[Fsf-friends] Science Olympiads... Prof Vijay A Singh

[Frederick Noronha (FN)]

During our recent GNU/LUG meeting in Goa, I had the chance of meeting Prof 
Vijay A Singh, the National Coordinator of the Science Olympiads. It was 
nice to know that Dr Singh (IIT Kanpur, on deputation at the Science 
Olympaids, is also a part of the FSF-Friends list. 

Wonder if the ideals of Free Software and FLOSS could be somehow networked 
with the National Olympaid, so that we could benefit from each other's 
synergies. Incidentally, Prof Singh is at the Homi Bhabha Centre for 
Science Education, so it could be easy for Prof Nagarjuna to build the 
links too.

BTW, we have just shifted the venue of the GNU/LUG meetings in Goa to the 
Goa Science Centre, located at a nice setting on the Miramar beach. Our 
argument was that while the GSCP (Goa Science Centre Panjim) is promoting 
science, we are promoting technology -- as such a made-for-each-other 
match. We hope that we can take the idealism of FLOSS to the younger 
generation, and thus help take ahead the agenda of the GSCP, while at the 
same time gaining from a suitable venue for holding our meets. Let's see 
how this works. In the past, our Goa group had also closely networked with 
the Computer Society of India (Goa chapter). The only handicap was the 
lack of hardware for demos at their office premises, which they were very 
generous to loan out to us without any charge for our meetings held over 
the past two to three years. FN
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