It was good to see the announcement of the Goa Convention in Toronto in July in this year. All the best to the organizers.
A look at the very well-designed web link provides some tentative information. It is nice, to see the beautiful and handsome faces of some Goanetters. It now allows to put a face to a name (of the goanet posts) and provides further disclosure. Yet some have tried to be incognito. Most faces and names on the web link are veteran goanetters. Yet it is interesting, they are not using goanet to start a dialogue on the "Strategic LONG-TERM and SHORT-TERM GOALS" of such national / international Goan conventions. And how these meetings can build on successes of past meetings and provide practical direction of future get-togethers. A public dialogue, prior to the convention, would help lay the ground-work and provide publicity to the convention. Such a dialogue on Goanet would be a lot more beneficial to Goa, Goans and goanet; instead of a series of postings on religion (or lack there off), or caste. The Toronto conventions should permit Goans to organize without direct government influence. Most important it should bring Goans together, hopefully on many long-lasting productive endeavors, useful to the Goan community. This is the opportunity to showcase that esteemed Goans can together achieve a lot more than song and dance. >From the names of Goans seen on the convention web, they have never been shy >to present ideas, even innovative and radical ones, on Goan web forums. I >hope they do not hold back now, when it counts most. I wish the organizers all >the best, as this is their opportunity to show they can "Walk the Talk". Kind Regards, GL
