I am new to the list but personally I feel that there using the "On behalf of ILUGC" name for conducting free events and workshops should be allowed or rather encouraged. Imparting knowledge for free resonates with the core principles of the FOSS community.
The contentious part seems to be when the group's name is used for promoting commercial events whose aim is to make money. A simple compromise would be to allow sharing of information about commercial workshops but making it clear that these events are conducted in purely individual capacity and are not representative of the group. Just my 2 cents. Thanks, GR On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar < benignb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:55 PM, A. Mani <a.mani....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Further the member(s) in question should inform the list well in advance > > and obtain an implicit no objection certificate on the mailing list. > > > > Why do you think this is needed ? What does an "implicit" no > objection certificate mean ? What if people object to someone doing it > individually ? (may be out of jealousy, nothing valid). What if the > poerson is requested to present something short notice ? Do you think > we should not talk about/on behalf of ilugc even to genuinely > interested people. That's unfair. > > > But ILUGC may be involved in Free software events subject to clearance > > from the mailing list. > > > > From all 3000 members ? Just 1 member ? What if 5 guys agree and > 5 guys disagree ? > > Instead of doing our best to promote free software, and appreciating > people who earnestly do that, we are talking about totally unnecessary > rules here. At least Raman's points look quite reasonable, but I > personally do not agree with these as a necessity. Thanks > > > -- > Thank you > Balachandran Sivakumar > > Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is reached. > - Swami > Vivekananda > > Mail: benignb...@gmail.com > Blog: http://benignbala.wordpress.com/ > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
