Thanks for the reply.
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It is very sad to see that the few people who are promoting free software are also tired and depressed.
Dunno where you jumped to that conclusion.
I have been watching these lists for quite a while. There hardly any projects / activity / events other than meetups that have started recently. I think we are barely scratching the surface as far as promotion of free software is concerned. Even the FSF India website is dated.
Clearly new energy is required on> and revenue is also increasing year on
year, but it is still not enough. If
we divert attention in too many things, then we may lose the advantage
that
ERPNext has built up. Also, there is a lot to be done.
Business development is part of a business. Every state government spends tens crores on education. The smartness is in campaigning for FOSS with ones business goals in mind.
If you take funding from let's say the FSF, it would be wholly
unprincipled to project your company
/ services in such programs, unless you too were contributing financially.
We are not taking or wanting to take any funding from FSF. Thankfully we are able to sell hosting services to the user community. Our goal was to voluntarily go to these organizations and not to promote our software but Linux Desktops, Office tools, Mail and Web Servers - the basic stack.
This would be ideally done under the umbrella of Free Software Foundation of India (or if they are very religious/suspicious about us who have to earn our bread and don't live off grants, or there are too many ego-mountains to be climbed, then we could form a new group).
That one is a Pointless rant. Afaik, Nobody on this list is living off someone else's largesse.
Agree - its a rant, but I have mailed a lot of people individually, and from the response (or lack) I can clearly sense that we are "outsiders". Either ways, its surely something for people to introspect - we need to pool resources if we have to fight commercial interests.
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