On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Kinshuk Sunil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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.
Let me tell you again.. I wrote the term "discussion" a good number of times. nobody can decide,, community has to decide.. what can be done in "our community" meetup and how we can bring more and more collaboration/participation in So called "splitted FOSS community of NCR" > >> >> 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 > -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘ -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
