[Debian-in-workers] [DebianIndia] Proposal for a developers meet similar to our meeting in IIIT Blr ~4 years back

[Praveen A]

2010/8/10 Praveen A <pravi.a at gmail.com>:
> We had a rocking event thanks to hard work of a lot of people. I have
> to mention Abhijit, Vipul, Kartik and Pavithran who were there from
> the beginning to end in making this event a success.
>
> Abhijit's enthusiasm and passion for Free Software has been very
> critical for making this event possible. He has been instrumental in
> creating a vibrant Free Software community in COEP.
>
> Vipul was our official designer and he made sure we have good posters,
> tshirts, buttons, stickers ... He is also working hard to bring up an
> active community in PICT.
>
> Kartik has been always there for Debian and he was instrumental in
> making sure we are a debian proper event. Of course, he advocated me
> to be a DM :)
>
> Pavithran has been our main spokesperson on irc and his interactions
> with debian community helped us in making sure debian people knew
> about this event. He was there from Friday to Monday and made sure we
> have everything in place.
>
> There were lot many people who helped in many ways
>
> Naveen Kumar has been encouraging me in every step and interactions
> with him every day helped make this event much more organised. He was
> insistent on meticulous planning even to the minute details.
>
> Kushal Das for having played and excellent role. I guess every one got
> a clear understanding of upstream and downstream. I found having
> upstream author, maintainer, mentor and sponsor at the same place was
> a wonderful way of demonstrating the relationship between different
> communities in the Free Software world. Back and forth between me and
> Kushal about copyright was the best part. Understanding about how
> copyright is fundamental to being part of the Free Software community.
>
> Onkar Shinde for helping me with my intro talk and workshop. Being
> part of Ubuntu and Debian gave a different perspective and it was an
> important one.
>
> Amit Karpe and PLUG team for joining with us for organising this
> event. It was good to see him contact us and offer help.
>
> Sasikumar sir of CDAC for supporting this event and making sure we
> have a good interaction with BOSS team. Also for coming as a chief
> guest and delivering and inspiring inaugural address.
>
> Ashok Kumar and BOSS team for a healthy dialogue. Hopefully, we can
> work together more closely after this interaction.
>
> Vikram Vincent for his energetic talk, he was talking to students in
> their own language.
>
> Raghavendra for sharing his vision and experience.
>
> I'm definitely going to miss many volunteers' names because I have
> interacted directly with only small number of them and I don't
> remember most of their names :( Abhijit and Pavithran can help me
> here. I will attempt some names Swapnil, Avinash, Madhur, Aswin and
> many more.
>
> Plus all the awesome participants, who stayed up till 10 pm on first
> day, came at 8 am on the second day and stayed till 8pm, that is quiet
> an effort. Again I will try some names, but I know it is incomplete,
> Arnav, Vivek, Sana, Priyanka, Sushant, Raghavendra ...
>
> Oh yeah Ninad Pundalik was helping with the workshop and his
> microblogs. Ramakrishna for his great insights. Shirish was keeping
> the sessions alive with lot of questions.
>
> And of course our sponsors Media Magic Technologies and Nexenta
> systems. Hopefully Linux For You will cover this event in their coming
> edition.
>
> Abhijith, Vipul, Kartik, Pavithran, and others
>
> Please add any names I missed.

How did I miss Karunakar? It was good to see him even though he was
planned to go some other place. His presence helped answering some
questions on input methods.

Vipul says "Pravin Chavan from CoEP  for arranging delivary of
flex,buttons,and bunking whole day of college!for placing order of
tshirts in desperate times.."

> All in all it was not just a Debian event, it was a full fledged Free
> Software event covering Education, copyright, licensing,
> communication, upstream - distro relationship, contribution and much
> more. Looking forward to more action. Hopefully we can organise debian
> day on August 16 in one of the colleges in Pune. Others please
> organise events in your places. Add your place at
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay2010 Asia seems to be blank at the
> moment. We need to add some places.
>
> Our event wiki has some blog posts listed (mine is still pending).
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIndia/MiniDebConf2010
>
> Shirish was asking about slides archives, there is already a
> collection of slides from previous years
> http://www.fosscommunity.in/wiki/Debian/Conf We will upload the slides
> in while (it is in the todo list).
>
> Cheers
> Praveen
> --
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>



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പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍
You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your
rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as
they follow the rules: laws and constitution.