Thanks Pranav. Please see my humble suggestions inline. -----Original Message----- From: Pranav Saxena Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:44 PM To: Nick Burch Cc: [email protected]; Radhika Puthiyetath; Rajesh Battala; Ram Ganesh; Ram Chinta Subject: RE: Anyone interested in a one day event in Bangalore?
[Nick] - I think the first question is what sort of event do we think will work best in Bangalore, given the limited time until the event with which to get the word out. One option might be a BarCamp (un-conference style event with lots of ~30 minute talks), another is to host a hackathon day (where we get people together to code, bug fix, test and document), or finally we could perhaps do a hybrid (eg talks in the morning, coding in the afternoon) Do you (or anyone else here!) have any thoughts on what might work best? [Pranav] - I reckon , not many people would be interested in fixing bugs . May be we can have small talks on various projects and then a small event from the CloudStack perspective on how well integrated is the CloudStack architecture and what modifications people want to bring in to make it even more scalable ? May be a small hands on session on some of the popular tools used in CloudStack like Cloudmonkey or DevCloud or how could one use the UI plugin architecture to integrate his own application to build a customized CloudStack UI. I'll probably ask for more suggestions from the co organizers for the recently held CloudStack events in Bangalore. [Radhika] We have participated in Foss.in 2012 at http://fossdotin2012.shdlr.com/grid. I would say we can follow the same pattern if we are planning for a two-day event. If the event is a one-day affair, we can think about a half-a-day Hackathon and half-a-day un-conference talks. Hadoop has a strong base in BLR. People from major firms, such as EMC and Yahoo are into this big time ! CloudStack is fast picking up in terms of popularity and interest. Meetup groups across social media are proof. We can also reach out to all the Apache Meetup groups in BLR. [nick] - Great, sounds like we can be sure of quite a bit of cloudstack material at the event! Any other projects strongly present in Bangalore? [Pranav] - I am not very sure about what other apache projects have been strongly worked on in Bangalore. Need to survey on this . [Radhika] I did a Google search and found http://apache.meetup.com/cities/in/bangalore/. As per this, the following groups has presence in Bangalore. CloudStack India - Bangalore Chapter has 208 members. We also have Facebook/ LinkedIn/Podio groups as well. Bangalore Cassandra Users - 80 members (there are two groups for Cassandra) Bangalore Hadoop Meetups : 857 members Site Reliability Engineers group - 9 members Copying few co-organizers here who might be able to help us here. We can spread the word though by posting it on the cloudstack meet up groups/forums on linkedIn/facebook etc. Just to give you some statistics about the last CloudStack User meet up we had here , approximately 50 people attended the event live , 147 people registered for the webinar since it was not a hand's on session but more of presentations and demos. Regards, Pranav -----Original Message----- From: Nick Burch [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:08 PM To: Pranav Saxena Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Anyone interested in a one day event in Bangalore? On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Pranav Saxena wrote: > I can definitely help in conducting the event since I am residing in > Bangalore. Great news! The reason I suggested the weekend of the 30th/31st March is because I'll be in Bangalore then. I have lots of experience of helping run smaller events, but don't know much about the Bangalore open source scene, so the help of people like you will be invaluable! > Let me know what needs to be done for organizing this. I think the first question is what sort of event do we think will work best in Bangalore, given the limited time until the event with which to get the word out. One option might be a BarCamp (un-conference style event with lots of ~30 minute talks), another is to host a hackathon day (where we get people together to code, bug fix, test and document), or finally we could perhaps do a hybrid (eg talks in the morning, coding in the afternoon) Do you (or anyone else here!) have any thoughts on what might work best? > Also since I already organized a CloudStack User Meet up on Feb 5, > 2013 in Bangalore , I am in touch with quite a number of cloudstack > enthusiasts who attended the user meet up live at the Citrix office > here and were willing to contribute. A lot many of them were > beginners though , so the only question arises is what level and kind > of hackathon would these cloudstackers be interested in . Great, sounds like we can be sure of quite a bit of cloudstack material at the event! Any other projects strongly present in Bangalore? Nick
