Hi Richard,
Free software will follow. All of us will need each other's help to pull it off with students community in india. I am already working on making students aware of the movement.
Now there seems to be a small issue here. I am unaware of who is formally handling the indian wing of GNU and on your advice, have been repeatedly mailing them from my informal and fomal mail ids but honestly, you (after handling GNU world over) respond faster than them. I am yet to hear from them. I suppose i have sent you the copies of the mails that i have sent to them too.
I am not blaming anyone, but we have to act fast.
The movement and free software! Richard, it will take time, but once it picks up in india, we'll rejoice on the results. Someone has to sow to reap the fruits later.
As for the movement, what Suraj and others are doing is quite encouraging.
Regards, Tarun Gaur
From: Suraj Kumar suraj@symonds.net To: Richard Stallman rms@gnu.org CC: raamanp@yahoo.co.in, gaur_tarun@hotmail.com, fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Mentoring students !! Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 08:26:19 +0530
Richard Stallman wrote on Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 12:12:11PM -0500: ,---- | ,---- | | We at Chennai have a movement for imparting ideals of | | Free Sofware to students, with aim of getting future | | developers. You can look at | | www.gpasokan.com/demo-schools | `---- | | | Have you managed to develop a useful free software package yet? `----
No. We have the following course of action:
1. Teach Free Software to school kids 2. Pilot a software development project - by students, for students, of students 3. Take this software to other schools; repeat through step 1 but in step 2 make students improve / fix bugs (thereby telling them the importance of sharing)
We are also writing free books for use with a formal Free Software syllabus. There has been an overwhelming response from the community. We found a good deal of books. We will also be using a few books from gnupress.org and trim it down to fit a typical school student's mind.
Our FAQ: http://gpasokan.com/demo-schools/faq.php
-Suraj -- +-------------------------------------------------suraj@symonds.net--+ | Evils dare not touch families of high tradition, | | and succession free from blemishes | | (wealth of children - 2), Thirukkural | +--http://symonds.net/~suraj/----------------------------------------+
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