Dear
All,
I think yesterday
was a very good day for free software in blr. Multiple events happening at
different places. There was a total of two public events by RMS with 2 book releases :
FSFS book
in kannada and the story of the slum computing center book written by folks from
the slum community. I request somebody to write about their NLS experience which I
heard was very interesting and the Kannada Bloggers event...which discussed the
aspect of new media. There were two talks by Eben - one with Kannada Bloggers with
HP Nadig , Kannada Wikipedia and one at the National Law
school.
All this has a lot
of long term oppurtunities for the movement.
However what I
think is important is the value of the questions .
It was very
interesting experience when RMS answered the questions of folks from the slum
computing center - AC3 - Ambedkar Computing Center . He also released the book
'The Future is Ours'
RMS had a very
clear understanding of dalit politics and Ambedkar in our context. He
explained how free software fits in this context. Will post the questions and
anwers separately.
thanks
senthil