I am carefully drafting this letter, so that eventually i am making sure that i am not raising an attack or defame to any individual or an organization. In any part of this mail, i wish not to hurt some one or a particular organization.
Why this cry is for? This email is been written, in order to bring support to the free and open source software from the Government side and explore the possibility of having a through review about the functionalities of its bodies in ascertaining are they(government bodies) diligently carrying out their duties. I raise myself to question the functionalities of a organization NRCFOSS,which claims its activities are in and for the free and open source software domain. Who am i to question an organiasation - NRCFOSS? I am an ordinary honest poor taxing paying citizen of this great nation. My bread comes by giving service on floss based technologies. I think i do have the rights and responsibilities to question in bring the facts to the table. Why this question all of a sudden? This question is being raised , because the organiasation in question "NRCFOSS" tenure is about to finish and there is a talk about extending the tenure of the organiasation. It is the high time to question about the review by the floss communities how the hard earned sweated tax money which has been spent in the name of FLOSS. What are the questions?? 1)I would request NRCFOSS to clarify the list about the functionalites of their organiasation. 2)I heard that NRCFOSS has been granted five croces of rupees in the name of promoting FLOSS. How this money has been spent over in the last 3 years. 3)If FLOSS propoganda campaign like LDD/workshop are the lone activities of NRCFOSS? how many such activities are been carried out? and kindly give the LDD/WORKSHOP name , place and dates, Money spent for the campaign. Is this is the place of questioning?? I know, this is not the right place to get the answers, I know the way and path in approaching the RTI officer in soughting this information.I would like to explore the similar minds of this list who are in the process of knowing/want to retrieve the organization in effectively serving the community.I know few developers who expressed their disgustion regarding with the support from NRCFOSS and there are instance where the organiaser is led down by the *TIMELY* money support from the NRCFOSS. Further to it, the vast tune of money of croces of rupees needs to be examined, how it is spent. I personally have experience with FOSSE'06, MUKT.in'07 and MUKT.in '08 and would like to know how much has been spent on these events.People who are interested in this campaign please sent you mail either to this list or sent me mail in offline. Thanks and regards, Thyagarajan Shanmugham _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc