On Aug 12, 2014 1:51 AM, "Sudhanwa Jogalekar" <sudhanwa....@gmail.com> wrote:
> The conference being a FOSS conference, everything needs to be under > FOSS. It is as simple as that. > > Well, there could be exceptions if the requirement of the topic needs > non-FOSS stuff. > Please note that PLUG's stand for FOSS still remains the same. I > remember that in one of the Gnunify, I helped a speaker to change his > presentation from windows-powerpoint to Linux-Openoffice. I find this stand that a speaker use only FOSS to give a presentation hypocritical and puerile. Isn't it more important for you to know if the speaker used FOSS to develop something? For what it's worth, one could use proprietary tools all the way, and then put screenshots in a presentation on LibreOffice to run on someone's Ubuntu laptop? I could add a car analogy here to belabour the point, but I think you'll get it anyway. Needless symbolism will be counterproductive to achieving your bigger purpose. I hope this movement rises above dogmatism and judging personal choices. Oh, by the way, a helpful hint: if all you need is a presentation, ask the speaker to convert it to a LibreOffice native format and mail it / bring it on a pen drive, which can be read on whatever choice of OS that the organisers have connected to the projector. All the best. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
