilug-bangalore model .. charge high ..give money's worth to the people .. like free entry pass to compass2005 (needs compass consent) .. tea shirt etc .. this will enable 'serious' people's head count c) ask for .. say .. 1200/- per head .. pool the money .. and pay for outside expert/guest (from london) air fare on BA or AI in the budget class (if he wants to travel business class .. he can pay the extra for his comfort) d) its a thankless job .. no one wants to pay .. and many want to question and many do raise a stink about its utilisation since the info is not made public domain e) who will take responsibility of handling money f) it will go against the earlier meeting's decision of keeping ilug-cal as a free from money and office bearers thing g) we are not a registered body .. and so can't accept money from other persons/bodies/corporates h) there are plenty of sponsors for linux things now .. ibm, intel, rh, suse, state govt, institutes, corporates i) its NOT the main driving force j) we COULD get an indian speaker of atul's stature .. who could charge for his talks and BUY stalls with that remuneration .. which ilug-cal would use ELEVEN fixing a co-ordinator for ilug-cal's Compass2005 .. he would have to handle all things relating to participation such as volunteers, co-ordinating, receiving/returning h/w, organizing the event's theme and its delivery, arrange speakers for seminar/training/workshop .. saugata was proposed, soumyadeep too but being a bit junior, he would be able to help rather than fully shoulder the responsibility .. requesting members to volunteer for this responsibility thru email to this list and directly was also discussed .. probably saugata/soumyadeep will do that TWELVE website updating to announce/co-ordinate/manage this participation was also discussed with the need for sharing the responsibility by someone besides sdg was thought to be necessary .. someone needs to volunteer for doing this daily updating thing and the rest of the hard work THIRTEEN meeting every week uptill compass2005 participation is over .. at saugata's house/ my house/jpm's place/ wbut/other .. to co-ordinate the participation ..piikay ----- Original Message ----- From: "saugata ghosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 10:04 AM Subject: Minutes - Re: [ilug-cal] January Meeting > Minutes > > Members present: > > 1. Soumyadip Modak > 2. Debasish Das > 3. Smita Bhadra > 4. P.K. Sharma > 5. Anshul Khandelwal (late arrival) > 6. Saugata Ghosh > > In the beginning we enjoyed the scenic beauty of the > place for a while > from the roof at 12th floor in P.K's exotic apartment. > > As par the agenda, the main focus of the meeting was > participation in compass. > Compass event is from March 11th (Fri) to 15th(Mon) at > maidan. > At first PK briefly stated the history of > ilug-participation > in compass 2003 (with 3 stalls) and 2004 (ankur bangla > presentation). > > The main task is to get the money for the stalls and > the hardware. > We can bring some speakers like we brought Atul last > time. > We can even try to contact someone outside india to > come and be a speaker at COMPASS. > P.K almost assured that the central hall will be > available for > ilug-cal. > Based on our previous years experiences this time we > should be > preparing a handout consisting of ilug and Linux > related > FAQs. We are also expecting active participation from > institutions like > WBUT and other engineering colleges (like NIT > Durgapur). > At least we should try to involve such institutes in > some way. > Regarding hardware, our first preference is laptops > insteaed of desktops. > Laptops are easily movable and they are much cheaper > compared to what they were > two years back. > So any manufacturer/dealer/sponsor or whoever is > giving us the hatrdare should > be giving us laptops. > > Non compass > ----------- > > Besides COMPASS, we also discussed a comparison of > using shell script vs gui. > One being more user friendly and the other more > flexible and powerful. > > In the whole metting we had two/three rounds of tea. > (Special nimbu cha which > PK brought from his Keyatala residence) > > The meeting ended at about 8:30 pm. > > For COMPASS participation we have to held meetings > more frequently, at least once in > 2 weeks of more. > > Please feel free to add or modify any point. > > -Saugata > > --- linuxprosun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:08:20 +0530, Soumyadip Modak > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 22:42 -0800, saugata ghosh > > wrote: > > >> Saturday is *NOT* 16th Jan ?? Staurday is 15th > > and 16th is Sunday. > > >> > > >> I am avilable this Sunday and not Saturday. So if > > its > > >> this Sunday or next Sunday its OK for me. > > >> > > >> -Saugata > > > Sorry for the Faux Pas. As Sharmaji kindly > > indicated, we can have the > > > meeting on 16th Jan Sunday at his place. > > > > > > But that does not address the fact that we need to > > have a meeting, and > > > so far, we have not received any significant > > responses. Are we going to > > > have a meeting solely for the purpose of > > discussing possible > > > participation in Compass, or is anybody willing to > > present something ? > > > In the first case there will not be any need for > > Sharmaji's PC. ILUG-CAL > > > members please respond as to whether it is better > > to have a meeting this > > > sunday or the next. > > > > from me next Sunday 23Jan. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Thanks > > prosun > > -- > > Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: > > http://www.opera.com/m2/ > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with the body > > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
