Recently, we had\u00a0 two important free software conferences in Kerala. Both spent a lot of public\u00a0 money on invited talks , exhibitions and other related conference requirement.\u00a0 What is the benefit for general public from such conferences? A typical conference will have limited\u00a0 , say 500\u00a0 delegates. In Kerala, the delegates are often chosen\u00a0 based on the political affiliation or whims and fancies of the organizers rather than\u00a0 merit.\u00a0\u00a0 Will these conferences disseminate knowledge to the common man ? I doubt.<\/p>\n
What is the remedy for this kind of situation?\u00a0 I think the remedy is already known to the free software community.\u00a0 OPENNESS<\/strong> in every aspect. Right from choosing the organizers to selecting delegates there must be transparency<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 It is the papers presented\u00a0 and\u00a0 transcripts of the discussions held that matters finally. The future generation will refer to the conference depending on the quality of papers. \u00a0 Good international conferences bring out bound volumes of its proceedings. Most of the\u00a0 conference papers are not free. Look at IEEE <\/a>or ARRL<\/a>.\u00a0 They have lot of knowledge available with\u00a0 them ,but they charge this knowledge . To an extent they are knowledge monopolies. \u00a0 We can call the papers with them\u00a0 as closed source papers.<\/p>\n Being\u00a0 free software community , we\u00a0 should bring out papers presented\/ slides shown immediately after any conference.\u00a0 An abstract can be published even before\u00a0\u00a0 the conference. The abstracts must be scrutinized by experts as well as members of the community.\u00a0\u00a0 If you want to present a paper, some home work must be done. Google can\u00a0 detect cut and paste very well.:D<\/p>\n I was\u00a0 looking at fsfs.in<\/a> website.\u00a0 It has some abstracts but no complete papers or slides. I request the organizers of\u00a0 fsfs.in\u00a0 to publish the papers\/ slides presented.\u00a0 Let the public see how their money was spent. Recently, we had\u00a0 two important free software conferences in Kerala. Both spent a lot of public\u00a0 money on invited talks , exhibitions and other related conference requirement.\u00a0 What is the benefit for general public from such conferences? A typical conference will have limited\u00a0 , say 500\u00a0 delegates. In Kerala, the delegates are often chosen\u00a0 based… Continue reading Free Software Conferences and closed source papers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36,39,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPS .We can emulate \u00a0 Dr. APJ Abulkalam<\/a> for this. He puts\u00a0 his speeches\/papers\u00a0 online as soon as it is deliverd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"