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[Roshan Shah]

Wish you all the best for Drupal Sprint. Feel free to put your stamp of drupal supremacy by registering on http://www.drupalguru.com and showing off your work.

[Dipen]

Hi roshan,

 Who all are coming from gloscon to DSI?

Dipen

[Roshan Shah]

Although we do lot of cool stuff in Drupal, we have decided to stop contributing back to community since April 2009. Feel free to call me on 9979853010 and we can talk

Roshan

[Shirish Padalkar]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Roshan Shah <bpoc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Although we do lot of cool stuff in Drupal, we have decided to stop contributing back to community since April 2009. Feel free to call me on 9979853010 and we can talk

May I know, WHY you stop to contribute back? :O

 

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Roshan Shah <bpoc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Wish you all the best for Drupal Sprint. Feel free to put your stamp of drupal supremacy by registering on http://www.drupalguru.com and showing off your work.

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[Roshan Shah]

Show me one Indian company whose case study got in on drupal.org home page. Many companies have been developing for over 4 years now. 

http://www.roshiley.com/professional/dries-has-shown-negative-approach-towards-indian-developers-firms-long
http://www.roshiley.com/blog/professional/issues-drupal-training-services-list
http://www.roshiley.com/technology/drupal-community-misnomer-which-legal-entity-runs-manages-operates-drupalorg
http://www.roshiley.com/blog/professional/policy-regarding-drupalorg-userid-good-drupal-community-member-status

Our staying out is just for protesting the sidelining of Indian community and as a company we have done lot in past in terms of funding events, attending events, contributing code, etc. It doesn't matter who gets credits but Indian Voice does need representation. There are really many good developers and shops in India but they must be recognized for their contributions.

If anyone gets recognition up there, I'll give full credits to your efforts. Drupal is fantastic  and we continue to flourish building powerful websites and solutions. I don't mind contributing and funding so long as there is someone in Indian community who takes leadership role and gets a voice out there.

Let dual standards go away and Drupal world will be so much a better place.

Roshan
P.S : This is just my personal opinion and not of my company.

[Shirish Padalkar]

hmm... Thats sad...

Isn't there anything else which can be done?

[Roshan Shah]

If something has worked well to get respect to overall indian community or works in future with some real proven gestures by Dries and his core team, please post some links and I'll certainly become a good resource to support the community.  We are very much off from there at this very moment.

I have been there, done that and know how things work.  Donating funds, time to any noble cause and community is always good but putting free time and effort to make other person's enterprise grow would be stupidity.

[Vivek Khurana]

On Oct 31, 10:22 am, Roshan Shah <bpocan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If something has worked well to get respect to overall indian community or
> works in future with some real proven gestures by Dries and his core team,
> please post some links and I'll certainly become a good resource to support
> the community.  We are very much off from there at this very moment.
>

Thanks Roshan for you time effort and funds. We do think that Indian
community is well represented and drupal core team is aware of al
major contributors to Drupal. Every year lots of students get selected
in GSoC and they also are awarded scholarships to attend drupalcon. So
the question of Indian community not been represented is out.

The problem we have faced is clash of community interests with
commercial entities. Drupal.in is a living example of this. We had
been trying real hard to get hold of the domain and we do not receive
any backing from Drupal Association to force the trademark laws and
release the domain from current holder. This is preventing us from
having a central place where al community members can gather.

As for companies not getting value. I think all sponsors for DSI 2009
were happy at the end of the event. No one has complained that they
were given any negative feed back. So overall we do feel that
community respects sponsors but that respect is only limited to people
who do not try to use community as a ladder to become famous in drupal
word. Again drupal.in is an example of the same.

I dont know what has caused you to have this backlash as I was not
part of drupal camp. But I think matters can be resolved with
discussion. But if you dont want to be part of the community, that is
your choice.

regards
Vivek