On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Comet Media Foundation <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All > > Apropos the meeting next Sunday, I have a comment on the agenda. I feel the > third agenda point, 'Generic Structure of Teacher Training Programs for > States in India' is too general. I'd like to get to it after we discuss the > particular, that is our collective proposal to the Maharashtra govt. Please > read it on the wiki and come and even if you are not coming, send your > comments. > > For now, I'd like to draw your attention to section 8, the closing part of > the draft proposal. It says: Free Software Foundation India will be the > coordinating agency and will be supported by: > > IIT-Bombay > Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education of Tata Institute of Fundamental > Research > Comet Media Foundation > IT4Change > I-LUG Mumbai, the GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai > > 1. I request the people representing each of these bodies to state: > a) what they can contribute, realistically > b) what part of it they could contribute as part of their mandate > c) what contributions would require payment > > 2. Apart from the bodies named above, if you would like to be part of this > initiative, please add your organisation to this list and name the areas you > could contribute to. Remember to specify if it would be voluntary, or if you > expect to get paid for your time. We need to work out our budget next. > > FOSSCOMM is an informal and unregistered collective. How will we > administrate the project, what will be the management structure, will we > charge the Edu Dept, if so how much? > > We need not discuss it on the list, and could hold it till the meeting on > the 11th, but I request you to think about it and come with suggestions for > a model to adopt. We have committed for a four-year run, and we should have > a system in our minds which we can always modify as the negotiations go on.
In karnataka Model, we formed a consortium (another unregistered body, but with a strong structure with 7 Groups ( FSUG, FSMK, ITfc, Deeproot , Moving Republic and Sampada) as core members ) to make an MoU with Government and selected Guru as signatory from our side. In the Mou We clearly mentioned as all these 7 Groups are Members of FOSSCOMM network . Core Group is meeting regularly and planning/ analysing developments & work Anivar Aravind Moving Republic > Thanks! > > Chandita > > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > > -- "[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
