Topic for next Gnu(s) grazing: Free Software Business Model

[प्रवीण् ए (Praveen A)]

Hi Gnu heads,

 The Saturday meet was very interesting and we have to continue to build
this team.

I have been talking to Anush and Arky about some ftuture event details.
Anush has volunteered to introduce python to gnus and he had some more
ideas.

So we have many themes for future meets and we will take one at a time.
Don't be afraid of the long list. We will take one at a time.

1. Free Software Business Model (Arky suggested)

We will get Free Software products/services companies like Redhat, Novell,
Spike Source, Deeproot Linux ... to talk about their business model. Also we
will have discussion about the business model that companies like IBM, HP,
Sun chose to support Free Software.

This would be better planned and executed in way to help us understand each
other and enable us to pull together GPLv3 event.
This can happen sometime in April. The venue could be BMS, PESIT or
Saptagiri whichever comes forward first :-)

2. Introduction to python (Anush), Talk on perl hacks (Basil?), Ajax by
Kushal  (I hope you would be happy to do this), LAMP by Ramkrsna (I know you
did this talk on last Software Freedom Day in Cochin) ...

This will be happening in March 25 Gnu(s) grazing. Any of these topics I
wouldn't be surprised if all of these happen too :-)
This could happen at SJCE Mysore. Sandesh Kamath contacted me and he would
like to have it on 25. If we could manage it we can all go to Mysore. [Well
I'll be missing it as I have to attend my cousine's marriage]. If we are
ready to go to Mysore Sandesh will take care of other issues.

3. Starting Free Software Companies(Anush suggested this idea).

Well, Abhas can talk about his experience with Deeproot.

4. Free Software product development (This idea also suggested by Anush)

If we could get some one working on Free Software products like JBoss,
MySQL, Anjuta.... it would be great.

5. Gnu(s) grazing at Bandhipur (Again Anush). Around April end
I'm in for this.

6. Also a discussion on: IP, patent, trade mark, also geographic indicators
and software patents in a fast changing tech world
Suggested by Dinesh

 Please put your hands togther for Anush.

I tried to put these abstract ideas to a kind of road map that will lead up
to GPLv3 event. Your ideas suggestions modifications are necessary. For the
time being concentrate on 1 and 2. We can do others slowly.

My 40 paise (Arky can snatch 20 paise from that :-)

Regards
Praveen

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