On 24/05/11 12:39 PM, Rony wrote:
On 05/23/2011 08:04 PM, Narendra Sisodiya wrote:
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Amol Hatwãr amol.hatwar@exceed.co.inwrote:
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..
As mentioned by Amol, FOSS promotion is no longer needed. In software what I have observed is that good, handy and easy to install and learn software will always get popular and users will flock to it. That should be the one and only goal for FOSS development.
Disclaimer: FOSS needs more blood in terms of developers who will go the extra mile and publish code in the spirit of freedom. FOSS already has critical mass, the revolution is already practically feeding itself.
The only evangelism and intervention that is needed (I think) is in places where a few make decisions for many. And FOSSCOMM has been pretty successful in that area.
Cheers,
Amol Hatwar