On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 17:59, Sachin Gopalakrisgnan wrote:

Am a late entrant, hence slightly out of touch here, did the mumbai LUG meet happen this time??

Unfortunately not. :-(

We hope to have one on 11 April 2004. Venue, agenda and time will be announced on the list. So stay tuned. ;-)

PS: Please don't use old thread to start a new one, and please use appropriate subject in the mails. TIA for following List Guild lines.

HTH With regards,

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 09:50, Trevor Warren wrote:

Morning Dineshji,

Can we have an agenda set for the upcoming meeting.

Trevor

I have written to Rajesh Jain to check if he is available on 11th April 2004.

Venky

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 11:00, Trevor Warren wrote:

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It would be our pleasure to have Mr. Jain amidst us. We are keenly lokign forward to outlining a Plan Of Action towards activities at the Grass Root Level for the current Academic Year.

Do lemme know yuor thoughts on the same.

Dear Trevor,

I am trying to put together a list of ten projects that can speed up FLOSS adoption in India. This is something that is complimentary to the Project Resource Center that you were talking about. Everyone agrees that if we can harness the student community in India for FLOSS, the whole movement, worldwide, can get a fantastic boost. It can also go a long way in countering the accusation that India is a nation of "downloaders."

The challenge so far has been in creating a mechanism where students and mentors can be effectively linked together. The steps I would follow to make this happen are:

1) Encourage engineering colleges and research institutions to put their software in open source. We must ensure that the projects done by the students become a community resource by hosting it on sites like Sourceforge. Others should be able to build on the work that has been done, rather than reinvent the wheel.

2) Identify key projects that can speed up FlOSS adoption (that's what I am currently doing) and work with academic institutes to implement these.

3) Create a sustainable mechanism where the energy of students can be channelized year after year. Start on a small scale and scale up the mechanism gradually. This is where the inputs of academics, students and the FLOSS community needs to come together. We need an interactive debate to make this happen, because no one person or group has all the answers. Contributions from members of this list are welcome.

Venky

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:22, Trevor Warren wrote: <snip>

These and much more in addition to the FLOSS based projects needs to be initiated. We have what it takes all which has been lacking(which includes me) is the WILLINGNESS.

If Mumbai cannot hold a LUG meet regularly, which other city can. It's quite a shame. Maybe we need to find ways of making the LUG meets more interesting. If good old Fred came down from Goa and saw that we can't even get a meet going, he would give us a hearty kick in our collective butts.

What can we do to make the LUG meets more interesting and generate greater participation? Would be good to hear from the list members.

Venky

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:22, Trevor Warren wrote: <snip>

These and much more in addition to the FLOSS based projects needs to be initiated. We have what it takes all which has been lacking(which includes me) is the WILLINGNESS.

If Mumbai cannot hold a LUG meet regularly, which other city can. It's quite a shame. Maybe we need to find ways of making the LUG meets more interesting. If good old Fred came down from Goa and saw that we can't even get a meet going, he would give us a hearty kick in our collective butts.

What can we do to make the LUG meets more interesting and generate greater participation? Would be good to hear from the list members.

Venky