By Prateek Khanna
Minutes of the <FREED> meeting held on Sunday, Sept 22 2002 at
Munirka.
Agenda for the meet:
Discussing linuxlingam's proposal
Members Present:
- Raj Mathur
- Linuxlingam (who prefers to remain anonymous for the time being)
- Supreet Sethi
- Dhruv Gami
- Tripta
- Pankaj Kaushal
- Amitabh Trehan
- Vipul Mathur
- Viksit Gaur
- Prateek Khanna
1. Linuxlingam's high curiousity generating proposal finally came out
to be a massive initiative, Modern VV being the medium, involving a
contest kinda of a collaboration of about 20 schools in developing the
course content for the CBSE syllabus in schools.
2. The idea was to make the students and teachers of the various
subjects in these schools to collectively develop a website which
provides text for the current CBSE syllabus.
3. The process (the contest) will be initiative in the upcoming
Modern VV computer festival (Modem) and will be passed on the other
participating schools as and when their respective festivals come.
4. It was decided that a stylesheet will have to be created to be
given to everyone.
5. The server/technology still remains an issue with Savannah having
the "database issue" with it. Finally the Savannah.gnu.org idea was
dropped.
6. - The text format would be rtf, to be converted to sgml later or
probably directly sgml.
- Image format: png, svg.
7. BENEFITS OF FREED:
- Quality Courseware: hopefully
- Availability to (Affordability for) people
- Depoliticised Course
- Decommercialisation of Course
8. RESPONSIBILITES
- Register the project on Savannah (if being used) - Raj
[not on action list anymore]
- Meeting to be arranged with the school - LL
- Research on software to convert rtf to sgml - Vipul
- Software for svg editing/formatting - Viksit
- Research on Directory structure and database - Dhruv, Pankaj, Prateek
- Evaluation of preexisting (similar) sites - Prateek
9. It is proposed that a working demo be ready by September 30, 2002.
10. LL is designing a freedom Diwali card that can be sent to
contacts. ILUG-D members can purchase the card pre-printed on a
no-cost-no-profit basis. Anyone will also be free to download the
design from the ILUG-D site and massage it for his/her own
requirements. The idea is to send the card to as many people as
possible to generate interest in and information about freedom in
software. Design to be ready in 2 weeks.
11. Prateek and Dhruv raised the idea of having a large ILUG-D
exposition in Pragati Maidan around February 2003. After lots of
shouting and screaming, the idea was kept on hold to be discussed
later.
12. Lots of CD's were cut. Knoppix 3.1 rocks!
13. It was sort of decided that from now you'd have to pay some
nominal amount if you want free software CD's copied. We will have
4-5 CD duplication centers, one each in N, S, E, W and Central Delhi
from where anyone can get copies of whatever free software CD's are
available. The cost per CD would be Rs 50 if you come and pick them
up. If you want them couriered, it'd cost you Rs. 100 per CD.
Raju is the South Delhi CD duplication center (oh my!); volunteers for
the other 4 zones are solicited. Once we have 5 names we will ask
Nishi to post them on the web site so that anyone who wants Linux and
related CD's in Delhi knows the nearest place to get them from.
regards
Prateek
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