On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Prem Kurian Philip <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 08:53:49 +0530 > > From: Thyagarajan ?????????? <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Ilugc] jQuery and HTML forms > > > > Hi, > > > > My take on this discussion. > > > > ilugc is a Linux user group and supports all foss tools. > >------ > > Now ilugc is now more of a web developer's user group with random > discussions about Adobe Dreamweaver alternatives, jquery, html and so on. > > All of those are interesting discussions, no doubt, but they are offtopic > on this list. > > If most of the content is going to be on HTML, Javascript and so on, those > who are interested in linux content will go elsewhere and the list will > become a place where web developers hang out.
I don't think there is anything wrong about what Girish is trying to do here. This is LUG but that does not mean we have to close our minds to other technical concepts. Only rarely do we some truly 'Linux only' posts, and most of the them are about people asking for simple noob stuff without even googling, or people asking about software installations etc ... oh and even obituaries. Most of these rarely add value to the knowledge of the community. And what was it about this being for web developers? For those of you who don't know, javascript is now a firstclass citizen in the gnome community. You can develop full fledged GTK3 and gnome DESKTOP applications using javascript. You may find it usefull to learn. Who are the people using linux anyway? Right now, only people willing to experiment with cool new stuff (mostly programmers) and your average Joe who uses it only because its installed in their work machine. I doubt the later will join a mailing list like this. And I don't see why we should not discuss the programming languages (even web). Girish and few others here take time to type long mails to share their knowledge with us. When people with long experience and strong industry background have something to say, its better to listen instead of trying to find faults. Its true that we are LUG, but by bashing anything and everything nonlinux (including windows stuff), we are not behaving any better than those apple and windows fanboys. We have to be more open to FOSS stuff in general and discuss anything of interest. We can gain something just be seeing two people discuss BSD instead of chasing them away in the name of linux. I hope we see more posts like this in the future. -- Sincerely, A. Narendiran _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
