additions from piikay : ----- Original Message ----- From: "saugata ghosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Minutes:-[ANNOUNCE] Compass meeting
> Meeting held on 23rd Jan 2005 at Uditya > > Members present: > > 1. A. Mani > 2. Arijit Majumder > 3. Indranil Das Gupta > 4. Sayamindu Dasgupta > 5. P. K. Sharma > 6. Soumadip Modak > 7. Saugat Ghosh > 8. Shankarshan (From Delhi - over the phone) later we could fire up yahoo on sdg's pc under linux and sankarshan participated thru yahoo chat .. zero cost (take a lead guys .. you can participate too .. if you are not able to come over) > COMPASS is extended by one day and it will be a 5 day > event from > 11th to 15th Mar 2005. > We mainly discussed what will be the roles of > different volunteers > and also how much time they can give before and during > the event. > Indranil will be the main media coordinator and > Saugata will be the central point of contact. > PK Sharma - bridge between ilug and COMPASS. > The number of stall that we are > going to go for > is not fixed yet. The stalls are of size (2x3 meters). > We should at > least go for 2 stalls and if possible 4 or even more. > We should soon get a list of speakers comprising ilug > members and invited guests. > Arijit took the responsibility of talking to the > Shibpur College faculty. > A. Mani told he can talk to Calcutta university > faculties. Tathagat's links with institutes was also discussed. We also discussed the option of contacting other lug members to use their contacts to get in touch with the so many technical colleges that have come up. (hey .. we missed the manas-da link with the IIT's) At this point it was suggested that if Prof.Thakur could become agreeable or IT Dept of Shibpur or some other high profile persona could become agreeable, then they could jointly request compass for a stall where they would jointly display the various InfoTech courses under them. The first batch of IT students will be hitting the market soon. They are in their final year and will soon be a big resource for the exploding IT demand from new setups flocking into w.bengal A letter from that group of 'institutes' may work well. Ilug-cal has to be in their stall too ! For co-ordinating 'things' ;-) Possibility of 'other' corporates taking stalls and co-ordinating with lug was also touched upon. It would be nice if the stalls were side by side. For life members of compass, a 40% discount applies. If a compass member takes stall(s) then we could co-ordinate with them. To rope in other lugs, a co-ordinated effort to get RMS visit at a central place was also talked about. If there is enough interest, maybe a loooong q&a session in science city auditorium would be a possibility. RMS will co-operate with all such lugs which have GNU embedded in their name. Before/After this the possibility of calling in super level guests from europe was discussed again. The author of Samba, or others and even Linus Torvals could be called over. The air fare from london is crashing. Other lugs could be contacted for taking these esteemed guests to their cities. They would have to send the air tkt to their city. Calcutta to Bhubneshwar to Vizag to Hyderabad to Chennai to Bangalore to Kerala(holiday) to Goa to Pune to Mumbai would be easily possible. Each lug would pay for bringing him into their city. It will be a short hop. So it will be cheap too. THEN the cost of the london air tkt would be shared among the participating lugs .. q.e.d. quite easily done ! > The availibility of hardware should not be much of a > problem. Only getting > laptops instead of desktops might be difficult but not > impossible. > We are also planning to get a handful of reliance > phones for internet conenctivity. With so many sellers of laptops around now, and with the cost of laptops plumetting, it could be easy to get a sponsor for giving the entire set of laptops. It should be possible to get reliance telephones with free connectivity also. Reliance needs to be requested for this. Probably will happen. USB cords would be easy to get too. The possibility of webcams with all the laptops was discussed too. Inter alia the latest sony cams having good compatibility with linux was a good point brought up by indra. (o.o.m. comment ..Now we need sony to sponsor them.)(o.o.m.=out of meeting) (test speeds during our meetings showed 115kpbs) > Sayamindu and Arijit could make the reliance phone > work with gentoo on Sayamindu's laptop and in minutes > during the meeting and we are online ! > It was unanimously decided that by default all > subsequent lug meetings > will be held in the same place, same day, same time. > ie. Sunday, 5pm. Udita. this stands till the other venue(s) stabilise. compass office at the crossing of theatre road and rawdon street (near cookie jar, above old raj hotel) could be used too. They have a meeting room on the meznine. Its near the exhibition site and centrally located too. The alipore venue suggested by jpm was also considered. Connection to that place may pose a glitch. Virtual meetings over internet would enable others to 'join' in without much trouble. > So, all memebrs please mark your calendar and try to > keep yourselves free. > We are planning to make a separate mailing list for > COMPASS discussions if necessary. > Also a wiki page in our website will be setup for > COMPASS related discussions. > > About the machines: > > The number of machines in the stalls will depend on > how many stalls we will book. > Yet we are planing to present the following topics: > > Linux for developers. (ALl IDEs, RAD, etc) - 1 machine > Localization - 1 machine > Imaging with linux (video/audio/ capture and digital > still/movie camera) > Multimedia machine. (DVD, sound games/etc) > LTSP (1 server and P.K.'s tablet PCs are terminals) > A linux cluster (if possible) > ... > ... > more to be added later > ... > ... > > Since COMPASS is a 5 day event and till now, we are > having a handful of 5/6 members in meetings, > its definitely not going to work if the number of > active participants dont increase. > By next meeting we must have a clear idea of how many > members will be willing > to give more time for meetings and the event. (o.o.m. comments by saugata) > There will be a form (either available online of sent > to members via email) where members > are only requested to fill the dates in which they are > availabe/not available/out of town/etc. So that by > next meeting (which is next Sunday) we can assign more > definite responsibilities to specific members. i think this WAS discussed. The 'forms' idea is good. Saugata is the contact ! indra had a good suggestion. To make people become active, a narrower focussed approach will be required. If people FEEL that they will get lots of benefits by joining ilug-cal or coming to the stalls, it will get more people involved. > After the meeting, we had a technology tour in P.Ks > residence where he demonstrated > all the innovative things he has done in his home lab. > Some of which we are > going to show in COMPASS. > > .... Feel free to add missed pionts. > > -Saugata for info of all .. there IS a yahoo id created for yahoo chat based interactive meetings. It is ilugContact .. add that to your list .. and be there .. at the meetings thank you for patient reading .. suggestions, volunteers, improvements welcome -- 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
