[PLUG] PLUG meeting washed out due to unseasonal rains

[Gaurav Pant]

Interestingly I and few others did not receive the mails of PLUG meet
announcement. If others have not recieved the same please notify about the
same here.
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Dexter

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Mayuresh <mayuresh at acm.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 09:44:26PM +0530, shirish wrote:
> > This was something that was being shared between Manjusha and me. What
> I/We
> > meant was that even today whether you look at 40 years old people or
> early
> > 20's youth they still do not know that something like FOSS exists.
>
> Nothing to do with age really. More to do with exposure and enthusiasm.
>
> > I have also been under the impression as most of us are that people know
> > about FOSS generally but the truth is, it's only when you work in
> companies
> > which use FOSS then you come to know about it.
>
> Not really. There would be many on PLUG list who virtually educated their
> employers about FOSS.
>
> > And for the 40 year olds, most of them have a stable job/life so they are
> > not much enthusiastic to learn these 'new-fangled' ideas as I have been
> > told/shared by people over time and in different workshops.
>
> Again nothing to do with age.
>
> FOSS is not that new. Several of 40+ (that includes the most celebrated
> OSS developer in the world, no points for guessing) and even 60+ (
> considering the big R's age now, guess the big R of open source if you
> don't know) and several lesser mortals who were early adopters on whose
> effort we stand wherever we do today.
>
> [I do not know a suitable title for this thread. Request to modify the
> subject suitably.]
>
> Mayuresh
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