Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia

Obviously, you don't understand, WHO is forcing you? There is nothing to rebel against. This is my last post on this issue but not on brinjal. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Praveen Prakash wrote: > > > On F

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > On a lighter vein, this will give a nice script for a conspiracy theory - > > * > One cannot demoralize a wikimedian by peeping into the license of software > which he/she uses to contribute wikimedia projects. * > > Rest assured, Praveen, t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia

On a lighter vein, this will give a nice script for a conspiracy theory - * One cannot demoralize a wikimedian by peeping into the license of software which he/she uses to contribute wikimedia projects. * Rest assured, Praveen, that other than hoping that we will get enlightened by expressing thei

[Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wiki Workshop @ Thrissur on 8th Jan 2012

Hi All, Malayalam Wiki community is organizing a Wiki workshop at Kerala Sahithya Academy hall, Thrissur,Kerala at 8th Jan 2012, 2PM to 5 PM . It is organizing as a part of the International book fair

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Praveen, > > I'm assuming good faith in thinking that you do not mean to accuse FOSS > advocates of imposing their POV on Wikimedians in general. > > Whatever! FOSS or Something else! One cannot demoralize a wikimedian by peeping into the li

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia

Excuse me for commenting here, I am not a techie, hence I assume, it might not be the best place for me to comment, but after so many discussion over FOSS or not, (yes, I googled what is FOSS) and I just want to know, is this discussion really necessary? Is it really necessary to get into long dra

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia

Praveen, I'm assuming good faith in thinking that you do not mean to accuse FOSS advocates of imposing their POV on Wikimedians in general. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: > Well eluci

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia

Well elucidated, Praveen. warm regards, Pradeep Handheld On 05/01/2012, Gautam John wrote: > On 5 January 2012 19:02, Praveen Prakash wrote: > >> softwares, but i don't like FOSS extremism, many others using non-free >> softwares). > > Agreed. Extremism, FOSS, Wikipedian or otherwise, isn't a g

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia

On 5 January 2012 19:02, Praveen Prakash wrote: > softwares, but i don't like FOSS extremism, many others using non-free > softwares). Agreed. Extremism, FOSS, Wikipedian or otherwise, isn't a good thing. Choice, on the other hand, is. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia

FOSS and wikimedia project have some similarities but they are different projects. Wikimedians are not a subgroup of FOSS followers, infact most of them living outside ideal FOSS world (I use free softwares, but i don't like FOSS extremism, many others using non-free softwares). I don't think there

[Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter-Foundation: Co-Ordination Call-December Update

Dear All Here is a summary of the Wikimedia India Chapter and WMF India programs coordination call. Date of call: Wednesday Dec 21 (Voice Conference) Attendees: Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramaratnam, Naveen Francis, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Tinu Cherian, Anirudh Bhati, Asaf Bartov & Hisham Mundol Opera

[Wikimediaindia-l] INTCOM & GA of the Month - January 2012

Dear friends, Two announcements* * 1. *INCOTM GA Improvement of the month (for January 2012):* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi *This will be run as a master class by User:AshLin with detailed comments for young editors on Wikimedia-in-en mailing list. He will guide three