Some of us in Thiruvananthapuram met on 6th evening and decided that we should celebrate the annual day of FSF India on July 21st. The group included Sathish Babu, M. Arun, V.K. Sajith and a few others. We are thinking of a one day programme that will include a public meeting, discussions and an exhibition. The exhibition will have posters on philosophy, posters on software and computers demonstrating different kinds of software. We hope that the function will draw some media attention and help in popularising Free Software. Applications like Blender, Gimp, OpenOffice and Scribus could attract both the public and media.
An email discussion group, fsf-kerala@cc4.tifr.res.in, was also formed to discuss our activities, so that we could think of other activities in the future at Thiruvananthapuram, and also co-ordinate with people in other places who may be interested in conducting such programmes elsewhere.
Any suggestions from members are welcome.
V. Sasi Kumar said on Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:01:41PM +0530,:
to discuss our activities, so that we could think of other activities in the future at Thiruvananthapuram, and also co-ordinate with people in other places who may be interested in conducting such programmes elsewhere.
Decentralised celebrations by local user groups will, IMO be more effective.
And we should concenterate on freedom.
By July 21st, Gimp will 2.1, unstable version 2 of OOo will be available, and Scribus will be at 1.3. The Linux kernel 2.6.8 will be in RC1, and 2.4.28 will be out.
My September 21, and for every third month after that, you can increment each version number by 2.
Good thing? Yes. Definitely.
But, the movement has to focus one issue - `freedom'. More than install fests and demos, the occassion should be used to talk about freedom and importance of free software. Once people decide thay want freedom, the need for instllfest as means of attracting people to the GNU will vanish. But to help them actually use the software, we need such demos and fests.
BTW, we keep on forgetting the HURD kernel.
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 01:36, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
V. Sasi Kumar said on Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:01:41PM +0530,:
to discuss our activities, so that we could think of other activities in the future at Thiruvananthapuram, and also co-ordinate with people in other places who may be interested in conducting such programmes elsewhere.
Decentralised celebrations by local user groups will, IMO be more effective.
Yes, certainly. But we need to discuss among at least the people in the state so that these could be venues for people to get together, and also to get suggestions from other enthusiasts in the state.
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