On 31/10/2007, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP] > > 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 [SNIP] > > 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. > [...] > > I will ignore the snideness of "a double digit audience", but > I know of no FOSS event that guarantees attendance at any given > talk. Certainly, we gave no assurance of attendance, nor were we > asked about that at any point of time by NRC-FOSS folk. The [SNIP]
No one can give assurance of attendance at any particular talk. It is combination of topic, speaker, competing tracks and even some thing as simple as just post lunch ... What's this about FOSS apologetics? Even main stream IT events in mainstream IT cities go phut (see below). -- Regards, Sudev Barar Article from Hindu: http://www.hindu.com/2007/10/30/stories/2007103058740300.htm Showpiece IT event fails to click Hardly 60 of the promised 200 stalls filled up the space BANGALORE: "The Government of Rajasthan spent about Rs. 30 lakh to put up this stall, personnel and material. After spending so much, we are not getting any response," this lament from a Rajasthan IT Department official was apparently an understatement as the showpiece event of Bangalore's IT industry, BangaloreIT.in, failed to attract even the full exhibitor strength on its debut day. Touted as "the largest IT and telecom event" in this part of the world, the event venue looked deserted, with hardly 60 of the promised 200 stalls filling up the space...... _______________________________________________ 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/
