That's a beautiful and helpful recommendation. The thing we fell is for someone to do the work so we can benefit it. It's human nature. What i would suggest is making alliance with HSI's and Universities. May be we can just provide knowledge, resources and suggestion to students who make their own software/applications. I realize that this has been discussed earlier but i regret to inform that i hadn't been active since 2008 due to heavy projects and work.
Like while i was in university i wanted to make a web site to start with, so i tried hard core php but i later realized why i don't make a localize software that at least helps someone. Website will be dull in like 2 months but a software remains for all those who needs it, especially a localized version. But i had no one who guide me, it was my bad i never asked for one though. I went in many online community looking for answers and trying different programming language (ya some of my friends though i was a weirdo because of what i was trying). We have experience and we have the capability to nurture and guide a rookie/professional in creating a F/LOSS localized software which will benefit him as well as the community. Most of the students are very happy with the coolness of proprietary software. I have witness it myself while i was in University. We should try and change their thinking. Like what RMS once said 'with proprietary software, the computer does what the software owner wants it to do, not what the user wants it to do. ‘ May be this kind of advocacy as well as some support from the community will make him migrate to the ethical world. I lost all my programming skills over the years, to be honest i haven't been programming since mid 2008 and the last language i used was coldfusion which i already ate lol. But hopefully after my thesis ends i can get on track. I have been wanting to learn a hacker skills. Fell free to advice me in any ways :) Open Heart, Open Mind Pravab On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 2:11 AM, pravin joshi <[email protected]> wrote: > I share the same issue as Prabin's and Pravab's. But I would like to > add some caution to anything that we do. We need a more focused and > well-thought off working mechanism for long term sustainability of the > work that we put in. > As everyone knows there has been a lot of effort over the past years, > where people have put in a lot of effort and lot of quality work has > been done. The efforts continues as off today and will continue in the > future. There are few aspects I would like to point out. > > 1. Publisizing FOSS efforts --- whether it be of individuals or a > group. This is the activitist work. This requires effort, but efforts > so far have not been as successful as we have wanted it to be. We will > need to sit down and talk seriously on how to take this forward. But > one thing this effort will require is proof and this proof can only be > got from our efforts in documentation. > > 2. Sustainable Documentation --- we need to work out a strategy to be > able to maintain a link with all the efforts that have been > documented. Also to make sure that all events and efforts of the FOSS > community are documented in the future. Prabin's headings are good. > Maybe we need to follow that. Also we need to encourage everyone to > help with documentation in whatever form, articles, blogs, papers, > presentations, animations, videos, etc... Just to get an idea I > searched for FOSS Nepal on youtube. Everything I get is atleast 2 > years old. > > 3. Futher works --- As I feel, the efforts of FOSS community in Nepal > is slacking these days. Looking at the mailing list itself, the > activities are quick reduced. I know and understand that everyone has > to earn their bread and butter. But that effort for the greater good > has also got to be kept in momentum. There are three core areas where > a lot of our effort has to be concentrated. This is all my thinking > and it may not be what others are thinking. One is in the area of > problem solving --- localizing, making softwares to solve Nepal's > problems and creating content. In this FOSS community has to work as a > core support provider. FOSS community should not develop. It should > help, support and nourish individuals and groups to develop. For this > FOSS community should provide trainings, resource materials repository > and project support. Second area is the activist work --- preaching > and propagating FOSS including documentation that Prabin and others > discussed before. Third is having a prominent and permanent structure > of FOSS community. > > Please let's keep this discussion alive, until we come to a roadmap to > move ahead. > > -- > 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/ > -- Smiles, Pravab -- 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/
