-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 Jun 2008, Gora Mohanty wrote: > [snip] > I think that we are too full of ourselves > at times. On one hand we claim that the Freed.in brand is such a > great thing, and how we deserve huge sums of money, and on the other > hand we are not willing to expend the effort to really make that > true. In case people had not noticed, we have delivered on close to > zero of the promises from the Feb. 2008 conclave, and Intel is most > unlikely to sponsor us again.
Two basic issues that we need to understand here: 1. ILUGD is not begging for money -- we are providing a service. If you cost that service at commercial rates, your cost for organising each workshop would easily end up over a lakh. We are justified in asking for some percentage of that amount (whether from Sarai or the college or some other organisation altogether) for our efforts. If an organisation still doesn't understand service as a business model, I'm sorry, they just need to open their eyes and look at the world around them. I'm sure Sarai pays the electrician when he comes and fixes a short circuit, what so different about paying ILUGD for organising a workshop/seminar? 2. The money is only going into further promotion of freedom and openness. If it had being going into the private pockets of the office bearers (in which case I'd never have let go my position in the organisation ;) it could (not necessarily would) have been a different matter. But everyone knows ILUGD's objectives, and our past record should speak for itself in that field. We volunteer our time, effort and sometimes even our personal money money to promote FOSS; we do not ask for anything for ourselves, but we definitely have the right to ask for support for our effort. Given these, I see no way an organisation can have either a logistic or ideological opposition to paying ILUGD for organising workshops. Regards, - -- Raju - -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIYwkByWjQ78xo0X8RAsQ8AJ9rIWEDDxeT3efNG2GCH/j0mCsb7wCfXzHd LiDyAqkqkO3tZL7549qjEq0= =mHlw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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]/
