[IndiChix] Minutes of Linuxchix meet - Mumbai

[priti patil]

--- Barkha Khatri <barkha.khatri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The first Linuxchix city meet went well. The
> following people
> were present at the meet:
> 
> * Priti Patil
> * Vivek V Cherian
> * Jagdish
> * Gaurav Chaturvedi
> * Barkha Khatri
> 
> After the initial introductions were over, (and some
> coffee ordered),
> the group started discussing what could be done to
> spread awareness
> about Linuxchix India.
> 
> Some points discussed at the meet were:
> 
> 1. Awareness Campaigns:
>        - Talk about LC_IN in and around colleges in
> Mumbai,
> especially target colleges like SNDT University,
> which are women's
> only colleges, but not limit ourselves to them.
>        - Talk at conferences that happen throughout
> the country, or
> atleast make sure there is _some_ LC_IN presence
> felt.
> 

We'll need to create an introduction (including our
philosophy & objectives/ultimate goal) text before
organizing these kind of events
> 
> 2. Tasks List:
>        - Add to the tasks list[1], things that need
> to be done.
>        - Put up a page on the wiki, and ask people
> on the list to
> mention what are they interested in, on this page.
> Translations, write
> code, graphics, documentation, mentoring, etc. Such
> a list would help
> people with similar interests to group up together
> and adopt projects
> / subprojects.
> 
We can think of including education sector in whole &
1stly arrange an orientation program in general to set
their mind frame firstly then go for domain-wise
(primary, secondary school, junior then senior
colleges) workshops. Since we're not targeting only
techies here we'll contact other streams as well (viz.
Arts, literature, etc) 
> 
> 3. Workshops.
>        - Schedule a hands-on workshop targetting
> students and
> others, who want to volunteer, but have no clue
> where to start from.
> The first of such kinds will be a translation
> workshop. Details about
> this shall be posted later.
> 
As stated above we'll need to arrange one orientation
program before this may be per college or area-wise.

> 4. Logo and Name:
>        - `Bharatiya Naari' was suggested (yet
> again!) :)
>        - For the Indian logo, it was suggested to
> use a flowing saree
> draped around the letters. (None of those present
> were artistically
> inclined)
> 
We'll discuss this on mailing list or if possible on
forum.

> 5. Forums
>        - It was sugggested to put up a forum (eg:
> PhpBB) for
> discussions.
> 
> 6. Google Summer of Code:
>        - Register ourselves as a mentoring
> organization, and mentor
> projects (This needs more thought, we need to decide
> what project(s)
> to adopt - KDE, Gnome, Fedora, etc are already
> mentoring
> organizations - OLPC was brought up as OLPC
> developers are looking
> for translation to Indian languages)
> 
> Another point brought up was about the lack of
> awareness of the Free
> Software philosophy in general at college level.
> Hence, it was decided
> to talk about :
> 1. The Free Software philosophy
> 2. Linuxchix India
> 3. The translation workshop
> 
> over the next few months at whichever colleges we go
> to.
> 
> The workshop will be held after the Mumbai
> University exams get over.
> This gives us around 4-5 months of time from now to
> talk about LC_IN
> in as many colleges as we can.
> 
Lets prepare TODOs list for this Workshop, what
background work needs to be done for that? same would
be utilized for forthcoming events. Lets call for
voluteers.

> To conclude, this meet helped in gathering a
> momentum to the
> activities of the group in Mumbai. Not many
> pictures[2], but some
> proof nonetheless. :)
> 
> In case I missed some points, the others present can
> post them up.
> Thanks guys.
> 
> 
> [1] http://linuxchix.org.in/wiki/index.php/Volunteer
> [2]
>
http://www.flickr.com/photos/barkha/sets/72157603638375046/
> 
> Regards,
> Barkha.
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Cheers,

Priti


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