RE: Mauritian Developers' Nework (MDN)

From: S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 05:24:24 -0700

Hi Cederic,
At 02:32 27-05-2015, Cedric Poottaren wrote:
>When am talking about creating the "Mauritian Developers' Network"
>I'm talking about setting up a real platform composing of a
>mailing-list like this one, a forum where the community would
>standout and be accessible by the whole populace, the involvement of
>each and everybody; by this I mean geeks like you, developers like
>me, translators and everybody who would like to contribute to the
>community's projects.

Thank you for explaining what you proposed. Why not use Facebook as
a place where the community would stand out?

>Moreover, in a community of developers we would: share issues and
>get help from the community members, share ideas and develop them in
>team, discuss the latest technologies and see how can we implement
>those in our local context and least but not last be friends that we
>would be sure we can count on when problems arises.

You ignored the attribution issue which I mentioned in my previous email.

>We can do more, as the LUGM's primary mission is to promote
>Open-Source software (Ish?), we can develop apps, create online
>learning websites and post videos and tutorials. We should not only
>encourage schools and other OUs to use Open-Source software but we
>can show them how to, put home-made software at their disposal and
>do much more. As it is understood that the government doesn't rely
>of Open Source software because of liability and lack of continuous
>support we can as a team of developers be their support unit, be
>name they will think of when there is a problem.

The above sounds like open source stuff. You propose creating online
learning web sites. Wouldn't the group be competing with training
companies which sell such services? Why should the team of
developers show schools how to use software? Aren't there people who
are currently paid to do that work? Are you proposing that the team
of developers provide support to the government for free?

Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Wed May 27 2015 - 12:26:53 PST