On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]>wrote:
> Answers from the Tenth Planet team for our queries. > > 1) The training is free for the participants - IT Jobseekers and > students. Our programmes are conducted only for unemployed graduates > and college students mostly from rural background. > > 2) The Mentors can volunteer and take part in these programmes and > contribute their time and share the knowledge to the jobseekers > community. There is no pay. We can take care of the food and local > travel arrangements. If we get any sponsors for the programmes then we > can pay the mentors accordingly. > > 3) Tenth Planet Open Source Foundation is a social enterprise which is > working towards reducing unemployment in the IT segment. For the past > 5 years we have been conducting many free training programmes to > freshers on Foundation skills, Methodology skills, Product skills, > Business skills, Health & Wealth. > > http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-downtown/committed-to-tackling-unemployment/article2097529.ece > > We nurture young talents and support SMEs and NGOs using Open Source. > > We are working towards connecting the jobseekers with the Industry > professionals and Employers through our programmes. > Not to undermining anyone's effort , this is an Utopian dream come true , now i am seriously interested in this kind of enterprise to run in other parts of the world , would you share those details as to how you guys do the balancing act in terms of running the show , making money and doing social good. why i am asking is since its not possible to sustain this kind of effort for such a long time the immediate costs which come to my mind are 1) Electricity. 2) Computers. 3) Internet. 4) Making and running the website. 5) Place. 6) Humans. cheers -Satya ps: may be i can pay a visit to understand this better _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
