Hi Apurva, Nice to hear from you. Good to know about your keen interest in promoting FOSS.
As you can see in this mailing list, it is a big voluntary effort that is promoting FOSS here in Nepal. Big company like yours, which does business by promoting and providing support for a FOSS based product can do really lot to help these voluntary efforts. Many people are afraid to embrace FOSS just because they can't see big names like Micro$oft. It is obvious, people always go for brand names. Also they feel some sort of security when they see a big company name behind what they own - whether it is software or motorcycle or fridge or TV or whatever it is. Part of the reason is that they feel secure because they think that they will be getting support from that company, should they get problem. Novell is a big company. Of late, with acquiring companies like SuSe, Novell is also into the "support" business. When people see big companies like Novell ready to provide support, more and more can embrace FOSS. May be, most people in Nepal wouldn't have heard about Novell - as against M$. But many technical people and the volunteers you see on this list would know. Since it is also a business opportunity for you, I would suggest you to more actively support such activities like the SFD celebrations being planned in KTM and the one being planned by GCES in Pokhara, etc., which aims to promote FOSS in the market. You can support by sponsoring (financially), by providing pressed OpenSUSE CDs to be distributed to interested people, by providing printed user manuals(which you normally ship with boxed distros), by supporting/sponsoring weekly/monthly events by FOSS communities in different places, and so on. Hope to hear more from you. regards, Prasanna David PS. Just for your information, some of our students use SUSE in their home computers. But I have to add that it is a little bit resource hungry (like Fedora core, etc.) and not very good on slightly older computers with less memory. On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 02:31 -0700, Apurva wrote: > Dear Mr. Prasanna David, > > I drive the Suse Linux business for Novell in Nepal and am based in > India. I have been going through some of the FOSS activities that you > have been supporting in Nepal. > > I would be keen to hear from you on how could we help you promote Linux > and Open Source in that market. > > You might want to look at www.opensuse.org which is our effort for > offering free Linux. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FOSS Nepal" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
