IMO nobody from our college even knows about Freed.in and you use this seminar as a good oppurtunity to publicize ILUG and Freed.in to make everyone aware. I guarantee an audience of 200 students tomorrow.
On 9/14/07, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 14 September 2007 12:02, Linux Lingam wrote: > > > Tirveni willing to come to give a talk about freed.in anyway, why > > > not go with that? Technical topics should be slotted for the main > > > event, not mini-events at each college. What do you think? > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > -- Raju > > > > [blaring ship horn] > > > > are we turning into misers of sharing-knowledge? > > in trying to hold back or be reluctant to share gyaan, thinking that > > just a 'snake-oil' talk on freed.in at a college at their time will > > work in freed.in's favour and entice people to turn up? > > > > this is not how knowledge-sharing, community-building, and > > value-systems of what i consider foss work. > > > > seems like we're more bankrupt than bankrupt, already. > > > > looks like there's hardly any knowledge or gyaan or inspiration to > > share with college-kids thirsty for any spark, from the foss > > community. too little of it around. artificial scarcity, or artifical > > intelligence, killed all our natural intelligence? > > [rest of meaningless rant snipped] > > Er, perhaps you missed the announcement about freed.in, an event that > JNU and ILUGD are organising specifically to do all the things that you > want? In fact, one of our target audiences happens to be academia and > students. The event will share gyaan, not only from ILUGD members but > from well-known people in the Indian and International FOSS > communities, at no charge at all to any of the participants! So let's > cut the cr*p about not wanting to share gyaan right away, shall we? > > Of course, organising such an event takes effort, time and energy. So > one of the questions facing us is, should we, as organisers of > freed.in, spend whatever time we have making the event useful to its > audience, or should we spend 6 hours (which could have otherwise been > used for fine-tuning freed.in-related work) going to a college, and > basically talking about the same things that they would hear by > attending the event, and with lesser expertise? IMO a good event will > be of much more value to all the participants than individual talks at > individual colleges from people who are rushed for time and probably > not particularly well-prepared to talk about anything at all ad-hoc. > OTOH, if you feel that strongly about it there's nothing stopping you > from volunteering to go and talk about the spirit of freedom. > > BTW, have you been taking lessons on FUD from MS by any chance? ;) > > Regards, > > -- Raju > -- > Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ > Freedom in Technology & Software || September 2007 || http://freed.in/ > GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F > PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
