[FSUG-Bangalore] Essay Competition on Software Freedom for Schools and Colleges in Bangalore.

[renuka prasad]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Sunil Abraham <sunil at mahiti.org> wrote:

>  Apologies for using my Mahiti id for this. Also apologies for posting in
> HTML.
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> Greetings on the occasion of Software Freedom Day! I am happy to announce
> that we have just couriered out the posters and a covering letter to a
> database of Bangalore schools and colleges. I am very grateful for the
> support and guidance of the FSUG-Bangalore members. Unfortunately we have
> not yet managed to launch the new CIS website. So the urls are temporary. I
> will post permanent urls once the site is up...hopefully on Monday. Please
> download the files and forward to your contacts in the academic sector. With
> thanks in advance.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Sunil
>
> Director - Policy
> Centre for Internet and Society
>
> ----
>
> In partnership with Free Software User Group - Bangalore, the Centre for
> Internet and Society is organising a essay competition for school and
> college students from Bangalore. The last date for submitting entries is
> 30th of October 2008.
>

It was mention ed November 8th is the last date --- poster says that and
also we  finalized the same right....


> 3 prizes of Rs. 3,000/- each are available for college students. And 3
> prizes of Rs. 1,000/- each are available for school students.
>
>  *Poster and Cover Letter* Download an electronic copy of the poster<http://www.cis-india.org:8081/cis/advocacy/floss/software-freedom-day/hiran.jpg>and covering
> letter<http://www.cis-india.org:8081/cis/advocacy/floss/software-freedom-day/covering-letter.pdf>that has been sent to around 350 school and colleges in Bangalore city.
> *Process of Judging* Volunteers from the Free Software User Group will
> together constitute a committee that will anonymously and individual score
> all entries. The score will be consolidated across judges to determine the
> final winners.  *Terms and Conditions*
>
>    1. Copyright: The copyright of the essay will remain with the
>    participant.
>    2. License: All submissions will automatically be considered licensed
>    under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 India License.
>    3. The collective decision of the judges will be considered final.
>
>  *Rules*
>
>    1. Participants must be bona fide students of a school or college in
>    Bangalore.
>    2. Word limit for essays is 1200 words.
>    3. Essays can be submitted either in English or in Kannada.
>    4. Electronic submission should be in an Open Format [ Text - .txt,
>    Rich Text Format .rtf, Open Document Format .odt, Portable Document Format
>    .pdf]
>
>  * Thanks*
>
>    1. Free Software Users Grou<http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsug-bangalore/>p
>    - Bangalore for acting as co-organiser for the competition.
>    2. Renuka Prasad, Professor, R.V.College of Engineering for the
>    concept, providing leadership and organising the databases of schools and
>    colleges.
>    3. Anivar Aravind for providing advise and support.
>    4. Hiran Venugopalan <http://hiraneffects.blogspot.com/>, Engineering
>    Student, for designing the poster.
>
>
>
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