[FSUG-Bangalore] OT: Appeal for Bihar relief fund

[Anivar Aravind]

 i amazed to see this flooded thread while opening my mailbox today (i
came to Thrissur town now from my village to get into a internet cafe)
 . while reading it i dont feel there is a conflict of interest in
this.  The whole discussion went wrong with disturbing directions

I feel Vikram was crossposting appeals to various lists. But forgot to
add an Offtopic tag in subject while posting to this list and
FSF-Friends, Both are specifically for community Discussions realated
to free software.  Arky etc are managaed this very well in past
FSUG-bangalore archives  and shared a lot of  Film festival news etc
with proper tagging . Free software movement have very good linkages
with art culture & society.


On 9/10/08, Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) <sensunda at cisco.com> wrote:

> what is wrong if friends from the free software movement want to support
> relief.....its about COMMUNITY participation ..... and many of them from
> bihar are making earnest appeals ....  in fact i would be sad if my personal
> friend talked a lot about COMMUNITY and restricited it to SOFTWARE alone.
> however these are just my opinion...

I too support the cause of Flood relief in bihar.  but i dont think no
one here is restricted to software. Free software lives in the
Society by addressing its realities.I agree we have solidarity to a
lot of social causes. There are a lot of listservs existing for these
discussions too. But since FSUG list is specifically for discussiong
Free Software issues it is good to put a Offtopic tag on other issues
to keep list ethiquities and imporatance for software cause. It is not
minimising the importance of any issue. But just a good list practice

Lets  stop this thread and continue with SFD planning. we have enough
to do in a short timespan

PS: I personally other hundred lists to discuss about solidarity. If
there is a need for SAHANA (disaster management system) or Relief  &
rehabilitation management system i will use this list