Khuzaima A. Lakdawala wrote:

An Open Forum of Free Software Movement was held in the Dept of Polymer Science,Cochin University of Science and Technology,Cochin,Kerala,India on 25th

Great news. I am an alumnus of CUSAT, and used to teach the evening LL.B. students.

(i) To form a core group of people interested in Free Software

Make sure that there are people from the dept fo computer Sc. and of course, B. Tech UG students.

(ii) To form an egroup for Free Software Movement in

Make sure that you do not end up as a 'virtual group'. There are enough people (users) fed up with vulnerablities of proprietary s/w, at least in the school of legal studies. Only, you have to train them to use GNU/Linux systems.

I got my first lesson in 'vendor dependence' from here. In 1996, the Sch. fo Legl. Studies had started giving 'training' to staff and students @ Rs. 25/- for two weeks' training to four persons on a single system. When I went back there, this time as a teacher, I found that there was network, with all its allied vulnerablities. The users were quite fed up with frequent virul attacks and re-installations. But, no one was interested in having a GNU / Linux installation coz. they were not comfortable with the interface.

(iii) To start loading Linux in the systems of interested users

Incidentally, I have observed that a large number of systems ( in several depts. ) run unauthorised copies.