[HCoop-Discuss] HCoop 10th anniversary meetup

[Nathan Kennedy]

Hey, thanks for mentioning this!

India is and has long been our biggest user base after the USA. So, if there’s sufficient interest to have two (or more) meet-ups, that would be absolutely awesome.  Flights to Chennai right now are pretty reasonable too so if there ends up being little interest in a meet-up stateside we could just have the main/only event in India. Provided you are volunteering to take the lead in organizing! :)

Nathan

> On Oct 28, 2014, at 3:54 AM, Noufal Ibrahim KV <noufal at nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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