[Ilugc] Apologies for posting FDP/Workshop event mails in ILUG-C
- From: mohan.tux@xxxxxxxxx (Mohan Sundaram)
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:46:03 +0530
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Asokan Pichai <pasokan at gmail.com> wrote:
I am sad to see this. But then, your contribution is independent of any
acknowledgement it receives from ilugc.
Whether on behalf of or in spite of, please continue the good work.
Probably it is a good idea for ilugc to decide what it stands for and
articulate the do's and dont's.
Most mailing lists discourage use of the list for promoting or
marketing products to the list members and I do agree with them. The
most prominent reasons being:
a. Reducing spam.
b. Objective of the list being sharing information and not to sell products.
If I had seen LinExpert's notice in another list, I probably would
have posted it here as it benefits and most importantly promotes FOSS.
Will I be asked to stop this? If not, just the fact that Baskar is
also a member is incidental.
FOSS needs a lot of promotion from many quarters to be adopted.
Conducting FOSS in colleges has a good cascading effect in promoting
FOSS. If ILUGC had resources, it would have certainly done this. In
the absence of such resources, some one else doing this as a
commercial enterprise must be supported.
If some folks have the problem with "on behalf of ILUGC" tagline,
maybe they could suggest an alternative tagline. I think it will be in
order that Baskar's efforts are endorsed in some form by ILUGC.
-- Mohan Sundaram
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