[Fsf-friends] Re: Re: [India-egov] Microsoft to conduct five e-Gov seminars in India,10 March 2004(fwd)

[Atul Asthana @ home]

Dear Frederick,

I guess, we need to draft a letter which brings out the comparitive advantages of using open source in the government.
We also need to ensure that OSS becomes part of school and college syllabi.

We can then publish the letter on various lists and let people choose as to what their concerns are.


Regards.				 
Atul Asthana 
atulasthana@gmx.net
2004-03-15 20:40:05

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. 
--Mahatma Gandhi

======= At 2004-03-15, 13:32:00 Frederick Noronha (FN) fred@bytesforall.org wrote: =======

>Hi Atul, I certainly think this should be done. You have my full support. 
>Copying this to FSF-FRIENDS. We can locate the MPs' names (even if the Lok 
>Sabha has been dissolved) from the parliament.nic.in site. At least in the 
>Rajya Sabha for now. In addition, we could also get friendly MPs to raise 
>parliamentary questions. I know a couple, and FLOSS issues have already 
>been raised in the Indian parliament, thanks to them. FN
>
>On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Atul Asthana @ home wrote:
>
>> Dear Frederick,
>> 
>> Was planning to start a campaign to write to MLAs/MPs, Ministers, 
>> Bureaucrats stating advantages of OSS over Microsoft. 
>> Do you think that this campaign can be initiated thru any of the 
>> mailing lists (you and I are on, or otherwise)? That is we encourage 
>> people on the mailing lists to write to their representatives, 
>> bueaucrats known to them etc?
>> Its not a difficult task to find names and addresses of 
>> MLAs/MPs/Bureaucrats.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards.				 
>> Atul Asthana 
>> atulasthana@gmx.net
>> 2004-03-15 09:51:53
>> 
>> First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. 
>> --Mahatma Gandhi
>> 
>> ======= At 2004-03-10, 13:54:00 Frederick Noronha (FN) fred@sancharnet.in wrote: =======
>> 
>> >---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> >
>> >
>> >10 March, 2004 [ www.i4donline.net ]
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>> >
>> >Microsoft to conduct five e-Gov seminars in India
>> >Microsoft Corporation India today announced a series of five 
>> >e-Governance seminars targeted at bureaucrats and Government 
>> >officials. The first seminar in the series will be held at Bhopal. 
>> >Targeted at bureaucrats and government officials, the seminars 
>> >will be conduced across of Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, 
>> >Orissa and West Bengal.
>> >http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2004/03/10/stories/2004031002281700.htm
>
>> >
>> ><*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
>> >     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/India-egov/
>
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