http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/12/the-fall-of-facebook/382247/
The continuing presence of social networking alternatives to behemoth Facebook is examined. Among other things, smartphones and their 'service channel' apps like Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram etc are seen to occupy a major chunk of individual internet time. Access through smartphones is understandably an excellent way to have users regularly checking the service. I didn't see a single free software 'application' mentioned, and this may be a pointer to their lack of penetration. To my mind, a certain critical mass of users is necessary, to ensure that infrastructure maintenance is supported. The other thing necessary is individual protection. In most cases, diaspora implementations will have a decent wrapping of protection built in, so care must be taken not to weaken, if anything, to strengthen it. Vickram On Dec 2, 2014 5:23 PM, "Pirate Praveen" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 02 December 2014 03:55 PM, Krishnakant Mane wrote: > > > > This is good idea Praveen. > > Even I agree that people should stop giving just lip service of praises > > and feature request and offers to promote things when they are ready. > > Instead of wating for the product to be ready, it should be "let's help > > it get ready " attitude. > > That is clearly needed, its a shift of gears from "this is Free Software > and it has good features too" to "This is Free Software, but we have to > add this and this feature to make it useful and we'll make those > features, because we value freedom more" > > > Just wondering, do we need a foreign bank account for indiegogo campains? > > No. It is needed only for using paypal as a payment option. Because RBI > guidelines restrict foreign donations via paypal. With this only credit > cards can be accepted. > > > To my knowledge it is not directly possible to get foreign currency in > > an indian account, either personal or NGO. > > For NGOs you need FCRA clearance, some NGOs have that. For personal > accounts there is no such restriction, you'll have to pay income tax, > that's all. > > > So just curious to know how this can be managed. > > There are other platforms like wishberry.in and crowdindia.in which > allows net banking as a payment option. They allow only all or nothing > type of campaigns. > > I think indiegogo is a good option for gnukhata, if you are using a > personal account. In the long run DFF should try to get FCRA clearance, > though it can be quite lengthy and bureaucratic process. > > > Happy hacking. > > Krishnakant. > > > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > >
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