On 12 October 2010 13:15, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote: > basker is there - on a shoe string budget he is doing more than NRC-FOSS
Motivated individuals like basker are a great asset to the community :) > has been able to do with all the central government crores! (and do not > take this as a criticism of NRC-FOSS - govt/univ bodies are constrained, > motivated individuals can do much more. +1 , All we as outsiders need to remember that the more we cry/shout on Govt/univ organisations/bodies the more we would be alienating them . The best we could do is to see if we could help them come closer to the community . Try personally emailing them twice before we bring the issue to a mailing list . Good that you have taken initiative to go to that place , well ' windows ' a propreitary OS is not IMHO a huge 'Hall of Shame' kind of thing ,but did you see how many free softwares that windows had installed? Some people still use the propreitary windows because of their comfort levels in using a distro /environment . But I think with proper guidance and our(community) efforts in explaining the importance and values of free software , things might change . Lets hope to hear more from them and collaborate more from them . >All we can do is give initial > seeds. Well Syllabus change and good support by NRCFOSS AUKBC to the events in and around tamilnadu with a strong ILUGC backing did rock chennai in terms of FOSS :) Well NRCFOSS AUKBC has planted a seed called 'FOSSCONF' , would love to see the tree and the fruits :) Let all of us pour some water and give it some sunshine ! Regards, Pavithran -- pavithran sakamuri http://look-pavi.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
