On Saturday 05 June 2010 13:12:40 pavithran s wrote:
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 .
I have many bitter experiences with the organisers of mukt.in - and I stand by my statement
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 .
that is what I am saying - some of you 'tend to be informal' which older people do not like. That is the attitude I am criticising - these same people can be seen in coat and tie when going for visa interview at foreign consulates - why not be informal there? FOSS is a serious professional venture and unless we behave like serious professionals, we will get no where.
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)
in India, if you do not know how to deal tactfully with profs, and older people, you will get no where.