2008/3/16, Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) sensunda@cisco.com:
Hello all,
sorry for cross postings!
Here at C-MMACS we (few FSF fans!) wanna start a chapter of FSF. Basically we want to provide a forum for similar people to share ideas or support each other.
I would like to hear from you about this, especially on how to start a FSF forum and related issues.
May as a beginning we would like to host an inaugural function with few invited talks on following each of 1/2 - 1 hr duration.
- philosophy of fsf, history etc.
- open source computing in High performance computing using Linux
Clusters (Beowulf's), 3. oss in earth-sciences (GMT, GRASS ...). 4. oss text processing (Tex history and usage) 5. GNU Scientific library usage and applications etc.
Free Software and Open Source are two philosophies in the same community and we work together in many cases, but still different fundamentaly. Even though we would love to have evryone follow Free Software philosophy it is upto every individual to decide which philosophy one is a part of. But when you use Free Software name don't mix open source in it. If you wanted, you could have another banner say FOSS or FLOSS which includes both philosophies. Or use Free Software instead of Open Source.
See this for more http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
Please suggest some expert names in these fields, so that we can contact them on this regard. Expected date of this event is end of April, 08.
I would like to hear from you on the earliest.
warm regards
- Anil Earnest