<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Vikram Vincent <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vincentvikram@gmail.com">vincentvikram@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Liberation Serif, serif">Meeting
attended
by:<br>Senthil<br>Vikram<br>Balaji<br>Justin<br>Rakesh<br>Arun<br>Rafeek<br>Rasinesh<br>Krishna
Kumar<br>Nidhin<br>Nirmal</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Liberation Serif, serif">Surendra<br><br>Minutes
of the meeting:<br>The agenda discussed was the VTU-Microsoft tie
up.<br>Equivalent to providing free tobacco to students and getting
them hooked.<br>NRCFOSS and other syllabus focussing on free sofware
and open standards are already available.<br>Many institutions like
IISc and IITs are also good examples.<br>Free software alternates to
be suggested to VTU instead of proprietary software.<br>"Say no
to vendor lock-in in education" campaign<br>Alternate catchy titles:
<br>Today's dreamspark tomorrow's dark dreams<br>etc...<br><br>Awareness
campaign vigil on the 29th of September at 5PM at either Town Hall or
Gandhi statue, MG road.<br><br>Ideas for the campaign:<br>-- tying
hands and books with hand cuffs<br>-- humourous posters.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Liberation Serif, serif">Since
multiple groups and teams will collaborate on this campaign it was
decided to have all participate under the joint banner of "Volunteers
for Free Software – Karnataka"</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Liberation Serif, serif">The
participating groups are:</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Liberation Serif, serif">--
Swatantra.Org</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Liberation Serif, serif">--
Kannada bloggers</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Liberation Serif, serif">--
C3 computing centre</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Liberation Serif, serif">--
FSUG Bangalore</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Liberation Serif, serif">--
Anybody else </font></p></blockquote><div><br>Where are the people who are associated with VTU? <br><br>The above plan and below things looks very nice for a general protest against the tie ups mentioned above, but without a single concern for all those who are associated with VTU i think this will not be very effective w.r.t VTU-M$ tie-up.<br>
<br>First all of us have to understand how university is functioning.<br><br>Where are the Management , Priciapals,BOE chairmans, Representation from Different colleges , BOE committee members , Syllabus Board , (policy makers / enforcing authorities / applying bodies ) without having a single person associated with the protest i feel it would not be very effective ...<br>
<br>Whatever / whoever approaches finally it is voice from the people who are associated with the university has to be raised and we have to find a way of involving those first .<br><br>We are already late -------- problem is we are lazy ( i am referring myself and others within VTU like me )<br>
Microsoft / IBM /Sun / Infosys / Wipro /Adobe ...etc etc has already identified representatives in each college and are paid as par to the industries for imparting the proprietary technologies with and also apart from curriculum.....<br>
<br>I am seeing regular circulars where by default each college has to depute faculties / colleges for thier regular workshops and all those circulars are coming under VC -letter pad<br><br>Two satellites regularly braodcasts tutorials / courses about the proprietary technologies ---<br>
<br>What are the ways left for us to tackle ............................................????????<br><br>So my suggestion is to make first students / faculties / HOD/Pricipals/Management associated with VTU aware about the problems of having proprietary technologies in the curriculum , and awareness has to happen in each and every campus <br>
<br>( if we suggest the changes ----------------- who are the people who will train the trainers and who will give any support whenever required , these are the question i have already faced when i previously approached for using the alternate for TALLY -- we should be ready with answers - is what i meant.....<br>
<br>First of all we should see that free software community representatives are invloved in syllabus framing commitee --- without that how will any one even look at the posssibilities......................who are the people whom they can involve in the board of syllabus framing commitee....<br>
How can any one invlove a stranger in the commitee --------these are the challenges that we need to face ------------Thats why first we should take people associated with the university in to confidence and then proceed ...<br>
<br>Involving people who are associated with VTU is as important as having a awareness program / protest / syllabus review .............<br><br>Think abt this and lets work keeping this important point in mind---------------is my suggestion ..<br>
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><br><br>Responsibilities:<br>
Press meet: Jaykumar,
Justin<br>Try to involve Girish Karnad or UR Ananta Murthy, CK Meena,
Nemichandra, Arundathi Nag -- Senthil, Balaji<br>DTP and design: Arun
and Rakesh<br>Police permission: Vikram<br>Prepare team to meet VTU
special officer to give representation: Surendra</font> Please fill in any details I may have missed out.<br></p></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Liberation Serif, serif"></font></p><font color="#888888"><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Vikram Vincent<br>
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