On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Mohit Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
The answers to these questions are outside the context of free software and structures involved in NASSCOM and FOSSCOMM alone. And has been discussed in this mailing list to varying degress (varying OT-ness). Its like a farmer in Bidar district of karnataka asking, why does Bangalore get all the electricity and roads and infrastucture whereas we get hardly 8-10hr's of power which rarely satisfies our agricultural requirements. But this farmer guy is OT here. Offcourse a structure to FOSSCOMM might help. "A Spectre is haunting multinational capitalism--the spectre of free information. All the powers of ``globalism'' have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcize this spectre: Microsoft and Disney, the World Trade Organization, the United States Congress and the European Commission. " Maybe there's an unholy alliance here as well with players like NASSCOMM as members. Some member's here might feel a forked existence, but the majority am sure have no such feeling. And NASSCOMM is what it is: http://nasscom.in/Nasscom/templates/NormalPage.aspx?id=5365 It is a not-for-profit organization, registered under the Indian Societies Act, 1860 :-) But the *sole* reason they exist is for profit else where. We exist for a lot of other things and profit could be a side effect so theoretically it could be argued that they are our subset, a subset that went out of control and is now trying to get the superset status. > > > Mohit Singh > > GNU/Linux User Group - Meerut _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
