On 27/09/2008, Anivar Aravind <anivar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Anivar Aravind <anivar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Jemshid KK <jemshidkk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> dear freedom fighters >>> we had a meeting yesterday at mananchira square. >>> >> >> Great!! >> >> >>> >>> we had participants from kseb linux group, ascent, westhill engg college >>> and awh engineering college. >>> >> >> I feel it is better to address participation in Usergroup as individuals >> that their organisations. Otherwise the voice of individuals may not be >> comfortable with it. Lets address membeers of FSUG as Indiviuals . At the >> same time KSEB users group , ascent etc can be supportive structures for >> FSUG's work >> > I agree with that.. names of individuals who participated were supposed to be posted here. the decisions from the meeting. 1. we would like to receive the freedom walk team in kozhikode district. mr. unise is on discussion with anoop john in this regard. 2. a few workshops ahead 14/9/08 tuesday : workshop on "qt" at awh engineering college 9 am to 5 pm 15/9/08 wednesday : workshop for hardware service engineers belonging to malabar it dealers association at hotel reniasance time 4 pm to 7 pm 16/9/08 thursday : introduction and hands on free software for engineers. govt. engg. college westhill, calicut. 2pm to 5pm 3. the fsug calicut is to be legalised by registering as a non-profit society and for which necessary actions are to be initiated. This was not the thing we discussed, right? fsug-calicut should remain as an informal group. A society would be formed seperately, which is informally connected with fsug-calicut, as it can take up minor projects.. That was the thing I remember.. Is it ok? I feel the need of strengthening the group first. User groups works >> normally as peoples collectives with no formal leadership . Not as >> registered entities. making power structures first will kill the movement. >> > Definitely. > 4. individuals, organisations, business organisations and institutions >>> working with free software can affiliate with fsug calicut. >>> >> >> I feel institutions and affiliations is a bad step for a user group. >> >> > > I mean institutionalizing > that is all for the time being. >>> and waiting for your valuable comments. >>> >>> IMPORTANT: for the qt workshop at awh engineering college, we are in need >>> of a resource person on "qt". Our obejective is to show them an alternative >>> to visual studio. we can also think of workshop on gtk+. >>> >>> -- >>> Jemshid KK >>> "ascent" >>> calicut, kerala, india >>> 9349101566 >>> 0495 4013776 >>> kakespeak.blogspot.com >>> www.ascentengineers.org >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/ ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ (`'·.¸^¸.·'´) ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) «´¨`·* Jaisen Nedumpala. *..´¨`» (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ (`'·.¸ ¸.·'´) `'·.¸)`'·.¸) ¸.·´¸.·´¸.·´¸.·^ `'·.¸ ¸.·'´ ¸.·´( `·.¸ `·.¸ ¸.·´`·.¸ )`·.¸ ¸.·´¸.·)´ `·.¸ (.·´)`·.¸ ( `v´ ) `v´