On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 5:50 PM, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote: >> This is a FYI post. >> >> Some details as to how foss.in is going to be structured this year is >> out and being discussed in this thread >> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foss-in/message/5219 >> >> FOSS Workouts (hackfests?) is likely to be one of the components and >> is open for discussion at foss.in mailing list at the below link >> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foss-in/message/5283 >> >> Yet to figure out if/how bosug/OpenSolaris/BeleniX fits into this. >> Feel free to take part in the discussions at the foss.in list. >> >> I personally had found the format of yesteryears to be adaptive being >> able to accomodate broadest profile of speakers as well as audience. >> How the format for this year plays out is to be seen. >> > > I just went through the announcement. This year's conditions seem > to draconian tough! However I do tend to agree with them. They > want real code to be developed. Only thing is how much can one > achieve on this front in a 3/5 day conference. A conference can be > a seeding ground for new ideas but real code only comes out after > weeks or months of grunt work. The "grunt" part is where we in India > tend to fail. I am not sure how much you can do about that in a single > event. > > Regards, > Moinak. >
Ya, though the intension looks good, but how much 'real' work can get done in 3-5 days? --Harshal