Dear Shreya, Great, thanks for sharing the challenges you are going through and tireless efforts you are taking on to pursue what you value for. My kudos to your passion and dedication.
We did had FOSS Community in KEC since very early as 2005-2006. Your college was very active as well and we had few series of LTSP training over there as well. Your college management is very well aware and supporting towards FOSS and its various initiatives. However, what we are lacking is a team effort and a passing on leadership baton to younger batches properly. A regular kind of meetup and activities would be the one of most useful approach to make it happen. FOSS Ka Kura, for November would be good. Please go ahead with the planning what is best suited for your management, electricity and other stuffs, And I am sure, we will have some other passionate FOSSians to join you in your college. I hope you can lead the discussion as what we can present in this FOSS Ka Kura. Learning from your email, the students at KEC are new to FOSS, so a very Introductory session will also be very useful. There are other topics in the Wiki of FKK listed as well. With kind regards Hempal Shrestha With kind regards, Hempal Shrestha FOSS Solutions : A Knowledge Collaboration Enterprise G.P.O Box: 5501 1753 Ramshah Path, Near Nepal Share Market, Putalisadak, Kathmandu, Nepal +977-1-4261459 (O) / +977-9851077031(M) [image: --] Hempal Shrestha [image: http://]about.me/hempalshrestha <http://about.me/hempalshrestha> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Shreya Dahal <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- -- 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.
