On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Anivar Aravindanivar.aravind@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Vikram Vincentvincentvikram@swatantra.org wrote:
First they ignore you Then they laugh at you Then they they fight you Then you win
- Gandhi Neat quote on the FSMK T-shirt! :)
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
With this message a few geeks at Free Software Movement Karnataka (FSMK) have been working on popularizing the open source software in the government schools and offices. "Karnataka Government decided to use free software for 8th 9th and 10th standards as a part of their ICT@Schools project(Information and Communication Technology). As of now It is vendor controlled project (Educom, EVeron, etc are implementing it) under BOOT (Build Operate Own & Transfer)scheme. For making it more accessible to teachers & students(IT enabled learning), we are initiating this training as a pilot project in bangalore. This is organised by DSERT and a Consortium of Free Software Organisations in Bangalore (FSUG Bangalore, Sampada, FSMK, ITfC, DeepRoot Linux, IT4Change & Moving Republic are the organisations associated.)", said Naveen Mudunuru, an active volunteer with FSMK.
I believe it is a quote from my facebook album http://bit.ly/iBlKI No issues even though same copy paste attributed to naveen . Joining with the spirit :-)
Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust" : http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty. In the ten years that we have worked together, I can recall only one case of miscoordination of work. On that occasion, I discovered that we both had written the same 20-line assembly language program. I compared the sources and was astounded to find that they matched character-for-character. The result of our work together has been far greater than the work that we each contributed. "
Though in this case there seems to have been a mistake in attribution :-)
Also I would like to comment the contribution of Volunteers of FSMK , FSUG Bangalore , Anupama & Vinay from IT4Change , Omshivprakash from Sampada (for his excellent Kannada Training material for open office) , Madhusudhan & team for Installation of Distro in SSA Lab, SSA staff , DSERT & Everon (the vendor)
Naveen's classes were fabulous as usual & his coordination is also commendable .
Cheers to all who made it as a success
~ Regards Anivar Aravind
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