charging money just to cover half or quarter of the expenses if not full, and not for profit making is not a bad idea.
Notice how students are eager to pay money for that Stu(dent)pid Partner Stuff?? Is it because they have the name of a big company flashing on their head?? Everything else properly said by Rabi ji. See you in the college. Regards On 12/15/12, Rabi Bhattarai <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ph ase 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/ > -- Avash Mulmi Support Mozilla Project :) @avashz http://www.facebook.com/avasz -- 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/
