if you have heard him several times you can possibly tell others whether it is worth listening to him or not.
Well you know me well. And you know I incarnated and institutionalized the first iteration of GNUnify - The All India Free Software Festival(should have called it The Free Software Festival).
I had or made to quit it because I don't like iterating in the same damn loop. And I agreed with the so called charity and verity of the stakeholders that we disagree. All the best e-wishes to them in their journey to create great engineering in a research institute.
Did you go to the other iterations. I did pay a visit to the websites, I only found the logo or symbol to be different.
They even have changed the slogan and maybe enthem. What do you say?