[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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