It's a good idea, but didn't we discuss doing this as a routine practice? We ought to have a pretty good format ready by now, I hope, and frankly I do hope that we don't need further 'consensus' (read: we already have consensus, and we don't need more discussion) to start taking action.
Do we need 'authorised' persons to address such a letter? Just between you and me, I am very tired of hearing from various open initiatives that 'the government' does not respond if a letter does not come from a so-called 'authorised' person. This goes one stage further, and transforms into 'the government' does not respond unless a letter comes from a registered body. I do not know whether we have any firm reason to believe any of these tales, or whether kowtowing to a ridiculous pre-condition for dialogue does not seem to be an abandonment of basic principles. Arguably, the endless desire for more and more incorporated bodies seems to me part of our malaise, and not part of any reasonable solution. At the same time, just because Guru (or his organisation) has been able to field the resources to identify this Bihar problem, does not mean that he should be lumped with the task of addressing it. Rather, I think we need to have a 'bulletin board' of problems that anyone can visit from time to time, or even with alerts on a login page, like Wikipedia has for its functionary contributors, and that anyone is authorised to respond to: with updates, of course, so that work does not get duplicated unnecessarily (and does get duplicated when necessary, to show force). 2011/12/13 Guru गुरु <[email protected]> > ** > Dear friends > > The tender of the Bihar MHRD (attached) explicitly requires MS Windows and > MS Office Professional... > > Apart from costing huge waste of public funds, it is wrong for a public > education system to use curricular resources that are being proprietary > cannot be shared/studied/modified.. > > Can we write to the Bihar education secretary requesting him to remove > reference to proprietary software, and ask for vendor to provide free > software, including free educational software which other states are > already using (Kerala, Karnataka). > > Shri A. K. Singh, IAS > Principal Secretary, Government of Bihar, Deptt. Of MHRD, Vikas Bhawan, > New Secretariat, Patna – 800001, BIHAR > 0612-2217016, 0612-2205774 > 09431800569, 9473191444,09471000200 > [email protected] > > Are any friends in Patna able to seek a meeting with the concerned > officials to discuss this. > > thanks > Guru > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > > -- Vickram Fool On The Hill <http://communicall.wordpress.com>
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