Wow. this is turning out to be quite a long and interesting thread. I have come across a lot of people from outside the valley who are perhaps more familiar with the ground realities of Nepal than most of us and are really enthusiastic in getting technologies there yet suffering from the same legacy attitude that we have been discussing here for the simple reason that most people just don't know FOSS in those areas. Whatever we say, there are still very few people (ok compared to more active groups) regularly participating in mailing list discussions even those from KTM and from the more technologically aware group; it's unlikely that people elsewhere will spontaneously be motivated to come here and discuss.
On 6/18/07, Elile Warrior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > what the immediate need for the developement foss movement in a good > pace in a homogenous manner throughout nepal then we need to develop a > plateform which is available to all ppl who are interested throughout > th nation and make sure the plateform doesnt suck.. homogeniety is unachievable all over nepal in a similar fashion that New York is always the hub of new things even though US is so advanced.. so we need to focus on getting people involved.. because a single minded ambition for homogeneity will rather hamper growth in the long run. If we can draw up a line over what we want to achieve beyond KTM, it can be more practical. We, at kathmandu want to be on the very cutting edge but the same can't be said true for a person in a rural village (heck most of them don't even have basic technological pre-requisite in place) 1. The point that FOSS enthusiastic people outside ktm are very less > can not be derived from the point that there is less posting from > people outside kathmandu. yeah.. point taken. yet the thing is in most places (where people are really motivated in these things) FOSS is still an unknown topic. We don't need to focus on villages just yet. A lot of "NGOs" are doing that for years.. and it doesn't seem to have succeeded that much (so IMO.. the approach has failed.. we need a new one).. just look at FOSS enthusiasts from places like pokhara who don't get decent distros that easy... or have a discussion platform like this.. or monthly FKK.. even a documentation can do a lot good for fellow fossians there and perhaps bring in more interaction. 2. Gmail/G-group doesnt open in many cyber outside ktm due to very low > bandwidth YEAH... I can't assert it more enough. Even a year ago, I was using a 19.2Kbps internet at home (hail the glorious lynx) and suffered this quite bad. 3. Many people dont know that such community/mailing list is there and > it doesnt suck .I think we ppl are clear what i mean by the word > 'suck' here. yeah... I didn't get the last sentence.. 4.All the foss activity focused inside kathmandu . > > we just need to change thw way we are working and shud be able to > attract more people to express than the thing going now ... Yeah.. as I said before.. don't do what everyone's doing for years because if it was the right way, we'd not be having this discussion about disparity in involvement... > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
