[PLUG] CoFSuG and FOSS and PLUG

[Sudhanwa Jogalekar]

Dear Shirish Agarwal,

I suppose some of your queries are already answered on this thread.

>From your messages, it seems that you are confusing between SICSR and PLUG.
It is sad and unfortunate that even after being in PLUG for so many years,
you are confusing between these two completely different entities.

PLUG does not have any control or influence on what SICSR people (staff,
teachers, students etc) think, do, communicate and commit.
Looks like you are pretty upset by some interactions, commitments with/by
SICSR. If those were related to FOSS and worth considering implementation,
you could have come to PLUG to get some support to interact with SICSR. I
don't think that has happened anytime before from your side. PLUG is/was
always there to interact with any organisation-college or commercial or
otherwise for any FOSS activities. And to some extent for the open data,
open knowledge etc etc.

PLUG has been associated with other colleges in the past. There was a
conference FOSSUMMIT in MIT that happened some years back. In one of the
engineering college, we have inaugurated their internal LUG 2 times !!! I
have been to various teacher training programs related to FOSS many times.
We have been participating in CMDA expo for many many years.

Those are just some examples of PLUG work as in various talks/conferences
etc. Thats what your concern seems to be.

There had been much discussion about the mailing list and you can find it
on archives somewhere. There were valid reasons when the mailing list rules
were very strict. But that was a pretty old story. Now the list is
completely open with no restrictions.

To answer all your queries, it will take a discussion of at least 3-4 hours
and I dont have the patience of typing out things for you.
So, feel free to meet me or any other old pluggie who knows the history so
as to clear your doubts.

You can carry on this thread further. I can give in some inputs wherever
possible.

Regards
-Sudhanwa

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