On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Abhishek Singh <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 05/19/2011 06:18 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Abishek Dai, We need to start this stuff! i know its not easy at all as the > Kapil dai says, but how will we know until we have tried! I want to give my > full support to you! > > rho > > On 19 May 2011 16:50, Bibek Paudel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Abhishek Singh <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On 05/19/2011 10:43 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> > >> > Date, Time, Venue? >> > >> > On 19 May 2011 09:06, Abhishek Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 05/18/2011 09:48 PM, Kapil wrote: >> >> > 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 >> >> > >> >> Thanks Kapil for your encouraging words. I'll try to come up with the >> >> plan as soon as possible. I'll be working on it on the weekend. We'll >> >> need to decide on a first set (at least 5 sessions) to start with. >> >> >> >> Also that I would like to request everyone to suggest topics that they >> >> would like to have start-up sessions upon. This will help us to >> finalize >> >> a first set of session out of community interest. >> >> >> >> Thank You. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Abhishek Singh >> >> FOSS Nepal Community >> >> http://wiki.fossnepal.org >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> >> I think the proposal is very nice and absolutely commendable. Just a >> suggestion to Avishek: (from my observations) maybe it will not be a >> good idea to start or 'plan things' until a few people share your >> enthusiasm equally. This is certainly very hard for someone to do >> alone, and even with just 'passive participants,' you might only feel >> like having wasted your time later. >> >> However, single person's enthusiasm has achieved a lot of great >> things- and certainly a generalized observation should not deter >> anybody from trying out good things :) >> >> Cheers! >> -b >> >> -- >> 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/ >> > > > > -- > シ ZZZZZZzzzzzzzssshhhhh.............. > -- > 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/ > > Thanks Bibek and "the.nube" for your suggestions/encouragement. By this > thread I'm also trying to access the interest of the community in such > projects. Also to note that most of the enthusiasm in the community remains > unnotices as they do not surface on the mailing list, ;( . Though it would > be a sheer joy if most of the community folks share this enthuse with me. > > @Bibek: I'm even counting on you to run a few sessions (probably online). > Hoping for even a greater participation. > > Yes indeed, the fact remains that there is ample expertise among the community members who subscribe to this list. Also,it would be great if more community members could pour in their views, topics and issues. Looking forward for more deleberations with kind regards, Hempal Shrestha > Thank You. > > -- > Abhishek Singh > FOSS Nepal Communityhttp://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/
