V. Sasi Kumar said on Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:01:41PM +0530,:
to discuss our activities, so that we could think of other activities in the future at Thiruvananthapuram, and also co-ordinate with people in other places who may be interested in conducting such programmes elsewhere.
Decentralised celebrations by local user groups will, IMO be more effective.
And we should concenterate on freedom.
By July 21st, Gimp will 2.1, unstable version 2 of OOo will be available, and Scribus will be at 1.3. The Linux kernel 2.6.8 will be in RC1, and 2.4.28 will be out.
My September 21, and for every third month after that, you can increment each version number by 2.
Good thing? Yes. Definitely.
But, the movement has to focus one issue - `freedom'. More than install fests and demos, the occassion should be used to talk about freedom and importance of free software. Once people decide thay want freedom, the need for instllfest as means of attracting people to the GNU will vanish. But to help them actually use the software, we need such demos and fests.
BTW, we keep on forgetting the HURD kernel.