Where is the community?

Hello all,

Since early this month, a discussion has been floating around and has
been quite visible. Some background can be found from the following links.

http://kingsly.net/kingsly/Linux/bangalore/no-blug/
http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd-cunTk1MwBs8/[email protected]/msg12585.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd-cunTk1MwBs8/[email protected]/msg12589.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-bangalore-2005/message/2274

Firstly, I resent the uncouth act of dealing away with linux-bangalore.
To the average intellects rampant here, the "gospel of ignorance" seems
to be the sage advice, but has anyone noticed that it is a rhetorical
advice and never works?

Secondly, a message to the organizers of foss.in. FOSS encourages
perspicuity and openness. Have the promoters of foss.in been completely
transparent in their dealings? Who are the decision-makers? Where is the
accessibility to the financial accounts?

Who and where is this community which is being talked about? Can I ask
for a little openness in the dealings of foss.in? In the light of the
above posts its trifling to talk about the promoters of foss.in and the
community being the same or even sharing the same ideas. Secrecy about
how much money is going to whom is not act likely of a community.

Can I ask for transparency in the selection process of the papers to be
presented? Can we have the mailing-list archives of the paper selection
group released to public when the schedule is announced?

Alas, it is never going to work, because, like corruption or thievery or
mistrust, it takes a single cell to thwart the whole system, where
society necessarily became law-laden, lock-decorated, and mistrustful,
and that is the nature of things as it stands.

It is infantile to call an event which does not adhere to FOSS as
"foss.in." It is about time that propagators of free and open source
software took a look at where they stand.

   I'll find a day to massacre them all,
     And raze their faction and their family...
           William Shakespeare, in Titus Andronicus

P.
-- 
Alas, even today there's little worth thinking and saying that does
not grievously wound the state, the gods, and common decency.
						-Goethe

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