On Thursday 03 June 2010 21:19:44 pavithran s wrote:
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 .
IIIT offered the venue free of cost with all facilities, but the careless arrogant attitude of the organisers torpedoed the event. When are we going to learn to be professional? Do you really expect college professors to respect people who turn up unshaven, with tee-shirts with a know_it_all air? I have seen these same guys in foreign with tie and coat, with serious preparation and well thought out talks - fully prepared and documented. They even turn up in time! I remember one of ilug mumbai heroes giving a talk on Octave as a replacement for matlab. The guy knew nothing about octave or about matlab, and his audience was a bunch of vice-chancellors and HOD's. He was so arrogant that he thought that since he was a FOSS poster boy they would listen to him without question. Anyway he tried to show them how to do 2+2=4 with octave. Could not do it. Worse, he could not even make the projector work properly with his laptop. I had told him to make sure it was working - but he preferred to spend that time having lunch! Half the audience walked off - finally one of the 'old farts' gave him a slip of paper to show him how to do it. It turns out that the said 'old fart' was a Pune university professor who had been using octave for the past several years and had even written a book on it!
lesson: respect the 'old farts'