Viksit Gaur wrote:
Freed elicits, atleast in me, notions of a bunch of
previously subjugated people now unshackled by
something. Not necessarily with respect to FOSS. It
could be a revolt, a coup de etat or whatever. Freed
2007 would make a great libertarian conference, going
On 05-May-07, at 11:31 AM, PJ wrote:
Anyway, attend the meetings if you have an interest in the
reasoning behind
ilugd decisions - it's open to all GNU/Linux users, we welcome
inputs, and all
proposals can be questioned/modified etc.
what about those who object to the name GNU/Linux?
Anyway, attend the meetings if you have an interest in the reasoning behind
ilugd decisions - it's open to all GNU/Linux users, we welcome inputs, and all
proposals can be questioned/modified etc.
I would attend it if it is possible. I realize I don't have the right to dispute
decisions if I
Viksit Gaur wrote:
Hullo,
I'm trying to figure out what this name embodies.
Freed elicits, atleast in me, notions of a bunch of
previously subjugated people now unshackled by
something. Not necessarily with respect to FOSS. It
could be a revolt, a coup de etat or whatever. Freed
2007
On 01-May-07, at 10:08 PM, Raj Mathur wrote:
[...]
1. E-zine: Atul Jha presented the latest version of the E-zine on the
site http://ezine.linux-delhi.org. There is currently only one article
available online, though apparently there are some eight original
articles available with Atul. Many
Of course you have every right to discuss any decision on the mailing list,
and even dispute it for that matter. However, I hope you realise that it is
difficult to cater to every demand on this list. For example, it took me
nearly two hours to prepare the minutes that you describe as too
Sudev Barar wrote:
Yep, one of the LUGD-Bang guys. Howdy.
Hey, Sudev. How are ya? ;)
FREED : My take is that it can be one or the other. Domain
availability was one not so smal consideration.
One thing that escapes me. Do we absolutely need to have a separate
domain for the event? A
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Time and again, there have been expressions on this list that
management decisions in ILUG-Delhi are taken behind closed doors.
While I personally feel that ILUG-D is among the most open
organisations that I have been a part of, and strongly resent such
Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 05-May-07, at 11:31 AM, PJ wrote:
Anyway, attend the meetings if you have an interest in the
reasoning behind
ilugd decisions - it's open to all GNU/Linux users, we welcome
inputs, and all
proposals can be questioned/modified etc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Time and again, there have been expressions on this list that
management decisions in ILUG-Delhi are taken behind closed doors.
[snip]
So, rather than griping about it, how about some concrete
proposals to change this? Please follow up on the list with your
Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Note that I am not saying that it is obligatory for anybody present to answer
these queries.
I am only saying that we are not rebuffed with a canned you should have been
at the meeting
answer.
You're quite right. A canned response like that is
PJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How about someone just records the audio of meetings with their mp3
player
ogg! I mean ogg player! Honest! [1]
PJ
[1] For those who are wondering: ogg (properly: ogg-vorbis) is like mp3, but
patent-free. Not popular, but better there are very few hardware ogg
On 05-May-07, at 3:34 PM, PJ wrote:
How about someone just records the audio of meetings with their mp3
player (3000Rs for a 2GB mp3 player - or maybe do it with a cellphone
or desktop/laptop instead) at an acceptable voice bit rate, and
archives
the audio online (eg ourmedia will let you
On 05-May-07, at 3:25 PM, PJ wrote:
Good point Kenneth.
I don't know if the (constitutional type) of rules of ILUGD say that
ILUGD should be about Linux rather than GNU/Linux.
I choose to use the label GNU/Linux (if I can remember to) because
for me
the concept of freedom embodied by
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On Saturday 05 May 2007 14:32, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
[snip]
In this particular case though, the renaming of the event was a
complete surprise. Nobody knew that such a requirement was there.
Normally before such decisions, people did discuss
On Saturday 05 May 2007 15:34, PJ wrote:
[snip]
How about someone just records the audio of meetings with their mp3
player (3000Rs for a 2GB mp3 player - or maybe do it with a cellphone
or desktop/laptop instead) at an acceptable voice bit rate, and
archives the audio online (eg ourmedia
On Saturday 05 May 2007 15:34, PJ wrote:
[snip]
How about someone just records the audio of meetings with their mp3
[snip]
Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oh Puhleeze! I will not agree to that until someone volunteers to edit
out the unparliamentary stuff, the discussions about
I wrote:
I'm interested in the free as in freedom part of what ILUGD is
about. The
impression I get is that ILUGD tends to be heavily focussed on the
free as
in freedom part.
Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
in which case you have to focus on FOSS - regardless of
Hi,
Not sure if this is going off-topic. Anyways, my thoughts below:
On 5/5/07, PJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Me and some others regard the extra freedom of the BSD style licences as being
analogous to the granting freedom to a plantation holder to own slaves,
Isn't that cruel?
The GPL, for
Well, in software,
there are several known examples where Microsoft has taken BSD code, altered
it, and tried to lock users in to their way of doing things so that they can
exploit them forever after. To an extent they have succeeded more than
failed.
This is the reason why GPL is
Anant Narayanan wrote:
Well, in software,
there are several known examples where Microsoft has taken BSD code, altered
it, and tried to lock users in to their way of doing things so that they can
exploit them forever after. To an extent they have succeeded more than
failed.
This is the
On Sun, 06 May 2007 02:05:40 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya said:
Anant Narayanan wrote:
Well, in software, there are several known examples where Microsoft
has taken BSD code, altered it, and tried to lock users in to their
way of doing things so that they can exploit them forever after. To
an
On 06/05/07, Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 06 May 2007 02:05:40 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya said:
Anant Narayanan wrote:
Well, in software, there are several known examples where Microsoft
eeer no [OT] or {WayOT] tag there??
Important stuff this and refreshing
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