20 Jul
2009
20 Jul
'09
6:33 a.m.
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Anivar
Aravind<anivar.aravind(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Vikram
Vincent<vincentvikram(a)swatantra.org> wrote:
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 :-)
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 :-)
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
--
"The resources of the world are for us all to share. Let us affirm our
faith in that common cause" - Dr. Ilina Sen
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