Re: [OSS] Re: Knowledge of CVS systems

Thanh, Andi,

My impression is admittedly a while old.
Some time back, I saw a number of Vietnamese FLOSS pieces in Vietnam (e.g.
publishing systems similar to Nuke), but pretty much nothing when I went to
the corresponding websites. It has changed meanwhile.
I found the following websites mentioning a Vietnamese section:
- Gnome
- KDE
- Mozilla
- Mandrake
- phpNuke
I did not find anything, although it is available of:
- OpenOffice
- RedHat

To contribute to those projects, one does not need to be a great SW project
manager, but only a reasonable programmer, no?

One reads always how good programmers the Vietnamese are. I just wonder,
why not more people contribute (although it has improved obviously).

Cheers,
Stefan

At 14:21 03.03.2003 +0000, you wrote:
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>At 21:31 2003.02.28, Thanh Nguyen wrote:
>>Hi Stefan,
>>
>>At 03:09 AM 2/28/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>>>Right now it seems, that there is a number of individuals, companies and
>>>institutions /taking/ from the FLOSS sources, but it seems to me, that
>>>nearly nobody in Vietnam /contributes back/ to it. Free Software is about
>>>"Sharing", which means not only "taking", but also "giving".
>>
>>It's not exactly to say that nobody in Vietnam contributes to the FLOSS. At
>>least some of us and few people I know in VietLug did that.
>
>Yet the numbers are still very low. Cf. the Linux User Counter VietNam,
>where only 81 Linux users are currently registered for VietNam:
>
>*--------------- Country Maintainer ---------------*
>*--- Linux Users Counter - VietNam (Vie^.t Nam) ---*
>*---- http://counter.li.org/bycountry/VN.html -----*
>*-------------- Count Your Self *IN* --------------*
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>(Notably, VietNam's may be the only bilingual Linux Counter page -- or at
>least one of a very select few.)
>
>Though the Linux Counter grossly underestimates the actual number of Linux
>Users, it can be used as part of a basis for estimating actual numbers. See
>http://counter.li.org/estimates.php or http://counter.li.org/reports/short.php
>(where VietNam is now ranked No. 157 out of 191, in terms of Linux users per
>capita -- between Kenya and Papua New Guinea ;))))
>
>>>If a lack of familiarity with the CVS system is really a reason, then I
>>>would propose to work with the "education subgroup" of this list on how to
>>>overcome that problem, e.g. by inviting somebody to travel to some
>>>Universities etc., stay there for a few days, and teach lecturers and
>>>students the "HOWTO"...
>>
>>It seems that using CVS is a basic skill of EU/US computer science students
>>(please correct me if I'm wrong). CVS system is used in our company for all
>>projects. However, I don't think that CVS is a really reason. Usually
>>people who can contribute to FLOSS community know how to use CVS or can
>>learn it in a short time. IMHO, the most important reason is that most of
>>Vietnamese people aren't familiar with FLOSS and/or do not work with/use
>>FLOSS much.
>
>I'd have to agree with ba'c Thanh. Learning CVS is pretty trivial. A good
>set of courses in Project Management and Collaboration in general might
>provide more significant benefits/cost.
>
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