[Fsf-india] Moving on...

[Radhakrishnan CV]

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 at 23:31, Gopal.V wrote:

   > We have enough and more resources but what is lacking here is the
   > knowledge about the resource and effective coordination between them.
   	What is lacking is interest. The attitude conveyed is that
   of *pure* apathy. The list wakes up only when RMS ventures near
   India.

That is because the leaders had been drowsy, however, they have 
woken up now and let us join forces to help them.

   	I think this was what everybody intended. We would really
   like to know what happened behind the scenes.

Ah, do we really interested to know what transpired amongst the
board members. No, not at all. I value their prerogative to think
and talk whatever they wish among themselves. What we are concerned
is their ideas to join hands to propagate free software among the
masses, write whatever missing items in the current free system so
as to make the system useable by a variety of users, intitiate an
active role in the social engineering process so far as the software
freedom is concerned, etc.

I firmly believe that FSF India Board can initiate talks with the
authors of the GNU/Linux software written by Indians as enlisted by
Frederic in this list and elsewhere a while ago, so that volunteers
can join them to make those pieces a huge success. I should
appreciate the steps now being taken by Nagarjuna to coordinate
various groups working on the localisation projects which is in the
right direction and sounds promising.

And the listers too have responsibilities to coerce the Board to get
on to work with creative criticism and positive support for each and
every constructive call of the Board. Even if it might retard things
for a while or lead to flame wars at times, we need not get
disappointed, it has its own positive effects. So, we as the listers
should not content ourselves with the expectation that the Board
will do the job so that we can enjoy the proceeds.

   > Board via it's communication should make sure that the every list
   > members feels that they are part of FSF and can contribute to it.
   	Where is FSF ?. There is no real work done by FSF India. Makes me
   think I'm making a mistake assigning "(c) FSF-India" for my code. 
   	
Need not make a hasty inference now, wait a little more. I hopefully
believe that things will move in the right direction.

-- 
Radhakrishnan

ps: Gopal: a humble suggestion: could you leave a line space between
the quoted portion of the mail and yours, since it is clumsy looking
that makes it difficult to figure out which is quoted and which is
yours?