[Hamara-devel] minidebconf pune happening in Pune - hamaralinux being the title sponsor.

[shirish]

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On Monday 24 August 2015 09:47 PM, shirish wrote:
> In-line :-
>
> On Monday 24 August 2015 08:44 PM, Amardeep Singh wrote:
>> Hi Shirish,
>
> Dear Amardeep,
>
>> inline:-
>>
>>> I have been discussing with Vik about hamara taking an active part in
>>> minidebconf and I can now share that TBS/Hamara has agreed to be the
>>> title sponsor.
>>>
>>> AFAIK Vik is going to be there but who else would be coming along with
>>> him is unclear atm. That probably needs to be decided by hamara/TBS.
>
>> I'll be coming along with Vik and we are currently planning to get
>> couple of other guys as well.
>
> Please let me know who else would be coming so we are able to do
> whatever co-ordination we can do from our side.
>
>> In terms of material for marketing :
>>
>> - We can get usb's
>> - We already got standee's
>> - Stickers may be?
>> - DVD's (what do you think)?
>
> What I would suggest is to do something similar like the duck challenge
> that Debian did.
>
> See http://blog.familiekainz.at/duck-challenge-at-debconf15.html
>
> That way they have to fix or do something and is not a give-away.
> s
> What I would suggest is to let people install hamara-sugam, raise and
> triage bugs and at some level we would give those as rewards for good
> bugs raised, most number of bugs raised, most numbers of bugs triaged
> and so on and so forth.
>
> What do you think of that ? This would also add value to us and make it
> quicker and easier to have a release happening.
>
> Another thing that is in works is having Debian T-shirts/Jackets or
> something on those lines with hamara and any other sponsor.
>
> But even those would need to be earned either in the form of quizzes or
> whichever way they show some contribution to hamara or/and team of
> hamara likes them :)
>
> Have attached the T-shirt design that has been worked upon so far.
>
> I have been trying to get some more sponsors but at the moment it's only
> hamara who has committed as a sponsor for the conference as of now.
>
> Hopefully we would have a better picture of how things stand by the end
> of the week.
>
>> Thanks,
>> Amardeep
>

Hi all,
Sorry for not being able to share much, organizing the conference has 
been taking quite some time.

First a bit of bad news - COEP as a venue is no longer available. Some 
internal issues at COEP. Can't write more than that, will share when we 
meet in-person.

What's done is done hence am looking for alternative venues. There are 
two-three software companies who have largish campuses as well as 1-2 
educational institutes as well. Hopefully one of those might work out.

Another possibility that we are looking is shifting the dates from 12th 
-13th to 19th-20th which is again the week-end. As it is a long week-end 
there is much more chances of getting a nice place.

I hope I am able to share something more concrete in a day or two.

I had already informed Anupam as soon as I came to know.


@Raju - Shailendra might connect with you. He is the marketing go-to-guy 
in hamara/techblue. Please guide and co-operate with him as you know the 
debian culture and well aware about the techblue/hamara culture as well. 
Please make sure that none of the marketing material that 
techblue/hamara makes is offensive to the purists as well as the 
community while at the same time hamara is able to put the message they 
want across.

If you need any help in creating content or looking at it by another set 
of eyes, feel free to involve me there as well.

One of the more interesting ways you could perhaps work on is use the 
GNU/Linux distribution timeline and put hamara there with a bit of focus 
on hamara therein.

http://futurist.se/gldt/wp-content/uploads/12.10/gldt1210.svg

We could make a really big map adding hamara therein.

There's lots more but keeping it brief atm.

@Raju - Will be sending specific people photos of probable venues as 
well in the next few days, hopefully there is one where even we are 
comfortable as well as they.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org