On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:29 PM, naveen mudunuru <[email protected]> wrote: > Vivek, > > We as FSMK are a working Group of people advocating Free Software as > movement in Karnataka.
We all have now heard about your group enough times and more. Thank You. The recent Floods have been recorded to be most > devastating ones in the history of human kind. almost three disctricts have > been vandailised in KARNATAKA. This is a very unfortunate event indeed. I myself have stayed in Chikamagalur, Karnataka from 1997 to 2001 (full time) and have been a frequent visitor till around 2005 and I do empathize with the victims. We decided to raise to the situation and > react and do a bit of our contribution. We mostly working on FOSS have > friends all around India through FOSS. and many of them are there in > FOSSComm list too. Your decision is wrong as this list is not the place to do that. > > Definately the mail from vikram missed OT tag, but that does mean we cant > circulate something which is of national importance. This is NOT a list a list to discuss ALL events of national importance. This is a list to discuss about FOSS especially how it can be implemented in the Indian Context, and also for people from other parts of the world to share their experiences (if they so wish here) which will foster an environment of open Debate/Discussion about FOSS Initiatives/Implementations in India. ( Some one please correct me if I am wrong :-) ) We havent raised a > political action point or long standing SOCIO-CULTURAL-ECONOMIC-problems of > this nation. Forget about FOSSCOMM but for any mailing list for that matter. > We never compelled any one to contribute through US. That you can not 'compel' anyone through this mailing list to contribute monetarily is quite commonsensical. You don't have a point here. > > Its good to hear that you MIGHT send some funds for flood victims. You can > do the same through any organisation. This is a situation of crisis and we > want every one to raise to it. We are doing our part. > > Your part can be done by 'your group' silently contributing and by not raising totally OT topics here. My question regarding why this was cross posted still remains unanswered. Regards, -- Vivek Varghese Cherian Website : http://vivekvc.freeshell.org Blog: http://vivekvc.wordpress.com IRC: Vivek and ViveKVC on both Freenode and OFTC GPG Key fingerprint: 0F53 447E A8D1 C4F7 C14E F117 A040 E935 7DFA D159 _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
