:) This is really interesting, the other side of the coin seems to look like this: any other ways to pass the test? Change the examiners questions to suit you? Or work with what you have to bring out the genius in you?
Drupal could be cool, but you can as well set up a development team to build a CMS thats seamlessly Ugandan (working with the "facades" of all trades employees like you alluded to) This list featured so many posts about cities going open source, and someone suggested an open source metro network (guess KCCA would love that as a big investment for their youth stimulus packages if we could pursue it further) Someone also suggested a vehicle monitoring system, but declined to release its C++ source code he had done, let alone the system itself, perhaps it could get support from the folks on the list, there was a price comparator suggested, but.... Well, we could also be able to assemble the cheap phones from China ourselves and have the computer science/engineering departments certify the products before putting them on the market (thats if their labs are well equipped to do so..) :)On the open source network, we could also run our own yahoo and local search engines Maybe we could take the lead and encourage the local developers to release their open source projects to the list, so we can support them i guess... Happy New Year by the way > I think it is more interesting to talk about things we can change (like > Uganda) than to moan about the demise of a US corporation > > > On Monday 07 January 2013 08:06:03 [email protected] wrote: > > An interesting comparison, Reinier. Yahoo! is a jack of all trades, but > king > of none. > > That still leaves me with the question "why aren't they already dead?", > though. > > > 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). 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