Written By admin123 - 11 July, 2008

Bangalore Praja WG Meeting

[Update 3, Fri July 18] - We are on! Will also have a skypecast (what is it?) on for the meeting. So remote folks can listen in, and particpate as well. Will post a skypecast URL for the meeting as soon as we begin. We may have a presentation for the meeting as well. That will be shared via dimdim. See the details on how to get into the meeting.

[Update 2, Wed July 16] - Agenda:

• (10 mins) Kick off - Updates on what we have been upto so far
• (40 mins) Will not go into specifics or debates on any issues. We do that well enough on the website. Focus will be on broad ideas to take our online energy to the ground. WG is one way of doing that, so we will discuss how to make Transportation WG successful.
  
  • Outline Transportation WG goals and near term action plan - (Murali sir).
• (15 mins) Praja as platform - your ideas
  
  • Suggestions on how to sustain ourselves. Website is growing big now, plus Transportation WG will require some structure of non-virtual kind. Have to think of ways to support and sustain things.
  • Ideas on spreading the word on Praja. We havn't done any 'marketing' of the site so far. We can start now.
• (rest) Past above two, anything that attendees may want to bring up.
• Time cap - 2 hours. Can stay on longer if we so wish.

[Update 1, Tue July 15]: Venue changed to Koramangala. Threat of rains is very real. So we meet indoors, thanks Devesh for offering his office (see below for exact address). Should be able to get coffee and breakfast from nearby restaurants etc. Meeting room can take 15-20 people. Going by the comments so far, thats the number we are looking at. We have been promised Internet there, so skype conference should be possible. Stay tuned.]

Prajagale, its time for our second on-ground meeting. All members are welcome! Tentative date/time is Saturday, July 19, 8 am. Early morning start so that it doesn't impact our personal plans for rest of the day. Venue would be Lalbagh West Gate if numbers are good. Or an apartment complex in Koramangala if we don't get more than 15 confirmations. Remote members, we will log full updates of the meeting here. You will also get an India cell phone to call if you want to reach out to any attendee during the time of this meeting.

Please send in your confirmation via comment on this post, or private message to "admin".

We will use this meeting to kickstart our Transportation WG. But thats not the only thing we will talk. Let us share our ideas on growing this comunity, and how to give it more legs on action front in modern and practical ways.

Here is the list (a small one) of members who had expressed interest to anchor Transportation WG.

Local: murali772, Vasanth, narayan82, photoyogi, s_yajaman, fightcorruptioncoin, christopher, kiran8, ssheragu, gnt
Remote: kbsyed61, Mithun, bengloorappa, sandeepmr, surajshekar, sanchitnis

If we missed anyone above, please let us know either by leaving a comment here, or by simply showing up for the meeting.

As always, those who can't attend, but want to pass some thoughts for the meeting, leave them via comments here.

PS: Venue: Infomart, 99, 5th Cross, 5th Block, Koramangala. Its near Hotel Nandana, China Pearl restaurant or Vijaya bank, can't miss these landmarks on 5th cross, which BTW is a oneway, so beware. See Google map for an idea about the area. Point 1 is the appx location. Will post a more detailed map tomorrow.

No problems, I offer a meeting hall with Internet

Photoyogi - 11 July, 2008 - 14:46

First of all, I am in! And I am offering a meeting hall with tables, chairs plus most important, Internet. SB, you get your camcorder/webcam, we will broadcast the meeting live to Praja members.

This place is right behind BDA office, close to the BDA junction.

Once we have the counts confirmed, I can arrange for breakfast or coffee as well at this same venue.

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all the best folks

tsubba - 11 July, 2008 - 16:05

good luck folks. have fun(very important). make a difference.

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A/V capture and staging

tsubba - 11 July, 2008 - 16:12

somebody please lug in atleast a fully charged camcorder and a tripod. yogi knows enough about composition to get the visuals right. sound would be a issue. external mike could help. though i would prefer him talking in front of recorders rather than man it from behind. even podcasts would be ok. and folks please dont be camera/audio shy. rip right through it. pour your guts out. shred the innards. it might be useful to sort out an agenda for the meet here. so that people can come prepared.

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Bumping it up

silkboard - 11 July, 2008 - 08:08

I have noticed most people come in to the site via recent comments or active posts, so posting one to bump this one up.

I will be there, so will be Murali sir. I bet Narayan and Photoyogi as well. Perhaps Srivathsa too. Who else? I am looking fwd to mapping more ids with faces.

Remember, 36 was the number that went on that BIAL trip :)

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Minutes of the meeting

admin123 - 20 July, 2008 - 14:31

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