Dear Friends, The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community has published a manifesto requesting Indian political parties to make FOSS usage and promotion a central part of the IT, e-government and education plans.
FOSS is a powerful enabler for spreading education and opportunity to all peoples. With its collaborative knowledge model, FOSS can effect change and transparency in India. Supporting this petition is one small step in the right direction. The manifesto is up as a public petition at: http://www.public-software.in/FOSS-manifesto The signup link for the petition is at: http://www.public-software.in/node/add/sign-petition The list of signatories is at: http://www.public-software.in/signatories Some of the comments made by the signatories are worth reading. Regards, Venky ===== _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
