We are planning a meeting of the FOSS COMmunity of India in Delhi, at the JNU Campus on 4th July to discuss key issues facing the FOSS community and strategies for dealing with them. All those interested are welcome. More details below.
Venky ====
1. Reporting on the Bangalore FOSSCOM 1st Meeting and follow up
2. Open Standards and actions by the FOSS community
Follow up on the Department of IT's draft policy on open standards. It appears that some proprietary software vendors are blocking the policy. 3. FOSS in Education
What the FOSS community can do in
a) School Education
b) Higher Education 4. Software Patents and other legal issues
a) Take up pre and pre grant opposition for selected cases
b) Take up the issue of Draft Manual which deviates from the Patent Act
c) Take up cases with the Competition Commission, which are restrictive trade practices and are monopolistic. 5 Building political consensus around FOSS as India's best bet for development
This is planned for the whole day and will start at 10.00 AM.
We will give you the actual venue shortly, but it is planned to be in JNU, For outstation people, this is in Soth Delhi. Those who require accommodation, please let us know, we will try and arrange. The travel costs as well as the cost of stay will have to be borne by the participants. We will arrange for the venue and lunch. For those requesting accommodation, please write to the following: Prof. Andrew Lynn Andrew Lynn lynn.andrew@gmail.com "rajesh kalithody" <myidrajesh@gmail Any suggestion/modifications to the agenad is welcome.
For initiating the discussion, suggesting the following: Item 1.Banaglore meeting and follow-up: Sunil/Guru Item 2. Open Standards Venkatesh Hariharan Item 3. Education Guru/Jaijit Item4. Patents Prabir Item 5. Free wheeling.
The purpose of initiation is that at least some home work is done before the meeting. Time for this should be around 5-10 minutes.
Hoping that this is not to short a notice and you will be able to attend. Please circulate this widely to whoever you think should attend. If some people have to be formally requested, please let us know and we will follow up at our end also. Best, Prabir Purkayastha
Hello Venkey, I think the issues related to ICT for handicap people is also important. I will try and come over for the event.
happy hacking. Krishnakant.
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 14:34 +0530, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
We are planning a meeting of the FOSS COMmunity of India in Delhi, at the JNU Campus on 4th July to discuss key issues facing the FOSS community and strategies for dealing with them. All those interested are welcome. More details below.
Venky
Reporting on the Bangalore FOSSCOM 1st Meeting and follow up
Open Standards and actions by the FOSS community
Follow up on the Department of IT's draft policy on open standards. It appears that some proprietary software vendors are blocking the policy. 3. FOSS in Education
What the FOSS community can do in a) School Education b) Higher Education
- Software Patents and other legal issues
a) Take up pre and pre grant opposition for selected cases
b) Take up the issue of Draft Manual which deviates from the Patent Act
c) Take up cases with the Competition Commission, which are restrictive trade practices and are monopolistic. 5 Building political consensus around FOSS as India's best bet for development
This is planned for the whole day and will start at 10.00 AM.
We will give you the actual venue shortly, but it is planned to be in JNU, For outstation people, this is in Soth Delhi. Those who require accommodation, please let us know, we will try and arrange. The travel costs as well as the cost of stay will have to be borne by the participants. We will arrange for the venue and lunch. For those requesting accommodation, please write to the following: Prof. Andrew Lynn Andrew Lynn lynn.andrew@gmail.com "rajesh kalithody" <myidrajesh@gmail Any suggestion/modifications to the agenad is welcome.
For initiating the discussion, suggesting the following: Item 1.Banaglore meeting and follow-up: Sunil/Guru Item 2. Open Standards Venkatesh Hariharan Item 3. Education Guru/Jaijit Item4. Patents Prabir Item 5. Free wheeling.
The purpose of initiation is that at least some home work is done before the meeting. Time for this should be around 5-10 minutes.
Hoping that this is not to short a notice and you will be able to attend. Please circulate this widely to whoever you think should attend. If some people have to be formally requested, please let us know and we will follow up at our end also. Best, Prabir Purkayastha
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Venkatesh Hariharan