[Fsf-friends] Re: suggestions needed on an initiative

[Krishna Pagadala]

Fully agree with your suggestions.
I was thinking along the same lines. Since all
students are required to do some or the other
projects. I was thinking that we should try to
leverage that time. Especially we should try to
encourage CS engineering final year project to be free
software.

Thanks
Krishna


--- Puneet Goel <puneet.maillist@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Nagarjun,
> 
> Thanks for sharing about
> https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc
> 
> These folks seems to be doing the interesting work.
> appreciated. and
> the best thing is they started some 5 years back.
> 
> For the last 2-3 days i have been discussing this
> info with some more
> folks and seeing the way this sarai list is going
> on. virtually
> scanned all the posts till date.
> 
> Without undermining the purpose behind this list, if
> we look at the
> traffic generated at this place and the kind of
> discussion going on, I
> feel this is not going in the direction they should
> have excelled by
> now. And the reason is only one, the way they are
> going on. precisly
> their operating model. The place is not more than a
> maillist. Not too
> many people even know about it.
> 
> and the sarai.net itself is in lot of other things.
> Particulary their
> 'About us' link says "Sarai: the New Media
> Initiative - a space for
> research, practice and conversation about the
> contemporary media and
> urban constellations."
> 
> What i am talking is a whole-sole concentrated
> approach towards a goal
> and that too without any deviation. Not only this we
> have some more
> points which can be added gradualy.
> 
> we have 2 options either we start on their portal
> etc. (but they might
> have their own reservations) or we start on our own
> with few more like
> minded people and take these guy's help, learn from
> their experiences.
> 
> As Mr. Raghav said rightly "I agree with Nagarjuna's
> email that
> instead of coming up with new initiatives, it might
> be a good idea to
> leverage existing ones. Personally, I see a mailing
> list as only one
> part of the answer, and for that, we can definitely
> use the sarai.net
> mailing list. I think what we need to do is to come
> up with a
> comprehensive proposal and then take it to
> FSF-India, sarai.net,
> Sarovar and any others out there to see how/where
> they can help. There
> are lots of people on those forums whose experience
> will prove very
> valuable to us."
> 
> rest sarover has been just a host for various
> projects. it is not
> relevent to what we r thinking of. yes! we can
> try/will to support it
> by hosting some of the projects there.
> 
> but one thing is for sure. whatever we will do we
> shall be doing it in
> complete harmony with FSF India.
> 
> let me know your comments. 
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Puneet
> 
> Ps: I am looking forward to hear from more people on
> this. Please feel
> free to flame me if you think i am wrong at some
> point :)
> 
> On 5/6/05, Nagarjuna G. <nagarjun@gnowledge.org>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:04:25AM -0600, Ragavan
> Srinivasan wrote:
> > > On 5/5/05, Puneet Goel
> <puneet.maillist@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Puneet,
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Please have a look at the link
> > > > http://www.communitycode.org/
> > > 
> > > [snip...]
> > > 
> > > I was just about to post a similar message to
> the list. I definitely
> > > share the sentiments, and think this could be a
> wonderful opportunity
> > > to help spread the awareness/usage of free and
> open source software in
> > > India.
> > > 
> > > I think instead of targeting specific cities, we
> may want to start
> > > with specific communities of users. Folks
> working in the computer
> > > industry and the student community may be two we
> can target for
> > > starters.
> > 
> > Instead of starting a new initiative, it is better
> to strengthen the
> > existing initiatives, such as
> > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc, and
> sarovar.org.  
> > 
> > Nagarjuna
> > 
> > 
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