On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Nagarjuna G. <nagarjun@gnowledge.org> wrote:

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:27 PM, ajay kumar <freeajju@gmail.com> wrote:
> dear friends
>
> local chapters
> are you saying that FSF-I should run like its run in Europe, Americas? that
> means we are trying to force solutions meant for other countries to that of
> ours! in order to have more people (in general terms we call "mass base")
> FSF-I must have local chapters. I mean considering your own views Just see
> the number of population in indian states they are as equal in population to
> that in each country in europe, this clearly shows the importance of having
> local chapters.
>

FSFE did not appear without the user groups. We do not even have user
gruops, why talk of chapters. When we have more people, and
activities increase we can all decide to form a chapter. If such a
need arises, we can amend our decisions.

I thought you would reply with some links to the lists or user groups in europe and that in india so that we could have had a comparision. alas you didn't.

Its ok i will do it for you.

Well this list of user groups and communities that i am listing out may give an insite into the lenth and breadth of the free software and linux user groups in india. I do admit that free software dosn't encorage listing lug's but as FSF-I i think we can change them to glug's or free software groups this list also includes irc channels. can we consider irc's as groups?

http://wikiwikiweb.de/LugsList (119 groups roughly)
[thanks FN for listing the groups]

http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/User_Groups/Asia/India/

Well this list also consists of groups that are there in asia, africa and latin america too but that section is hardly 25% of the wiki page.

These are the lists of groups that include lugs, glugs, fsugs in europe.

http://www.linuxlinks.com/UserGroups/Europe/United_Kingdom/ (90 groups roughly)
http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/User_Groups/Europe/
http://www.on-the-web.ch/linux/lug.html

Well the links that i took may or may not be authentic. But that dosn't stop us from assuming the wide spread of free software.

I don't think the number of activists in the groups of europe have outnumbered than that of indian groups.

to get things more clear.
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-user-groups.html

How many groups and activists should be there in order to form a chapter?

>
> board of directors
> When is the so called Board of Directors going to so called NOMINATE there
> new Board?
> most of the current board of directors are the same onces who are there
> since its inception which needs a change. (well power and control over FSF-I
> need to change)

I want to specifically mentions my about question here
Q: Are the below replies officially from FSF-I or are they nagarjuna's own opinions?

From what you wrote above, it is very clear that you do not even know
the facts.

Nagarjuna