Hi, Since there are no seperate Charters for each zone(Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, etc) of FOSSCOMM could the original CMP/points proposed be put back on the wiki so that we can finalise the points on the list. I am unable to restore the wiki edits. Thanks. Vikram Vincent
2009/10/18 Venkatesh Hariharan <[email protected]>: > 1.Common Minimum Program > Agenda 1: Common Minimum Program > > At the outset, it was decided that the term “Common Minimum Program” > should be dropped since it signifies an agenda created to create a > working agenda among parties that may not have much in common. In > contrast, FOSSCOMM is comprised of organizations and individuals who > have strong common interest in the growth of FOSS in India. Therefore, > it was proposed that the term, “Common Minimum Program” would be > replaced with the term, “Charter.” It was further proposed that anyone > who agrees with the proposed charter can be a member of FOSSCOMM. > > The Draft Charter for FOSSCOMM is as follows: > 1.Developing and supporting the use of FOSS for learning, creating and > sharing of knowledge > 2.Exchanging and storing digital media and documents in unencumbered > open standards. (to be defined, copy editing required) > 3.Promoting inclusion through accessibility of applications, media and > documents. (localization, translation, assistive technologies) > 4.Availability of public funded project results under share and share > alike licenses. This includes knowledge, documentation, source code, > software, dictionaries, that are created through public funding. (no > consensus on whether this should be just software or extended to other > forms of knowledge). > 5.Ensuring a legislative framework for software freedom and resisting > legislations that affect software freedom. > 6.Promotion of efforts to build distributed, publicly available > archives of free and open source software & knowledge. > 7.FOSS drivers and protocols for all marketed hardware, and work > towards free/open hardware (like Simputer, OpenMoko) > 8.Promoting the creation of distributed information infrastructure (as > against centralised information infrastructures). -- Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://swatantra.org/ http://fsmk.org/ _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
