[FSUG-Bangalore] OT: Appeal for Bihar relief fund

[renuka prasad]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:51 AM, James Mathew <james at gnu.org.in> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:45 AM, James Mathew <james at gnu.org.in> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:33 AM, sujith h <sujith.h at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I think this is an off topic for the list.
> >
> > First of all, this message was clearly marked OT.
>
> Clarification: OT was not in the original mail, and was inserted by Sujith.
>

thanks for the information --- it would be better to insert while sending
mail at first -- otherwise unnecessary waste of time, energy , and
bandwidth.

sometime people ask money for conducting activities relevant to free
software from free software foundation,

and then some people are interested to take help of free software movement /
foundation to send money for our brothers and sisters who have got affected
by floods,

and some are interested to make name and fame either using free softwares or
free software movement or free software foundation..

--All this is fine --- free software could be used for whatever purpose a
user wants.

BUT --- how many of us have really contributed to free software foundation
--- and how many have we motivated to become fellow / associate of free
software foundation .. ----------- i dont know how many of us ( including me
)

carrying free softwares philosophy to any walk of life is very good -- but
practical issues like when we go and ask for money we need proper channel to
approach...
( there are many we can approach ---- my suggestion is if any one is relly
interested collect some receipt books from fsf-india office and then go for
collection --so that the one who donates will have a tax benifit and some
money will go to fsf-india also )

if some one from outside our country contact for donating looking at the
mails either in the local fsug or fsf-friends list who do they contact ?
fsf-india otherwise if a newbeee looks at the mail and wants to donate where
he should ? it is to fsf-india then only he/she can get some tax benifit and
also fsf can forward that amount which will good for all......

LETS contribute to fsf-india and request fsf-india to forward the funds to
the relief fund.....if at all we are so concerned about free
softwares,brothers and sisters in bihar...... and the integrity of our
nation...

let us take associate fellowship --- visit the link below for further
details

http://www.gnu.org.in/associate-fellowship-of-fsf-india


_______________________________________________
FSUG-Bangalore mailing list
FSUG-Bangalore at mm.gnu.org.in
http://mm.gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsug-bangalore
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsug-bangalore/attachments/20080910/53062100/attachment.htm