On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:23:52 -0800 (PST), Arindam Basu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- linuxprosun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:21:16 -0800 (PST), saugata > > ghosh > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> ? What all can we do in the coming events ? > > > Its difficult to stand under a different banner > > and > > > explain something else. > > > Most of the crowd came there for lottery, rest for > > > hardware pricing enquiry and about less than 5% > > > actually were interested about linux. > > > In fututre we should think twice before sharing a > > > place with other stall, otherwise we will get lots > > of > > > unwanted audience. > > Saugata is right on the money. I think participation > in the book fair under the banner of amaar pc was a > crying shame of a failure for the ilug-cal folks. > Here's why. > > First, ilug-cal and Amar pC are incompatible with each > other in terms of philosophy and the way people work. > As much as I appreciate the efforts of our braveheart > ilug-cal members who stood there, doggedly, for the > cause of linux, I personally did not like with the > idea that a group of linux community members sharing > space with some closed source, non-free, business > folks out to win customers and make money, nothing > else. You got defeated there, first round! Big time. > > Second, it was difficult to approach the linux show > through the Amar pC stall. Think about it. The > approach of linux way of life is freedom, and its all > about openness. An independent linux stall managed by > ilug-cal folks in a fair would typically stand there > transparent, with glass panes and open spaces all > around it, with enthusiastic people from ilugs hanging > out to help people who'd walk in. No queues, no > "exclusivity", no questions. Everyone's truly invited. > > Was this possible in the BF 2005 sharing with the amar > pc stall? No. To access linux in the Amar PC stall, > you had to queue and be herded like sheep/goats to > enter the amar pc stall through a caged collapsible > gate. [My personal experience, I went to the fair on > two days (the last two days, in fact), and just could > not enter the stall at all! the queue was long, the > pavilion was closed -- I thought the environment was > unwelcome. I turned back.]. This is NOT linux way of > life, this is NOT open source way of life, this is not > what ilug-cal should either promote or stand for. > > Third, it is doubtful that Amar pc folks are _ever_ , > if at all, going to distribute linux as their OS of > choice with their machines. > > Finally, as for new members, those who have joined > post BF would have come anyway, even if there was as > simple a thing as a sticker in the ticket counter > windows stating a few words about ilug-cal and linux. > > I think for future, the lesson is either ilug-cal gets > its own stall to show for its presence, or it does not > participate. > > Absolutely NO piggybacking, AFAICS! > > /Arin
Yeah, and we need 2 things really badly. A cloth banner screaming ilug-cal and a source of comps with more than 256 mb ram each for use in such places. Untill, we can work out ways of getting these, theres little hope for getting good value for our effort. Anshul -- I'm too lazy to compose a creative sig, so i stole someone else's. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
