[HCoop-Discuss] HCoop 10th anniversary meetup

[Noufal Ibrahim KV]

I know that there are a lot of people from India who are members of
hcoop. It might be nice to have a smaller meetup in this part of the
world too. I myself joined in 2003 or so and I know several people from
back then.

On Tue, Oct 28 2014, Nathan Kennedy wrote:

> I floated the idea of a 10th anniversary HCoop meet-up at a meeting
> earlier in the year, and there was a little interest.  While the
> HCoop’s origins (http://wiki.hcoop.net/OurHistory
> <http://wiki.hcoop.net/OurHistory>) as cooperative hosting go back to
> 2002 and the community has roots dating back even to 1996, the
> corporate birthdate of HCoop Inc. as a legal entity is February 17,
> 2005.
>
> It’s getting late but since I had volunteered myself to help organize
> this before, if this is going to be a thing it’s time to start picking
> venues, sending out announcements, inviting presenters and such.  I
> think it would definitely be worth doing if we could get even half a
> dozen HCoopers together in the same place for the first time, as long
> as it’s not going to be just me. And it would be nice to promote it
> locally and draw in others from the free software/open
> source/Linux/UNIX/web communities and make it a somewhat legitimate
> geek event.  I know I have a record of overcommitting but I do have
> time off in February to make it happen.
>
> Given HCoop’s center of gravity this would probably be in the
> northeastern USA, thinking Boston, NYC or Philly, but if more people
> would show up someplace warmer or such that’s fine by me, except that
> an executive decision will need to be made soon.
>
> I’ll put up a wiki page, but can we get some discussion of interest on
> the list first? Anyone up for an HCoop meetup some weekend in
> February? Better yet, anyone interested in coming AND helping out with
> organizing?
>
> Best,
> Nathan
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Cordially,
Noufal
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