Dear Arun, Just a single question...
Mistake is mistake and it has to be corrected. It would have been nice if you had joined as a volunteer for the conference. We were just a hand full of people who were doing most of the work at the end of the day. All the committees and officials did not do the sweat job. And it is a fact that technical track was on our lowest priority.
Why didnt you have the same feeling when you initiated the bloody drama in the name of Novell protest at Cochin conference...????? A hand full of students and teachers were working hard day and night to make the Cochin event a great success... No one like you were there to help them... And at the end of the day, you tried your level best to demoralize them.... At least start thinking in the right direction, for the best of the free software community if you still do not have some other concerns...
Rakesh
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Arun M arun@gnu.org.in wrote:
Dear Sunil,
Mistake is mistake and it has to be corrected. It would have been nice if you had joined as a volunteer for the conference. We were just a hand full of people who were doing most of the work at the end of the day. All the committees and officials did not do the sweat job. And it is a fact that technical track was on our lowest priority.
Out of around 16 technical session only one came out to be wrong decisions. Out of nearly 50 panelist who participated in policy session, no one found any major policy issues.
In the exhibition area only issue that was found is one person having a windows laptop in SBT stall. State Bank of Travencore was a sponsor for the event and they were given a stall. They were distributing their publicity materials. One of their staff was having a windows based laptop.
Having windows like theme is not a wrong thing IMHO. Some one asked about streaming technology used. It is giss.tv and as far as we know it is based on free software and ogg format. Video conferencing was with Ekiga.
with warm regards arun.
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil vu2swx@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
It is interesting to see that partly proprietary java fx got in. I am not asking for the details of tech committee.
Sunil
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Arun M arun@gnu.org.in wrote:
Was there any peer review in selecting topics . Or was it done arbitrarily.
Do you have any clue to it.
There was a program committee for technical presentations.
regards arun
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