[Fsf-friends] Kerala and free soft

Rakesh 'arky' Ambati rakesh_ambati@yahoo.com
Sun Jul 25 22:40:11 IST 2004


Morning Arun,
--- Arun M <arun@gnu.org.in> wrote:
> Hi Friend,
> 
>   
> Sorry for not keeping you all updated.
> 
> We are having lot of work in Kerala. 
> 
> Yesterday we organised a workshop for Journalists
> jointly with Working
> Journalists association. It was poorly attended due
> to other reasons
> like another parallel event and journalist here in
> Kerala were having
> lot of work for last few days. But those who came
> really enjoyed the
> workshop. They went back with a commitment to free
> software movement.
> They have demanded their association to have another
> workshop on free
> software.
> 
> Kerala is now seeing strong debate on local body
> computerisation and
> free software. A study conducted by a group (i was
> also there) exposed
> the fact that local body computerisation pilot
> effort is a failure and
> state wide rollout based on this shouldnt happen.
> Government is planning
> for a state wide rollout of Rs 150 crore e-gov
> program on M$ platform.
> We have to stop this. 
> 

It would be great if you can put the press kit on the
web,so that other FSUG can use them.


cheers


--arky

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