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
>
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