I agree with Nootan Ghimire Regards, Suraj
On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 1:46:40 PM UTC-4, nootan.ghimire wrote: > > 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] <javascript:> > [email protected] <javascript:> > -- -- 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.
