A very encouraging decision i'd say.I've been subscribed to this
mailing list for quite a bit and perhaps this is the first one that
really lifted my hope for a enlightened technical persons in Nepal. I
hope you can come up with a detailed plan soon.Perhaps we'll can muster
enough from the community itself to take this initiative.Thank you, Kapil Raj Nakhwa On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 10:03 +0545, Abhishek Singh wrote: > Dear All, > FOSS Nepal has been doing a lot of FOSS advocacy and > implementation since its inception. But we feel that there needs some > momentum in s/w development side as well. As most of the community > members are aligned towards programming/development, we would like to > explore in this area too. Also that the development would support > local needs (customizations and localization). In order to initiate in > this direction, I would like to propose "Start-Up" sessions. The > concept is as below: > 1. To organize focussed weekly session on various techinical > how-tos. > 2. The programme would be targeted at developing skills in the > trainees. > 3. The programme, as the name suggests, would cater to create > basic technical expertise. > 4. The programme would help at capacity building for the > community members. > 5. The distant goal of this programme would be to create a pool > of people (might be divided into various SIGs, if the number > is large), so as to form a development concern inside the > community. > 6. Also that the programme will host a platform for the community > members to meet and socialize. > I'm currently trying to prepare a detailed project plan for this > concept and your suggestions are not only welcome but highly > encouraged. As we all know that it's a community effort and would be > far from the community spirit without the involvement and feedback > from the community members. > > Thank You. > -- > Abhishek Singh > FOSS Nepal Community > http://wiki.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/
