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On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Girish Venkatachalam < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Our IT industry also has not changed in the last 60 years of > existence. We still are doing testing, maintenance, > service projects. Training and education is not being attended to. > That is also full of mediocrity. > > In order to capitalize on an open source project, to make it popular, > to make it a success, as in get lot of downloads, > users, queries, and occasion projects/money a certain set of rules > have to be followed. > > A project takes time to take off. > > This is not surprising. > > My LiveUSB OpenBSD project has been around for 4 years and more. > > And I slowly started adding to it, improving it and what I started as > a fun project has now started earning money > for me. But that is not something to speak of. > > I know I have more to do. > > I run close to 15 open source projects today but I never get any > traction from around 12 of them. > > I started them recently and I think I myself did not pay attention to > it or use it myself to add the excellence angle to it. > > And the rules I find are: > > 1) You have to create something unique and that fills a need. This is > true to succeed in biz. You can sell karivepilai in > Germany since you won't get it there. So import it from India, take > care of stocking it and sell it by paying for shop space. > > 2) You have to create unique content, unique code, something different > from what already is available which means > you should be creative and be good at it. You should be doing > something interesting and better than what people > making 40L a year in Indian IT industry, globe trotting and meeting > customers are doing. You should be a good > programmer. > > 3) From the values standpoint you should not shrink at sharing away > for free. Nature will force it from you if you don't > do it yourself. Moreover that will certainly do a lot of marketing > which is essential for promoting yourself in case you > are not interested in marketing your initiative or biz > > 4) Few more values like responsiveness, continuous improvement, > staying technically focused and understanding > the technology landscape also matter. These are really not values, > these go into the skill region. But normally you find > that skill comes only after the right values are there. > > Best of luck with open source project development. > > Also sourceforge is a remarkably well managed organized way to promote > open source. > > -Girish > > -- > Gayatri Hitech > http://gayatri-hitech.com > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > -- Nothing is constant Regards A.K.Karthikeyan http://is.gd/kblogs _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
