[Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue

[स्वक्ष]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:59, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 May 2010 11:34:35 Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
>> I'm sure there will be zealots everywhere. As long as it's an
>> aberration rather than the rule, I think we should be fine.
>>
>
> I am not actually talking about zealots - after all I am one ;-) I am just
> making sure they understand the difference between a language conference and a
> FOSS/OSS conference. This point has come up several times already and if the
> 'GNU/Linux users group' is not clear on this, or not comfortable about this,
> there will be problems.

I agree. I have strong beliefs too but the difference lies in how the
idealism is used-- either in a positive[1] or in a negative[2] manner.

[2] My laptop has Broadcomm bcm43x proprietary drivers that didnt
allow me to dualboot Ubuntu when I purchased it. When I was discussing
and showing this to a person attending fossin2007, a person standing
nearby asked if they could take a photograph of me using windows and I
asked why. The reply was to blog about it, which I felt was negative,
hence refused.
[1] A start contrast was pycon, where I still had the same old wifi
problems and still dual booted with windows. Here, the attitude I
experienced was: EVERY person went out of their way to help me....In
my eyes, someone missing 15 minutes out of a star speakers talk to
help out with wifi issues is just a *huge* favor.

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