[fsug-calicut] Re: 2 Day FOSS program...

  • From: Hrishi <hrishi.kb@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: fsug-calicut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 17:15:19 +0530

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)
:)


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