On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:26 PM, vid <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:07, Vickram Crishna <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > If people still use the FOSSCOMM list to raise matters that may well be > > served on other lists (and they do), this is a reality that needs > > "reality"? -- its tempting to delve into the abstract but if you are > reading this, then ... > 2. What direction and role do you see yourself playing, if any. >
At this stage, I am already helping out with general editing on public documents. I do not want to constrain further directions for either this group or for myself, having come in a bit late (around June, I think). otoh, I am quite happy, as you may have guessed, to see this list focused on CMP, and a daughter list (which will have many people from the same group) for other matters concerning FLOSS. > > A larger part of this was covered at the first bangalore meet (do > check the archives please) For heaven's sake, let's not raise the archives bogey again. I have already spent several hours doing a fruitless search for something someone said was there, and neither have the time nor energy to do it again. but maybe those members not present at that > meet would like to voice themselves here on the list. So please > reflect your individual opinions, > Instead, please try and capture the essential points on a wikified document, which we can then all take forward together, and just stick to main issues of philosophy here that have not reached the point of such sensible reduction. > > > not brushing under the carpet by a few, high-minded, individuals. > > Vickram, the carefully placed "commas" in the above sentence > notwithstanding, i'd like to add myself to the category of individuals > you deride here for trying to define some direction and goals (ala a > CMP) for fosscomm.in. Gee, thanks ! [/end self-deprecating attempt at > humor] > Humour taken. However, it wasn't derisory, and I am sorry you think so. In fact, there is a clear line (to me) between 'routine' stuff and 'high' stuff, especially stuff that needs to be accepted by government, university committees and the like. It's just that I don't like to read about dismissing the former to unnamed lists, when it is clear (to me) that this list attracts a better quality of discussion overall. > > > > suggestions and announcements (like Narendra's suggestion, for instance, > of > > the Freedom Bucket, which isn't directly a 'higher' matter to take to > > I actually like his idea a lot and using him as an analogy is not > right in the context of splitting the list. And yet, until the Freedom Bucket takes shape and is available as a tool, it isn't something to discuss in the context of representations and other, all-India, all-Asia, or global matters. And I hope you notice from my discussion with him and others that I, too, happen to like the idea a lot. -- Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com
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