The December meeting of India Linux Users Group - Delhi Chapter was held
on December 15, 2002 at 3 p.m. at Lecture Hall, Department of Mathematics,
IIT, Delhi.
The meeting was attended by the following:
1. Leo Fernandez
2. Prateek Khanna
3. Dhruv Gami
4. Anand Shankar
5. Prashant Verma
6. Nikhil Kaul
7. Ashim Kapoor
8. Sanvir Singh Jham
9. Abhishek Kumar
10. Linux Lingam
11. Raj Mathur
12. Sunil Aggarwal
13. Wagish Shukla
14. Ashok Appu
15. Sandip Bhattacharya
16. Anantharaman Mani
The minutes of the meeting are as follows:
The meet began with an hour long wait for the keys to the Lecture Hall.
During this time we all just sat around and had some small talk etc. Raj
very nicely got Apple Juice for everyone. Around 3, Professor Shukla came
with the keys, and we all went to the Hall. After a few minutes spent on
introductions, which started lots of little discussions, Anantharaman Mani
started with his presentation on a book called Innovator's Dilemma, and
its mapping to the Open Source Software model.
The presentation was well prepared, and led to some very good discussions,
and was well supported making the picture clear. He talked about
Disruptive Technology, and how disruptive technology affects business. The
clear definition of disruptive technology is there in his presentation,
which he will soon post on the net somewhere for everyone to download and
take a look. In a few words, from what i gathered (Ananth, correct me if
im wrong here), Disruptive Technology is any new idea/technology that
gives a different Value proposition to the user, underperforms in terms of
established mainstream market, offers a few fringe benefits to the
customers, and is cheaper, simpler, smaller, and frequently more
convenient to use. If at this point you're confused abt this, please
contact Ananth and flame him.
After a long discussion about this, we came to another fundamental
conceptual problem taken up by Leo. He brought up the issue of whether
software is a product or a service. According to him, software is a piece
of information, it is knowledge, and cannot be packaged and sold. Another
discussion followed this with lots of input from everone present. All in
all it was a great discussion.
This was followed by a discussion on Tex because of some problems faced
by Professor Shukla in his work. A discussion on Tex and Indian Language
fonts is in the pipeline, and would most probably be taken up by Sandip in
the next meeting(hehehe Sandip, thanks for volunteering).
Well, that was the end of the "formal" linux-delhi meet. Then began the
informal meet, at the small restaurant opposite IIT main gate. If anyone
wants to know what all we ate there, contact me off the list, and i'll
send a complete list, along with elaborate descriptions about the dishes
and how good they tasted :)
I hope more people attend the meet from now on.
regards,
Gami
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