On 6/18/07, Bibek Paudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Prasanna Gautam wrote: > > 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) > > Another typical Kathmanduite voice I have been hearing all my life. > Please let all of us clear it from our head once and for all that > every place outside Kathmandu isn't a rural village. There are places > more just a few kilometers away from Kathmandu that are more backward > than your average Nepalese village. With this limited knowledge and > sick attitude of your own country, Kathmandu is wort being called a > malinformed and maleducated village in itself, with no realistic > understanding of how the country and its people are.
Comparing Kathmandu with New York doesn't make sense. Compare it with > Thimpu or Adis Ababa. Or maybe Lhasa. Yeah.. i was just giving more of a metaphor.. like what wud happen even if the rest of Nepal was also really developed.. still cities like ktm, pokhara, biratnagar will be way more developed. Ok, technically, most of the foss people even here are more from outside origin... but the thing is we have a bit of kathmandu-fied attitude.. it's not about having few people here from other places... i really don't think that every other place is a rural village with hobos.. haha.. heck i'm myself (technically) from bhojpur.. which takes almost 2 days walk from hilley, dhankuta [ok there's plane but i still prefer walking] and there are some interesting things (at least much more interesting in the headquarters) so I do know what's outside these few kilometers.. And, let me make it clear, there are places outside kathmandu (not all > are villages and rural) where people are more aware of things going > around the world and in technology. I realize that there are people outside the valley who are more open to the ideas.. only thing is we all are going in different paths.. some of the people who got me interested in Linux weren't educated in ktm but in pokhara and other places like butwal, etc.. I can only cann it irony that all > of them have to untimately end up in Kathmandu and Kathmanduites > confuse them for being one of their own. There are cities and towns > outside the valley where people study engineering, and do system > administration or programming too. Discussing in a GoogleGroup doesn't > make somebody more aware and at cutting edge than any such guy. Being on the cutting edge means experiencing and perhaps making technologies... instead of being on a forum and bashing MS for sure however fun it is... AFAIK noone (or just very few of us) is doing it.. Being informed is one thing.. but getting stuff done is more important.. Getting to know people doing similar stuff elsewhere will help us do the latter.. Regards, > Bibek > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
