Thanks Everyone, On 18/10/2008, Subir Pradhanang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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.
I guess Bibek is right here. 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. We here in Dharan have started a new campaign. We are looking to FOSSify schools here in Dharan. Abish has done a presentation in Depot School Dharan, last Sunday. With him Khem was also involved. Our main problem here is the involvement not as a participant but as a leader. We lack leaders here. Don't know how to improve this yet! 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... Great Idea indeed. we will always welcome this sort of coordination and support. I think people here would like to involve in some of the above given fields. I will inform them and I don't know but we have to create some sort of architecture that works. (Not hierarchial -- I am always misinterpreted here! :P ) This architecture should be virtual and online as offline and stationed system would be costly. And also it would be hard for guys here to stick to a fixed time for some sort of work, as internet is not so reliable here. :-( Let's Brainstrom! Cheers, Cheers! Subir Tushar > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
