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Hi,

There we are again. In the midst of the annual COMPASS madness. And
sadly, there is no better term for what happens each year.

I was there when the LUG was at the COMPASS for the first time. And one
of the questions that was asked repeatedly was: *What does the LUG get
out of COMPASS ?* I don't mean in terms of mileage, branding or crowd.
Honestly, Infocomm more than COMPASS would be an ideal platform for the
LUG. However, the former is financially unviable while the latter
appears to be. I use the phrase *appears to be* since it is actually not
a place for the LUG.

The ideal place for the LUG would be at universities. The objective
being to guide the final year students towards projects around FLOSS
that they can take up. Off the top of my head I can list a few:

[1] Moodle LMS L10n and adding modules and Indian grading system to it
[2] Working on Early Login feature of Fedora
[3] Working on Koha L10n
[4] Carrying forward development on Planner
[5] Participating in L10n work for KDE and GNOME (marketing)
[6] Working on streaming media packages with gstreamer and Flumotion

Now for any LUG this could be a good charter - for iLUG-Cal the less
said the better. It is sad to see a very senior member like PKS instead
of providing inputs that lead to an increase in the influence of the LUG
puts across ideas that really make the LUG look like a circus act.

The LUG is not a circus act. And please get of the moral high horses. To
hold regular meetings one does not need password of webportal or the
server. One needs enthusiasm and topics and a healthy exchange of
technical chit-chat which is related to the number of new people joining
in. And please, don't give the excuse of the LISTADMIN giving threats to
people. Join the BLUG/PLUG/LUG-Mumbai - you will find lesser tolerance
of stupidity. Ignorance can be moulded - stupidity is an attitude issue.
And however much someone does for the LUG, stupidity on a repeated basis
is not to be tolerated.

So please - get your act together or move to another place and another
act. It is time that we realised that we are adults in a FLOSS world and
not kids in a kindergarten.

Regards
Sankarshan

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