On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:35:27PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Maybe the issue is not entirely about free or proprietory software. >People are switiching to open source for a variety of reasons - >philosophy, technical, economics whatever. There is that freedom to >choose an element to believe in. But , well the but is simply its the >core philosophy of open source - read transparency, read community >involvement, read right to know that is the foundation of this >movement.If People want to call it that and I think it is. >
I'm not going into the license / advocacy / giving back to the community etc part of it. As for what (say) Cray gives back to linux, googling for cray.com + linux or cray.com + linux-kernel gives you a lot of ideas. Back to the program committee part - in a purely technical conference (as opposed to public policy / social / philosophical conferences) you are not going to find substantial differences of opinion of the sort you mention. Competing technologies, fine. But a presentation is either technical or it is not. You need a program committee with enough tech savvy + enough experience speaking / presenting at such conferences to know what is operational content and what the audience wants. And who have a reputation for being even handed. And who are easily contactable in case any issues arise. srs _______________________________________________ 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