[Fsf-friends] [FSUG-Bangalore] Fwd: Indian political party turns to FOSS

[Anivar Aravind]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:38 AM, renuka prasad <renukaprasadb at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Arun M <arun at gnu.org.in> wrote:
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>> May be this should start from Karnataka. FSUG Banglore team may be able
>> to start working on this. Can we get new government in Karnataka to
>> endorse
>> free software philosophy and begin the migration of schools to free
>> software ?

On software patent meeting Vinay (IT4change) shared a news about Free
software powered systems already reached karnataka Govt schools.  I
couldn't able to follow this with him yet. I think vinay is also a
member of FSUG-Bangalore List. Please share more info on this

AFAIK it is not happened through a Political decision. A member from
IISc in  Expert committee of this project suggested GNU/Linux as the
Pre-installed Operating system.

I think it opened up a huge possibility for spreading Free software in
Karnataka.  We have to find out the existing status first and  and
create a strategy for a statewide campaign.

We need more volunteers all over the state to start this initiative
and Creatively intervene in this

Anivar


> i think we should make a proper ground work and then approach with a more
> meticulous  proposal for adopting free softwares at school levels and then
> slowly to all the other sectors..
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> I am interested to work towards this , can FSF-India ( or any body who feels
> that they are one among responsible person of the Free Society )  give more
> guidance about the approach that we need to make..as already it has
> experience in making several types  of proposals  at different levels and to
> different people.
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