Hello Pranesh,

  This is the link for the updated document put up on AICTE website.
http://www.aicte-india.org/downloads/AICTE_MS_notification.pdf

Regards,
Bhuvan

On Thursday 09 May 2013 04:57 PM, Pranesh Prakash wrote:
> Dear Vikram,
> This is excellent news!  This is brilliant advocacy work, and a
> victory for the Indian free software movement.
>
> Is there a link to the revised AICTE notification?
>
> Cheers,
> Pranesh
>
> Vikram Vincent [2013-05-07 18:47]:
>> Cross-posting
>>
>> 07/05/13
>> Hyderabad
>>
>> In favour of Publication
>>
>> Sub :AICTE removes the mandatory clause from the notice on
>> implementing Office-365.
>>
>> A delegation from the Free Software Movement of India and other groups
>> have submitted a representation demanding the revision of the decision
>> of the AICTE making the usage of Office-365 mandatory on the 30th of
>> April 2013.
>>
>> A group of young parliamentarians led by P Rajeev also made a
>> representation to the AICTE chairman raising concerns that were
>> similar on 07-05-13. The signatories include Rajeev Chandrasekhar,
>> Sitaram Yechury, KN Balagaopal, PK Biju CP Narayanan, Prashantho
>> Chatterjee, Tapan Sen, Dr T Seema and MP Achutan.
>>
>> We understand that the AICTE has now agreed and is removing the
>> mandatory clause from the notice. We welcome this decision. However,
>> we demand that AICTE should revise the decision of using Office-365
>> totally, as it is not in the interest of the students, institutions
>> and colleges. AICTE as a public funded body should not engage in
>> supporting proprietary systems.
>>
>> We also thank all those in the academia, intellectuals, developer
>> community, policy makers and parliamentarians who have taken it up
>> with AICTE for revising the decision.
>> _______________________________________________
>> network mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
>>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> network mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in

_______________________________________________
network mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in

Reply via email to