I remember the days of 1996 when NASSCOM started show business to its max. Late Dewang used to be the face of indian IT.
That vigour is missing in FOSSCOMM anyway. If we are unable to create a formal body and formal 'Common Minimum Program', are we forced to think that NASSCOM may be superset of all software practices containing us also? Are we a forked existence which is unable to formalize even as a structured entity? Why Indian/State Government/IAS/PCS/IES has no representation in FOSSCOMM? Do they see us as hippies? I am forced to think that we do mostly bottom to top work and that too without a uniform structure. We need to organize formally very soon because this pace of action is frustrating for the community. UGC, AICTE ec. must be having FOSSCOMM members as part of their core committee. Why cant there be some day in Pragati Maidan when a national FOSSoftware Conference gets inaugurated by President of India? Why cant FOSS National Award be constituted by CII in connection with FOSSCOMM? Mohit Singh GNU/Linux User Group - Meerut _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
