4 I hope the FLOSS cell can give/get some donations of even outdated (by a few years) technical books to the schools' FLOSS cell. A library of books is very very helpful. Plus they need to have motivational books such as Rebel code, Just for fun by linus torvalds, cathedral and the bazaar, etc etc just to understand the opensource culture/history.
Hi Githin, A great place to start up with books would be the offcial GNU doucumentation which you can get here :
http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html
http://www.gnu.org/doc/other-free-books.html
A good edition would also be Free Software Free Society by RMS and Free as in Freedom by Sam Williams.
These are all available freely online, printed copies for all may not be very easily obtained in India, but you could start with the ebooks. In fact you could have a community of like minded people who could pool some money together and get what you want printed and bound.
What better way to start a FOSS cell :-)
Regards,
- vihan