Hello all, my two cents on the matter, Since we rely on the wiki so much, we should have a proper set of guidelines on a wiki that would help someone spawn a new FOSS Community in a place, make it easier for them to name it and also have everything in a democratic fashion.
But, I agree with the points raised above by Avash, and they make sense for us to make sure we belong to a bigger united community. We name it FOSS so that we can stay connected to the whole global community, thus not named Bleh! ;) It would also make us to use FOSS Nepal, Kathmandu so that no one has an identity crisis that FOSS Nepal is just of Kathmandu. Thus, a proper virtual hierarchy. Regards, Avinash On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Nootan Ghimire <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes. I share similar views. > > If the new FOSS communities are "derived from" FOSS Nepal, then they > should be named accordingly. > > I think that's more of the "correct" FOSS culture. > > I don't know what is the procedure to form communities at different > places. But to my understanding, I think there is some sort of talking > between the (conducting) members of FOSS Nepal, and FOSS XYZ. > > It's great to open up different communities on different places. But it's > better if we have some sort of "guidelines" (rather than rules) for new > communities. It will also help those communities in taking shape. > > > Cheers, > Nootan Ghimire > http://nootan.com.np/ > http://cafecod.es/ > > > > On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Avash Mulmi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> Recently we have seen lots of *FOSS Communities* in different parts of >> Nepal. It feels really great to see them. >> >> But, I am not satisfied with two things about the communities. Just >> expressing my views, so feel free to disagree with it, but with proper >> reasons. >> >> 1. >> >> THe namings of the communities are kind of wrong. >> For eg. There is a place called *XYZ*, and a FOSS Community starts in >> that place and the community is named *FOSS XYZ*. >> Instead of naming it *FOSS XYZ* why not name it *FOSS Nepal, XYZ*?? >> There are lots of reasons for this statement. I can explain them >> later if required, but one of the reasons anyone will understand is, we >> who >> live inside Kathmandu haven’t named it *FOSS Kathmandu* till now, we >> go with the name of *FOSS Nepal* because we believe in Unity. >> 2. >> >> Improper edit of FOSS Nepal Logo. >> Same as the previous one. >> I have seen the *Original FOSS Nepal* logo been edited, replacing >> *Nepal* in the logo with the name of the place of that community. >> I am not sure if there is proper guideline for use of FOSS Nepal >> Logo, but it sure violates some of the aspects. >> >> >> - Nepal (A country) has been replaced with certain place. (bleh) >> - Usage of non-matching fonts. >> - Using the Logo with truncation (The rightmost part has been >> truncated in that certain leaflet or brochure or whatever it was. I don’t >> want to attach it in this email right now, but can if needed) >> >> >> I am pretty sure I will get some replies that says, it's an open source >> community, the logo is of Free and Open Source, but that doesn't mean one >> can do whatever he likes with it. Logos and Names are of great values. A >> person as a sensible member should not support misuse of both. >> >> I want to bring those two issues to the community. >> >> May logical answers prevail. >> >> >> Regards >> >> >> -- >> Avash Mulmi >> Open Source Enthusiast >> >> --Support Open Source & Open Web-- >> --Support Mozilla Community-- >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> 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/ >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "FOSS Nepal" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > -- > 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/ > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FOSS Nepal" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- Avinash Kundaliya [email protected] http://avinash.me -- -- 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/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FOSS Nepal" group. 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