Fri, 27 Nov 2009

Santiago

I've just got back from the JJTT irislibre in Santiago de Compostela.
I went because our coordinator cannot continue in the position and someone needed to be there. And that 'someone' well, it's me.

It has to be the worst JT that I have attended so far. Only three of us were there, but there were however 30 people present. That makes 28 people present who were interested (to some degree), but had no idea of our work to date or our future plans.

I didn't go to make a presentation to strangers but to work with our group.

So, where does this leave us? I don't know. We've had a really bad year with almost no contribution and I (and others) begin to question our 'designated' purpose.

The whole free software movement en the spainsh universities is taking a nasty turn. While the individual groups are working well, we have not achieved (in most cases) any respect or consideration from the instituion. Personal intereses impede the grass root changes I believe in. Universities outsource to 'open source' sales people. These are all bad signs for us.
I fear that if these trends continue, we will have lost the opportunity to make _real_ change.

Let's see how the next six months go.

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