[BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 4:36:36 pm Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote:
> <madhusudancs at gmail.com>wrote:
> > Thanks for clarifying. We(The Python group of the FOSSEE team) have been
> > looking at this thread and the thread on Scipy India 2009 - SciPy.in.
> >
> > I don't want to make any comments on the exchanges in the threads.
> >
> > This is a blog post from one of the senior persons in the team on the
> > subject:  http://fossee.in/blog/drupal
>
>   This is a much more sensible post that then "Why Drupal" one, the
>    tone of which started the whole conversation.
>
>    And forums like these exist for enthusiasts to indulge in lively,
> no-holds-barred
>    and quite often very critical discussions.  The rights are more than
>    "inalienable", they are fundamental.

yes - and one can appreciate the fossee people for permitting even a junior 
member to sound off even though they would not necessarily agree with him. Even 
in a liberal place like NRC-FOSS I would have had to go to bat on behalf of a 
junior member who put his foot in his mouth like this - with no guarantee that 
I would not be bowled first ball ;-)
-- 
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Senior Project Officer
NRC-FOSS
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/