+1 Akash On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Akash Deep Shakya <akasha...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Dear FOSSians, > > “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then > you win.” With no disrespect, the story of foss nepal is somewhat similar to > what Gandhi said. And my success, we mean at different level of our > audience. I have recognized three main layers of audience that foss nepal > entertains are, > 1. Students and drop outs > 2. Governments, private and public industries, joint ventures etc > 3. Normal Desktop Users > > When I tried to check out helicopter view of FOSS users around the country > where computer+Internet is available, the statistics showed, people are > using FOSS knowingly or unknowingly. Whether it be in biratnagar or in > birgunj, or be in one of the admin computer of buddha bihar at thamel or > lake side in pokhara. People are using FOSS. If we say, the community failed > to do this and that, that we must also watch out what we have done. Because > the story of success always drives you towards success and it creates a > compassionate feeling to keep winning. > > But success comes at your door when you work hard. And in modern work, > planning and management is as much part of it as work. So here I would like > to propose some of my plans, how FOSS can really rock in Nepal. > > 1. FOSS Ka Kura: Let's rejuvenate FKK again, Friday/Saturday/Sunday evening > would be a great time to have it. But let's have it once a month. If nobody > is going to speak, I will :) and if you want to hear be there.. because I > bet you will learn so much in very short time... > > 2. College Campaign: There are more than 20 institution where ICT is taught > at present(Undergraduate level). It is very important that we reach every > college and organize about an hour or two long talk program, and when we do > so. It is important to motivate them to form a FOSS community, so that we > could include them in out umbrella. Can anybody stand up to lead it? I bet > this will be as exciting as leading a national rally for peace and > development :) > > 3. Product development: How FOSS is used in industries is as fruitful as > KFC in durbarmarg!! But it is also important that, we should start building > up projects within the community. There were few ideas about internship > programs and project supervision program under foss nepal. KU was excited > about it. I think it would be a giant step to start working on it. However, > the major focus here should be generating concept papers to build something > substantial for community, in present and future. I propose a community > portal (including ltsp) > > 4.National Level Seminars: This thing is really important to keep the pace > up for public relations and information dissemination. We successfully > conducted the media workshop, it would be great if we could continue and add > up some more things to such workshop. How about we hit, the banks, > mechanical warehouses, software industries, or even media workshop master's > seminar. > > There are lots of ideas that I would like to share, and I will keep doing > so in future. I hope community member would take this mail on positive note > and work together to make the community better, bigger and most importantly > happier. > > > Regards > Akash Deep Shakya "OpenAK" > FOSS Nepal Community > http://www.akashdeepshakya.com.np > akashakya at gmail dot com > P.O.Box: 8975 EPC: 4235 > > ~ Failure to prepare is preparing to fail ~ > > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: foss-nepal@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > foss-nepal+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<foss-nepal%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ >
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