[PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

[Sudhanwa Jogalekar]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:57 PM, ThinRhino <thinrhino at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I was scheduled to give a talk at FOSSsumMIT 2104, but I was asked to use a Open
> Source License compliant operating system to give the talk. I have blogged about
> it in detail here -> http://adityalaghate.in/no-to-symbolism.html

Read your blog. Could not understand the main reason of disagreement.
Probably it is the usage of Open Source Operating System for your presentation.

Also, your focus is more on the technology part. Conference focus
is/was FOSS. Technology comes as a part of it.

I think the basic difference starts there itself.
Nobody has objected to your code or the presentations or your
contribution to FOSS.
The conference being a FOSS conference, everything needs to be under
FOSS. It is as simple as that.

Well, there could be exceptions if the requirement of the topic needs
non-FOSS stuff. eg. if a talk is on "FOSS tools to check security of
Linux distros on VMs running on Windows" , then Windows will be
required and will be allowed in the presentation.

Looks like the requirements for the talk was sent to you very late. I
think this was a mistake. Considering that this event happened for the
first time, this is part of some mistakes that happened. Lets ignore
them. I am sure this is part of learning for the organisors.

Please note that PLUG's stand for FOSS still remains the same. I
remember that in one of the Gnunify, I helped a speaker to change his
presentation from windows-powerpoint to  Linux-Openoffice. This
happened some 2 hours before his talk. He was a senior person from
"Intel" who were one of the major sponsors for the conference. He had
landed in Pune just a few hours before his presentation and the
organisors had informed the speakers well in advance about the FOSS
requirements for presentations.

Mayuresh has also added some good points in his mail.

Any further discusisons are welcome. The brainstorming gives some good
ideas and thoughts for further work and organising good conferences.

Regards
-Sudhanwa


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