On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Gaurav Mishra <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Anupam Jain <[email protected]> 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. >> > > Well that seems like a excellent idea ! Let's do it .However , if you > need this meetings to be successful , these *3-10* can't be same > people that are there always for years !, The meetings currently see > same people with different hairstyles every time !, We need different > people for different BOF's , Everybody can't be present every week !
Yup! Totally agreed. >> 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) - >> >> 1. FOSS document sharing and publishing. Especially an alternative to PDF. >> 2. Any web dev topics PHP/RoR/Python, AJAX, anything. >> 3. FOSS platforms suitable for embedded systems. OpenMoko, Android. >> Embedded Forth/Erlang/Scheme/Python. >> 4. FOSS Functional programming. Haskell, Erlang, Scheme. >> 5. Foss alternatives for shared Calendars, shared code development, >> shared todo lists, milestone and task management. >> 6. What's up in Ubuntu/Debian. Ubuntu 9.04. >> 7. Gnome roadmap. Gnome translations into local languages. Getting a >> better user experience in Gnome (install Thunar, AWN, and global menu >> bar!) >> 8. What's up with Firefox? What's up with Chrome? What's up with >> Epiphany and Dillo? >> 9. New advances in Javascript engines. V8. Tracemonkey. >> 10. FOSS based massive information management. Search engines. >> >> > > Great list !, Anupam as you are continously in and out of delhi , > Would request you to choose one day when you are present in delhi and > formally (in a informal manner) announce this BOF meeting on that > day!, Let's do it and guage the number of participants , Let us know > if you need our help in any manner. > Well I have created a Wiki page <http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/TopicsForFOSSRelatedBOFMeetings> with this list of topics. Let's use that to gauge the number of participants. I am in Delhi right now for atleast another month and I sincerely hope we can get something organised within that time frame. -- Anupam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
