you mean people who work on developing application software, right? if someone does that for a living then can we call him professional? On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:05 PM, sooraj kenoth <soorajkenoth@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > hi friends, > last days i attended ilug Cochin monthly meeting. from the meeting i got > got two threads: > > 1. make list of free software professionals in our locality > now i'm in mission to create professional in an application software. i > attended the meeting as a part of the search for a professional expert in > free software applications. last week i was at thiruvanathapuram for the > same purpose. i find it is very tough. > > 2. make list of free software supported hardware (printer, modem, cards > etc.), which is available in the local market. > the printers and most of the cards(LAN, graphics etc.) available in market > has no free software support. but we know this only after purchasing it. > this is very irritating situation, from the customer perspective. we should > be capable of avoiding this situation. > > > let us make list for each? > any one can refer any person from their own experience. > any one can refer any product from their own experience. > -- Cheers, Unni (http://unni.chipmonks.co.in)