On 3 June 2010 18:35, Kartik Mistry kartik.mistry@gmail.com wrote:
GNUnify is 'Lets do what our senior did to get marks' event. No outcome from students since it launch..
And, what does that indicate ?
It indicates that it is kind of event that runs by students because their senior did. Every year they do fantastic job in organizing, setting up new website and group, calling speakers personally and even treating speakers like 'king' (& 'queen'). However, real outcome for this event is none. Have you seen any student from that college to contributing to foss? It will not happen because entire root of event is wrong.
Mukt.in 2008 was one such event . Having co-organised the event at Osmania University , Hyderabad . I by the end of the event felt the same . They did an event for events sake. Those people love organsing events and they were more than happy with the outcome of event . I felt as a alien in the event which we planned for long time :(
2009 didn't happene because no one planned for the event . There was a surge of activity/interest to get the event running by end of 2009 at IIIT where the venue was given but very less support from the faculty and student volunteers .
2010 of the event was disturbed by agitations one being the famous telangana agitation while a complete venue shift to jaipur bought another agitation gujjar agitation ( came after CFP) .
The south as of now lacks FOSS events for people starting to be with FOSS . I hope this mail will bring some initiative for campus events in large scale .
PS : Madras Inst of Tech regularly organises carteblanche as a part of its computer society .
Regards, Pavithran