Thanks Hempal Dai for your suggestions and ideas. I agree with you. we can be partners with institutes. Before that I think we should play a role of mentors for interested companies and individuals by collaborating with HLCIT, NITC and IT corporate sector on building a standard that we will adopt in Nepal. Would we go to BSD styles, CC styles , Mozilla styles or Apache sytle or combination of all. What would be standards ? There are millions of them, which one to adopt. I think FOSS Nepal should start thinking about these issues seriously.
We have already passed the phase of informing people what FOSS can do . Now its high time to prove what we said are true. Now we have a good relations with all the sectors in IT field in Nepal, I think its just the perfect time for starting a plan on how to go about certifications. I am very much impressed by online community certification like javablackbelt.com. We can start a new step towards foss certification in different fields like ( system admin, programming, general office works, gov office work, corporate world, banking, agriculture, education, hospitals, u name it ..) that we require. It hasn't been done in any country yet but we can do it with our own innovation. If everyone agrees Subir dai and Hempal dai, I think you should call a meeting and form a task force for certification. Apart from certification, if anyone comes up with a serious business model, I can share him/her my ideas on how to go about it. Who knows we can work out some investments as well. Big guys in IT sector all over the world (including Nepal) are always eager to find new ways to invest. We need comments and feedbacks on this by corporate seniors in our community like Rajesh Sir. Anyways that was my reflection on Hempal Dai's post. On Feb 17, 2008 10:13 AM, Hempal Shrestha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Great Sagun and Ekta, for your wonderful understanding about FOSSism. > > As Mr. Abhinandan from UMN at Migration workshp at St. Xaviers' had > said "There is nothing like COMPLETE Migration" when he was talking > about the email client category, and I do agree with him in a way. I > think there always lies a line of boundary. You can increase the > domain of Free and Open Source Software with your positive > contribution and support, but that won't necessarily mean that you > will be completely wiping out the existence of the other. Infact this > is about users' choice and Freedom. What i would re-enforce is that > there is a strong need for building your own strength and support to > the users who are motivated to exercise their freedom. > > So, Sagun, you idea of FOSS business model for Nepal is very timely > and extremely important. FOSS Nepal could be a good place to sow seed > for these initiatives. And we can see that there will be many > opportunities. Even Incubation projects like Fortune Cookie Ventures > Pvt Ltd launched to develop ICT sector Refer: > (http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00930.html) > would be one good possibilities. > > Just as a next strategy, why not FOSS Nepal joins hands with training > institute like Computer point and others which provides Linux training > to plan out something really concrete business model?? Just sowing > some seeds :) > > Best > > HS > > > > On 2/16/08, Sagun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bishwo, good to read about mpp using windows. > > > > but you shouldn't forget that FOSS is just another business model as > > proprietary solutions. But in Nepal no one is coming forward with a > business > > plan based on FOSS. We , FOSS Nepal, should incubate those entrepreneurs > who > > want to give business solutions based on FOSS to enterprises. But it > seems > > like, we have 100s of FOssians but no one daring enough to start a > > commercial FOSS company. > > > > i am not being skeptical about foss but after coming to Europe i have > > realized this: FOSS is yet another way to exploit developers from > > developing countries to get the desired software built by developers in > > developing countries for free from companies and people in developing > > countries as a supervisors. and note one thing, very very developers in > > developed countries work on FOSS software for free. They all have > business > > motive behind. > > > > Whereas I am glad in our country we do it as volunteers for livelihood > and > > better of society, villages and people. But despite of that you > shouldn't be > > like Richard Stallman, one shouldn't force sb to use FOSS only just > because > > the organization is working in FOSS. Its once's choice. I have been into > > FOSS actively for 6 years now but I still use windows at times because > my > > wifi doesnt work in windows at times. > > For me the most important thing is getting the work done and right now I > > cant afford to learn how to make linux drivers while I have a deadline. > > > > If you or anyone can give a cheap business solution based on linux and > > support organisations like mpp or any other commercial companies for > doing > > their day to day life cheaper than windows with full support, then I can > > promise you no one will use windows. So I would like to ask all others > who > > are willing to, to start advocating about licensing in software and > think > > about commercial services in FOSS. > > > > > > > > On Feb 14, 2008 6:05 AM, bishworaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hey guys, do you know which operating system does Madan puraskar > > > pustakalaya Uses? > > > I was shocked to see windows XP running on their desktop, at the > > > reception desk, as i went there to get a Nepalinux DVD. > > > Dunno what was the purpose but it really disappoints Nepalinux fans > > > and sends a bad signal to potential users. > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Warm Regards, > > S Dhakhwa > > > > > > > > > > > -- Warm Regards, S Dhakhwa --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
