Nice to know about the below. What about a meet in Mumbai? I am sure there would be many people from Mumbai in this list.
--Dipu On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Ramnarayan.K <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Dibyajyoti Mohapatra > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > Did you guys meet on Sunday? > > > > It will be better if you could post a brief summary about the same. > > > > Yes > Narender has provided a summary > the people who came are - Narendra, Satyakam, Bryan, Mark and Mr KP Reddy. > > Dilli Haat was a total wash out as a venue and if other folk were > there for the meeting it would have taken a great deal of luck to find > the others amongst the swirling and ever swelling crowds. Luckily > Bryan was wearing an Ubuntu T shirt and that helped some of coalesce. > > Mark is a newcomer to foss and wanted to understand what made people > devote time to FOSS and Ubuntu etc. Hope he got enthused with the foss > philosophy. A second question he had was about how people make money > using FOSS, again hopefully he has learnt more about this angle. > > We discussed ways of getting Linux to be more common knowledge. the > calendar being one of the ideas. A theme suggestion for the calendar > was to show 12 organizations (NPO ? NGO's maybe) that use FOSS. > > We also spoke about the Open Street Maps > (http://www.openstreetmap.org) and their mapping initiative. > > Also spoke about other organizations that are promoting foss through > use of technology for specific purposes. > > Check out > http://www.tacticaltech.org/ > > http://ngoinabox.org/ > > > http://cis-india.org/advocacy/others/maps-for-making-change-kicks-off-and-you-can-get-involved > > ** > in retrospect i think a quieter venue and maybe a predertimed exact > meeting point (& time) and lapel pins, linux sumbols etc would make it > easier for strangers to meet up. For venue all i can say is blame it > on the delhi wallahs for not telling us that Dilli Haat is a rotten > place to meet. > > *** > I t was good to meet up and having two folks who are non foss people , > i think, allowed us to be clearer on what we wanted to express. > > ram > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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