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==Lack of awareness about bounties==
==Lack of awareness about bounties==
Google Summer of Code, Redhat scholarship, Novell internship, NRCFOSS projects ...
Google Summer of Code, Redhat scholarship, Novell internship, NRCFOSS projects ...
== We don't have rockstars==
"Why are there are no FOSS *Rockstars* from India - people who are larger than life (taj might qualify). And there are FOSS contributors to be found India, but as shres put it bluntly - "contributors are hard to find" - the whiteboard at foss.in is proof that there are enough." <ref> [http://t3.dotgnu.info/blog/conferences/no-foss-nitc.html No Calicut for me] - Gopal V in his blog
"Do we need evangelists right now ? No, but we need mentors and they would only come out of the folks contributing. Some would make good mentors, some not so good, but we need them all the same. We don’t need rockstars - they tend to complicate things." <ref>[http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2007/03/05/long-discussions-and-then-a-post/ Sankarshan Mukhopadyay in his blog]</ref>
"We have one - Abhas Abhinav of deeproot" <ref>[http://lawgon.livejournal.com/29218.html Kenneth we have a rock star] - Kenneth Gonsalves in his blog </ref>


== Sources and notes ==
== Sources and notes ==