Folks: I'm an employee from one of the companies - ThoughtWorks - who have helped make space available for meetups. I'm not around in Bangalore now-a-days, so I ask one or the other colleague to help provide space.
Noufal has described at ThoughtWorks position on such meetups. I've been chaperoning one tech meetup or the other at the ThoughtWorks offices since 2006. I discuss with other folks who provide venues to such meetups. We techies at our organizations "get it" that other technies need space for a meetup. We ask internally for space, and we then chaperone the meetup. Once in a while, there are the odd non-techies who view the whole meetup as a major marketing opportunity. Depending upon the community, this may or may not be fine. Once in a while - for other meetups like the Android user group hosted at ThoughtWorks- some other company has even sponsored Pizzas. In return, they were given a 10 minute slot to talk about their product. No one in the audience ever felt that they were the product or felt offended in any way. If anything, such sessions once in a while have even helped inspire confidence that there are companies making products and offering services using such technologies and in this space. Fully aware that at the moment I'm inactive and am an arm-chair spectator at best, I propose that the active community explore providing a 10 minute slot for companies to speak about themselves and their products, and if anyone feels that it's getting over commercialized, then discuss how to address it. Speaking from personal experience, slamming the door shut doesn't help anyone. -- Ram On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 3:05 AM, kracekumar ramaraju < kracethekingma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks everyone for pitching in with suggestions. Every point is worth. > At this point we will focus what we're currently doing and pause this > initiative. > > Thanks once again! > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 3:27 PM, sayantan bhattacharya < > skb655...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Exactly. So, in case the organizers are looking for sponsors for the next > > meetup, the search time reduces too. > > On Jul 20, 2015 3:03 PM, "Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे" <mandarv...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > But in case Company B wishes to present too, they > > > > will have to get prior permission from Company A along with the > > > organizers > > > > of the meet-up. > > > > > > > > > > Or Company B can just sponsor next meetup ;) > > > > > > -Mandar > > > _______________________________________________ > > > BangPypers mailing list > > > BangPypers@python.org > > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > BangPypers@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > > -- > > *Thanks & Regardskracekumar"Talk is cheap, show me the code" -- Linus > Torvaldshttp://kracekumar.com <http://kracekumar.com>* > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
