Hello everyone,
*TL;DR:Do we think creating an official organization such that (at least) one person overseeing the happenings at FOSS Nepal will help FOSS Nepal do (quality) stuffs? * -- As a (newer) volunteer to FOSS Nepal community, I've recently been volunteering in the community specially on the side of increasing participation from college communities. I was introduced to FOSS Nepal community when I first joined my engineering, ~3 years back, and since then I've been trying to participate in the community as my skills allow me to. I started with organizing simple event to aware students of my college of Foss Nepal, Wikipedia and Software Freedom Day. I suppose I also have participated in other community activities which might (or might not) have helped the community go further ahead. I should also thank the community for different dimensions it has opened me to, and different connections it has made possible. But these recent years, as I've started to know more and more things about the community, it feels that the community itself is not as strong as it (apparently) used to be before (i joined). Of course there are wonderful volunteers around with whom i feel joy to be around with, but there's something else that I've been (a bit) bothered with. With these 3 years of volunteering, I now think that I never had known what goals were we trying to achieve from FOSS Nepal Community. I had knowledge that FOSS Nepal does SFD every year, and it is like a umbrella to other communities that we had in Nepal (viz. Php Developers Nepal, Mozilla Nepal, etc..). I did not care about that then, because I was driven by the passion in open source and I was ready to participate and learn. I was more of a *audience *to FOSS Nepal, rather than a *volunteer.* As I today had talk with Hempal Dai, a respected and valuable member of FOSS Nepal Community, I should say: I was able to grasp the goals and objectives that FOSS Nepal Community is/was trying to achieve. Not only this made my honor to FOSS Nepal greater, I was more than happy that I joined the right community. But the problem, as we discussed was that there were no resources to make sure we meet to our goals. *There was no structure, no body, which urged newbies to follow a path.* FOSS Nepal is a community, and i know that a community works by treating every member of it equal. But I think *this does not mean that a single community-chosen person cannot instruct fellow volunteers to do stuffs that were well-planned and served a long-term goal.* I feel that, there should be a well defined structure, a legal entity, if required which will do stuffs according to goals and objectives of FOSS Nepal community. As discussed today, given ample human resources, we can apply and get grants which would enable us to pay those people who take the responsibility of community -- which might not be voluntary. I went through foss nepal wiki before writing this email and found some interesting facts. Supposedly, These things were thought a long time ago: hence the links below: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Constitution#.E0.A5.A9.E0.A5.AB._.E0.A4.B9.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.AE.E0.A5.80_.E0.A4.A8.E0.A4.BF.E0.A4.AE.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.A8_.E0.A4.B8.E0.A4.82.E0.A4.B8.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.A5.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.AA.E0.A4.95_.E0.A4.B8.E0.A4.A6.E0.A4.B8.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.AF.E0.A4.B9.E0.A4.B0.E0.A5.81_.E0.A4.AF.E0.A4.B8_.E0.A4.B5.E0.A4.BF.E0.A4.A7.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.A8_.E0.A4.AC.E0.A4.AE.E0.A5.8B.E0.A4.9C.E0.A4.BF.E0.A4.AE_.E0.A4.95.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.B0.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.AF_.E0.A4.97.E0.A4.B0.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.A8_.E0.A4.AE.E0.A4.9E.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.9C.E0.A5.81.E0.A4.B0_.E0.A4.AD.E0.A4.88_.E0.A4.A8.E0.A4.BF.E0.A4.AE.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.A8_.E0.A4.B8.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.95.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.B7.E0.A5.80.E0.A4.95.E0.A5.8B_.E0.A4.B0.E0.A5.8B.E0.A4.B9.E0.A4.B5.E0.A4.B0.E0.A4.AE.E0.A4.BE_.E0.A4.B5.E0.A4.BF.E0.A4.A7.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.A8.E0.A4.AE.E0.A4.BE_.E0.A4.B8.E0.A4.B9.E0.A5.80.E0.A4.9B.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.AA_.E0.A4.97.E0.A4.B0.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.A6.E0.A4.9B.E0.A5.8C.E0.A4.82.E0.A5.A4 http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Main_Page#General_Meetings (See General Meetings) So, I Just wanted to know the view of the community members about this. Do we think creating an official organization such that (at least) one person overseeing the happenings at FOSS Nepal will help FOSS Nepal do (quality) stuffs? -- Nootan Ghimire http://cafecod.es/ [email protected] [email protected] -- -- 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.
