Hi On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Dibyajyoti Mohapatra <dib...@vubites.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > Did you guys meet on Sunday? > > It will be better if you could post a brief summary about the same. >
Yes Narender has provided a summary the people who came are - Narendra, Satyakam, Bryan, Mark and Mr KP Reddy. Dilli Haat was a total wash out as a venue and if other folk were there for the meeting it would have taken a great deal of luck to find the others amongst the swirling and ever swelling crowds. Luckily Bryan was wearing an Ubuntu T shirt and that helped some of coalesce. Mark is a newcomer to foss and wanted to understand what made people devote time to FOSS and Ubuntu etc. Hope he got enthused with the foss philosophy. A second question he had was about how people make money using FOSS, again hopefully he has learnt more about this angle. We discussed ways of getting Linux to be more common knowledge. the calendar being one of the ideas. A theme suggestion for the calendar was to show 12 organizations (NPO ? NGO's maybe) that use FOSS. We also spoke about the Open Street Maps (http://www.openstreetmap.org) and their mapping initiative. Also spoke about other organizations that are promoting foss through use of technology for specific purposes. Check out http://www.tacticaltech.org/ http://ngoinabox.org/ http://cis-india.org/advocacy/others/maps-for-making-change-kicks-off-and-you-can-get-involved ** in retrospect i think a quieter venue and maybe a predertimed exact meeting point (& time) and lapel pins, linux sumbols etc would make it easier for strangers to meet up. For venue all i can say is blame it on the delhi wallahs for not telling us that Dilli Haat is a rotten place to meet. *** I t was good to meet up and having two folks who are non foss people , i think, allowed us to be clearer on what we wanted to express. ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
