Re: [ilugd] ILUG-D/Freed workshop programme, and funding

2008-06-26 Thread Raj Mathur
On Thursday 26 Jun 2008, Prakhar Agrawal wrote: > (c) I could be wrong here, but from what I have seen, asking local > > >colleges to pay ILUG-D 10-20K/workshop just will not happen. > >Even where they have funds, and the willingness to do that, > >they would be faced with issues simil

Re: [ilugd] ILUG-D/Freed workshop programme, and funding

2008-06-26 Thread Prakhar Agrawal
(c) I could be wrong here, but from what I have seen, asking local >colleges to pay ILUG-D 10-20K/workshop just will not happen. >Even where they have funds, and the willingness to do that, >they would be faced with issues similar to the ones that >Sarai faces, in terms of making n

Re: [ilugd] ILUG-D/Freed workshop programme, and funding

2008-06-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 25-Jun-08, at 11:20 PM, Gora Mohanty wrote: > Looking forward to flamewars^W counter-arguments. Remember, we are > all kindness and light these days, thanks to the grace of > St. Gonsalves. looks like ilugd politburo needs reshuffling again -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS

Re: [ilugd] ILUG-D/Freed workshop programme, and funding

2008-06-25 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 Jun 2008, Gora Mohanty wrote: > [snip] > I think that we are too full of ourselves > at times. On one hand we claim that the Freed.in brand is such a > great thing, and how we deserve huge sums of money, and on the other > hand we are n

[ilugd] ILUG-D/Freed workshop programme, and funding

2008-06-25 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hi, I have been thinking about this on my way back from the meeting, and while maybe I did not make a strong-enough argument, I must say that I am fairly upset about the cavalier way in which we handle major decisions pertaining to ILUG-D, and Freed.in. While this is a rather long message, I do u