FOSSMeet 2023: The brazen indifference for Free Software, because people think Something Else is more important.
After an afternoon replete with good food, coconut juice, tropical heat and exhaustion, we went to the venue at NIT Calicut. As we waited for the microphones to be set up for the keynote, I had a chat with the soon-retiring professor who helped conceive FOSSMeet. He helped revive this edition of the conference after a three-year gap, and also had a part in the Free Software revolution in Kerala, which saw schools and government departments adopt Free Software...