[OSDC Israel] Monthly OSDC meetings?

[Yaron Golan]

I can try to see if there is an option to use the facilities where I 
work for.

IMHO: 100-200 NIS is definably not free of charge and may be the reason 
for people not to come...

YG


Gabor Szabo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this list has been dormant for some time now but I'd like to start
> using it again
> for organizing OSDCs where the C stands for Club.
>
> I am not yet talking about a Conference as that seems to be too much work but
> monthly meetings of the Open Source Developers' Club.
>
>
> The Linux, the Perl, Python, Ruby and PHP communities all used to have
> regular monthly
> meetings but in the last 6 month most of the language communities have
> hardly had a
> meeting. I know Shlomi Fish is organizing meetings in TAU but the
> attendance is quite low.
>
>
> I think part of the reason is that we don't have spare time in the
> evenings to go to these meetings.
> So I was wondering if it would be possible to have monthly meetings in
> the morning hours?
>
> Something like  9:30-1:00 would give time to 2-4 lectures with a break
> in the middle.
> People could still go to work after that so they won't "loose" a workday.
>
> This would of course work only if these meeting are really seen as
> contributing to your work
> as opposed to just contributing without management acknowledging it.
>
> So would you be able to convince your manager that not only does it
> worth your time
> (and maybe even you co-workers time) to attend such meetings but it
> actually is important
> to attend these talks?
>
> For this naturally you would need to know what is the content but you
> can actually suggest that
> yourself. I am just giving ideas here:
>
>
>   Content
>  =========
> As content I'd expect to have talks on the 4 main dynamic languages
> (Perl, Python, Ruby and PHP), test automation, databases, XML processing,
> Web applications etc. With the minimum requirement of being *open source*.
>
>
>   Price
>   =========
> I can imagine this to be free of charge - using something like
> LinkedIn for registration -
> or at a relatively low fee. (100-200 NIS / event / person ?) using
> PayPal for charging money.
>
>
>   Location
>   =========
> We will need to have a venue where we can host the meeting - a
> conference room for
> 40-60 people with projector and Internet connection. This should be at
> some place
> accessible for many people.
>
>  Time
>  ===========
> As written earlier it would be monthly between 9:30-1:00
>
>   Sponsors
>  ===========
> We might want to have a sponsor to cover the expenses of the event in
> case we need to rent the place and in order to provide refreshment.
>
>
>  Organizers/Speakers/Volunteers
>  =========================
>  Besides the speakers we will need people to help with the organization.
>
>
> So what do you say ?
>
> 1) Would you be interested in this?
> 2) Would it be possible for you to come?
> 3) Paying 100-200 NIS ?
>
> 4) Do you know any company that might want to host such events ?
> 5) Any company that would want to sponsor such events ?
>
> 6) Would you be interested in giving a talk or otherwise helping with
> the organization?
>
> regards
>   Gabor
>
>
>