No subject

all sections of civil socitey=20


0) we started with a 1 minute silence for all the tragedy in bombay
1) Lecturers : RVCE, Chirst , CMRIT ( one new college) ,=20
2) Students :  christ , Amrita eng college , bms-it, ait participated
3) We had research scholars from IISc
4) We had Dr Anja from IT for Change
5) We had a good number of programmers and people from the [proprietary]
software industry - I think many companies were repesented ;) =20
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 and
messed up
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
8) a good amount of material - press notes , fliers were in kannada this
time - this is important - thanks to the suggestion of sri ramadoss=20
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
10) Dr Vijoo Krishnan, Head of Political Science .=20
11) Dr chaterjee - a scientist with Astro Physics
12) Parth from NRCFOSS also helped with the material.
13) Anivar from SMC=20
14) Renuka lecturer from RVCE=20
12) The student fedaration of india also had lent its support and said
that it will take the issue of free software
13) if we could have had a teachers union that would have been great..
14) NRCFOSS also lent its support=20
15) There were folks from the kannada blogging community as well=20


Thanks
senthil