[I personally do not agree with participating in foss.in, since it will be demonstrating and promoting proprietary software too. However, ILUG-Delhi can make its own decision whether to participate in the event or not. I will not be a part of it either way.
-- Raju] This is an RFC 1153 digest. (1 message) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Atul Chitnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Bangalore/2005 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [foss.in] Get involved *now*! Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:24:28 +0530 (IST) Since end-June, we have seen about 600 messages on this list, and have seen more than 400 new subscribers join in. However, for some reason, the word isnt yet spreading to other lists and groups. Remember, this is an event for the community, with content by the community. This requires involvement from other FOSS groups - LUGs, SIGs, etc. What would it take to get more people involved? What would it take for a LUG to stand up and say "we are officially participating in FOSS.IN/2005" and start making plans? I know that there are tons of people from other LUGs on this list. But if no one brings up the subject on other LUG mailing lists, how will those members know about it? The event is going to get tons of publicity, one way or another. But many people in FOSS groups somehow get the feeling that they aren't invited to participate. Read my lips: THEY ARE INVITED Previously, it was suggested that we should mail all the mailing lists, but somehow this doesn't feel right. The drive should come from members of those lists who are also on this list, because they are the ones who know about their lists/groups, and also have the information about FOSS.IN. We are about to trigger publicity for this event. When that happens, I would like to be able to highlight not just the bigname speakers coming, but also which FOSS groups are participating. >From the project perspective, quite a number of things are falling in place - Gnome, KDE, FreeBSD, Linux Kernel, FOSS Sound & Music, etc. are all getting their acts ready for the event. So far, none of the non-commercial Linux distributions (such as Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, etc.) have approached us with concrete plans for participation, but I am assuming that they are waiting to be approached, WHICH ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN. :) Guys - if you want to participate, stop acting primadonna, and raise your hands, gather your people together, and make sure that your project is represented at FOSS.IN. This is a FOSS event - if you are part of the FOSS world, then this is your event. Do you make it a point to send out engraved invitations to yourself for your own parties? :) FOSS.IN/2005 is going to be the biggest technical event many of you will have ever been part of. Once things start rolling, and you find out just what all is happening at the event, you will be KICKING yourself for not being part of this event - and I know stuff that you don't. :) By the time you find out, it will be too late for you to start getting things into shape, so why not get started *now*? Atul ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- The List Rules : http://linux-bangalore.org/listrules The Event Site : http://foss.in/2005 The Event Channel : #foss.in on irc.freenode.net The Event List : http://linux-bangalore.org/list Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-bangalore-2005/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------------ End of this Digest ****************** -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ Event: Freedel 2005, 17th & 18th September, 2005 - http://freedel.in
