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

[Anand Babu]

Frederick,
I will be in India for a month starting from 25th next week. 
You can forward my email-id to non-profit and government
organizations looking for Free Software help in Super Computing and
HPC domain.

-- 
Anand Babu
Free as in Freedom <www.gnu.org>

,----[ "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org> ]
| 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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