On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Pirate Praveen <pravi.a@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2014-02-25 18:44 GMT+05:30, sooraj kenoth <soorajkenoth@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Here we are talking about Digital world, Freedom, Sharing, Community, > > Privacy, Democracy etc. The event is not about open source or any other > > development methodology or production system. So I strongly recommend you > > to change the name FOSS. > > As much as I care about Free Software, I don't want to force my views > on others. I accept Open Source campaign as a part of our community. > We should convince people who use the term Open Source to use Free > Software and tell them to talk about Freedom. I don't agree with > pushing Open Source campaigners as untouchables. > > Totally agree with praveenettan. I think we should explain the difference between opensource and freesoftware to others and they should have the freedom to choose philosophy which they agree with. I want freesoftware to dominate in this Eco-system but that should not be by censoring open source ideologies. > We already have fossmeet.in domain and wer can ask NITC students to > give us safi.fossmeet.in and call the event as "FOSS Meet at SAFI" or > "SAFI FOSS Meet" > > why not safi.fosscommunity.in / safi.fsug.in ? I think javad should make a decision (after discussing with other members) :) -- --- Regards, Hrishi | Stultus http://stultus.in