Nov 27 00:57:50 <tazz> cool...
Nov 27 00:58:35 <tazz> we will need speakers for this thing wont we? any suggestions?
Nov 27 00:58:41 <f3ew> hang on
Nov 27 00:58:49 <tazz> ok
Nov 27 01:02:24 <f3ew> back
Nov 27 01:02:33 <tazz> we will need speakers for this thing wont we? any suggestions?
Nov 27 01:02:52 <f3ew> Hmmmm, Nandkumar said something about Nasscom doing stuff after Ponnuswamy comes back from CMU
Nov 27 01:04:25 <tazz> ah but who is Ponnuswamy?
Nov 27 01:05:55 <f3ew> oh sorry, ponnurangam
Nov 27 01:06:00 <tazz> and i have been a few nasscom sponsored meets its always about the basic stuff like privacy and internet porn kind of stuff. To educate people.
Nov 27 01:06:16 <tazz> Not the kind of topics we would like to cover.
Nov 27 01:06:59 <f3ew> We can do fairly advanced stuff as well
Nov 27 01:07:47 <tazz> yes and the basic idea is to get a _real_ sec conf going, were people learn and have fun.
Nov 27 01:08:53 <f3ew> BOM will be expensive for that
Nov 27 01:09:02 <f3ew> I can get a few good people though
Nov 27 01:09:37 <f3ew> Raven Alder, MJR, Anton Chuvakin, Joseph Koshy ...
Nov 27 01:10:40 <tazz> hmm well i left wipro so i am free for now (hint,hint) i can take this up as a project and see if this is feasible.
Nov 27 01:11:20 <f3ew> heh
Nov 27 01:11:39 <f3ew> Why did you leave Wipro?
Nov 27 01:11:51 <tazz> iit wont lend us space (they have there own sec-conf)
Nov 27 01:12:09 <tazz> how about that place in bandra MIT or something?
Nov 27 01:12:18 <f3ew> Mumbai will NOT be cheap, lets see about feasibility though
Nov 27 01:12:36 <f3ew> Nah, you are looking at 2/3 star hotel types
Nov 27 01:12:54 <f3ew> The Orchid at Andheri should be fairly reasonable
Nov 27 01:14:24 <tazz> which brings me to sponsorship sans has been in mumbai and has not sponsored any event in india (to the best of my knowledge)
Nov 27 01:14:47 <tazz> so i can approach SANS
Nov 27 01:15:58 <f3ew> and NASSCOM, and possibly NASSCOM members
Nov 27 01:17:46 <tazz> hmm well we will have to bring an entire structured plan to the table for these people.
Nov 27 01:18:49 <tazz> and man power...lug-bom could be of help here.
Nov 27 01:18:57 <f3ew> leave the budget fields blank for now, you will have to fill them in for a concrete proposal
Nov 27 01:19:08 <f3ew> hire a competent organiser
Nov 27 01:19:21 <f3ew> The only thing is you need to throw money at it
Nov 27 01:19:50 <tazz> f3ew you mean a event organiser? i have a buddy who does this, will talk to him.
Nov 27 01:20:05 <f3ew> yup
Nov 27 01:20:26 <f3ew> Someone who can arrange for equipment, pickups, all the ancillary stuff
Nov 27 01:20:36 <f3ew> frontdesk people for registrations ...
Nov 27 01:20:39 <tazz> i told him about foss.in and he was interested.
Nov 27 01:25:23 <tazz> how many should we expect?
Nov 27 01:28:06 <f3ew> depends on your pricing, and the speakers
Nov 27 01:28:57 <f3ew> again, do you want a more practical oriented conference, an academic one?
Nov 27 01:29:03 <tazz> _ideally_ i would like to keep it free, but can charge 50bucks or something to keep off freeloaders
Nov 27 01:29:11 <f3ew> errr, no
Nov 27 01:29:12 <tazz> practical
Nov 27 01:29:26 <f3ew> then you are looking at between 20-30 people a talk
Nov 27 01:29:31 <tazz> a hands-on kind of thing.
Nov 27 01:29:48 <f3ew> probably about 10K - 15K INR for a week's worth of talks
Nov 27 01:30:30 <f3ew> most corporate types will pay that money, and they won't send people otherwise
Nov 27 01:31:11 <tazz> yes well students and sysadmins will be interested in this thing the most i guess.
Nov 27 01:31:49 <f3ew> sysadmins? network admins?
Nov 27 01:32:08 <tazz> yes *admins security people....
Nov 27 01:32:31 <f3ew> and most of them will get sponsorships from their employers
Nov 27 01:33:34 <tazz> so we should directly advertise this event over to those corporate people.
Nov 27 01:34:07 <f3ew> pitch it to NASSCOM, and get them to push it to their members
Nov 27 01:43:43 <tazz> sure
Nov 27 01:43:52 <tazz> now to mail this log to vickram.
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