[Fsf-india] Value - moving on

[Rajkumar S.]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Tapan S. Parikh wrote:

> Here are some concrete initiatives that could be taken up:
>
> - doing free consulting and support for NGOs and development
> groups to introduce free software

Can we collect the details of NGOs and other groups so that we can get
in touch with them. Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad is one such
organization in Kerala.

Any one involved with NGOs here?

> - setting up training and education forums and trying to get
> people, particularly from these communities, involved

Rather, can we work on creating some training material so that the
NGOs can use it to learn themselves, This will be more productive i
the long run as they need not be dependent in us.

One such example is the tutorial collection of TugIndia.
<http://www.tug.org.in/tutorials.html> If we can get about 10 - 15
people and if each can write a chapter we can create some nice
tutorial and use this mail list to answer the queries for the tutorial
users.

> - analyzing the needs of local language and rural software in
> India and start developing tools and applications

This is a very important step. I am looking fwd to attend the
conference you are organizing. I myself is working on and off on
various stuff for Malayalam.

raj