On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Kalpana <[email protected]> wrote:
> I feel good regarding meeting. > > We should start to take up various aspect of FOSS in such type of meeting. > > 1 : At ground level > 2 : At organization level > 3 : At Technical level > > We has two presentation in this meeting One is on phython, One is on > Debian. > We all seen as technical person with our specs. That's natural, the next > step to see at Application level with analysis , i.e. with reference to > student, with reference to profession.....etc.. Make out the points very > positively which have good out come. > some things we should probably focus on: * real life applications of open source tools and technologies; use cases.. * relevance of FOSS for the laymen (non-tech people) and enabling them with FOSS * FOSS at policy level, eg: education * indigenous FOSS projects * hurdles in FOSS implementations and over-coming them. these are some ideas, we should together think of some more. > > ...... Guarav tried Koha with Debian and Piyush tried with cent OS. In > spite of taking stand of our experience, here we should share the experience > to be cooperative. > Trust me, I am not holding out against individuals. I am willing to collaborate with my blood and grit, if I can understand what to focus on. I am only asking hard questions, because I am seeking answers - to really contribute and make a difference. > > > Our FOSS concept is depend up already developed thing. We should thing > little be creative without professional aspect. > > On 12/27/2010 06:55 PM, Abhishek Nandakumar wrote: > > To tone down tempers a bit and to reduce the number of emails I'm getting > about what's essentially a non-issue let me point out that yesterday's event > was great. Unfortunately though we were still promoting ideologies that most > of us present there were already pretty aware of. The problem is of course > that since all of us are beyond that stage and have already decided what is > good or bad for us, at the end of the day we lacked a sense of achievement > because what we did was no different from what we do in front of people who > are unaware about FOSS. > > I believe these meetups are good but they need not have a single direction. A > set of people could decide to do one thing, another can decide to do another. > Each group of people may simultaneously work on different things and that > could still be called a successful meetup. The aim is to get work done. > > When you say we're the people who need to organise an event of the scale of > FOSS.IN/Freed.in, you're right. But then we don't want that to simply be just > another random FOSS event where the same things are discussed for years > together. FOSS goes beyond the small problems that a person would discuss in > something like a workshop introducing Linux to people. We're all beyond that > stage. And we probably need someone to remind us. > > > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
