--- On Thu, 12/3/09, Pravin Raj Joshi <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Pravin Raj Joshi <[email protected]> > Subject: [foss-nepal] From Pravin > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 7:13 AM > 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. Yes this is very important point. What we can do collecting our efforts. make a project to develop content in Nepali domain. I am always ready to do some volunteer work. Either you think service or help. This job can create a pace to FOSS Nepal even to bargain with Government too. Laxmi 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/ > -- 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/
