On Wednesday 09 February 2011 13:20:50 Koustubha Kale wrote:
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
lawgon@thenilgiris.com wrote:
On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 12:18 +0530, Koustubha Kale wrote:
As you may be aware, VPM, Thane
a few words on what is VPM and why Thane in preference to Kolkata and why this groups is asked to vote (I have never seen a single post on Koha in this group). --
Vidya Prasarak Mandal, Thane is a educational trust based in Thane on outskirts of Mumbai. ( www.vpmthane.org ). It has schools and colleges providing education to about 15000 students.
VPM, Thane is a big proponent of FOSS. It uses FOSS on most of its 800+ computers and servers.
It has also conducted many GNU/Linux workshops and seminars.
Hmm. I seemed to have the missed the announcements on this list then.
Through its project Granthalaya.org ( www.granthalaya.org ) VPM, Thane intends to create bibliographic union database of holdings of all the public libraries in Konkan area including Thane. Vidya Prasarak Mandal intends to help the participating libraries for computerizing their holdings by providing them an open source library software Koha for the purpose. Through this project VPM, Thane already has helped many libraries digitize their catalouges and computerize their operations. For this purpose VPM, Thane has been involved with the Koha community and desires to bring the Koha conference with its worldwide community of developers and librarians to its campus in Thane. This will benefit the students, staff, libraries and FOSS users in the region, hence the mail requesting support to the GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai
I hope you will support and participate in this initiative..
Regards, Koustubha Kale Anant Corporation
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