Comments on: FOSS.IN announces its version of the LHC experiment!

By: Kartik Mistry

Kartik Mistry — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:30:57 +0000

If packaging was ‘low hanging fruits’, we could have several DDs, MOTUs and UDs, and Fedora Developers lying around here and there..

I am not in favor to write yet another lightweight window manager that doesn’t sucks..

By: Arun Raghavan

Arun Raghavan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:46:58 +0000

Hello. Thanks for the great post! As a member of Team FOSS.IN, believe me when I say we don’t consider packaging trivial (I’m part of Gentoo’s GNOME Team, so I know first hand). The point we are trying to make is that we need a *lot* more happening at the conference on upstream projects and particularly in the big picture sense.

Anyway, see you there!

By: Kanti

Kanti — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:47:11 +0000

Hi Aanjan,

While the event FOSS.IN moves to a more focussed and targeted audience its really impressive to see how it all happened.Any conference worth its ground should time and again evolve.
There is a long way to go.The experiment is really on.An experiment which is not easy nor something whose results are tangible in a few years even.
Your rant is not really which should be bothersome.The focus is what is really the case here.
Packaging is something which is important.The code which goes upstream is also very important.Fixes in one set of packages ( my rant indeed ) don’t really flow back upstream that fast.
We need more innovative ideas and ways to make it more tangible.

Regards

Kanti