let me toss some humour....... might be useful if u guys get into REAL meeting!
> Introduction to FOSS Nepal Community > > FOSS Nepal Community is a > nationwide........................... > How many registered members are there in FOSS Nepal Community !? > Demands: > > All electronic documents of the government must be in open document format. > Documents must not be specific to any proprietary format like doc, ppt,... > > All ICT infrastructure in government, telecenters and public offices must be > made free from pirated softwares. Free and Open Source Application must be > made as alternatives. > Don't we all know government has been talking about E-governance, but its reality... To my best knowledge, Government still don't have any plans (*srug* budget) to further educate staffs on essential technology their technical staff already know about. Further more, recommending something and ENFORCING something are two different things. As you guys are using the word "must be", Enforcing something signifies people in government service cant use other other technologies even when REQUIRED. (don't get me wrong). I doubt if its it intelligent to push FOSS as an alternate or else a dead end. Your above point is tooo broad for discussion alone. Example: IBM has build software's for e-governance but that's not FOSS, nor we have alternates. So as many softwares used in Telecom, electricity, planning, water resourse, road etc and it would work BEST but not in FOSS. Second thing one could do is Recommend (which is a week vocabulary in relation to listening and implementing ) > > All the lectures, contents, slides, materials in school level to university > level must be made open. All these resource should be released under any > open content licensing. > ahhh.... different institutions in government are handling these two stuffs. So you guys are bound to bounce between mantralias (logically speaking). Copyrights of authors are difficult maters to deal with. > > Government must establish the research/development center for development of > open source applications, localization, modification. > To carry out research and study in this aspect, an immediate team must be > formed. The team must comprises of FOSS Nepal community representatives >and > government representatives There are more crucial list of priorities. The best thing that could happen is they could put it in CONSIDERATION or in PLANNING. (if one can read the humour within ;) > > Registration of Community must be made possible. Any community must be > allowed to register to the Government of Nepal as a community not an > organization. > Hey, how do government recognize community as "samudiakkk vaan"? Any ideas? > > FOSS Nepal must get government recognition as a nation-wide ICT related > community. > Being able to put forward(register) FOSS Nepal as Organization /or community is the government recognition which is (and should be) equal to all FOSS Nepal like organization. Don't get me wrong... but core members of 'FOSS Nepal' is still yet to do BASIC homework on the above points, isn't it? Do it or it might get tossed in wind like dust. Putting forward something to push a system to another direction is far more complicated than putting up a STRONG and logical point as maaggg, though i understand your sprit within. with regards, -bipin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
