On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Kartik Mistry kartik.mistry@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:42 PM, sankarshan sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Kartik Mistry kartik.mistry@gmail.com wrote:
GNUnify is 'Lets do what our senior did to get marks' event. No outcome from students since it launch..
And, what does that indicate ?
It indicates that it is kind of event that runs by students because their senior did. Every year they do fantastic job in organizing, setting up new website and group, calling speakers personally and even treating speakers like 'king' (& 'queen'). However, real outcome for this event is none. Have you seen any student from that college to contributing to foss? It will not happen because entire root of event is wrong.
The main motive of Gnunify as per event slogan is 'A Forum to Unite open minds', and thats what it aims to do, promise is not to get XYZ lines of code written by the students or the attendees, but leaving the forum open to such ideas. As for the students themselves though they may not be direct contributors to some FOSS project, but the organization process has opened quite a few to FOSS and making careers in it. Maybe the structure of event seems repetitive (yes there still is an install fest!), but its always been open for discussion and change. and not to mention the vertical layout of rooms which does keep many a lazy folk away who want to avoid climbing up and down a dozen times a day.
Karunakar