--- Nirmal Thacker nirmalthacker@gmail.com wrote:
hey arky,
hyderabad was hot, but the place is really booming, i must say. bangalore has to wake up soon!
That's great, I was born near hyderabad and left before Information Technology companies (we had Satyam, TCS and couple of others) start setting up offices there, it was mostly body shopping those days.
Well, I don't really side in with one city over another. We need uniform growth of our countries economy and concentration of software industry in single location is really bad. Bangalore hasn't able to scale to support the growing population and companies can not sustain the extremely high overhead and attrition rates in Bangalore.
i ll try for the weekend , ie: 11th . it would be suitable... let me know about the following asap:
- do you need a class or auditorium? or tell me
the total audience you are targetting (50, 100, 200?) - do you need a projector?
We may have >= 25-30 people from FCI/Blug/FSUG coming and the students of the BMS (What is your estimation guys?)
Hmm, it would be great if the college has one and can lend us or else I have to scout for someone who has one.
i suggest you guys start off with hands-on-labs. you can have several advantages:
Few years back I had proposed an idea of having a weekend GNU(s) Grazing tech meet, where in people can bring their computers and experienced users can help them out.And people can present their latest cool hacks and perhaps play NetHack or some games.
Yes having a hands-on workshop really good. Personally am working on developing an XML training program (consisting of five or six lectures) that I would take to different colleges here in banglore and hyderabad (couple of other places in AP).
At the moments there isn't must interest in Semantic Web and Web Standards here in Bangalore. But in few years we are gonna see companies requiring programs to follow Web Standards from Interface design to Business services based on XML.
Nirmal, there are lot of thing we can do. Let start doing one at a time and now lets get the show going ;o)
Cheers
--arky