Jhinuk Cchowdhury wrote:
sajith I think your inputs are interesting...u mean to say bangalore did nothing on the SFD? i need details..why dint bangalore do anything on that day? and what do you think of the SFD thing as a whole? Is it serving its purpose? how do you see india performing vis a vis world w.r.t SFD ?
Jhinuk, I was saying that FSUG Bangalore did not organize anything. As a group, we are still kind of a non-starter. Regarding SFD, I am not aware of any other group in Bangalore doing anything. Maybe Praveen can help you with this. Meanwhile, you could visit this page:
http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/India
In Karnataka, only Bangalore appears to had an SFD team. But the link points to FSUG Bangalore's wiki page, the one Praveen had started :) But nothing materialized, I think not many of us had the energy or time to spare from our busy little lives.
Why no one in Bangalore cared enough is a question that I am asking myself. The reason most definitely isn't the absence of enthusiastic folks. I think the reason could be cultural. Most of us are not in touch with the grassroots, thanks to busy work life and, shall I say, bourgeoise lifestyle and such. Or that the Free Software fans here prefer to do our bit in other ways - like, in terms of technical contributions.
Incidentally, Kerala appears to had the largest number of groups planning activities for SFD. I'm a Keralite, I am sure I would have participated in FSUG Kochi's celebrations had I been there - reason could be that I am more of a follower than a leader (at Kochi, there were folks to initiate things), or that culturally I am more comfortable there. Or maybe that I am plain lazy. I think that the latter is the more likely reason ;)
I was wondering about everyone else.
Sajith.