---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sunil Abraham sunil@mahiti.org Date: Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:58 PM Subject: [FSUG-Bangalore] Essay Competition on Software Freedom for Schools and Colleges in Bangalore. To: Free Software Users Group - Bangalore fsug-bangalore@mm.gnu.org.in
Apologies for using my Mahiti id for this. Also apologies for posting in HTML.
Dear Friends,
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.
Best wishes,
Sunil
Director - Policy Centre for Internet and Society
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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.
Poster and Cover Letter
Download an electronic copy of the poster http://www.cis-india.org:8081/cis/advocacy/floss/software-freedom-day/hiran.jpg and covering letter http://www.cis-india.org:8081/cis/advocacy/floss/software-freedom-day/covering-letter.pdf that has been sent to around 350 school and colleges in Bangalore city.
Process of Judging
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.
Terms and Conditions
Copyright: The copyright of the essay will remain with the participant. License: All submissions will automatically be considered licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 India License. The collective decision of the judges will be considered final.
Rules
Participants must be bona fide students of a school or college in Bangalore. Word limit for essays is 1200 words. Essays can be submitted either in English or in Kannada. Electronic submission should be in an Open Format [ Text - .txt, Rich Text Format .rtf, Open Document Format .odt, Portable Document Format .pdf]
Thanks
Free Software Users Group - Bangalore for acting as co-organiser for the competition. Renuka Prasad, Professor, R.V.College of Engineering for the concept, providing leadership and organising the databases of schools and colleges. Anivar Aravind for providing advise and support. Hiran Venugopalan, Engineering Student, for designing the poster.
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