But... we had explained that the list we had sent to you were names of people who we had contacted to: 1. ask them if they were interested to speak at LinuxAsia 2. inform them that if they were intrested, they were to share their topics and titles of possible presentations, which we would then have reviewed with the entire panel
the only exceptions were 5-6 speakers (ex: the president) who were directly invited, because they were to speak on day 1--i.e. the day that was directly under our control. and once we did this exercise, we sent the list to ILUG-D to keep it updated, so that there was no duplication in efforts. please do let us know what was incorrect in this approach. regards rahul -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gora Mohanty Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 2:04 PM To: 'The Linux-Delhi mailing list' Subject: Re: [ilugd] Minutes of the last ILUG-Delhi meeting, on Jan. 28th On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 12:32 +0530, rahul wrote: > This is shocking. What promises are we talking about here? we offered > everything that was minuted in the minutes of the meeting? [...] Well, I am glad that you are shocked, because so were we. We were promised complete participation in choosing speakers for the technical track, and were met with a fait accompli list of speakers that was circulated without input from our side. I must say that your follow-up letter was much nicer, and had much more room for cooperation, but the original style of functioning in choosing speakers left a bad taste, and an apprehension that ILUG-Delhi was just being pulled in to give a community stamp to an already choreographed event. For the record, I was originally very much in favour of participating in LA2007, but became one of the most vociferous opponents after the fiasco with the speakers. The goal of cooperation is not irretrievably lost, in my opinion, but there needs to be a lot more openness from the side of LFY, and a lot more ongoing collaboration with the LUG, rather than only when Linux Asia rolls around. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
