[ubuntu-in] Time to look inwards.

[Narendra Sisodiya]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:50 AM, stereotactic <maillist at postinbox.com>wrote:

> Hi All.
>
> C-DAC is promoting it's BOSS Linux through newspaper advertisements. While
> it is a good thing, but mere promotion is not good enough. I find their
> advertisements insipid (released through the Government of India machinery)
> and fails to communicate the importance of Open Source.
>
> On a more personal note, I do find the issues being "out of tune" here.
> Imagine singling out a person because he has supposedly used dubious means
> to promote himself on Launchpad.
>
> More than the personal attacks, it would be worthwhile to discuss ideas,
> brainstorm on bug discussions and bring out something new. This reflects in
> our attitudes when we interact with others and barring few people on this
> list, most of us have failed to contribute in any manner towards a lasting
> project.
>
> Can anyone name ANY project, managed solely by Indians and being featured
> on the popular sites as "must have"? It is a collaborative effort, no doubt,
> but why do we see ourselves working on existing ideas? Slave labor anyone?
>
> Most of the people also fail to grasp the import of existing technologies
> or how the could be mashed up and deliver something of value. Hence, we
> Indians are always "laggards", be it anything- IT, Open Source, Gnome, KDE
> or any other flavor- nothing is distinctly Indian.
>
> Hence more than the localization efforts and spending energies in hammering
> the "riff raff" on the mailing lists, it would be more instructive to hammer
> out ideas, find out what needs to be corrected in the system and overcome
> those issues.
>

Ok, you List out, what to do and what not to do. You cannot imagine
importance of these projects. CDAC regulary organize workshops on BOSS and
teach Govt officials about FOSS.
Govt can do better and it is trying with its own limitations. reusing
existent technology is useful. Also localisation efforts will help in
reaching GNU/Linux to mass.
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