--- On Tue, 13/10/09, Nagarjuna G. <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Nagarjuna G. <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [fosscomm] CMP page is now Charter
To: "Indian FOSS Community Network list" <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, 13 October, 2009, 2:46 PM
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Vikram Vincent <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/10/13 narendra sisodiya <[email protected]>:
>> For those who were not there in recent FOSSCOMM meeting , here is a
>> little update -
>> http://fosscomm.in/CMP page is renamed as http://fosscomm.in/Charter
>> Please do not confuse (as CMP is not deleted)
>
> I think it would be better that all the points that were put forward
> on the mailing list also be included. I see that a few have been
> refined and some deleted. Let us first finalise the points that we
> want on the charter by maybe voting for/against each point.
>
if the points that are not included are explicitly pointed out, that
will be good.
Discussion with the subject line "'CMP, in and out issues, my proposal"
was neat, simple, straight forward and blunt.
W.R.T the Common Minimum Programme for FOSSCOMM,
FSMK supports
1. To campaign for Free or Open Source software to be introduced in
the education domain in both the IT and non IT streams. To identify
and build expertise to support open source applications as
alternatives to the current proprietary applications.
2. To campaign for open formats for all data in the public domain. To
identify and build expertise in the tools to accomplish this.Data
includes things like documents, photos, satellite images, fingerprints
... A full compilation of all types of data has to be made and
recommendations for the appropriate format to be made.
3. To campaign for the open release of all software that is created
with public money. A law should be made for this.
4. Resisting all forms of legal threats to free and open source
software; campaigning and co-ordinating efforts for expanding the
public domain/commons both in law and in practice.
We would like to add
5. National Policy on ICT in education and notification for
implementing the same phase-wise.
6. Providing Special Incentives and Concessions to Indian IT Industry
which promote FOSS.
7. Adoption of FOSS for all E-Governance projects/schemes and Govt. departments.
8. Complete elimination of outsourcing of IT education projects by the
Government. National ICT policy should have outsource-free IT
education schemes.
>From the Charter ....
Draft Charter: Developing and supporting the use of FOSS for learning, creating
and sharing of knowledge Exchanging and storing digital media and documents in
open standards , unencumbered (to be defined, copy editing required) Promoting
inclusion through accessibility of applications, media and documents.
(localization, translation, assistive technologies) Availability
of public funded project results under share and share alike licenses
(no consensus on whether this should be just software or extended to
other forms of knowledge) knowledge, documentation, source code,
software, dictionaries, that are created through public funding ...
create an open access SIG) Ensuring a legislative framework for software
freedom and resisting legislations that affect software freedom. Promotion of
efforts to build distributed, publicly available archives of free and open
source software & knowledge FOSS drivers and protocols for all marketed
hardware, and work towards free/open hardware (like Simputer, OpenMoko)
Promoting the creation of distributed information infrastructure (as against
centralised information infrastructures).
Map these 8 points and please choose simple language.
Nagarjuna
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