On 11-Dec-06, at 8:59 AM, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
Hi,
Is it a cultural issue? Do we need someone to tell us what to do? What are other reasons for not many Indians in the global FOSS scenery? Or are we shy to talk about what we are doing? See Suparna's example, most of us didn't know we had such an important contributor from India who could take Alan Cox's place at FOSS.IN and Alan Cox recognizing that we made the right choice?
Connectivity. Contributing to FOSS in terms of code does require decent connectivity.
no no no. I know projects that have used email to develop. Biju Chacko made major contributions to XFCE on slow diallup. Bad connectivity makes things more difficult and time consuming, but if you want to do it, you will do it.