Hi Sasi! This is a very good initiative!
I think "symposium" is too much, but a community gathering, a meetup, would be really nice.
The guys in Bangalore are planning something similar too.
In your city there are a lot of community members, so the first thing I'd do is to contact them (use the map to look for them!) and start discussing where, what and how to implement this idea. Let's make some noise!
Some ideas I shared for the Bangalore meeting in order to help you organize this:
Based on our experiences organizing events for the spanish user group, here are the things we have done over the past months:
Venue: usually, for each meeting, we look for a room/class/restaurant/bar/public space where we could be confortable speaking without much noise. Depending on the estimated number of attendants, the space could be ranging from small (for 5 persons) to a big space (for 25 - 35 persons).
Equipment: we usually look for places where we can have a screen and a projector, so that we can demo new features, portlets we're working on, public web sites built on Liferay, etc. A WIFI connection and a blackboard are also a good idea, but not mandatory!
Agenda: we usually start with a presentation of each person in the group (who are you? what do you do? why liferay?...) and then start a brainstorm of topics to be treated (each person propose a topic and everybody votes for it: the most voted topics are the ones that are going to be treated in the meeting). That way, if anybody has an interesting idea to talk about, he can receive the votes of the attendants and present his topic.
Said that, this is totally flexible and open to modifications: this is how we have worked, just a recommendation, but feel free to do whatever you want.
Thanks for this initiative!
Juan
I think "symposium" is too much, but a community gathering, a meetup, would be really nice.
The guys in Bangalore are planning something similar too.
In your city there are a lot of community members, so the first thing I'd do is to contact them (use the map to look for them!) and start discussing where, what and how to implement this idea. Let's make some noise!
Some ideas I shared for the Bangalore meeting in order to help you organize this:
Based on our experiences organizing events for the spanish user group, here are the things we have done over the past months:
Venue: usually, for each meeting, we look for a room/class/restaurant/bar/public space where we could be confortable speaking without much noise. Depending on the estimated number of attendants, the space could be ranging from small (for 5 persons) to a big space (for 25 - 35 persons).
Equipment: we usually look for places where we can have a screen and a projector, so that we can demo new features, portlets we're working on, public web sites built on Liferay, etc. A WIFI connection and a blackboard are also a good idea, but not mandatory!
Agenda: we usually start with a presentation of each person in the group (who are you? what do you do? why liferay?...) and then start a brainstorm of topics to be treated (each person propose a topic and everybody votes for it: the most voted topics are the ones that are going to be treated in the meeting). That way, if anybody has an interesting idea to talk about, he can receive the votes of the attendants and present his topic.
Said that, this is totally flexible and open to modifications: this is how we have worked, just a recommendation, but feel free to do whatever you want.
Thanks for this initiative!
Juan