Re: [ilugd] Opening up participation in ILUG-D decision making

2007-05-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 08-May-07, at 10:22 AM, Saurabh Nanda wrote: > (a) turn up for most of the meetings, this is not possible for people outside delhi > (b) give a hand in organizing events (especially Freedel), > (c) are an active face, > > your opinions should obviously have more weightage in the community a

Re: [ilugd] Opening up participation in ILUG-D decision making

2007-05-07 Thread Saurabh Nanda
> > Time and again, there have been expressions on this list that > management decisions in ILUG-Delhi are taken behind closed doors. > While I personally feel that ILUG-D is among the most open > organisations that I have been a part of, and strongly resent such > implications, there must be some

Re: [ilugd] Opening up participation in ILUG-D decision making

2007-05-05 Thread Viksit Gaur
Hey, --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Time and again, there have been expressions on > this list that > management decisions in ILUG-Delhi are taken behind > closed doors. Not true. Most of those assumptions might have been made by people who were not aware of how things happen at ILUG-d and the

Re: [ilugd] Opening up participation in ILUG-D decision making

2007-05-05 Thread PJ
> On Saturday 05 May 2007 15:34, PJ wrote: > > [snip] > > How about someone just records the audio of meetings with their mp3 [snip] Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh Puhleeze! I will not agree to that until someone volunteers to edit > out the unparliamentary stuff, the discussion

Re: [ilugd] Opening up participation in ILUG-D decision making

2007-05-05 Thread Raj Mathur
On Saturday 05 May 2007 15:34, PJ wrote: > [snip] > How about someone just records the audio of meetings with their mp3 > player (3000Rs for a 2GB mp3 player - or maybe do it with a cellphone > or desktop/laptop instead) at an acceptable voice bit rate, and > archives the audio online (eg ourmedia

Re: [ilugd] Opening up participation in ILUG-D decision making

2007-05-05 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 05 May 2007 14:32, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > [snip] > > In this particular case though, the renaming of the event was a > complete surprise. Nobody knew that such a requirement was there. > Normally before such decisions, people did disc

Re: [ilugd] Opening up participation in ILUG-D decision making

2007-05-05 Thread PJ
Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 05-May-07, at 3:34 PM, PJ wrote: > [snip stuff about recording audio of meeting] > i think what people want is more info on the list - like if someone > is thinking of a name change, why not a terse message on the list > saying 'hey, we

Re: [ilugd] Opening up participation in ILUG-D decision making

2007-05-05 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 05-May-07, at 3:34 PM, PJ wrote: > How about someone just records the audio of meetings with their mp3 > player (3000Rs for a 2GB mp3 player - or maybe do it with a cellphone > or desktop/laptop instead) at an acceptable voice bit rate, and > archives > the audio online (eg ourmedia will let

Re: [ilugd] Opening up participation in ILUG-D decision making

2007-05-05 Thread PJ
PJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How about someone just records the audio of meetings with their mp3 > player ogg! I mean ogg player! Honest! [1] PJ [1] For those who are wondering: ogg (properly: ogg-vorbis) is like mp3, but patent-free. Not popular, but better there are very few hardware ogg

Re: [ilugd] Opening up participation in ILUG-D decision making

2007-05-05 Thread PJ
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Time and again, there have been expressions on this list that > management decisions in ILUG-Delhi are taken behind closed doors. [snip] > > So, rather than griping about it, how about some concrete > proposals to change this? Please follow up on the list with y

Re: [ilugd] Opening up participation in ILUG-D decision making

2007-05-05 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > Time and again, there have been expressions on this list that > management decisions in ILUG-Delhi are taken behind closed doors. > While I personally feel that ILUG-D is among the most open > organisations that I have been a part of, and strongly resent such > im

Re: [ilugd] Opening up participation in ILUG-D decision making

2007-05-05 Thread Parthan S R
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, rather than griping about it, how about some concrete > proposals to change this? Please follow up on the list with your > ideas on how decision-making could be more open and participatory, > and I will volunteer to col

[ilugd] Opening up participation in ILUG-D decision making

2007-05-05 Thread gora
Hi, Time and again, there have been expressions on this list that management decisions in ILUG-Delhi are taken behind closed doors. While I personally feel that ILUG-D is among the most open organisations that I have been a part of, and strongly resent such implications, there must be some truth