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Apologies for using my Mahiti id for this. Also apologies for posting in HTML. <BR>
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Dear Friends,<BR>
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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.<BR>
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Best wishes,<BR>
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Sunil<BR>
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Director - Policy<BR>
Centre for Internet and Society<BR>
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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. 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. <BR>
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<B><FONT SIZE="4">Poster and Cover Letter</FONT></B>
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Download an electronic copy of the <A HREF="http://www.cis-india.org:8081/cis/advocacy/floss/software-freedom-day/hiran.jpg">poster</A> and <A HREF="http://www.cis-india.org:8081/cis/advocacy/floss/software-freedom-day/covering-letter.pdf">covering letter</A> that has been sent to around 350 school and colleges in Bangalore city.
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<B><FONT SIZE="4">Process of Judging</FONT></B>
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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.
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<B><FONT SIZE="4">Terms and Conditions</FONT></B>
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<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=1>Copyright: The copyright of the essay will remain with the participant.
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=2>License: All submissions will automatically be considered licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 India License.
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=3>The collective decision of the judges will be considered final.
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<B><FONT SIZE="4">Rules</FONT></B>
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<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=1>Participants must be bona fide students of a school or college in Bangalore.
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=2>Word limit for essays is 1200 words.
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=3>Essays can be submitted either in English or in Kannada.
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=4>Electronic submission should be in an Open Format [ Text - .txt, Rich Text Format .rtf, Open Document Format .odt, Portable Document Format .pdf]
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<B><FONT SIZE="4"> Thanks</FONT></B>
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<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=1><A HREF="http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsug-bangalore/">Free Software Users Grou</A>p - Bangalore for acting as co-organiser for the competition.
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=2>Renuka Prasad, Professor, R.V.College of Engineering for the concept, providing leadership and organising the databases of schools and colleges.
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=3>Anivar Aravind for providing advise and support.
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=4><A HREF="http://hiraneffects.blogspot.com/">Hiran Venugopalan</A>, Engineering Student, for designing the poster.
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