Hello, I am from Kathmandu Engineering College. I have been in this mailing list for the last 3 years or so, and have always been interested in and been excited about the various events being conducted by various college FOSS communities. When I admitted to KEC I came with a hope that there too is a thriving FOSS community. Sadly, I was wrong. There was no visible FOSS activity in the college.
So, last semester I decided to take things into my own hand. I started out by opening a Facebook group and inviting people over (through friends and the college confession page, since this was during a vacation). I assumed that there already are plenty people motivated towards FOSS, and the only thing missing was a common platform. We have since conducted two events (actually it was the same event "An Intro to Linux," the first one was cut short by lack of power so we had to do it again), but I was faced by a striking lack of participation, in the organizing side. I hoped that there will be plenty of people wanting to help out or at least start a conversation on the group, there were none. At the end it was just me and a couple of my friends. Some suggest that it is because we do not have an organizational structure and membership like a club and that we should register as a club. I never wanted it to be a club, I was hoping it would just be a common place for like-minded people to talk and maybe meet up and do some stuff. We need some advice. What should we be doing? What are we doing wrong? I thought maybe it is a lack of general knowledge of and motivation towards FOSS, so am planing to conduct an Introduction to FOSS seminar next week, aiming at first and second years'. I would also appreciate advice on what things to cover in that. Also, it is our turn to conduct the "FOSS ka kura" this month and we do intend to conduct it (probably during the last week of November). -- Thanks Shreya Dahal -- -- 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.
