During our recent GNU/LUG meeting in Goa, I had the chance of meeting Prof Vijay A Singh, the National Coordinator of the Science Olympiads. It was nice to know that Dr Singh (IIT Kanpur, on deputation at the Science Olympaids, is also a part of the FSF-Friends list.

Wonder if the ideals of Free Software and FLOSS could be somehow networked with the National Olympaid, so that we could benefit from each other's synergies. Incidentally, Prof Singh is at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, so it could be easy for Prof Nagarjuna to build the links too.

BTW, we have just shifted the venue of the GNU/LUG meetings in Goa to the Goa Science Centre, located at a nice setting on the Miramar beach. Our argument was that while the GSCP (Goa Science Centre Panjim) is promoting science, we are promoting technology -- as such a made-for-each-other match. We hope that we can take the idealism of FLOSS to the younger generation, and thus help take ahead the agenda of the GSCP, while at the same time gaining from a suitable venue for holding our meets. Let's see how this works. In the past, our Goa group had also closely networked with the Computer Society of India (Goa chapter). The only handicap was the lack of hardware for demos at their office premises, which they were very generous to loan out to us without any charge for our meetings held over the past two to three years. FN