On 3 June 2010 22:17, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
IIIT offered the venue free of cost with all facilities, but the careless arrogant attitude of the organisers torpedoed the event. When are we going to learn to be professional? Do you really expect college professors to respect people who turn up unshaven, with tee-shirts with a know_it_all air?
Well calling FOSS volunteers as arrogant really spells your attitude towards them . Note that after 2008 Mukt.in has been volunteer driven( with no organisers/organiser list) with people interacting via IRC and mailing list .
IIIT offering the venue free of cost is no big deal as previous events were all done in venues offered free of cost . Infact it costs more to travel all the way from hyderabad city to IIIT .
Well I am not sure if the volunteers went with unshaved and T-shirts but FOSS volunteers tend to be informal which the 'old people' don't like .
Anyways I am writing to clarify that its not arrogance of the volunteers which broke the event but some ego clash between profs ( the small ones don't like the big one to order them around)
Most of those details were not made public but you can read http://bit.ly/aaK7uc if you are interested .
Regards, Pavithran