On Sunday 23 Feb 2014 2:42:27 PM Manu Krishnan T.V wrote: > Hi all, > > For the last few days, I have been looking at different FOSS communities > within India, including FSUG's and ILUG's, specific to areas and > colleges. Only a few of them are very active. But, on a national > perspective, I find fosscommunity.in and fosscomm.in(fosscom.in) active. > > I am confused on how both of these differ. I am subscribed to both the > lists and seems like there are many members in common. Is there any > history for the creation of two separate entities? > > Though there are lots of FOSS Communities, there isn't any up to date > collective documentation about them. If any of these entities can take > an initiative on that, it would be great.
In the past substantial focus was about getting technical issues specific to hardware sold in the Indian markets ironed out. Over the last few years GNU/Linux has become more or less utterly simple as far as such run of the mill x86 installs go. IMO GNU/Linux is now accepted as common place in organizationa and the interface between doze and linux more or less ironed out. Coupled with an increasing irrelvance of M$ in the vastly expanded personal computing space. They were merely an irritant in the server space anyway. The FOSS community has huge number of niches. One finds plenty of activity in other areas particularly embedded systems, where engineers are moving out from doze based software tools to a FOSS toolchain. Further FB groups are now more active than mail lists. With the advent of non X86 based devices (64bit ARM) one might see a return to greater activity on lugs, and a slow death of windoze. Nadela recently made some noises about reinventing themselves. _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
