On Wednesday 09 February 2011 13:20:50 Koustubha Kale wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 12:18 +0530, Koustubha Kale wrote: > >> As you may be aware, VPM, Thane > > > > a few words on what is VPM and why Thane in preference to Kolkata > > and why this groups is asked to vote (I have never seen a single > > post on Koha in this group). > > -- > > Vidya Prasarak Mandal, Thane is a educational trust based in Thane > on outskirts of Mumbai. ( www.vpmthane.org ). It has schools and > colleges providing education to about 15000 students. > > VPM, Thane is a big proponent of FOSS. It uses FOSS on most of its > 800+ computers and servers.
> It has also conducted many GNU/Linux > workshops and seminars. Hmm. I seemed to have the missed the announcements on this list then. > > Through its project Granthalaya.org ( www.granthalaya.org ) VPM, > Thane intends to create bibliographic union database of holdings of > all the public libraries in Konkan area including Thane. Vidya > Prasarak Mandal intends to help the participating libraries for > computerizing their holdings by providing them an open source > library software Koha for the purpose. Through this project VPM, > Thane already has helped many libraries digitize their catalouges > and computerize their operations. For this purpose VPM, Thane has > been involved with the Koha community and desires to bring the Koha > conference with its worldwide community of developers and > librarians to its campus in Thane. This will benefit the students, > staff, libraries and FOSS users in the region, hence the mail > requesting support to the GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai > > I hope you will support and participate in this initiative.. > > Regards, > Koustubha Kale > Anant Corporation > > Contact Details : > Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes > Naka, Thane (w), > Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601. > TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109 > Mobile : +919820715876 > Website : http://www.anantcorp.com > Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2 -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
