<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/5/17 Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) <<a href="mailto:sensunda@cisco.com">sensunda@cisco.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b>
<a href="mailto:fsug-bangalore-bounces@mm.gnu.org.in" target="_blank">fsug-bangalore-bounces@mm.gnu.org.in</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:fsug-bangalore-bounces@mm.gnu.org.in" target="_blank">fsug-bangalore-bounces@mm.gnu.org.in</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Vikram
Vincent<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 17, 2008 10:19 AM</font></div><div class="Ih2E3d">Having chanced upon Benjamin "Mako" Hill's blog, I'm using
his appeal to appeal to you all to join as Associate Members of <a href="http://fsf.org.in/" target="_blank">FSF-India</a>.<br>
<h2><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Associate Fellowship of FSF
India <a href="http://www.gnu.org.in/fellowship" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org.in/fellowship</a></span></font><br></h2>"Now is
the time to join and give to Free Software Foundation. 2008 is going to be
extraordinarily important year for free software.
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
</div><div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">>> We can organise an event around this..in blr..raise
funds for fsf and also use it as a campaign </font></span><span> <font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">for the
free software movement </font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">>> this is what we can do </font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">>> get atleast 200 members from ITI KGF , Tumkur SSIT , BMS
and RVCE colleges - aim at 200 * 100 = 20,000 Rs.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">>> work with Deeproot and other software friends and get atleast 20
professional members = 20 * 2000 = 40, 000 rs </font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">>> if the above estimate looks too low for our strength here -
please fix bigger goals </font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">>> can we also distribute RMS book : Free Software, Free Society:
Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman during this drive : a low cost
edition maybe</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">>> we can also start a small bookstore / merchandise store for blr
: of both technical ( emacs , gnu c library ) and books on free
software philosophy in blr / see t-shirt usb/ fsf usb key and so on
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">>> we can also approach 5 new colleges - and try and for free
software user groups in these colleges </font></span></div>
<div><span></span></div></div></blockquote></div> <br>Yes. We can experiment with these ideas and see which ones click.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Vikram Vincent<br>+919448810822<br><a href="http://www.swatantra.org/">http://www.swatantra.org/</a><br>
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