[Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat
<igauravsehrawat at gmail.com> wrote:
> My thoughts: Meetup group has evolved over the period of time in the sense
> people are no more newbies as compared to meetings 6 months ago. We are
> seeing regular faces now with little newbies at meetups. People have reached
> the threshold of python. They want some practical knowledge and
> implementation.

Not sure I completely agree with this. The meetup group should not
take any such things as an assumption. So this might be a bad premise
to base the decision of full length talks on. Regulars are great to
see and are definitely required but then we wouldn't be what we are
without people trying to see whats in our meetup. Lightning talks
definitely throw the point out much sooner than full length ones.

> Kudos to IMSc for being awesome venue, we can mix handons with full length
> talk.

Vijay and I have already discussed about this when talking about the
venue for the previous workshop and the problem is that it is hard to
navigate between rows to help people out with hands on activities.
Thats why we looked around and the awesome Adaptvant came forward :)

Also full length talks do not include hands on. Workshops however, do.

> For this we want people to come forward a little bit, slack is there,
> mailing list is there, just open up a little bit if you are attending or
> want to. Ideas never dies, they just multiply.Humble request to other
> members.
>
> Execution is what mattters, we will definitely need involvement from people.

+1

> Idea : After one week of meetup, we can have a live meeting on slack to
> brainstorm on talks. From there we can pick a talk which will qualify to be
> a full length talk. This live meeting on slack will be only once in a month
> say 2-3 hours to brainstorm and off we go. Take it as a productivity tool
> rather than time waste.

I like this idea. +1 from me on this!