Todays event : Reminder : M.G Road : Gandhi Statue : 4.30 p.m : Awareness on VTU-M$ tie up
Hi,
As many of you know many of us will be there in M.G Road today near Gandhi Statue 5.pm .
college students, teachers , programmers will be campaigning on the wonderful gnu/replacements available and ask why students should only learn to run some software rather than learn how the software works.
Its in someway symbolic its happening near Gandhi statue, as this man too pictched in his life for self-reliance and freedom.
Freedom Matters in software society and soul. Free software . Free Society
Be there...get your umbrella | enjoy the rain | enjoy the freedom ;)
cheers senthil
Awareness Campaign : Say no To M$-VTU deal
Time : 5 p.m
phone : Jay : 9448163453 ( for directions )
organised by : Volunteers for Free Software , Karnataka : fsug , nrcfoss, ac3, swantantra, bloggers
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) sensunda@cisco.com wrote:
Hi,
As many of you know many of us will be there in M.G Road today near Gandhi Statue 5.pm .
college students, teachers , programmers will be campaigning on the wonderful gnu/replacements available and ask why students should only learn to run some software rather than learn how the software works.
Its in someway symbolic its happening near Gandhi statue, as this man too pictched in his life for self-reliance and freedom.
Freedom Matters in software society and soul. Free software . Free Society
Be there...get your umbrella | enjoy the rain | enjoy the freedom ;)
Who have the FSUG-Bangalore Flex Banner? Dont Forget to Bring that
Anivar
Who have the FSUG-Bangalore Flex Banner? Dont Forget to Bring that
Yes that will be nice..bring also the innovative posters fsug makes..parth..if u are seeing this get nrcfoss banner as well..jay said he will call u on this..
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) sensunda@cisco.com wrote:
Who have the FSUG-Bangalore Flex Banner? Dont Forget to Bring that
Yes that will be nice..bring also the innovative posters fsug makes..parth..if u are seeing this get nrcfoss banner as well..jay said he will call u on this..
Hey Senthil, what happened? Your mail timing is On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 7:37 AM, . we all participated in protest yesterday :-)
Hope you had a good sleep :-)
Anivar
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
0) we started with a 1 minute silence for all the tragedy in bombay 1) Lecturers : RVCE, Chirst , CMRIT ( one new college) , 2) Students : christ , Amrita eng college , bms-it, ait participated 3) We had research scholars from IISc 4) We had Dr Anja from IT for Change 5) 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 14) Renuka lecturer from RVCE 12) The student fedaration of india also had lent its support and said that it will take the issue of free software 13) if we could have had a teachers union that would have been great.. 14) NRCFOSS also lent its support 15) There were folks from the kannada blogging community as well
Thanks senthil
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
2008/11/30 Anivar Aravind anivar.aravind@gmail.com
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.
FSUG Bangalore was one of the participating groups. There was Swatantra.Org, Kannada Bloggers, AC3, college students and others... The collective of all the groups was "Volunteers of Free Software"
Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) wrote:
Who have the FSUG-Bangalore Flex Banner? Dont Forget to Bring that
Yes that will be nice..bring also the innovative posters fsug makes..parth..if u are seeing this get nrcfoss banner as well..jay said he will call u on this.
Sorry, I could not be present due to some work away from Bangalore for a couple of days and I am not able to get back to Bangalore on time. Hope the event went well and had a large support. Keep going.
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Anivar Aravind -
Parthan SR -
Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) -
Vikram Vincent