On Feb 22, 2009 10:27am, Krishnakant <krmane@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another suggestion.
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> We all do have a list of email ids in our address book.
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> Send a single email titled "use *only* open standards to protect your
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> own freedom of knowledge " and send "on purpose " a document in an open
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> standard which explains the subject line in details.
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This is a good idea !
It would be nice if somebody draft it and forward.

~murali
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> One may call this spamming but doing this for a good cause is not that
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> harmful isn't it?
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> happy hacking.
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> Krishnakant.
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>        On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 12:19 +0530, Anivar Aravind wrote:
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> > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:44 AM, V. Sasi Kumar sasi.fsf@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 03:55 +0530, Mani A wrote:
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> > >
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> > >> Document Freedom Day is on the 25thof March.
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> > >
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> > > Thanks for reminding. Let us plan some activities for the day. Some
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> > > suggestions:
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> > >
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> > > 1) An essay competition for students (Higher Secondary?)
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> > > 2) Lectures in educational institutions
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> > > 3) Public lectures
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> > > 4) Write letters to organisations that continue to use proprietary
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> > > standards
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> > > 5) Those who can, please write articles in local/national media
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> > > 6) Quiz competition for students
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> > > 7) Just printing posters and displaying in campuses
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> > >
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> > > What do people think?
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> >
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> > Also Try to push something like this
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> > http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2008/12/06/dcos-agreement-on-procurement-in-support-of-interoperability-and-open-standards-emerges-at-3rd-igf-hyderabad/
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> > More tight agreement on Procurement in support of Open standards
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> > based on National (Draft) policy for Open standards for e-governance
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> >
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> > we can push Public/Private Institutions & Political parties (elections
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> > are near) to sign this agreement
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> >
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> > Anivar
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> >
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