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 > ==== > > > 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 <[email protected]> > "rajesh kalithody" <myidraj...@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 -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
