On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 4:11 PM, satyaakam goswami <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > I understand most of us are busy with there routines and trying to > make a living . Some of us are lucky to not worry about it . The reason for > me writing this mail is what is the status of this group > do we want to transform ourselves from aka IAC (India against corruption ) > to AAM admi party or just stay like the way this list is dormant and talk > only without much of action except voicing some opinions together when > required. > > lets discuss the pros and cons of the same and move forward the Govt has > announced policy on Open source adoption > > > http://deity.gov.in/sites/upload_files/dit/files/policy_on_adoption_of_oss.pdf > > does this mean anything to any one of us , should we be just sitting on > fences and watch , or come in open talk and intervene in it . > > my question is if this not our cause then whose cause is it anyway ? > > > FOSS is now mainstream, and government policy is almost entirely pro - with reference to policy. There are sufficient government advisers from academia who will keep it this way. The real problem is in the implementation. No funding is provided outside of govt. bodies (such as NIC) or Govt. funded organisations (CDAC/IITs/etc) to develop or provide services using Open Source, and never reaches the wider community. [Leading statement for members of this list to initiate a group rant...] On the other hand, we should realise that Open Source activists in India still maintain the abrasive, confrontational attitude useful for a guerrilla movement but redundant and counter-productive for an established argument. The wider community is also largely hobbyists, moon-lighters and isolated individuals or small groups who are far too fragmented, and the real solution is to provide an platform to organise production and service capacity rather than rhetoric and posturing. An incubator with a lean structure to organise groups that can work in project-mode is one such possibility. There are huge opportunities - and FOSS can essentially be dovetailed into a "Make-In-India" "Make-For-India" success story with support from the Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises. I am useful as a space for meeting and at best organising thought - unfortunately both also redundant in the age of the internet. Translation requires more professional commitment and capability and would require others to step up. Andrew.
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