hello,
me being one of the founding members of the ilug-bom group find it difficult to imagine that there needs to be a separate group to manage meetups for gnu/linux activities.
we started ilug-bom under the able leadership of dr. nagarjuna with the explicit goal of unifying all efforts conducted towards discussion and advocacy of gnu/linux in and around mumbai.
i believe we as a group have been in existence since 1997~98 and have had a great term in the earlier years, just can't understand why it has slacked off big time now.
is it because of an over abundance of material available via a simple google search? or is it because someone did something terribly wrong along the way that youngsters found it necessary to diverge and form newer, independent groups?
personally, i have been away for a really long time due to health issues, and then, when i did return around 1.5~2 years back, everything seemed so weird and desolate that i could not figure out the reasons.
hope we all can regroup and move forward as a single unit and clear goal of doing what we are going to do here-on. perhaps, as dinesh shah had once mentioned, we lack a formal vision and mission statement for our existance.
looking forward to more activity in a focused manner.
best regards,
~mayuresh