It is to inform all of you that there will be an Open forum organaised by Open Softwre Solutions Industrial Co-op Society, in Connection with Kerala Summit of World Social Forum at Thiruvananthapuram. The summit will be conducted on 26-29 Dec 2002. Exact time of Open forum will be announced later. The subject of open forum will be "The GPL'd Software, Its relevence and utilation".

Dr. Achuth Sankar of CDiT, Thiruvananthapuram, Mr. Arun M of FSF-India, Mr. P. Rajeev of Democratic Youth Federation of India, Mr Joseph Thomas of Appropriate Technology Promotion Society (ATPS-Kochi) will be pesenting the subject.

ATPS-Kochi will be coducting a workshop on E-governance at 2.30 PM on 27th Dec 2002. in connection with Kerala Summit. This workshop will emphasis the need of GPL'd Software for E-governance.

ATPC-Kochi is publishing a occassional publication to propagate the use of GPL'd Software. This publication is named "Vivara vicharam" and will published in Malayalam. Its first issue will be released in next week.

Regards,

Anil kumar K V.