Fully agree with your suggestions. I was thinking along the same lines. Since all students are required to do some or the other projects. I was thinking that we should try to leverage that time. Especially we should try to encourage CS engineering final year project to be free software.
Thanks Krishna
--- Puneet Goel puneet.maillist@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Nagarjun,
Thanks for sharing about https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc
These folks seems to be doing the interesting work. appreciated. and the best thing is they started some 5 years back.
For the last 2-3 days i have been discussing this info with some more folks and seeing the way this sarai list is going on. virtually scanned all the posts till date.
Without undermining the purpose behind this list, if we look at the traffic generated at this place and the kind of discussion going on, I feel this is not going in the direction they should have excelled by now. And the reason is only one, the way they are going on. precisly their operating model. The place is not more than a maillist. Not too many people even know about it.
and the sarai.net itself is in lot of other things. Particulary their 'About us' link says "Sarai: the New Media Initiative - a space for research, practice and conversation about the contemporary media and urban constellations."
What i am talking is a whole-sole concentrated approach towards a goal and that too without any deviation. Not only this we have some more points which can be added gradualy.
we have 2 options either we start on their portal etc. (but they might have their own reservations) or we start on our own with few more like minded people and take these guy's help, learn from their experiences.
As Mr. Raghav said rightly "I agree with Nagarjuna's email that instead of coming up with new initiatives, it might be a good idea to leverage existing ones. Personally, I see a mailing list as only one part of the answer, and for that, we can definitely use the sarai.net mailing list. I think what we need to do is to come up with a comprehensive proposal and then take it to FSF-India, sarai.net, Sarovar and any others out there to see how/where they can help. There are lots of people on those forums whose experience will prove very valuable to us."
rest sarover has been just a host for various projects. it is not relevent to what we r thinking of. yes! we can try/will to support it by hosting some of the projects there.
but one thing is for sure. whatever we will do we shall be doing it in complete harmony with FSF India.
let me know your comments.
Thanks and Regards, Puneet
Ps: I am looking forward to hear from more people on this. Please feel free to flame me if you think i am wrong at some point :)
On 5/6/05, Nagarjuna G. nagarjun@gnowledge.org wrote:
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:04:25AM -0600, Ragavan
Srinivasan wrote:
On 5/5/05, Puneet Goel
puneet.maillist@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Puneet,
Please have a look at the link http://www.communitycode.org/
[snip...]
I was just about to post a similar message to
the list. I definitely
share the sentiments, and think this could be a
wonderful opportunity
to help spread the awareness/usage of free and
open source software in
India.
I think instead of targeting specific cities, we
may want to start
with specific communities of users. Folks
working in the computer
industry and the student community may be two we
can target for
starters.
Instead of starting a new initiative, it is better
to strengthen the
existing initiatives, such as https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc, and
sarovar.org.
Nagarjuna
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