[Fsf-friends]Fund raising for FSF-India
Rakesh 'arky' Ambati
rakesh_ambati@yahoo.com
Mon May 24 14:23:59 IST 2004
--- Ramanraj K <ramanraj@md4.vsnl.net.in> wrote:
> Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote:
>
> >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.
> >
> >
> Recently, the Hindu reported that the Dept. of
> Atomic Energy made a
> grant of Rs. 3.5 crores to the Institute of
> Mathematical Sciences,
> Chennai, out of which the Linux cluster that clocked
> 1.382 teraflops was
> realised at the cost of only about Rs. 2.5 crores -
> a fraction of what
> supercomputers of this pedigree would cost -
> `saving' about Rs. 1 Crore.
> Would it be possible to convince DAE or the others
> involved in the
> project to share the remaining Rs. 1 Crore with
> FSF-India, to provide
> adequate resources for purchasing hardware,
> mirroring FSD from India,
> and support the various activities of FSF-India?
>
yes,it would be a good idea.But irony of the whole
issue is FSF-India doesn't even remotely come into the
picture(from govt's point of view) when we talk about
IT.
We have a new govt and a new ministry, why don't
we lobby the new govt before they form a new IT
policy.
TIA
--arky
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