[Fsf-friends] FSD: campaign to spread Free software awareness in Karnataka

[sujith h]

On 4/8/07, Praveen A <pravi.a at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2007/4/8, sujith h <sujith.h at gmail.com>:
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > Today I attended a meeting of Forum for Science and Development(FSD),
> > Banglore.
> I could not attend the meeting because I was attending a training on
> "Jumpstart to Localization" for the last 3 days.

That's ok praveen.


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> > Bangalore
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> > http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign
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> >They are planning 2 start a campaign to increase the spread
> > the awareness & usage of free software in colleges, schools and among
> > NGOs in Karnataka.  The energy, motivation & the spirit in the FSD
> > meeting was very high even though they have slight misconceptions
> > about some terminologies. I hope our Friends like Vijoo, Vickram etc
> > on FSD can correct it soon .
>
> I am confident that they will do that, we can help there too.


For sure.

> But I feel that  this campaign needs a
> > lot of volunteers to achieve the goals.
>
> I agree and I volunteer for it.
> > I think Free software
> > Community in Bangalore must support & help FSD to make this dream into
> > reality.
>
> We have started a wiki page for distributed co-ordination this campaign.
>
> If you want to help out with this, you can sign up at the wiki page.
> http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_karnataka
>
> (The wiki at bangalore.gnu.org.in was not editable so I could not
> create a page there)


Good move!!!

>
> > We can make use of our experiences in Spreading free software
> > awareness in Bangalore Colleges  for this purpose. Even the students
> > become active through our recent campaigns on colleges like BMS can
> > also contribute a lot to this campaign.
> >
>
> I will post a mail to bmslug and I am sure they will be able to help
> out in this very important campaign.
>
> How about making some posters, banners  and T shirts, any volunteers ??
> > waiting for your suggessions.
>
> Some of my suggestion, looking forward to others suggestions too.
>
> Lets Rock!!!
>
> Cheers
> Praveen
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