Hi everyone, On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Bibek Paudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, lets discuss here in this mailing list itself about what things > could be done by us, you, me and others. What can you commit to, and > who else you can engage and if or not you want others to help in your > work and all that. Or if you/I don't have any specific idea, let's > wait for someone to come up with one and then we can get involved to > work towards implementing that.
Spot on, Bibek! I am sure where the discussion was leading earlier, but let's think in positive terms. The big question is how to make the community sustainable, what we can do for its continuity, how to get more people involved -> THE WAY AHEAD. I've always believed that it should not depend on an individual or a group of individuals, although it does revolve around certain group of people. Individuals come for their own purpose and go (for whatever reason/interest they had come for!), but the community must remain, it must be self-running. The show must go on no matter who leaves on the half-way. What we must also remember: Easier said than done! The community members must come forward themselves, contribute and be counted. No one would stop them from doing anything, but we must show them how they could contribute. Most of the time, what's happening is lots of people show interest in doing something, but when it's time to deliver, lot of them don't even show up! Therein lies the biggest problem!! Maybe our weakness as well! Now to come to the point, we must develop a mechanism by which the current members as well as the new potential ones could contribute. As per my chats with Bibek and Dadhiram, I would like to propose the following teams/working groups: 1. Web Team (needs to be revamped big time!) - KU 2. Artwork Team - Abhishek 3. College Coordination Committee 4. Admin/Finance Team - Dadhiram 5. Curriculum Team 6. LTSP Team - Pulchowk/KU 7. Technical (mostly Linux-related) team 8. Localization - Ankur 9. FKK - Pulchowk Campus (Jitendra) 10. Newsletter - Pulchowk Campus 11. Nirvikalpa - Prabin/Suraj/NCIT College 12. Prasfutan - Bibek Paudel 13. Media/PR 14. Coordination/Planning This is just a rough idea that came to our minds and has been in our thoughts for quite a long time. Each team/group will have a Team Lead/Co-Lead (optional) and all of them would be in the Overall Coordination Team. Let us discuss on it in more detail in the days to come and come up with a conclusion as to how we could make the community going. Whoever is interested in whichever group/team, please come forward, get involved, take responsibility and contribute in whatever way you can. Regarding Training Center at Brihaspati, let's hear from Shishir and others who are preparing a concept note. One more important thing that's coming in my mind is how we could get the community members from outside Kathmandu valley. Let's brainstorm! I know they could get involved in some/all of the above teams, but let's be more specific. Tushar, what's your take on this? Can we have something like dharan.fossnepal.org or fossnepal.org/dharan or something like that so that they could directly get involved with the site and other activities in the near future? Just a thought... Cheers, Subir --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
