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Hi Anivar,<br>
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The state wide campaign sounds really good. We should try and emulate
the Kerala model where SPACE and other agencies helped the government
implement FOSS. IT for Change would be very eager and happy to work
with FSUG and our existing contacts in Govt. of Karnataka to help get
this started.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Vinay.<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Vinay Sreenivasa
IT for Change
91-98805-95032
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vinay@itforchange.net">vinay@itforchange.net</a>
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:38 AM, renuka prasad <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:renukaprasadb@gmail.com"><renukaprasadb@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Arun M <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:arun@gnu.org.in"><arun@gnu.org.in></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">May be this should start from Karnataka. FSUG Banglore team may be able
to start working on this. Can we get new government in Karnataka to
endorse
free software philosophy and begin the migration of schools to free
software ?
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On software patent meeting Vinay (IT4change) shared a news about Free
software powered systems already reached karnataka Govt schools. I
couldn't able to follow this with him yet. I think vinay is also a
member of FSUG-Bangalore List. Please share more info on this
AFAIK it is not happened through a Political decision. A member from
IISc in Expert committee of this project suggested GNU/Linux as the
Pre-installed Operating system.
I think it opened up a huge possibility for spreading Free software in
Karnataka. We have to find out the existing status first and and
create a strategy for a statewide campaign.
We need more volunteers all over the state to start this initiative
and Creatively intervene in this
Anivar
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<pre wrap="">i think we should make a proper ground work and then approach with a more
meticulous proposal for adopting free softwares at school levels and then
slowly to all the other sectors..
I am interested to work towards this , can FSF-India ( or any body who feels
that they are one among responsible person of the Free Society ) give more
guidance about the approach that we need to make..as already it has
experience in making several types of proposals at different levels and to
different people.
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