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==Financial Constraints== | ==Financial Constraints== | ||
Secondly getting exposure in the various international forums is not cheap. What I mean by this is, there is only some extent to which you can learn from books. To learn more, you need to first do something, understand what happens, why it happens, interact with experts. This happens by writing research papers, | Secondly getting exposure in the various international forums is not cheap. What I mean by this is, there is only some extent to which you can learn from books. To learn more, you need to first do something, understand what happens, why it happens, interact with experts. This happens by writing research papers, participating in various conferences. Most of them are very expensive | ||
participating in various conferences. Most of them are very expensive | |||
by Indian standards.<ref>[http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa/message/14889 Dhaval Giani in ilug-goa]</ref> | by Indian standards.<ref>[http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa/message/14889 Dhaval Giani in ilug-goa]</ref> | ||
There is a disagreement to this view as well. The one good thing FOSS does is democratize the process of inclusion. Sure enough there are barriers to entry in some aspect but nowhere is the entry barred. <ref>[http://sankarshan.livejournal.com/11456.html Sankarshan Mukhopadyay in his blog]</ref> | There is a disagreement to this view as well. The one good thing FOSS does is democratize the process of inclusion. Sure enough there are barriers to entry in some aspect but nowhere is the entry barred. <ref>[http://sankarshan.livejournal.com/11456.html Sankarshan Mukhopadyay in his blog]</ref> | ||
[Ram]:One may start with contributions (good content matters) to online and print magazines, like for example, www.linuxgazette.net | [Ram]:One may start with contributions (good content matters) to online and print magazines, like for example, [http://www.linuxgazette.net linuxgazette] [http://www.samag.com/ SysAdmin]. This would surely provide the necessary confidence to the individual and push them forward to do much more. | ||
==Bandwidth== | ==Bandwidth== | ||
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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." [http://t3.dotgnu.info/blog/conferences/no-foss-nitc.html Gopal V] | |||
"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." | |||
[http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2007/03/05/long-discussions-and-then-a-post/ Sankarshan Mukhopadyay] | |||
"We have one - Abhas Abhinav of deeproot" - [http://lawgon.livejournal.com/29218.html Kenneth Gonsalves] | |||
== Sources and notes == | == Sources and notes == | ||