Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread म . हा . सा . ग . र
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Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread म . हा . सा . ग . र
2009/9/8 म.हा.सा.ग.र : > May be i am opening another door for a chat on different direction here... > but, > > is the government which is spending thousands of crores on feeding > different bureaucratic schemes... spending any money on *systems > deployment* & training for systems like Linux... >

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread म . हा . सा . ग . र
May be i am opening another door for a chat on different direction here... but, is the government which is spending thousands of crores on feeding different bureaucratic schemes... spending any money on *systems deployment* & training for systems like Linux... if not they are just running the moc

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hi, Sorry, its a long rant... On Tuesday 08 September 2009 06:58:36 Aditya Godbole wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Manas Alekar wrote: > > I hate to say this, but would can we recommend that the government go the > > FOSS way with a clean conscience? Nautilus still breaks once in a while

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 08 September 2009 06:52:28 Sriram Narayanan wrote: > > When it comes to > > huge organisations with inertia, corporate or otherwise, such things > > matter. > > +1 to that. Reliability and stability matter a lot indeed. If you use a stable distro like RHEL/CentOS 5, which has guaranteed

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread Aditya Godbole
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Manas Alekar wrote: > > I hate to say this, but would can we recommend that the government go the > FOSS way with a clean conscience? Nautilus still breaks once in a while when > I update it. Evolution backends die on me randomly when I try to connect to > EXCHG ser

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Manas Alekar wrote: >> >> 2. Regarding the question of MOU, I think the government would quite >> like to agree about shifting to free software. The main question for >> them is 'how'. The issue is not what software they use to train the >> teachers, but whether it i

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread Manas Alekar
> > 2. Regarding the question of MOU, I think the government would quite > like to agree about shifting to free software. The main question for > them is 'how'. The issue is not what software they use to train the > teachers, but whether it is feasible for them to go through this > process logistic

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/07/2009 08:10 AM, shirish wrote: > in-line :- > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 01:43, Sudhanwa Jogalekar > wrote: >> A. It is not very clear if you are posting MOM or writing a blog. >> Where MOM ends and where your thoughts start... not very clear. Rather >> it is completely mixed up. What I w

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-06 Thread shirish
in-line :- On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 01:43, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:42 PM, shirish wrote: >> Hi all, >> Saving people from my long, boring one-person speeches hence compiled >> the minutes with comments at >> http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/minute

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-06 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:42 PM, shirish wrote: > Hi all, > Saving people from my long, boring one-person speeches hence compiled > the minutes with comments at > http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/minutes-of-plug/ . > > People are encouraged to poke holes in my understanding of h

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-06 Thread Rajeev Karajgikar
Shirish: It was me who met you at the cafeteria last night. My apologies if I came in too strong. I stand corrected - there are quite a few groups that prefer bottom posting - so I guess I was being ignorant and had no right to be fuming. Can you have the following link on the Plug home page - so

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-05 Thread Aditya Godbole
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 7:12 AM, shirish wrote: > Hi all, > Saving people from my long, boring one-person speeches hence compiled > the minutes with comments at > http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/minutes-of-plug/ . > > People are encouraged to poke holes in my understanding of how th

[PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-05 Thread shirish
Hi all, Saving people from my long, boring one-person speeches hence compiled the minutes with comments at http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/minutes-of-plug/ . People are encouraged to poke holes in my understanding of how things stand either here or on the web-page which is conveni