Hi,

I would like to propose a get together of Debian Developers,
Contributors and potential contributors. I believe meeting like this
can be a great place for Debian folks to meet and bring in new people
to the community. I still remember the meeting at IIIT Bangalore which
inspired me to start maintaining Malayalam translations of Debian
Installer. That time we had only 2 DDs from India (plus Jaldhar and
Manoj) and we had set an ambitious target of 20 DDs in a year. Though
we did not achieve that target, we saw many more new DDs. We can
revise that target and start working towards achieving that.

We should be focusing on strength's of Debian to potential
contributors and explain our model to them. Some points that come to
mind is the organisation structure, commitment to Free Software,
universality in archs and packages, releases ...

I am suggesting Pune as a location and early July as time. What does
everybody think? If anybody is volunteering for a different location,
please come forward. I talked to COEP college here and they are happy
to host it.

Any ideas, suggestions, who can come ...

- Praveen
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