On 26-Oct-07, at 2:06 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > Anybody else dismayed by this? Any theories?
heavy handed admin. If you check the two biggest mailing lists in India - chennai and mumbai, and you find that there are no moderators. Sure, threads go offtopic, flames rage, but there is no killjoy to dampen the spark. People are terrified to post here - there was even a case where someone asked where the tutorials were taking place in freedel and he was told to rtfm. And any suggestion for improvement is met with a post from Kishore invoking the notorious 'ilugd rule'. Take the latest freedel conference (or the previous one) - it was a mega flop. Audience on the second day was about 50 (including speakers and volunteers). First day, in each case was about 200. OK, lets call it 500. 500 in the capital of the second largest country in the world? One reason for poor attendence is that it was held in JNU. JNU is an elite institution, and hence not a place for FOSS. My experience in the last two years is that elite institutions are the last place where you can go for innovative ideas and talk about freedom and sharing. Strangely enough, although there was a huge debate about where to hold the next ilugd meeting, The committee, without any debate, has decided to hold the next edition of freedel in JNU - a place without a LUG. RKGIT and JIIT have LUGs - and hugely enthusiastic members. So why are they ignored? Anyway, as far as NRC-FOSS is concerned, we will not send a team to freedel unless we are assured of a double digit audience for our talks and stalls. As far as the lack of traffic on the ilug lists is concerned, ilug was shot down by atul chitnis long ago. Since atul and raj have now made up, it is just a question of the other big dadas in the foss movement joining them to make it viable - srs, idg, gn - are you listening? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
