24 Oct
2008
24 Oct
'08
1:26 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Aswin M. Sahadevan <aswinms(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This is not the first time that a party has thrown its weight behind
Free Software.
(http://www.cxotoday.com/India/Interview/We_advocate_usage_of_free_software_…).
James
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Adopting Free software is certainly a good step
for a political party.
We need to hail BJP for this decision.
IMO, we must hail BJP but we should hail them as just another bunch of
users but not give them cult status. It should just be looked at as some
more users adopting free software and not as a political party. I mean,
we shouldn't be endorsing BJP at the end of the day. 
24 Oct
24 Oct
2:48 a.m.
New subject: [FSUG-Bangalore] Fwd: Indian political party turns to FOSS
It is good that more and more people are realising importance of free software.
We should try to get policy support from these political parties.
BJP starting to use free software is a quantitative
improvement(increasing free software usage), now we should try to take
that to next level, qualitative improvement(supporting free software
philosophy).
May be this should start from Karnataka. FSUG Banglore team may be able
to start working on this. Can we get new government in Karnataka to endorse
free software philosophy and begin the migration of schools to free software ?
This is not the first time that a party has thrown its weight behind
Free Software.
(http://www.cxotoday.com/India/Interview/We_advocate_usage_of_free_software_…).
Adopting Free software is certainly a good step for a
political party.
We need to hail BJP for this decision.
IMO, we must hail BJP but we should hail them as just another bunch of
users but not give them cult status. It should just be looked at as some
more users adopting free software and not as a political party. I mean,
we shouldn't be endorsing BJP at the end of the day. 
4:08 a.m.
New subject: [FSUG-Bangalore] Fwd: Indian political party turns to FOSS
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Arun M <arun(a)gnu.org.in> wrote:
May be this should start from Karnataka. FSUG Banglore
team may be able
to start working on this. Can we get new government in Karnataka to endorse
free software philosophy and begin the migration of schools to free
software ?
i think we should make a proper ground work and then approach with a more
meticulous proposal for adopting free softwares at school levels and then
slowly to all the other sectors..
I am interested to work towards this , can FSF-India ( or any body who feels
that they are one among responsible person of the Free Society ) give more
guidance about the approach that we need to make..as already it has
experience in making several types of proposals at different levels and to
different people.
4:31 a.m.
New subject: [FSUG-Bangalore] Fwd: Indian political party turns to FOSS
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:38 AM, renuka prasad <renukaprasadb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Arun M <arun(a)gnu.org.in> wrote:
>
> May be this should start from Karnataka. FSUG Banglore team may be able
> to start working on this. Can we get new government in Karnataka to
> endorse
> free software philosophy and begin the migration of schools to free
> software ?
On software patent meeting Vinay (IT4change) shared a news about Free
software powered systems already reached karnataka Govt schools. I
couldn't able to follow this with him yet. I think vinay is also a
member of FSUG-Bangalore List. Please share more info on this
AFAIK it is not happened through a Political decision. A member from
IISc in Expert committee of this project suggested GNU/Linux as the
Pre-installed Operating system.
I think it opened up a huge possibility for spreading Free software in
Karnataka. We have to find out the existing status first and and
create a strategy for a statewide campaign.
We need more volunteers all over the state to start this initiative
and Creatively intervene in this
Anivar
i think we should make a proper ground work and then
approach with a more
meticulous proposal for adopting free softwares at school levels and then
slowly to all the other sectors..
I am interested to work towards this , can FSF-India ( or any body who feels
that they are one among responsible person of the Free Society ) give more
guidance about the approach that we need to make..as already it has
experience in making several types of proposals at different levels and to
different people.
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