[Tugindia] TUG Meet
Amitabh Trehan
amitabhtrehan at softhome.net
Thu Apr 24 14:32:47 CEST 2003
> I read minutes of a IlugDelhi meeting held at IIT Delhi a few months
> back and noticed that gathering was not impressive. The venue has the
> advantage of having thousands of students and my impression is that
> none of them attended that meeting. IMO, a sad thing :-(
>
> Of course any activity need money, but promotional talks/ lectures
> need to be free.
>
Everything for students is anyways free and the conributions voluntary,
as far as I understand. Unfortunately, not many IIT students are aware
or active in such groups(maybe the tight acad schedule).
> May be thing of commercial vendor supporting such events or TugIndia
> having a commerical wing, who generate money from TeX work and
> development work and a part of thet may be used for promotion of TeX
> and friends.
>
I think user group meets have to be as inexpensive as possible - other
activities of course, need funding.
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