Thanx Pravin sir for sharing your views with us.
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Pravin Raj Joshi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > Indeed a good idea. We already have some utilities and tools which can be helpful in many ways. But am afraid all are not in Nepali domain. To my knowledge, there are : - firefox addons for 1. nepali input by suvash, 2. nepali spelling checker by jwalanta; - Terminal tool for websms by suraj - software to draw lottery by Jwalanta - Unicodify by MPP and someone else, I am sorry I forgot the name(i think 2 products) - and may be more... These tools are still scattered. Since a long time, I was thinking of putting the link of these tools in our wiki but never did. There is a section in wiki homepage as FOSS Nepal Products: where Nirvikalpa is lying alone. If we can call these tools as FOSS Nepal Products, I am more than happy to add there. 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]<foss-nepal%[email protected]> > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ Cheers -- --------------------------------------------- Prabin Gautam M.Sc. Computing The University of Northampton Northamptonshire, UK -- 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/
