Hi,
Following is the message that has been posted recently on more than one of the FSF India mailing lists.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:12:10 +0530 From: "neeta mishra" mishraneeta1@gmail.com Subject: [Fsf-india] (Ref:FLOSSWorld)Request for contact address To: fsf-edu@mm.gnu.org.in Message-ID: d95648670604202342r39b62fc5j7514394d0ab4bb63@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi,
The European-Union funded FLOSSWorld project aims to enhance the level of global awareness related to FLOSS among various sectors like industry, academia, government, etc. As a part of this project, we plan to conduct a series of surveys related to FLOSS, to understand the impact and usage of FLOSS among developers, employers, government officials and educational institutions across India.Please refer to www.flossworld.org for more details about the FLOSSWorld project.
We are in the process of collecting contacts in order to circulate the survey questionnaires. We have collected a number of contact addresses from the internet and from references obtained from our regional workshop participants.Give your experience in FOSS related activities.We seek your help in reaching out to as many as people as possible.Could you please mail back any contacts you know of among the developer, e-government, academia and employer community, to whom, you think, we can send the survey questionnaires. Also, let us know if you would like to partiicpate in the survey.
Thanks and Regards, FLOSSWorld team, C-DAC Mumbai -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What suprises me is this:
The European-Union funded FLOSSWorld project aims to enhance the level of global awareness related to FLOSS among various sectors like industry, academia, government, etc.
Why EU? Are they not hell bent on enforcing sofware patents?
Regards, Debarshi