On Thursday, 26 June 2008 at 12:33:37 +0000, Ricky Shrestha wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > This is my first post to FOSS Nepal. > > I have been reading the posts that I receive in my email everyday and the > discussions are very interesting. I have always thought that Open Source > Software is most useful for countries like ours where affording a single > license for Windows may mean emptying your bank accounts. I really appreciate > the work you guys are doing. > > I live in the UK and working as a programmer. I recently finished my degree > (BEng) in Computing from Imperial College London. No, No, I am not british. > Well, I am of nepali origin and lived in Nepal until the age of 15. I come to > Nepal quite often (at least once a year, but this year its gonna be a third > time). If I can be of any help, I will feel very lucky. > > Once concern I have is that almost all the posts I have seen so far are > regarding Linux and mainly, Ubuntu, Fedora and Red Hat. Why is that? There > are a lot of other very good open source software to talk about. To metion > one, it would be my favourite RDBMS, PostgreSQL?
As the saying goes, "necessity is the mother of invention". Lot of the foss-nepal supporters hail from academia (students) and volunteers (partimers+enthusiasts+professionals) and not necessarily from the commercial sector (programmers+cio+cto etc..). Now, students and learners _in general_ do not use pgsql or say do load balancing or say run wifi mesh. ;) I bet they are all happening in Nepalese commercial sector behind the closed door but not being discussed here in the mailing list. That's one reason afaik why we do not hear people in this list talking about are opensource software (for e.g., high-availability market or web programming market). The discussion plays around common denominator or shall we say "common" topic that is understandable by everyone be it programmer, cto, doctor, student or shopkeeper etc. If anyone want to discuss about open source software and programming, they should join libnepal google groups. http://groups.google.com.au/group/libnepal. It's a group that's been running for a while now and runs especially for discussing programming and technical stuffs. -- cheers #define HIGH 0xcoffee
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