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FSOSS and their talk its talks somehow conflicted with some of my ideas that I was having for the open source community. First of all, I used to think that there is only one open source community exists. But, when I attended some talks, especially above mentioned abovetwo talks, I came to realise that the whole open source community is made of small open source communitycommunities. Everybody is totally different from each other just to accomplish the single goal- the goal of free software and open source development. Just an example : Mozilla corporation is providing free software and their source code to make the web faster, safer and reliable. Similarly, Fedora people are providing free operating system to run machinessystems. In short, both are making the software world free and open for all users.  Secondly, Dan’s talk introduced me to the topic of Debian effect. Dan was denying the existence of the Debian effect in the Thunderbird community. But, I am having a strange feeling that Thunderbird community is also affected by Debian effect because nothing is perfect in the world. The way some people argued in the room created a negative feeling for the effect. One thing I learned from the Debian effect is to do my part in the community ignoring what others are doing. After attending Greg's talk, I became his fan. I think that he is having the most clear concept for the open source community. Until today, I was just assuming that free softwares are better. And the major reason why it is better is "it is FREE". Users do not need to pay for it. In addition, he showed features vs. contributors graph. The graph showed the growth in features for the open source products till infinity. However, there is no growth in the copyright products after certain amount of time due to financial limitations. In addition, Greg's talk give me an open minded vision looking into the community which focuses more on the contributors rather than community itself.