Hi Everyone...

First of all let me profusely apologise for the rather delayed email...
Its been pending for many days and I just got a chance to send it in.

Okay - first a short snapshot of major stuff that we discussed regarding
the organisation of a GPLv3 event. I'm going to focus and quote only on
that part of our discussion... please do feel to add in anything that
you feel I left out.

1. We discussed venues like public halls, IISc and IIM. There is a
small follow-up to this after our visit to IISc on Monday and IIM on
Tuesday. Shivanand and I met Prof Gopinath at IISc. Due to other
engagements that he has it would not be possible to involve him in
organising the conference at IISc. However, he is very interested in the
conference and would be willing to join ing.

We then met Prof Rahul De' and Prof Shankar Venkatgiri at IIM-B on
Tuesday. They were very upbeat about the possiblities of organising the
conference at IIM. Now we need to indicate some dates to them so that
they can make a proposal to their committee (at the Centre of Public
Policy at IIMB) and get a nod on whether they can hold the event there.

2. Kanti raised a very very important point about assembling an action
team here in Bangalore. He said that as a precursor to organising an
event on such a large scale, we should first organise series of smaller
events. This will help us in proving to ourselves that we can indeed
organise a much bigger event.

Based on Kanti's feedback, all of us decided that this is definitely
needed and doable. Basically, working together as a team is very
important and if we work together to do smaller events, it will help
increase understanding amongst all of us who have volunteered to help
out for the GPLv3 event.

To start with, we will have another meet at BMSCE to discuss and
understand the GPLv2. I volunteered to make a presentation on this.
(Don't know if I'm biting off more than I could chew, but lets see...)
And then we decided that we will discuss about the license to ensure
that all of us understand it very well.

This event will a more of a team-building event. The idea is to ensure
that we all know and understand each other enough to be able to work
together for organising the GPLv3 conference.

3. Of course, I can't miss out mentioning the coffee we had at Koshy's.
And the fun that it was sitting in Cubbon Park to have our discussion...
I think we can make Cubbon Part our regular meeting place. Not the same
rock... maybe a different one every time.

4. Briefly, we also touched upon the topic of offering projects and
seminars to students.

Many Many thanks to:

Rakesh (arky) - for setting the temper and direction for so many of the
meeting topics. Rakesh was also the one, I guess, who knew almost
everyone present.

Praveen A, Kushal Das, Ramkrishna Reddy, Anush Shetty, Nirmal Thacker,
Kanti, and Bimal Mankara for contributing very actively to the healthy
discussion.

Many thanks to all others who attended and volunteered. I could not
quote everyone's name above. Please don't feel bad about it.

Here is a list of people who attended:

   Kushal Das
   Isaac Praveen
   Akshay SasiKumar
   Basil Baby
   Bimal mankara
   Sajith K.C
   Anush Shetty
   Nirmal Thacker
   Praveen A
   Ramkrishna Reddy
   Parag Nemade
   Zabil CM
   Sweekar Pinto
   Sajith T S
   Nitin Numar
   Laxminarayan Kamath
   Shivanand V Edrami
   Abhas Abhinav
   Rakesh Ambati

Many thanks to Laxminarayan for typing this in. I've left out the phone
numbers here since this will be publically archived on the Internet...
Can mail that to all of us privately.

Further actions
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1. Identify time and date for the BMSCE meeting. I think we were
planning for Saturday. But there seems to be a BLUG meeting. Do we still
want to hold it parallelly or should we postpone our meet to Sunday or
next weekend? Or even mid week sometime. Any other venues that could
accomodate all of us?

2. We need a discussion list of some sort. Any suggestions? How about a
gnu.org.in mailing list? Currently, everyone is subscribed to the
FSUG-Bangalore mailing list and we can continue our discussion here.

Fellows - please do build up on this email... I'm sorry if I did not
cover everything.

Cheers, Abhas.
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