On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Pirate Praveen <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2014-04-15 20:16 GMT+05:30, Rashad M <[email protected]>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:34 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> To The GNU/Linux Community,
> >>
> >> All offical communications regarding ILUG-Cochin events & views will
> only
> >> be announced on the mailing list using the email address events at
> >> ilug-cochin dot org.
> >>
> >> No other website or mailing list will be used for the purpose of
> >> communication of events and views.
> >>
> >> Views or programs announced/expressed by members need not necessarily
> >> reflect the official ILUG-Cochin views or programs.
> >
> >
> >> ILUG-Cochin takes no responsibility for any such programs or views.
> >>
> >
> > Please read the above carefully.  To copy-paste:
> > ""
> > Views or programs announced/expressed by members need not necessarily
> > reflect the official ILUG-Cochin views or programs
> > ""
> >
> > This is true. Anyone can subscribe to mailing list. People can use this
> to
> > advertise their company, work, workshop or whatever. And all those many
> not
> > fall under the views/philosophy on Free Software.
> >
> > So please dont think of this mail is only to you when reading this.
>
> No the problem is not with setting policy for the group, but who is
> making the policies? Can one person decide the official policy of ilug
> cochin? Where was this policy discussed? Does members have any say in
> deciding policies?
>
> > What's the big deal in reading this mail if all people in this list are
> > standing for same reason.
>
> The big deal is because some people without names are making decisions
> for the entire group. If it has to be an official policy it should be
> discussed and approved by members. We may have to decide a process for
> that. If at all we have to have a few person taking up responsible
> positions, the community should be able to elect them democratically
> for limited periods like in other free software communities like
> debian. If at all we are following sabdfl method of Ubuntu, we got to
> know who is that person.
>
> That mail did not reflect my stand, so I need to ask.
>
> > Moreover this list is not dedicated to any specific Free Software but to
> > all Free software and everything that related to it. Its quite common
> > people have different view at times. So you can't say that everyone
> reading
> > this agrees with each other.
>
> So who gets the final word on what is official? At the least we should
> know who is responsible to make those decisions on behalf of the
> community.
>
> > IF anyone is organizing an event that is remotely related to Free
> Software
> > in this list that doesn't mean it completely falls under the
> "philosophy".
>
> Who is deciding it? What is the process for deciding it? lets be
> transparent about the process.
>

I fully agree with this. In the homepage ilug could have the list of
"responsible" persons. So that mails from [email protected] is
always from the one who is holding that position.

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   Rashad
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