July meet up

[Ajey Gore]

Folks,

GoJek can host July meet up.

Ajey

[boddhisattva]

Hi Ajey,

Thanks for letting us know that GoJek can host the July 2016 BRUG Meetup. I've scheduled this month's meetup on this link .

Could you please share the office address and somebody's contact number(in case attendees aren't able to find the place easily) on this thread ? I'll accordingly update the details on the meetup page.

[Shishir Joshi]

Most of the people who turned up were really enthusiastic about contributing to open source projects during a meetup. It's an awesome idea and we should plan to do this for the next meetup. Any one in?

[Santu Mahapatra]

Yes, people were quite interested in a contributing to open source meetup. There are a few thoughts that popped up in my brain.

• It should be hack day thing i.e. 2 sessions of 3 hours. 1 session might not suffice
• We need to get a list of beginner issues beforehand
• We should get the event page up asap. The turnout was low this time because the event page was not up until later

Mohnish? Any thoughts?

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Santu Mahapatra

[boddhisattva]

Hi Shishir and Santu,

Doing a meetup wherein people can contribute to open source projects is definitely a good idea. Thanks for your thoughts on this. I did have a discussion about this with Prakash Murthy at the May 2016 BRUG meetup since he's been a part of a similar event in Bangalore in the past and he did mention that these things need to be well planned. 

I think it's a good idea to get a better understanding of what kinda open source projects people want to contribute to, and then I think we would be in a better position to plan this meetup. I also think it's a good idea to know how many people we could expect for this meetup so that we have enough volunteers to assist other meetup attendees. We'd also need a host for this meetup. Lastly, as Santu rightly mentioned, this would need to be more on the lines of a full day event.

I think there are certain factors one keeps in mind before going about creating the meetup page and I believe they need to be accounted for. I think having more people who'd want to volunteer in co-organizing BRUG meetups is something that is welcomed. Please feel free to contact Swanand to add you as a co-organizer on meetup.com, if you're interested. This would help especially at times when other co-organizers aren't able to make it for an upcoming meetup.

Shishir, due to certain work and travel related reasons I wouldn't be able to make it for the full day meetup in August and September in case we plan to have one then.