Hi friends,
It took a long time to read the conversation. I just saw the email since I was not in Colombo.
Since my name was mentioned several times, I would like to mention what happened as I know. If you have time, please have a look.
The fact that Kasun Tharaka also asked me to do a presentation to Sirasa (MTV Media) is true. He came to me even. It was about 11.30 by that time. Only myself, Girisha, Nuwan (GNU) were the guys who had finished the presentations of RS2009. Frankly, Kasun Tharaka wanted to put two of our projects. Since Gira was too busy with the anouncing, myself, GNU (Nuwan) and Shanka was asked to do a DEMO.
While they were capturing the demonstration of Yvonne, Dulindra, Saathviga ... in the mini auditorium, myself and GNU went to fourth year lab.
You all may know that my project has a huge process in setting up. The Y cable in Engineering department was broken. But, Nalaka ayya called some other person and I prepared the demonstration with another Y cable. (Y cable is for dividing the screen output both to HMD and the screen.)
After getting ready for the demo, the MTV guy came and asked bit about the project. He asked what business value is in my project. I mentioned that this is a prototype for 3D modeling and I mentioned that 3D modeling is done in Sri Lanka. But, I mentioned that this is a prototype to find a path to ease the workload. May be because he don't know 3D modeling, he talked to someone after going outside. After that, he clearly asked "Does this have a direct relationship with Business"? I mentioned no since there isn't.
GNU was trying to convey that Driver development is done in Sri Lankan IT industry. But, he refused that also. I still remember how GNU mentioned that "Prabhash, we couldn't convey that we have a business value." I mentioned there to GNU that "If we don't have a business value as they expect, there is no point of trying to do that". Anyway, we tried what we can. I can't say that I didn't try to mention that there is a business value, but I can't say that it has a higher business value since there is not. So, that was what happend. If you want any clarifications, please ask me.
After the telephone conversation between the recording person and some other person, I got to know that it is for putting it in the Business News. So, how can I say that my research is a business oriented one? I can't.
I don't know where it went wrong. But, anyway, it went wrong. As mentioned by Boyya, it's better to think about the future rather than the past.
If any of us could have given an introduction regarding the whole event, I think this issue may not have arose. But, what happened was happened.
I thought of not replying to these kinds of things. People are soooo selfish. I see that in most of you. There are great people like Boyya, Yvonne, Ravin ... But most of our batchmates are soooo selfish. They only think about themselves. What I want to say is that think about others. That's it.
Sorry if I humilliate/harras/blame anyone. I don't want to. Tell me if i do.
Prabhash
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ජානක ප්රභාෂ් කුමාරසිංහ
ஜானக ப்ரஹாஷ் குமாரசிங்ஹ
Janaka Prabhash Kumarasinghe