OPEN SOURCE MOVEMENT INDIA - INTRODUCTION
Open Source Movement India is a group of people aiming to contribute
towards employment growth & economic development of India via
increasing the IT market share of India from 5% to over 50%. Achieving
this would be nothing short of bringing about a revolution in the country.
We have several ideas which are listed below which can help bring about
this revolution. Currently we are only an advocacy group and are not
involved in implementation at all. We spread the word to the right people
and expect them to take advantage of the opportunity.

Open Source
This is the idea on basis of which this group was founded and hence the
name of the group. We strongly believe that this small and simple idea
can be converted into a revolution with little support from each one of us.

There is an noticeable increase in use of open source software in the
industry these days. We don't think we need to prove that point. The idea
is if we can train students at an early age to join this phenomenon then
India can be a leading player in the open source software revolution.
Extremely large knowledge base of open source software will ensure our
dominance in the open source area and will ultimately ensure your
position as the market leader of the IT industry.
Ultimate aim is to enroll one million school children in the open source
communities as active contributors. Make it the next "In" thing of the
schools and colleges.

Strategy
1) Spread the word and encourage every body in the age of 12 years to
20 years to join the open source software sites as developers and start
contributing.
2) Explain and market the concept to the people who can make a
difference. eg. Govt. Officials, School and college teaching staff,
Voluntary organizations, Industry bodies like FICCI, NASSCOM etc. We all
have contacts!!!

3) Donate in terms of time and money to the schools and colleges which
you studied in to start programs and encourage students to join open
source revolution.
4) You must be getting at least 1 request a week from aspiring IT
professionals for guidance. Show them this huge pool of possibilities and
ask them to explore the product of their choice and start contributing in it.
5) Get Open Source Software introduced as a teaching module in NIIT,
SSI, Aptech, BITS and other private coaching classes. Once one of the
big computer training institutes introduce Open Source Software as
formal teaching modules,  the competitors will automatically pick up.
6) Get press coverage to spread the message

Advantages
Students need not search for projects. Those who do not get into high
flying summer jobs can still do cool stuff at home.
2) Students can get in touch with the international community and get
good exposure at an early age and also can build international contacts.
3) Students can get practical experience in the most cutting edge
technology without stepping out of the college lab.
4) It stimulates innovation. Some of these youngsters will create new
open source products. Some of these kids will create new companies
using open source products. Possibilities of choice and opportunities in
this area are endless.
5) Students can be very sure of a very rewarding career when they come
to the job market.


One Man Enterprise
Entrepreneurship is the undoubted leading contributor towards
employment and economic growth of any country in the world. Here are
some ideas for individuals having built specialized knowledge to slowly
begin their own enterprise.

1) Become and active member of support
forums(http://www.experts-exchange.com/) and provide your expertise to
solve problems. This allows individuals to build a brand for themselves
over a period of time. It is recommended to use the same id on different
website. Select an id which is so unique that you would be able to get it
on all websites.

2) Start your own business through free lancing for money on websites
like http://www.rentacoder.com/ There are hundreds of individuals in India
earning upwards of 10 lacs per annum just through these websites.


Large Enterprise
Large enterprises these days are stronger than the governments and
hence have more influence on development of the country then the
government.
We try to spread the idea for the organization (with greater than 100
employees) to setup small shops in rural areas. This would allow them to
keep their costs low. This will contribute towards the economic
development of the rural areas. The Telecom infrastructure in the country
has made it possible for organizations to be able to setup shops in rural
areas and still be connected extremely well to the rest of the world.