[Fsf-friends] Please Help

[Nagarjuna G.]

On Tuesday 28 Dec 2004 6:19 am, Krishna Pagadala wrote:
> Hi All,
>    Can somebody help Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan
> (MKSS) http://www.freedominfo.org/case/mkss/mkss.htm
> and National Campaign for People's Right to
> Information (NCPRI)
> http://www.righttoinformation.info/, and maybe even
> Right to Food Campaign http://righttofoodindia.org/
> make a transition to GNU/Linux.
>    I think (but am not sure) that most of their
> computer work is done in Delhi, so can somebody from
> Delhi please volunteer to help. I am thinking that we
> should first transition them over to using free
> software applications running on Window$, and then
> once they are comfortable and trained on GNU/Linux
> applications switch them over to Free Software.
> 
> 
> Excerpt from Aruna Roy's email to me
>    "Much as we all want to use Linux, we have to be
> trained to us it and understand the use of such
> software. There has to be a team that comes to educate
> us!"

If they already seem to have enough motivation, it is not a bad idea
to send a team to orient them, install a nice system like ubuntu.
Initially if the network and printing are established, then they will
begin to interact with the GLUG to solve their regular problems if
any.  Also it is a good idea to convert all their existing documents
into the open standards and advice them to use them only.  Could
someone from the Delhi GLUG volunteer to contact them?

Nagarjuna