[Fsf-friends] MS' influence in academia

[Vivek Vaghese Cherian]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:38:07 +0530, Nagarjuna G. <nagarjun@gnowledge.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 11:52:19AM -0000, balachandran c wrote:
> > I believe it is very important to step up the activities regarding FS
> > advocacy in Universities and Schools. The "Unix culture" was born in
> > the Universities, and it appears that MS is determined to kill it
> > there. MS already offers gratis copies of its softwares in
> > Universities. I am pretty sure that with higher broadband penetration,
> > they will offer these "academic programmes" in Indian Schools too. I
> > guess that they are not offering these "services" in India since they
> > know that the kids will make illegal copies anyway, and they don't have
> >  to pay the bandwidth costs. (Most likely, the Schools will be paying
> > for the b/w costs). This is a very real threat.
> >
> 
> The issues that you raised are very important.  Let us discuss how to
> make FSF India's efforts more organized.  membership issue is soon
> going to be launched.  We need full time workers for FSF.  FSF India
> at the moment has none.  This needs resources to compensate the full
> timers.
> 
> Assuming that there are resources, I want to ask the community: how
> many of you are willing to work for FSF as full timers if proper
> compensation is given, at various parts of the counry?  And howmany of
> your are willing to work with full timers during your spare time?
> 
> Nagarjuna
> 
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Hello,

I am willing to work as a full time staff for FSF-India as per the
conversations we had over the phone a couple of months back. I called
you up in response to a posting you had made to this list some time
earlier regarding the urgent need for 2 full time staff to run offices
at Trivandrum and Mumbai.

I would ideally like to be based in Trivandrum or Cochin (this is
where i stay now) and can also give talks on Free Software at various
places if required to do so.


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