Hey Senthil,<br>The awareness campaign was a good start. We have a long way to go in influencing University policies. The issue of democracy must be made integral to all our campaigns in Karnataka.<br>Without a democratic approach no one is going to accept our efforts however good-willed it may be.<br>
It is important to involve the teachers, the students and this must be a participative process.<br>In solidarity with the Free Software Movement,<br>Vikram Vincent<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/30 Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sensunda@cisco.com">sensunda@cisco.com</a>></span><br>
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<p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span>Hi,</span></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">I guess it was a good programme yesterday for free
software ...we have to concentrate on the long term aspects...please do write on
what we could do better..please make this a community report on what you thought
is good and bad..</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">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 </font></p>
<p><span><font face="Arial" size="2">i think somebody will
have the media report and picutres..</font></span></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>thanks</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>senthil</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span></span></font> </p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">0) we started with a 1 minute silence for all the
tragedy in bombay</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">1) Lecturers : RVCE<span>(renuka) </span>, Chirst<span>(viki) </span> , CMRIT<span>(pramode) </span> ( one new college) ,</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">2) Students : christ , Amrita<span> </span>, bms-it, ait participated</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">3) We had research scholars from IISc<span> </span></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">4) We had Dr Anja from IT for Change</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">5) We had a good number of programmers and people
from the [proprietary] software industry - I think many companies were
repesented ;)</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">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 <span>- but enjoyed the picnic of sorts..they
were happy to see the encouragement they got from so many 'Drs and scientists"
in blr..</span></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">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<span> - we will work with them and are sure
they will relaise the importance of this...</span></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">8) a good amount of material - press notes , fliers
were in kannada this time - this is important - thanks to the suggestion of sri
ramadoss</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">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</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">10) Dr Vijoo Krishnan, Head of Political Science .
</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">11) Dr chaterjee - a scientist with Astro
Physics</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">12) Parth from NRCFOSS also helped with the
material.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">13) Anivar from SMC</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">14) Renuka lecturer from RVCE</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">12) The student fedaration of india also had
lent its support and said that it will take the issue of free software<span> [ the left naturally takes to free software i guess ]
</span></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">13) if we could have had a teachers union that would
have been great..</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">14) NRCFOSS also lent its support</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">15) There were folks from the kannada blogging
community as well </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">senthil</font></p></div></div>
<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Vikram Vincent<br>+919448810822<br><a href="http://swatantra.org/">http://swatantra.org/</a><br>