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Document Freedom Day is on the 25thof March.
Plenty of teams will be taking part in the event
(I am coordinating the Kolkata team IlugCalinfo )
Is it possible for somebody to make a custom spin including:
1. Mainly destop oriented packages (updated to stable Fedora10) 2. All Open Office stuff with good collection of templates, Dictonaries 3. Scribus, GIMP, Koffice, Gnumeric, Docbook, Lua, Quanta etc (latest stable) 4. TexLive and IDEs 5. Lots of Advocacy related documentation + Whitepapers, Technical reports, Tutorials etc (for DF-Day): (I can help) 6. Documentation More (please suggest)
(a non official spin can be considered for some locales ... for rpmfusion things)
I think many teams would be able to make copies and do lot more.
Best
A. Mani
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 03:55 +0530, Mani A wrote:
Document Freedom Day is on the 25thof March.
Thanks for reminding. Let us plan some activities for the day. Some suggestions:
1) An essay competition for students (Higher Secondary?) 2) Lectures in educational institutions 3) Public lectures 4) Write letters to organisations that continue to use proprietary standards 5) Those who can, please write articles in local/national media 6) Quiz competition for students 7) Just printing posters and displaying in campuses
What do people think?
Best
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:44 AM, V. Sasi Kumar sasi.fsf@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 03:55 +0530, Mani A wrote:
Document Freedom Day is on the 25thof March.
Thanks for reminding. Let us plan some activities for the day. Some suggestions:
- An essay competition for students (Higher Secondary?)
- Lectures in educational institutions
- Public lectures
- Write letters to organisations that continue to use proprietary
standards 5) Those who can, please write articles in local/national media 6) Quiz competition for students 7) Just printing posters and displaying in campuses
What do people think?
Also Try to push something like this http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2008/12/06/dcos-agreement-on-procurement-in-s...
More tight agreement on Procurement in support of Open standards based on National (Draft) policy for Open standards for e-governance
we can push Public/Private Institutions & Political parties (elections are near) to sign this agreement
Anivar
Another suggestion. We all do have a list of email ids in our address book. Send a single email titled "use *only* open standards to protect your own freedom of knowledge " and send "on purpose " a document in an open standard which explains the subject line in details.
One may call this spamming but doing this for a good cause is not that harmful isn't it?
happy hacking. Krishnakant. On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 12:19 +0530, Anivar Aravind wrote:
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:44 AM, V. Sasi Kumar sasi.fsf@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 03:55 +0530, Mani A wrote:
Document Freedom Day is on the 25thof March.
Thanks for reminding. Let us plan some activities for the day. Some suggestions:
- An essay competition for students (Higher Secondary?)
- Lectures in educational institutions
- Public lectures
- Write letters to organisations that continue to use proprietary
standards 5) Those who can, please write articles in local/national media 6) Quiz competition for students 7) Just printing posters and displaying in campuses
What do people think?
Also Try to push something like this http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2008/12/06/dcos-agreement-on-procurement-in-s...
More tight agreement on Procurement in support of Open standards based on National (Draft) policy for Open standards for e-governance
we can push Public/Private Institutions & Political parties (elections are near) to sign this agreement
Anivar
On Feb 22, 2009 10:27am, Krishnakant krmane@gmail.com wrote:
Another suggestion.
We all do have a list of email ids in our address book.
Send a single email titled "use *only* open standards to protect your
own freedom of knowledge " and send "on purpose " a document in an open
standard which explains the subject line in details.
This is a good idea ! It would be nice if somebody draft it and forward.
~murali
One may call this spamming but doing this for a good cause is not that
harmful isn't it?
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 12:19 +0530, Anivar Aravind wrote:
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:44 AM, V. Sasi Kumar sasi.fsf@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 03:55 +0530, Mani A wrote:
Document Freedom Day is on the 25thof March.
Thanks for reminding. Let us plan some activities for the day. Some
suggestions:
- An essay competition for students (Higher Secondary?)
- Lectures in educational institutions
- Public lectures
- Write letters to organisations that continue to use proprietary
standards
- Those who can, please write articles in local/national media
- Quiz competition for students
- Just printing posters and displaying in campuses
What do people think?
Also Try to push something like this
http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2008/12/06/dcos-agreement-on-procurement-in-s...
More tight agreement on Procurement in support of Open standards
based on National (Draft) policy for Open standards for e-governance
we can push Public/Private Institutions & Political parties (elections
are near) to sign this agreement
Anivar
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On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 11:57 +0530, Krishnakant wrote:
Another suggestion. We all do have a list of email ids in our address book. Send a single email titled "use *only* open standards to protect your own freedom of knowledge " and send "on purpose " a document in an open standard which explains the subject line in details.
Sounds like an interesting idea. We can attach an odt file. If people say that they are not able to read it, then we should ask "Why?". Explain to them that odt is an international standard and ask how come they are not able to read it. Then it becomes easy to convince them that documents need standards (just as screws, plugs and a whole lot of stuff have) that everyone can follow so that such problems do not happen.
I liked the idea.
Best
On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 16:46 +0530, V. Sasi Kumar wrote:
On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 11:57 +0530, Krishnakant wrote:
Another suggestion. We all do have a list of email ids in our address book. Send a single email titled "use *only* open standards to protect your own freedom of knowledge " and send "on purpose " a document in an open standard which explains the subject line in details.
Sounds like an interesting idea. We can attach an odt file. If people say that they are not able to read it, then we should ask "Why?".
All right that also gives us a different angle to this.
We can count how many people report back that they could not read it.
We will get some interesting stats on how many people actually use softwares which work with open document formats.
happy hacking. Krishnakant.
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