Hi, all its pleasure to see the post and read comments on NepaLinux and its future perspective.
First off all, almost all of the people in FOSS Nepal community and especially in mailing list are technical.They use much more fine distro such as Mac,Ubuntu , Fedora and Suse. They rarely use NepaLinux as they never need it, I mean they can have their work done without NepaLinux. The FOSS Nepal Community the majority of which are technical persons are not the target groups of NepaLinux.Its the individual liberty of technical people to use which distro, The concern is who are the target audience of NepaLinux and how to give continuity to future release cycle. If we fail to decide about its continuity, NepaLinux will only be in history. :( So, its the crucial time for MPP to decide the fate of NepaLinux and respect the hard efforts that the developers provided into it so far. It should not be the path led by a boat in the lake. As Ankur pointed FOSS Nepal can be involved in its development, If so, being their product, their would be a lot of idea towards further release cycle and its deployment. Then, there will not be even a single day, where NepaLinux is not discussed in the mailing list. >, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:49 PM, प्रबीण ( ओपन ठिटो ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > Good to see inputs and efforts/ feedback being provided to Nepalinux. > As a member of Nepalinux developement team for the latest release 3.0, I > thank you all for the feedback. > > Most of the things mentioned in this thread by our dear community members > are already been taken to the discussion within Nepalinux team meeting. > Some of the things like: > 1. involving FOSS Community somewhere in development cycle. > 2. Taking Nepalinux beyond valley > > The team was really positive on the issues but then the development and > release schedule was fixed. > > Lets come to present... Now 3.0 is released. > > I am not aware of MPP's plan for its further development. Bal Krishna Ji or > basanta dai can say something here in this regard. If we can involve FOSS > Nepal for its development........ > > Now MPP is focussed on deployment of Nepalinux around the country. May be > MPP and FOSS Nepal can go together in this. > LTSP enabled Nepalinux has opened doors of schools in rural part to get to > them. > > FOSS Nepal has already taken some steps in this matter like: distribution of > Nepalinux DVD to rural telecentre's participants in the training held on 3rd > july at TITI, Thimi; and now we are distributing and giving training on FOSS > and Nepalinux to Govt. IT persons of all ministries on coming monday at > HLCIT. > > Lets do it and do it more. > > > > On 7/9/08, Ankur Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> How can I keep myself from replying this thread :) , and I am using >> "English language" to advocate on Nepali Linux. >> I don't agree on saying that its language is hard, the fact is we take >> everything for granted. See me as an example, I can ofcourse write in >> Nepali, but why am I using english here, because I can type faster in >> english and my keyboard is english typefaced (I have bad habit of >> see-typing). The blame is me but I can blame either my keyboard or steep >> learning curve (not so hard, but learning new thing is always harder). Over >> that our education taught us almost all meaning of "application" but failed >> to teach us "अनुप्रयोग". Nepalinux is definitely one cool distro, but about >> last two versions when I inserted on my cdrom gave me two problem, 1st took >> abt 5min to boot and resolution was seriously screwed up. 2nd didn't even >> boot up(CD I got at release event). Sorry I didn't complained then. Lets >> leave that away and let me present few ideas we can fire up to make this >> thread topic extinct. >> 1) FOSS Nepal: Lets involve FOSS Nepal seriously in development of distro, >> If nepalinux gotta board or something then officially including member from >> FOSS will be a great start. We can induce all ongoing mailing list activity >> directly in FOSS Nepal list with [Nepalinux] tag. We can discuss and embrace >> nepalinux within FOSS Nepal and introduce FOSS Nepal to external relation, >> Advertisement etc. >> 2) Routine: Lets have a standard routine for development of next version, >> It can include feature discussion, beta releases, feature freeze and release >> clients of the distro. Say, we can start with ubuntu and work all the way >> round, doing this we can more or less sync with its release cycle and more >> generic bugs are not of our much headache. Build timeline, bug filing >> mechanism, cool codenames :) and occasional coffee guff with few developers >> can be a great turnout too. If where is code? whats going on? where do i get >> myself involved? type of question can be answered then wouldn't it be great >> !! So starting launchpad or version tracker could be a great idea. >> 3) Participation: Lets divide atleast few subtopics like "system", >> "artwork", "language" and "testing". If there is such team already, its >> activity can be opened through different channels like mailing lists and >> wiki. I feel If we have place to input and know whats going on and over that >> if we can test beta versions on our machines, the system will be more cool, >> usable and stable and contextualize too. >> 4) Culture: with all difference if we can start using nepalinux and input >> our ideas and suggestion hence, setting up a culture and being proud of >> using NEPALI distro with NEPALI feel and warmth. have a wallpaper with >> sagarmatha at top, swyambhu and pasupati by side of winding hills and green >> field of crops down that with shining Sun and Moon over himalayas , menus >> and tags reflecting same language that made us famous for our hospitality >> (simple, sweet and precise), wouldn't it be great, won't you love to get >> involved and help Nepalinux achieve this height ?? >> 5) lets start now......... >> Ankur >> On Jul 9, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Ujjwol लामिछाने[UNIX] wrote: >> >> म पनी ज्वलन्त दाईको कुरा मा पुरा समर्थन जनौछु | म एउटा फोसनेपालको >> मेम्बर भएको नाताले म नेपालीनक्स त्येती बेला चलौछु जब मैले येस्लाई >> आफैले बनेयोको हुन्छु | तेसैले कम्युनिटीको बिकाशले बनेको डिस्ट्रोमा >> सबैको सहभागिता को जरुरी छ | >> what i mean is that: >> being a member of foss-nepal i never got to involved in the >> development of the Nepalinux >> the font in next case is the worst and in browser also it seems bad | >> no smmothing in firefox (only smooth font are displayed in safari >> works) >> and translation is done for string not for tone and sentence >> that's all what i got to say >> >> >> _Ujjwol >> GNU Boi >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Prabin Gautam "ओपन ठिटो" > Registered Linux User #443940 > letS makE ouR streeT FOSSible.......... > > > -- daya, "A candle doesn't lose anything by lighting another" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
