Hi,
Rishabh, JT and Arun have already given important points,
In addition to that please consider the main line roughly as follows.
1] Use of FOSS or BOSS must be made mandatory for ICT Education or in any activity in education.
(They are making sanskrit mandatory as per input draft)
Only recommendation or preference has not worked so far. Educational Institutions can easily find loopholes.
2] A separate and independent body to ensure that it is implemented properly.
3] Proper and effective platform for complaints regarding Violation of Open Source Policy.
Also please let us know who is working on first draft of petition to avoid duplication of work.
To be frank, I am not very good at drafting otherwise would have prepared it. Please forgive.
I think we can upload the petition latest by 15 July so that sufficient number of signatures can be obtained till 30th July..
Regards, Milind
Just Formatted JT's mail
https://gist.github.com/rmehta/8c4e2e5c0d2645ec328a1439f33de6d8 https://gist.github.com/rmehta/8c4e2e5c0d2645ec328a1439f33de6d8
Please feel free to suggest edits and we can make this into a formal petition
On 13-Jul-2016, at 9:58 AM, Milind Oka oak445@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Rishabh, JT and Arun have already given important points,
In addition to that please consider the main line roughly as follows.
1] Use of FOSS or BOSS must be made mandatory for ICT Education or in any activity in education.
(They are making sanskrit mandatory as per input draft)
Only recommendation or preference has not worked so far. Educational Institutions can easily find loopholes.
2] A separate and independent body to ensure that it is implemented properly.
3] Proper and effective platform for complaints regarding Violation of Open Source Policy.
Also please let us know who is working on first draft of petition to avoid duplication of work.
To be frank, I am not very good at drafting otherwise would have prepared it. Please forgive.
I think we can upload the petition latest by 15 July so that sufficient number of signatures can be obtained till 30th July..
Regards, Milind
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Rushabh Mehta rmehta@gmail.com wrote:
Just Formatted JT's mail
https://gist.github.com/rmehta/8c4e2e5c0d2645ec328a1439f33de6d8 < https://gist.github.com/rmehta/8c4e2e5c0d2645ec328a1439f33de6d8%3E
Please feel free to suggest edits and we can make this into a formal petition
Very nice.