20 Feb
2009
20 Feb
'09
10:25 p.m.
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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
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A. Mani
Member, Cal. Math. Soc
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21 Feb
21 Feb
6:14 a.m.
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
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V. Sasi Kumar
Free Software Foundation of India
http://swatantryam.blogspot.com
6:49 a.m.
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:44 AM, V. Sasi Kumar <sasi.fsf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 03:55 +0530, Mani A wrote:
Also Try to push something like this
http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2008/12/06/dcos-agreement-on-procurement-in-…
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
--
Any responsible politician should be encouraging a home grown Free
Software industry because it creates the basis for future jobs.
Learning Windows is like learning to eat every meal at McDonalds.
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? 
22 Feb
22 Feb
6:27 a.m.
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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 03:55 +0530, Mani A wrote:
Also Try to push something like this
http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2008/12/06/dcos-agreement-on-procurement-in-…
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
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? 
11:09 a.m.
On Feb 22, 2009 10:27am, Krishnakant <krmane(a)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(a)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:
> >
> > 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?
>
> Also Try to push something like this
>
> 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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11:16 a.m.
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
--
V. Sasi Kumar
Free Software Foundation of India
http://swatantryam.blogspot.com
11:47 a.m.
On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 16:46 +0530, V. Sasi Kumar wrote:
On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 11:57 +0530, Krishnakant wrote:
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.
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?".
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