On Wed, 6 May 2009 15:18:30 +0530 Anupam Jain <ajn...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > That said, instead of caring about more participation, we should be > looking at more holding relevant events.
The point about asking for more participation is that it makes it worthwhile for both the presenter, and the organiser. > I would still try my best to > attend a BOF meeting on an interesting topic rather than a generic > ILUGD meeting every month. I regularly meet with friends over a cup of > coffee and Linux/FOSS is a hot topic of disscusion, We need to have > that level of informality. I am willing to give specific topics (how do we gauge which ones are of interest to people in Delhi/NCR?), but we have tried that. Perhaps the most successful one was the one centred around OpenStreetMap, which was a while ago. Just last month, Gaurav spent a fair amount of effort to organise a meeting, asking for topics and potential presenters on the list, arranging the meeting, etc. The net result was that five people showed up for a nice talk on Common Lisp, and various tools around it. I am not sure what you mean by "that level of informality". LUG meetings obviously need to be announced at least a little ahead of time, and cannot be an off-the-cuff meeting of friends over coffee. How do you propose to bring informality into this? > ILUGD elections have no consequence for me at all. I don't know what > they are good for or how they affect me. Gora, the links you posted > are either inaccessible without logging in or have *very* old > information (pre 2001). Though as long as we have this list as it is, > I couldn't care less. There were just two links, as what Amit wanted does not really exist at the moment. The second link (the one that did not work) is to the Memorandum of Association. I am not sure why that link does not work from mail, but you can go to the "Governing Body" link, http://www.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/exec.cgi?action=exec and click on item 2 in the menu at the top. Again, it is probably not very useful. I guess the point still is that we do not know what would interest a sizable portion of the LUG. Personally, I am coming around to thinking that FOSS interest has broken down into smaller focus groups, and a broad-spectrum LUG has less relevance nowadays. This is not necessarily a bad thing, and could well be a sign that FOSS has matured beyond the early days of evangelism just for the sake of its ideals. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ 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/
