On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Rushabh Mehta <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. > > Replies inline: > > > > > It is very sad to see that the few > > people who are promoting free software are also tired and depressed. > > > > > Dunno where you jumped to that conclusion. > > I have been watching these lists for quite a while. There hardly any > projects / activity / events other than meetups that have started recently. > Recently there was a workshop on Openstreet map at HBCSE There is a continous on going program on education at Khalapur under the aegis of HBCSE, using OLPC and 100% FOSS stack. Earlier a meet at IIT on i dont remember what. Several FOSS mentorships ongoing at IIT. I think we are barely scratching the surface as far as promotion of free > software is concerned. You will always be scratching the surface. The FOSS ecosystem is massive. > Even the FSF India website is dated. > FSF is focused on Philosophy of free software. Afaik nothing has changed since introduction of gplv3. > > > Clearly new energy is required on THAT is always welcome. There never is enough. > > and revenue is also increasing year on > year, but it is still not enough. If > > we divert attention in too many things, then we may lose the advantage > that > > ERPNext has built up. Also, there is a lot to be done. > > > > > Business development is part of a business. Every state government > > spends tens crores on education. The smartness is in campaigning for > > FOSS with ones business goals in mind. > > > If you take funding from let's say the FSF, it would be wholly > unprincipled to project your company > > / services in such programs, unless you too were contributing > financially. > > We are not taking or wanting to take any funding from FSF. Thankfully we > are able to sell hosting services to the user community. Our goal was to > voluntarily go to these organizations and not to promote our software but > Linux Desktops, Office tools, Mail and Web Servers - the basic stack. > > IF you dont have an interest other than altruism, that is fine. But if you do have an interest, it helps fund the costs of such work. I cant see the point you are trying to make, vis-a-vis your internal revenue statement. > > > This would be ideally done under the umbrella of Free Software Foundation > > of India (or if they are very religious/suspicious about us who have to > > earn our bread and don't live off grants, or there are too many > > ego-mountains to be climbed, then we could form a new group). > > > > That one is a Pointless rant. Afaik, Nobody on this list is living off > > someone else's largesse. > > Agree - its a rant, but I have mailed a lot of people individually, and > from the response (or lack) I can clearly sense that we are "outsiders". > > I can guess why from the contents of this mail why it is so. Besides this is the first set of mails I have seen from you on the list. > Either ways, its surely something for people to introspect - we need to > pool resources if we have to fight commercial interests. > What commercial interests?. And pool what resources for what purpose? Hand waving is all fine, but doing things like organising a workshop for let's say engineering students on the use of CAD software requires one to propose a specific program and required resources, clearly stating what YOU are contributing and what additional support you require from the community. > -- > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
