Hi, I was from KEC too (passed out in 2013) but I didn't wait for anyone to be in FOSS community.
Create something for the community, start contributing today and inspire other peoples. There is a FOSS community in every IT colleges today and all they do is oraganize events and don't even contribute a single line of code for the community. Choose a project from http://foss-np.github.io and start contributing today. By the way, I contributed in creating foss nepal web app and github page while I was in college, without creating a FOSS community. When you do something good, people will follow you. You don't have to make them follow. Thanks, On 13 Nov 2014 08:37, "Shreya Dahal" <shreyada...@gmail.com> 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: foss-nepal@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: foss-nepal+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > 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 foss-nepal+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: foss-nepal+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 foss-nepal+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
