Hi All, Let me first introduce myself and then the Subject of this mail. My name is Abhijit, I'm currently working with Symantec and scheduled to join CoEP as a faculty member from February. I'be been working on GNU/Linux for all my student life and still continue to do so.
I've been associated with a group of activists in Pune, called Lokayat. Lokayat works on various issues of the society and tries to organize people together for solving them (Traffic problem, PMPML's bad condition, education of slum children, nuclear energy, judicial accountability, etc are just few of them). When we found that few among us in Lokayat are from Computer Science background, and all of us are GNU/Linux enthusiasts, we thought of and started Lokayat Free Software Initiative. Under this initiative, we are basically aiming at making GNU/Linux popular among college students and masses. For this to begin with, we have held and are planning to hold lectures/seminars/workshops in colleges that would like to invite us. We'd also like to join hands with more and more people who would like to work with this objective. Currently we are not focussing on solving technical problems that people face, but introducing people to the philosophy of free knowledge and GNU/Linux. There is no intention of having a separate flag of our initiative, which will fly high, but just make attempts to bring all people together, on ground and start making propaganda for GNU/Linux. I'm sure there are quite a lot of people there who would like to join hands. I'm not sure whether "plug" has been involved in something similar. If so, definitely we should take it further together. Please feel free to write back /call me anytime :). Thanks, Abhijit A.M. +91 9422 30 8125 -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [email protected] for mailing instructions.
