[snip] > > A silly idea: next year, let's brand Feb as open source india month and > create it to the be top season for international speakers, media, indian > firms, customers, community, etc to get together and help plan the next > (financial) year's mile-stones and agenda.[snip] > rahul chopra, linux for you > www.osiweek.com
good idea, but two major issues to be resolved: a) we will all spend the rest 11 months arguing over 'open' versus 'free' versus 'commercial events' versus 'our own thing' versus.... otoh, a simple count shows of the four events you mention, only OSI is called opensource. thankfully, all the other three are either FOSS*, or Freed, or GNUNIFY, which are all at par in their naming. so maybe you should consider changing OSIW to FOSSIW and change its agenda to match the name. b) each addresses a different bunch of people, perhaps a thin overlap of those who attend all 3 or 4. c) who would allow their staff to spend a whole month visiting all four events? so we need to find synergies and a common voice that really leads to a multiplier effect and not a divider effect. that done, and we've got February renamed to Freeuary. :-) regards niyam -- niyam bhushan _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
