[Fsf-friends] SAY NO TO M$-VTU CAMPAIGN : Blr : 29th Nov 2008

[renuka prasad]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) <
sensunda at cisco.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I guess it was a good programme yesterday for free software ...
>
Yes it was a nice one, many people joined hands..

> we have to concentrate on the long term aspects...
>
This could be taken up after after some meeting ( after RMS's Visits )

> please do write on what we could do better..please make this a community
> report on what you thought is good and bad..
>
Few Comments:

The Banners could have been improved

It will be better to avoid very small kids ( this is my person opinion in
the best interest of kids security - any unexpected events , who will be
held responsible -- so please avoid very small kids next time )

I am very much unhappy about using Proprietary Kannada Fonts for the
placards and NUDI software was used to make that and it was so evident that
proprietary operating system windows was used . We people should use free
softwares first and then we can tell others..

Regarding the translated version of the press release which was in kannada
could be much improved , even though jaykumar promised he will be sending
the text in unicode fonts by yesterday morning for correction which he did
not send it otherwise few corrections could have been done.


We had many people saying "NO TO M$-VTU" Lock In. the nice thing was we were
> able to have some new people From colleges : both lecturers and students ..a
> good representation from all sections of civil socitey
>
> i think somebody will have the media report and picutres..
>
> thanks
>
> senthil
>
>
>
> 0) we started with a 1 minute silence for all the tragedy in bombay
>
> 1) Lecturers : RVCE(renuka) , Chirst(viki)  , CMRIT(pramode)  ( one new
> college) ,
>
> 2) Students : christ , Amrita , bms-it, ait participated
>
> 3) We had research scholars from IISc
>
> 4) We had Dr Anja from IT for Change
>
> 5) We had a good number of programmers and people from the [proprietary]
> software industry - I think many companies were repesented ;)
>
> 6) the children from the slum computing center , wanted to make this a day
> out, to see what their teachers were upto..and sang a nice little song to
> end the program - a song which means "we are building the dreams for a new
> future" - they planned a visit to cubbon park, got late - but enjoyed the
> picnic of sorts..they were happy to see the encouragement they got from so
> many 'Drs and scientists" in blr..
>
> 7) some students from bmsit came - but didn't like the 'street mode' - we
> explained to them why its important to take streets at times - we will
> work with them and are sure they will relaise the importance of this...
>
> 8) a good amount of material - press notes , fliers were in kannada this
> time - this is important - thanks to the suggestion of sri ramadoss
>
> 9) we also had some t.v channels covering it this time apart from the
> press..i do know the press people who came - please update
>
> 10) Dr Vijoo Krishnan, Head of Political Science .
>
> 11) Dr chaterjee - a scientist with Astro Physics
>
> 12) Parth from NRCFOSS also helped with the material.
>
> 13) Anivar from SMC
>
> 14) Renuka lecturer from RVCE
>
> 12) The student fedaration of india also had lent its support and said that
> it will take the issue of free software [ the left naturally takes to free
> software i guess ]
>
> 13) if we could have had a teachers union that would have been great..
>
> 14) NRCFOSS also lent its support
>
> 15) There were folks from the kannada blogging community as well
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> senthil
>
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