Hello, Today evening 10 of us from FSUG, BMSCE, RVCE, Christ College, HP.... had a meeting and we decided to have a candle light vigil to pressurise BIS to appeal against OOXML being given ISO status amid huge irregularities. As rightly observed somewhere on cyberspace, this campaign has now moved from being technical into being very political. Date:15th April, 2008 Time: 18:00hrs Venue: Mahatma Gandhi statue, MG road, Bangalore
We request all to please participate and also support in any way possible. -> For instance, maybe Sun can sponsor a nice huge flex/banner and a couple hundred CDs/DVDs of OO.o apart from stirring up the media... Joe.. hope you are listening... -> Get some NGOs involved. Senthil and Balaji What say you?(Since I saw quite a few mails in this regard). -> Campaign at some educational institutions that do not have exams. -> Keep a huge stock of candles before M$ cleans out the market. -> Contact media -> Get police permission(I'll handle this) -> maybe create an OOXML banner made of bananas (as in Banana republic ;)) -> Others that may have been forgotten but are absolutely necessary...
Dear vikram I think all points we discussed yesterday didn't came on your in mail
As per yesterdays discussion it is a candle light vigil for Document freedom Venue:gandhi park, MG road Date: 15th April 2008 Time : 6.00 PM
The Candle light vigil demands BIS to appeal ISO approval of ooxml based on its comments and no vote. More than ooxml , The programme is planned as a starting point for various events & awareness campaigns on Document freedom
Anivar Aravind
Vikram Vincent wrote:
Hello, Today evening 10 of us from FSUG, BMSCE, RVCE, Christ College, HP.... had a meeting and we decided to have a candle light vigil to pressurise BIS to appeal against OOXML being given ISO status amid huge irregularities. As rightly observed somewhere on cyberspace, this campaign has now moved from being technical into being very political. Date:15th April, 2008 Time: 18:00hrs Venue: Mahatma Gandhi statue, MG road, Bangalore
We request all to please participate and also support in any way possible. -> For instance, maybe Sun can sponsor a nice huge flex/banner and a couple hundred CDs/DVDs of OO.o apart from stirring up the media... Joe.. hope you are listening... -> Get some NGOs involved. Senthil and Balaji What say you?(Since I saw quite a few mails in this regard). -> Campaign at some educational institutions that do not have exams. -> Keep a huge stock of candles before M$ cleans out the market. -> Contact media -> Get police permission(I'll handle this) -> maybe create an OOXML banner made of bananas (as in Banana republic ;)) -> Others that may have been forgotten but are absolutely necessary...
-- Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://www.swatantra.org/ http://translate.swatantra.org/
FSUG-Bangalore mailing list FSUG-Bangalore@mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsug-bangalore
Maybe we can continue this at IIMB on 19/20 barcamp?
Maybe also have a session on the OOXML - politics and technology.
d
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Anivar Aravind anivar.aravind@gmail.com wrote:
Dear vikram I think all points we discussed yesterday didn't came on your in mail
As per yesterdays discussion it is a candle light vigil for Document freedom Venue:gandhi park, MG road Date: 15th April 2008 Time : 6.00 PM
The Candle light vigil demands BIS to appeal ISO approval of ooxml based on its comments and no vote. More than ooxml , The programme is planned as a starting point for various events & awareness campaigns on Document freedom
Anivar Aravind
Vikram Vincent wrote:
Hello, Today evening 10 of us from FSUG, BMSCE, RVCE, Christ College, HP.... had a meeting and we decided to have a candle light vigil to pressurise BIS to appeal against OOXML being given ISO status amid huge irregularities. As rightly observed somewhere on cyberspace, this campaign has now moved from being technical into being very political. Date:15th April, 2008 Time: 18:00hrs Venue: Mahatma Gandhi statue, MG road, Bangalore
We request all to please participate and also support in any way possible. -> For instance, maybe Sun can sponsor a nice huge flex/banner and a couple hundred CDs/DVDs of OO.o apart from stirring up the media... Joe.. hope you are listening... -> Get some NGOs involved. Senthil and Balaji What say you?(Since I saw quite a few mails in this regard). -> Campaign at some educational institutions that do not have exams. -> Keep a huge stock of candles before M$ cleans out the market. -> Contact media -> Get police permission(I'll handle this) -> maybe create an OOXML banner made of bananas (as in Banana republic ;)) -> Others that may have been forgotten but are absolutely necessary...
-- Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://www.swatantra.org/ http://translate.swatantra.org/
FSUG-Bangalore mailing list FSUG-Bangalore@mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsug-bangalore
FSUG-Bangalore mailing list FSUG-Bangalore@mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsug-bangalore
On 11/04/2008, tb dinesh dinesh@servelots.com wrote:
Maybe we can continue this at IIMB on 19/20 barcamp?
Maybe also have a session on the OOXML - politics and technology.
Lots of possibilities. Anyone from IIM or IISc or anywhere else who can address the gathering on the 15th evening?
On Friday 11 April 2008 08:33:52 am Anivar Aravind wrote:
Dear vikram I think all points we discussed yesterday didn't came on your in mail
As per yesterdays discussion it is a candle light vigil for Document freedom Venue:gandhi park, MG road Date: 15th April 2008 Time : 6.00 PM
The Candle light vigil demands BIS to appeal ISO approval of ooxml based on its comments and no vote. More than ooxml , The programme is planned as a starting point for various events & awareness campaigns on Document freedom
Please start writing blogs, so that other people know about it.
Kushal
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