Hi all, I am Pravin. Though I am a regular reader of this group's email, this is the first time I am writing anything to it. So please forgive me if I miss the norm of this group. I just wanted to point out a few patterns that I have been noticing over a period of time and wanted to point that out. 1. Tendency of people to think that FOSS Nepal and this group is there to provide them with free service to fulfill their whims and demands. Let me point out and correct that FOSS Nepal or any individual's help is restricted to doing things that they feel passionately about, not on demand. The word to differentiate here is between "help" and "service". Being a community is to do with "help". Being a company and taking payments is to do with "service". So I hope people feel the attitude of help and move forward. 2. The Love-Hate relationship among OSes and other pieces of software. Somewhere I have been seeing a lot of flames for Microsoft and hate sites being created. Not that I am a proponent of MS (which I have been hating maybe way before some of you all even started school), but I guess we need to concentrate more on the positive side of FOSS. So instead of wasting our valuable energy on hate, lets work on doing the good things. 3. One of the things that I can clearly see that is missing is more development of FOSS products from the Nepali domain. Either I am missing all the development, or people are not exposing their products, but its hard to see even simple softwares from the FOSS domain. I guess one of the things I would want to do and appeal to all the members is to lets start making a list of the simple softwares that we can build to make regular user's lives better. I guess the softwares will have to be something that fits the nepali life and work styles and thought processes. Then some of us can take the challenge of building them. 4. I liked the concept of job search and educational opportunities as offered through the group. All I want to know is if there is any statistics to show how many have applied and how many have got jobs and educational opportunities.
That was long. So I end it here. Pravin -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
