Hello @Aki, On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:30 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi @Kris,
Thanks for the suggestion. :-)
I've tried very hard to provoke programmers into thinking and questioning the current status over the last 12 months, including patiently taking in some insults along the way after posting certain threads, all I ever read was excuses and defensive emails for not doing more. Programming is like Malaria to many coders, they are too scared and stay away from it. In the starting of the thread, I threw in a further angle i.e after 18 years of the first wiki creation, no Kenyan programmer has the slightest clue because if someone had taken the initiative, am sure they would not hold back on responding.
Once again, a small correction. At least I know one wiki type of system done in Kenya by a Kenyan and for the most part meant for Kenyans [ http://www.sciencehackday.or.ke/ ]. The source code is available here [ https://github.com/chiteri/shdnbi/ ] and I believe that you are aware of this, even though we kept the discussions off-list.
Moving on, the wiki was not planned at all until I did the flow for kplc monitoring project, and seems the best way to do things. Once I crack this wiki creation obstacle and there are still many others to go, for me the possibilities are endless as it opens up new avenues for the code to be applied. I could invite others but this is not progressive, I'd prefer if others who are much ahead of me on programming to do better and bigger projects that will fulfil local creation/creative goals.
I'd also like to add a comment to those who are misleading others out there. *Open Source is not programming, please stop this nonsense*.
Let me try to justify the rationale behind FOSS. I will not quote it verbatim but from the Keynote of Mark Ramm on Django Conference 2008 [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fipFKyW2FA4 ], in his critique for the django Web development framework he says that, "No matter how much innovative and smart you think you are within your organization (e.g at Google / Microsoft / Apple), there will always have a larger number of smart and more innovative people outside your organization than inside it. That is why you have to always be on the lookout and copy their ideas if they are better.". Please say so if you need any help :D Martin.
If you are in the business of selling DEVELOPED free or open software and want to shove it up the 3rd World's you know what, you are a business person not a programmer, so sell it and do your thing. Don't try to justify programming and ready made solutions are going to save us from expenditures and the rest, you are just part and parcel of the problems.
Rgds. :-)
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:35 AM, kris njoroge <krsnjo@gmail.com> wrote:
Just a by the way why not include those on the list that might have the time and are inclined to do the project with you
You could do a system analysis and break it down into modules that guys could work on maybe in teams or individual. It's a great thing you doing so keep on doing it. My 2 cents.
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