Hello SM,
Thank you for participating in the Panel discussion at my request. I
confirm neither MIU nor LUGM were part of the Panel Discussion.
It is unfortunate that a friendly banter is being blown out of proportions
this much. Especially after the person complaining about censorship was
allowed to comment later, multiple times during the same panel discussion.
We started late because of delays due to logistics arrangement and we tried
to keep conversations in context to avoid wasting any more time.
Unfortunately the Panel ended 20 minutes late, but the room was still full
and people seemed engaged till the end. Also, I completely removed one of
the topics "The importance of social media" to save time. Did I censor
myself? :)
I'm sure we can learn from this first panel discussion at the Developer's
Conference and improve thereon.
Thanks and Regards,
*RAMGOLAM Sandeep*
On 2 April 2017 at 11:00, Shelly Hermia Bhujun <shelly_hermia_at_hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear SM,
>
> Thank you for providing this explanation. Indeed, I attended that
> discussion and I can confirm that at no moment the Mauritius Internet Users
> was mentioned.
>
> The panel discussion was not one that was organized or hosted by the
> Mauritius Internet Users. Prior to panel discussion, there was no mention
> of any such topic on the mailing list. The only discussion that was brought
> up on the list regarding the Developers Conference 2017 has nothing to do
> with the panel discussion.
>
> Your participation as a co-host should be regarded as your personal
> involvement and not that of the Mauritius Internet Users.
>
> Kind regards,
> Shelly Hermia Bhujun
>
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> ------------------------------
> *From:* mauritius-internet-users-bounce_at_lists.elandnews.com <
> mauritius-internet-users-bounce_at_lists.elandnews.com> on behalf of S
> Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, April 2, 2017 2:35:24 AM
> *To:* mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com
> *Cc:* Tejas Nirvan Pagooah; Loganaden Velvindron
> *Subject:* Re: LUGM & MIU Accusations
>
> Hello,
>
> I was contacted by the Secretary of LUGM about a twitter
> message. I'll provide some background information. A week ago, I
> was contacted by Mr Ramgolam to co-host a panel about web
> development. One of the topics which the panel was scheduled to
> discuss about was "How to face a technical interview?" In my
> opinion, a discussion about that topic would be helpful to university
> students as it is a step which they have to go through to be hired
> for a job. Mr Ramgolam and I spent three hours going over the
> details for the panel.
>
> The panel discussion was held yesterday. During that discussion, Mr
> Velvindron was given the microphone as he wanted to make a
> comment. After listening to the comment for approximately ten
> seconds, I decided that Mr Velvindron's comment sounded more like
> marketing and that there wasn't enough time to let a person from the
> audience do that. For what it is worth, I also cut off some of the
> panel members and some other persons in the audience as there wasn't
> sufficient time for us to cover all the topics which was scheduled
> for discussion. It seems that Mr Velvindron viewed that as
> censorship from the Mauritius Internet Users. I suggest that anyone
> interested in the matter read the all the slides for that
> session. It is highly unlikely that you will find the Mauritius
> Internet Users mentioned as I did not participate as a representative
> of the Mauritius Internet Users. There is a video recording of the
> session. It is unlikely that you will see or hear any reference to
> this group in that video.
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
>
>
Received on Sun Apr 02 2017 - 08:39:13 PST