On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, yayati singh spake thusly:
Lets reach on consensus , and we hold the 8 th august meet at Onward Novell.
eh? I think we should meet at HBCSE.
let our luggers learn more on Novell.
what has Novell got to do with the free software movement or the open source one ?
About every months meetings my point of view would be:-
- every alternate month lets keep our meeting in some
of the leading academic colleges, so that more awareness can instilled among students, for they are the ones who shall carry this GNU movement further. (Remember catch them Young)
Spoon feeding is always a bad idea. Folks who will be the future proponents of any movement do not generally need spoon feeding. Conversely spoon fed babies do not generally have enough motivation to carry forward any movement.
- the alternative month venue could be any where,
would be a good idea if its with the industry, and major open source players like novell and redhat. (So Novell India meet on 8th is an excellent Idea). for which some of us should really take initiative and help in organizing at various but different venues.
I think we should keep the commercials away and keep away from the commercials. Let the atmosphere be as bohemian and utopian as possible, which can only happen at an academic institute. The purpose of these meets is learning and sharing and not commerce I hope. The commercial folks can come down to our level if they need to interact with us ;)