[fsug-bangalore] Knock knock.

[Arun M]

Dear Ramki,

  Unlike FSF in Boston, which is now a standing organisation, FSF India
is not (not even a single full time staff, and even the core people are
spread across the country). Resources are very small. And lot of
headache as a legal entity. It is easy to say fix this and that, but a
lot of work has to be done to get things fixed. I know you are
complaining because of your interest in us not hate. 

Just to understand the difficulties here are some work,

Some time back RMS visited India and had discussion with our president.
Fine, how many know the difficulty we faced in arranging his travel ? We
raised good amount of funds to pay his travel in India and to India.
Some good friends like Abhas helped and at the last minute we arranged
everything. 

I had to spend long time in from of government organisations like
Registrar of companies, IT office etc its really pain. It is not at all
fun like coding. Last month, for several days i was in IT office seeing
one person to get the papers for IT exemption to FSF India. Most of
these work go in the background and wont be seen or known by others. 

Also there were very much visible efforts like WSF media centre. It
wasnt a simple job.

Regarding the web, now we have an efficient and almost full time
volunteer to work on it. He had done lot of work already. Many of your
suggestions including the Who is Who is complete. Software for volunteer
registration etc ready now (he is testing i think).


We will be improving the operation, but need time and resources. 

regards,
arun.