On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) sensunda@cisco.com wrote:
30, 2008 at 7:37 AM, . we all participated in protest yesterday :-)
Hope you had a good sleep :-)
I did have a good sleep ;) Sometimes I catch up with mail early.
It was a awareness campaign on the replacements (not a protest - I mean lets say awareness campaign - so that new folks feel they lack awareness
- rather than feeling we are protesters - it will be easy for some to go
from awareness to protest )
I guess it was a good programme yesterday for free software ...we have to concentrate on the long term aspects...please do write on what we could do better..please make this a community report on what you thought is good and bad..
We had many people saying "NO TO M$-VTU" Lock In. the nice thing was we were able to have some new people From colleges : both lecturers and students ..a good representation from all sections of civil socitey
- we started with a 1 minute silence for all the tragedy in bombay
- Lecturers : RVCE, Chirst , CMRIT ( one new college) ,
- Students : christ , Amrita eng college , bms-it, ait participated
- We had research scholars from IISc
- We had Dr Anja from IT for Change
- We had a good number of programmers and people from the [proprietary]
software industry - I think many companies were repesented ;) 6) the children from the slum computing center , wanted to make this a day out, to see what their teachers were upto..and sang a nice little song to end the program - a song which means "we are building the dreams for a new future" - they planned a visit to cubbon park, got late and messed up 7) some students from bmsit came - but didn't like the 'street mode' - we explained to them why its important to take streets at times 8) a good amount of material - press notes , fliers were in kannada this time - this is important - thanks to the suggestion of sri ramadoss 9) we also had some t.v channels covering it this time apart from the press..i do know the press people who came - please update 10) Dr Vijoo Krishnan, Head of Political Science . 11) Dr chaterjee - a scientist with Astro Physics 12) Parth from NRCFOSS also helped with the material. 13) Anivar from SMC
Please count me as a member of this list & volunteer of FSUG-Bangalore. We all have various identities. and linked with various groups. Since the protest was in the banner of FSUG-Bangalore, i dont have any problem to relate with it. And I dont think i have to carry SMC identity wherever i go. SMC is a developer collective with More than 70 Developers and 300+ members.
I also think we dont need to count the names. All names listed here is not greater than the spirit shown by chldren in the protest . The free software spirit matters!!! lets keep it up.
Congrats to all who made yesterdays event a success.
Do we have any press reports? If yes Please link
- Renuka lecturer from RVCE
- The student fedaration of india also had lent its support and said
that it will take the issue of free software
Great! SFI had a national policy adopting Free Software in Education. we need to help them to protest against M$ VTU vendor Lock in
Anivar