Re: [Fsf-friends] Science Olympiads... Prof Vijay A Singh

-- Anand Babu Free as in Freedom <www.gnu.org> ,----[ "Frederick Noronha (FN)" fred@bytesforall.org ] | During our recent GNU/LUG meeting in Goa, I had the chance of meeting | Prof Vijay A Singh, the National Coordinator of the Science | Olympiads. It was nice to know that Dr Singh (IIT Kanpur, on | deputation at the Science Olympaids, is also a part of the FSF-Friends | list. | | Wonder if the ideals of Free Software and FLOSS could be somehow | networked with the National Olympaid, so that we could benefit from | each other's synergies. Incidentally, Prof Singh is at the Homi Bhabha | Centre for Science Education, so it could be easy for Prof Nagarjuna | to build the links too. | | BTW, we have just shifted the venue of the GNU/LUG meetings in Goa to | the Goa Science Centre, located at a nice setting on the Miramar | beach. Our argument was that while the GSCP (Goa Science Centre | Panjim) is promoting science, we are promoting technology -- as such a | made-for-each-other match. We hope that we can take the idealism of | FLOSS to the younger generation, and thus help take ahead the agenda | of the GSCP, while at the same time gaining from a suitable venue for | holding our meets. Let's see how this works. In the past, our Goa | group had also closely networked with the Computer Society of India | (Goa chapter). The only handicap was the lack of hardware for demos at | their office premises, which they were very generous to loan out to us | without any charge for our meetings held over the past two to three | years. FN `----