Dear Kath-FOSSinan, Greetings and Goodmorning !!! Good to read your reply. See you in person this morning in your college.
When I was telling you, do charge for the event, you should not mis-understand as if I was telling you to make profit and pay professionals. My strong conviction and experience has shown that people do not value what they get for free of cost (You Know Free Beer !!! Do they value that, at that context?) One more thing, even if you say the program is for free but someone pays for it. Space, Logistics, Tea and Snacks, Electricity etc. If the beneficiaries are not paying some else has to and the movement doesn't go longer that way. I know some commercial companies (should I say name here !!!) charging Rs 200 or Rs 250 for free commercial advertisement in the colleges in the name of Student Partner Stuff [just sucks !!!]. And, your friends are happy to take part as if they are given employment then and there. You know things are good on your part as well, so make it zero cost program and charge them whatever 10/20/30 or anything. Do not give that for free? Else, at the end some of the participants will ask you: How much did FOSS pay you to do this program? What will you answer? Rest is up to you. See you in your college. Regards, Ravi On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Sundip Ranjit <[email protected]>wrote: > > Dear sir, > You are absolutely right sir but The event we are organizing > today is just an introductory event of FOSS and we kept it a free event > because first we need to promote the free and open source software rather > than being just money oriented from the very first phase and there wont be > difference between some other money oriented company and FOSS community . > first we were thinking about charging some amount for the event but we come > to know that most of the juniors didnt have the good knowledge about Open > source and its importance in the professional career. That is the reason > why we kept this first event to spread the Knowledge and importance of FOSS > so that there will be lots of participant in the next training session on > FOSS though they have to pay for the training. > This is just our view and we still students and we think just about > learning than earning in this stage but it may be different in > professionals view and may be in few year we will also have different view > point. > > with regard, > KathFOSS Community > kathford Intl college, balkumari > > > -- > 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/ > -- Ravi Bhattarai, M.Sc. (Information Technology) CEO and Chairman, Axon System. President, ACS, ALB, Kathmandu Toastmasters Club, 8112 Master Trainer, SQC and Secretary, QUEST-Nepal Author: Computer Text Books for Megha Publication Advocate and Supporter: FLOSS Movement Consultant: ERP and ICT Deployment -- 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/
