On 27-Dec-07, at 2:05 AM, Saurabh Nanda wrote: > I have attended only one Freed (it was called Freedel at that point) > and the focus seems to have shifted quite a bit since that time (open > source s/w focused event to a more "social revolution" kind of event). > Therefore, please read my comments in that context -- most of them may > be emanating from the fact that the new direction doesn't fit my > notion of the event.
my two paise: LUGs should stick to what LUGs do best - bring new blood in, solve technical problems, get foss introduced in colleges, schools, industry and governement and help fellow luggers to sove their problems. They should leave social revolution and world domination to those more competent to do so. As the Bangalore experience shows, the moment a LUG get's above itself, it is in trouble, it fails to attract new blood, becomes irrelevant and it's goodwill vanishes into the hands of people with different aims to that of a LUG. It is not as if the whole of Northern India is converted to FOSS and the time has come to move to the next stage. The fact is we are sadly lagging in the basics itself - so stick to the basics. No doubt four people will sneer at you - but I personally think that doing what a LUG does is nothing to sneer at, is immensely satisfying and fulfills an important social need that nothing else can do. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
