Thanks Reiner Very Educative indeed Isaac
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Reinier Battenberg < [email protected]> wrote: > ** > > HI Joseph, > > > > You bring up a very interesting point, that is very valid in the Ugandan > context as well. > > > > There are a lot of FLOSS users in Uganda, especially in the website > building business: joomla, wordpress, drupal, ushahidi. A lot of people can > offer you a site for a very reasonable price because they use free software. > > > > Unfortunately there seem to be very few people that become active members > of the community that comes with the tools they apply. > > > > I think there are 2 reasons for this: > > > > - "Why would you? It's free, I use is, and that's it." Very valid > statement, but as you wont learn more about the internals of the tool you > use, others will come on to the market and do exactly the same as you: > download and install. This will make it harder for anyone who gets stuck at > this level to compete. > > > > - Very few people tend to specialise. On the average CV that we receive, > if they were all true, most people in ICT in Uganda can do anything: From > Oracle, to PHP, from C++ to Networking all on 1 CV. If you know so many > subjects, its pretty clear you can not be extremely good in any of them. > And that is what a lot of employers are looking for: extremely good people. > > > > So, point of the email: a lot of IT people in Uganda could compare > themselves to Yahoo. (And btw, reading John Graham's posts is a very good > idea when you are in IT.) And it would be great if in 2013 we can see more > Ugandan names pop up in the forums on drupal.org (for example)! > > > > rgds, > > > > Reinier > > > > > > On Sunday 06 January 2013 21:37:38 Joseph Mutumi wrote: > > Hello, > > This is a bit off topic but wanted to share it anyway. Think about Yahoo > before you > plan for this year. > > Started the year by doing an audit on some of my accumulated login > credentials. > I realized a lot of them use my yahoo email which I noticed I actually no > longer use! > Yahoo in the news for all the wrong reasons; layoffs, product > discontinuations, CEO > woos etc. What happened to all those profit speculations? So what killed > Yahoo? > > I did a search and came across this http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html > I think this post albeit a bit old, nails it, with one interesting insight > being: > *Yahoo was killed because they didn't have a hacker-centric culture* > > Yahoo which used OSS failed to adopt OSS. OSS and the Linux stack is more > than > downloading packages for free, its a culture. A proven successful business > model and > work paradigm. If you believe your organization is using OSS but not > adopted it watch > out 2013 may be just another bad year for you. > > That said I hope a lot of the IT corps come to their senses and start > backing community. > I hope LUG flourishes this year. > > Happy New Year > > > > -- > > rgds, > > > > Reinier Battenberg > > Director > > Mountbatten Ltd. > > www.mountbatten.net > > tel: +256 758 801749 > > twitter: @batje > > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. >
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