On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Anivar Aravind anivar.aravind@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Friends
In kochi conference I did a presentation on History of Free Software movement in India. (I presented my session after the boycott novell campaign and manhandling ) The slide of the presentation is available at http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/wp-content/uploads/storydom.pdf (Thanks Hiran for the Theme & design)
I am planning to make this as an article. Please go through it and point if i missed any groups So please send your feedback Also it will help the people in this list to get the name of various groups contributed to the Free Software movement
Were discussing the aspects of this presentation with Sammer of ILUG cochin at the Cochin conference. He had suggested that a wiki needs to be used so that people everywhere in India can add points and contributions, the same can be validated and ascertained.
Chronicling "History" needs all the importance that it deserves, what were the procedures/methodologies that were used to come to conclusions.. etc..
When compared to code swarm kind of an approach where mere history of commits are used, writting History of a movement is tricky in my opinion and so needs maximum transparency. And i thought the wiki idea is worth considering.
If you listen to Greg's talk below:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/media/talks/gregkh/talk_2008-06-05_Greg_Kroah_Hart...
One can see that 18.5%(top most percentage) of the Linux kernel code contributors are "Amateurs" whose works are not associated with any formal organizations, the category at the fifth place(5.5%) is from "Unknown Individuals". The contribution from Canonical??? (you can view the video to find that out :-) )
The point am trying to make is that there might be a lot of people out there who might want to add to this because History is History. Maybe they don't bother and would prefer to remain "Unknown Individuals" but for the sake of transparency I suggest that a Wiki comes up and a campaign initiated that History is being written, people who might want to mention the past which they think are relevant in the Context of the Free software movement can add the same.
Anivar Aravind
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