On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 12:36, Amish Munshi wrote:

Greetings,

Following are the speakers who are willing to speak in the next GLUG meeting.

1. Demo on "NevyOS". - Mayuresh

2. BootSplash Configurations- Philip.

3. (I cant recollect the topic, please mail me the topic again) - Rajesh >From Netcore

   I am arranging for the venue (probably MET, Bandra) and also will decide about the final agenda depening on inputs from the GLUG members.

Rajesh Jain said he could speak on "FLOSS and its relevance to India." I had interviewed him for Express Computer a few months ago and the link for this is at

http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial03z.shtml

“Our competitor is not proprietary software, it is non-consumption”

[image]As you sit in Rajesh Jain’s office in Mumbai, the view is dominated by smokestacks. The mills that these smokestacks belong to are being dismantled and replaced rapidly by new age companies like Rajesh Jain’s Netcore. Too expensive to demolish, the smokestacks themselves remain as witnesses of a nation’s slow transformation from the industrial era to the digital era. From his perch within the Netcore office, Jain dreams of another transformation where IT reaches “every desktop and every household within India.” Jain is a visionary who set up India’s first portal, Indiaworld, at a time when the Internet was unknown and commercial ISPs were a distant mirage. After the spectacular sale of Indiaworld to Satyam that set off the Internet mania in India, Jain shunned the limelight to focus on Netcore, a company that builds ‘thin-client, thick server’ computing solutions targeted at SMEs, education and community information centres in rural areas. A prolific and thought-provoking writer, Jain has been arguing consistently through his blog on Emergic.org that we must bring down the cost of computing and devise innovative methods to take IT to the Indian masses. Venkatesh Hariharan interviews him to find out why Jain argues so passionately for the adoption of Linux in India

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