@Rad, thanks. However, given your experience and knowledge in the sector, let me try and convince you why the blank cheque of "anyone" cannot work.

 

Assume that the Association has been formed, one of its key goals is what we do for kenyan sector. Therefore, anyone else taking a prepared software product/application and editing it for sale locally is nothing more than a comeptitor to actual kenyan developers and software companies. The same person cannot be allowed to be a member because they will bring nothing to the association or the betterment of the industry. Such people are categorised as vendors, resellers, competitors whether they are developers or not.

 

An example: E-Govt

 

Assume that somehow Moodle made its way into the E-Govt sector through various vendors/developers/implementers.  What we seek is to replace this with a localised version be it on any framework/platform/language. Moodle is a competitor to kenyan local software companies and developers. How can such be allowed to become members of the Association? 

 

 

Another Example: Chacha's Photo Editing software

 

Chacha's would definately be a member of Association while some developer on Photo-Shop would not because PhotShop is not locally produced. When the Association runs local software promotions and awareness, we will be able to collectively do things.

 

 

Your input is appreciated.