MOM from 13 Oct 2019 Meeting

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Posted by prethiee on October 16, 2019 at 2:09pm

Minutes of Meeting 

Venue : IIT Alumni Industry Interaction Center
       
    Date: 13 Oct 2019
    Time 7pm - 9pm

Attendees :  

Unimity Solutions

  • Shyamala Rajaram
  • Sharmila Kumaran
  • Punam Beedkar

Equitas Technologies

  • Mandakini Kumari

Ameex

  • Ranga Srinivasan

Innoppl

  • Senthil Kumar Swaminathan

Cognizant

  • Senthilkumar Arumugam

Axelerant

  • Sujatha Varadharajan
  • Preethi Prabhakaran

 

Topics Discussed

Localization

To make the camp and product as inclusive as possible. Localization including

Speakers

  • Who could converse in Tamil, or Translate the speech parallelly in Tamil.

Cultural Venue

  • A taste of the Culture with events at the suggested venue DakshinaChitra

Sponsors & Recruitment

  • Call-in companies from different districts of TamilNadu, and the Neighboring States. [Suggested: Zyware Solutions from Kerala]

Food Serving & Decoration

  • To embody the traditional practice of serving food, [Suggested: Banana Leaves, Traditional Cuisine] 

 

Social Awareness

Socially conscious initiatives

Recruitment [Benefiting Women]

  •  Recruiting women after a career break, to relaunch career in drupal [Suggested: Her Second Innings(Non-profit), JobsForHer, Sheroes]

 Giveaways [Eco-Friendly]

  • Adopting for cloth tote bags, sapling as a giveaway gift, ID cards in plain cardboard, recyclable ID tags, Organic pens or plantable pencils, paper-based covers.

Demographic

  • Any initiative that could benefit differently-abled people. 

Speaker [Diversity in terms of Profession]

  • Bringing Speakers or Presenters from Diverse background, and interests 

For the Developer Community

  • Getting in partnership with Acquia to avail the opportunity to take the certification at half the price [Achieved: By slashing off the Proctoring cost]

 

General

The Common Camp Activities

Recruitment

  • Making aware of the companies to be ethical, and follow the Code of Conduct
  • Bringing in smaller companies from other districts of TamilNadu, and it's neighbouring states.
  • Hiring people from Core PHP background

Keynote Speaker

  •  Bringing in the Customer to speak [Suggested: Mertek]
  •  Bringing in people from different profession [Suggested: Autokaar]

Speakers and Presentation topics

  •  Reaching out to people from Drupal Companies and finalizing the list [Suggested: Hussain from Axelerant]
  •  Adopting different Technology landscape for presentation topics [Suggested: AGILE, Core PHP, Ruby on Rails, Gatsby, GraphQL] 

Marketing

  •  Making all the SNS updated with content and current activities. [Suggested: Ranga onboarding a Marketing member]

Entrance

  •  The decision on adopting the model whether to be
  1.  Fully paid
  2.  Free 
  3.  Partially paid [Suggested: for parking]

Sponsors

  • To reach companies to get the details of the type of sponsors they're planning to choose.

Inspiration from other Tech Conferences and Communities

  • To reach to Volunteers from TiECON, PyCON conference and PyLadies group to get any leads that could help us with our initiatives.