Hello
I have recently joined this group. And I am interested in attending such meets.
---Rupali
-----Original Message----- From: Krishna Dagli [mailto:kdagli@infofin.com] Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 1:00 PM To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] industry-academia participation at the fsf/ilug meets
Trevor Warren wrote:
Morning Amish,
Thanks for starting the thread since its imp everyone knows where we
stand.
Amish Munshi said:
My only problem is to get speakers to speak on something, today there is no one to speak on any technical topic and the number of people interested in coming for the meet is decreasing.
[snip]
On a realistic note amish, we haven't been able ourselves to create the aura surrounding each meet as it used to happen previously. There are various factors to the same least of which i wanna start debating now.
What we could do for a start is to have small events organised every fortnite, inviting participation from Industry and Academia. Such interaction would help us get moving towards a beautiful debate surrouding various Technical/Non-Technical issues. FSF/Ilug also serves as a forum for all of us to discuss and understand Commercial issues pertaining to OS/FSF.
I'm new to iLug so my apologies and please no flames.
The idea of fortnight event sounds good and everyone here will be willing to pay an entry fee as long as they are going to learn something from these events. The same money can be utilised for funding, rewarding fsf project or in which ever way it makes the community stronger and encourages to be more active.
Round table debates, etending industry specific invitations...etc are ways of ensuring interest and keep the passion brimming in the group. Sadly over a period of time all of us have come up with our own commitments making us go slow on the os/fsf part.
Yes this sound very good. Lets do this. Can we discuss what and how we want to execute this?
Suggestions:
* Wouldn't every one will be interested in knowing how each one of using linux? Where else we are using linux apart from those firewalls and what else we are running on linux if no ipchains/squid/qmail/sendmail.
* How academics like IIT and each department is using linux?
* At times there are problems, for example Rishi not able to find atmel chips or things like new LTSP kernel and PXE client, which I do not know about. Or the way I configure diskless servers/clients, cant all these be used for sharing knowledge and debates?
Just suggestion and question.
Lets all of us wake up. -krd