Bug 90995

Hi there,

Can you give some more information ?

You might want to look how others did it on:
http://www.freebsd.org/usergroups.html

Please return the same kind of information as
published there.

Thanks,
remko
-- 
Kind regards,

   Remko Lodder  ** remko@elvandar.org
        FreeBSD  ** remko@FreeBSD.org


On Wed, December 28, 2005 04:42, Basavaraj wrote:
>
>>Number:         90995
>>Category:       www
>>Synopsis:       No User Group for India or atleast Bangalore
>>Confidential:   no
>>Severity:       serious
>>Priority:       high
>>Responsible:    freebsd-www
>>State:          open
>>Quarter:
>>Keywords:
>>Date-Required:
>>Class:          maintainer-update
>>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>>Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 28 03:50:02 GMT 2005
>>Closed-Date:
>>Last-Modified:
>>Originator:     Basavaraj
>>Release:        6.0
>>Organization:
> Transworld
>>Environment:
> x86
>>Description:
> Hi, it is so sad that despite growing number of FreeBSD users in India
> and sepcially in Bangalore, no user group is created and dedicated to
> them, please create a user group for "Bangalore Free BSD Users" or for
> "Free BSD India Users" and acknowledge
>
> Thanks,
> Basavaraj
>>How-To-Repeat:
>
>>Fix:
>               Hi, it is so sad that despite growing number of FreeBSD
> users in India and sepcially in Bangalore, no user group
> is created and dedicated to them, please create a user
> group for "Bangalore Free BSD Users" or for "Free BSD
> India Users" and acknowledge
>
> Thanks,
> Basavaraj
>>Release-Note:
>>Audit-Trail:
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Comment 2 Remko Lodder 2005-12-31 14:55:32 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

After a little private conversation with the submitter 
it came clear that this should actually be a request to 
add the bsd users bangalore to the list.  I did so 
moments ago so it should appear within 24 hours. 

Thanks for the submission! 

Comment 3 Remko Lodder 2005-12-31 14:55:32 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-www->remko

Make me responsible for the PR.

Comment 4 Joseph Koshy 2006-01-02 16:47:16 UTC

rl> After a little private conversation with the submitter
rl> it came clear that this should actually be a request to
rl> add the bsd users bangalore to the list.

Living in Bangalore I was surprised to see mention in this PR, of
hordes of BSD users in Bangalore.  If there are hordes here, they
must be exceedingly bashful.

I went to take a look at the Google Groups website referenced
in this PR and found:
 1- an 'invite only' group, with no public archives or prior
    history to peruse,
 2- No record of prior participation of "Basavaraj Kodgalli 
    <rajiff@rediffmail.com>" on our mailing lists,
 3- our name misspelt as "Free-BSD" :(.

My guess is that this 'user group' is very new, perhaps a few days
old.

Basavaraj, please correct (3).  Also, there are more BSDs around
than FreeBSD, so you may wish to consider naming your group more
precisely or expanding the scope of your group's charter to fit its
name better.  Finally, (1) is just not the BSD way, and it indeed
causes me some degree of disquiet to see an 'invite-only' and
'private' group purporting to support an open-source OS.

If there are to be resources in Bangalore being referred to from
the FreeBSD website, I would prefer them to be quality ones.

Regards,
Koshy
<jkoshy@freebsd.org>