On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Amol Hatwãr amol.hatwar@exceed.co.inwrote:
On 23/05/11 7:27 PM, Narendra Sisodiya wrote:
Fosscomm didn't worked out well.
I beg to disagree. FOSSCOMM has been very successful in a lot of areas.
may be my level of expectation is very high..
I want a mailing list do DOERS (those who do something for foss rather then sitting and doing mailing list work)..
So
a dedicated network for FOSS promoters.. Or you can say.. a mailing list
for
all FOSS advertiser and promoters..
Why not start it? Nobody is stopping you. I wish you all luck and success.
This is not a way to do it.. I do most of my work like "ekela chalo.." but there is nothing wrong in discussing,, Community Discussion prior to prior to any action is always very helpful in community adoption of new things..
This dedicated mailing list can produce WhitePaper on status of FOSS and recommendation as well as give a report on what need to be done.. "What need to be done" -- this is a most important aspect...
That's the problem. Even when it comes to the country, everyone has ideas about what needs to be done. Nobody goes out there and does it.
We all are singing.. (like in bazzar.. everybody try to sell his veg ).. so I think, FOSS promotion should have a strategy in it.. ..
Promotion where? If you are talking government and education, I'd agree. But then FOSSCOMM has already done tons of work there with great outcomes.
I know,, I am part of FOSSCOMM and working too but This is a math paper of 100 number with 3 hour,, we do not think that we have 2 days to complete it.. I repeat the process/promotion/speed is not just sufficient..
For the CS student or even the mango man, the era of promotion is over. Most of them know what FOSS is,
Select a random colony of your city.. Do a poll you will get to know about the FOSS knowledge.. Thanks for idea.. I will do this in next Sunday at "S N market - Delhi" and interview random 100 young people..
and there is a great body of knowledge on the Internet. They don't need lists like this.
try finding these ratio..
total number of students of India / total student of India who has desktop-laptop total number of students of India / total student of India who has desktop-laptop with Internet total number of students of India / total student of India who know FOSS