[ilug-cal] Re: On the question of participation objectives [was -> Re: [ilug-cal]BF2005 and VmWare]

[A. Mani]

Indranil Das Gupta wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 00:52 +0530, peekay wrote:
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it will shift focus from our BF2005 objectives
(err .. what ARE our objectives .. for on THAT will
depend what we need to show)
   

Many thanks to PK for bringing up this all-important topic. I would like
to invite discussions, arguments and counter arguments on this. IMO, we
need to ask the following questions:
1> What is our objective?
 

For BF'05, our intention will be promote OSS and linux in particular 
among people who R/W
books and may be in DTP or publishing. We can try for some projects too 
with some of them.

2> Who is the audience?
 

Mixed...cut across classes...We must target everybody. Note that much of 
the publishing industry is still to come to terms with software.

3> How do we address them? and
4> What do we gain out of this?
 

It will help a lot if we address them from the point of view of 
publishing...in the broader sense in which it has progressed.  Naturally 
basic aspects of sanity of OSes come in.

If we have economic plans then we gain directly. If we do a bit in 
sanitizing world orders, then we gain otherwise we will lose heavily in 
the future. The BF is a movement. Ours will grow too as a consequence of 
our participation. We still have some democracy left in the world and 
must utilise it to annihilate the forces of imperialism in various 
guises and in various sectors. We can do more petit economic projects if 
we desire...that is for direct petit gains.

All 4 questions are important and IMHO, we as a group need to understand
the reason and rationale behind these to bring about a cohesiveness and
a sense of purpose to our programs - present as well those being
planned.
May I request PK, Saugata, Soumyadip, Arijit, Prosun, Mani, Jaybrata,
RVK, Dipankar-da and all the other members to come across with their
opinions and comments.
 

Best,
A. Mani
Member, Cal. Math. Soc.



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