On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Narendra Sisodiya < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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" > > Yes, i did read it when you published it. And I got that. I think what we are having here is a discussion only. So how do we take FOSS from a geek's level to the ground level, where it can empower and enable the common man ? Kalpana has a very valid poin there. > > > > >> > >> 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 > -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
