fossmeet in Delhi/NCR

@rajudvindane , @shivamrana needs a confirmation from the local community, you @vik or @shreyas .

I met @shivamrana yesterday evening to discuss about the organization of the event. We decided this to be a single day event with 3-4 parallel tracks. Could be multiple days if the people want it to be. Regarding the date we are still uncertain as the dates for the college fest at JMI are still not clear, also they are supposed to schedule some hackathon by some company there. We don't want our dates to conflict with these dates.

@shivamrana - Do you have the final dates for the fest ?

Okay. So things have changed a bit. There's no fest but there are other things that are going to happen around those dates.

• We were also talking to Mozilla and they are interested to have a session with 4-5 talks. So, we can talk to them to be a part of one track out of the 3 we are planning to have. But, we'll have to decide on a date and then talk to them if they are available during that time.

2-3 Apr

• Pretty late for us to even plan for these date.
• There's other event going to happen during which the auditorium will be occupied so, we wont be able to get a place for our keynote.

8-9 Apr

• A bit suitable for us.
• There's also an overnight hackathon on these dates only. So, there was a possibility of this meet happening from 10 am to 5 pm and then from 6 pm the hackathon will continue.
• During these dates there's going to be another fest of another faculty so again Auditorium problems.
• On 9th there's going to be a talk by someone from Amazon on Cloud Computing under the flag of IEEE CS. Timings for them will be from 12 noon to 1 pm. We can get the auditorium for the keynote from 10 am to 12 pm but then it'd be advertised as an IEEE CS event.
• Here there is that problem of crowd getting mixed with other events.

23-24 Apr/30th Apr-01 May

• These dates are quite open for us.
• We'll have final exams from 5th or 6th May so these two weekends are the only ones available.
• I'll have my mid semester exams from 18 till 22, so apart that time, I'll be available for all the preparations.
• We can talk to Mozilla for these dates as well. Hopefully they'll agree.

Taking it on 8-9 April
will mean there would be too many events in your college on the same day at the same time. That is not an ideal situation for any event. People who are supposed to join in at FOSSMeet might get diverted to other events and college fests. That will mean low or very low attendance to FOSSMeet.

On 23-24 April
This will conflict with the dates of GNOME Asia Summit. It is scheduled to be from 21-24 April.

30thApril and 1st may
seems to me as the ideal dates, but I personally might not be able to join in on these dates due to my University exam schedule. Others can go ahead and help organize the conference on the scheduled dates.

Thanks @rajudvindane and @shivamrana .
I also feel that 30thApril and 1st may are the best dates. @vik - Please suggest

@shivamrana - further to our conversation, please can you add your immediate juniors here. We will plan for the Fossmeet !

Yeah. I have tagged all the responsible peoples. Some might pitch in later.
@ashharhasan @pulkitgupta @shikha @fatimamunawwar @maseeraali

Thanks @shivamrana !
@ashharhasan @pulkitgupta @shikha @fatimamunawwar @maseeraali - Welcome to the team.
Can you share the dates for the month of August when we can schedule this meet ?