Dear Hempal dai,

Sorry for not being able to make it to the meeting.

We can go with Sushil's design.

Let me clarify on webmaster's issue. I was going to propose we hire a part
time webmaster on hourly basis. So webmaster works like 2 / 3 hours in a
week and gets paid for 10 to 12 hours a month. We won't be spending a hell
lot of money dai. Its just a small bounty and a way to have a dependable
person to maintain a website. However, the website content should only be
updated as guided by the core team.

I have been hiring students on this hourly schemes in other projects and it
really works for them. It could also work for other professionals.

Answering Aayush's comment!
Its of course a good thing that volunteers handle the website and we had
tried it in past (since 2007) but when we depend on volunteers, a small
change in website took us weeks if not months. Having a virtual team is not
a problem, we should have a team to guide the contents but we need a person
who is available whenever we need to update the website.









On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:32 PM, art_tuladhar <[email protected]>wrote:

> I am not a very big fan of adding monetary value for developing the
> website. I know there hasn't been a great level of governance to the
> structure of the website, but adding money as a driving force doesn't seems
> to click to me and I believe it's not sustainable as well. I am not very
> much familiar with the FOSS Nepal community but just proving my personal
> opinions. There should be better option rather than hiring somebody for
> part time for maintaining the website.
>
> I think there should be a virtual core team that should handle the
> website. And I agree with Dhruba's concern with the design.
>
> ~ Aayush
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, August 26, 2013 12:40:22 AM UTC-5, sagun dhakhwa wrote:
>
>> I think we need to start discussing on how do we intend to use
>> fossnepal.org in coming days.
>>
>> My Proposal (please populate more)
>>
>> 1. Activities of FOSS NEPAL
>> 2. Education on FOSS (issues like what is foss, how to foss, where to
>> foss and so on)
>> 3. Software Collection Listing (Nirvikalpa or similar)
>> 4. Listing of Nepali FOSS Initiatives and Projects
>> 5. News
>> 6. Events
>> 7. Trainings
>> 8. Programs
>> 9. Volunteer / Get Involved
>> 10. a knowledge base of Nepali FOSS for users and developers (like
>> stackoverflow) or forum
>> 11. IRC
>> 12. WIKI
>>
>> now the question will come should we continue with media wiki and spend
>> some money on just creating a theme? or should we try once more to make a
>> website in joomla or drupal or similar.
>>
>> my opinion: we should continue to use media wiki and make a new theme for
>> it because we want to continue using wiki as a platform.
>>
>> workflow:
>>
>> step 1 : call designers to send a design proposal
>> step 2: choose a design  (this time chosen designer gets paid)
>> step 3: call for creating theme for media wiki bids
>> step 4: choose the best bidder and hand over the work
>> step 5: call a job opening for web master (part timer  but paid and
>> someone from the Nepali FOSS community)
>> step 6: choose the best candidate and continue working
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:52 PM, sushilthe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey there,
>>>
>>> I have made a wiki 
>>> page<http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Change_13_A_powerful_FOSS_Nepal_website>for
>>>  the website. Take a look at it and suggest your ideas. The time frames
>>> are particularly important.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Sushil Dahal
>>>
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