Raju, Hi, hmm, well, the reference was someone's note on pakistan's govt's approach to reducing costs per machine using linux to deliver information.( so, there, my rant wasnt about ilugd).In the above context, I was commenting on teh way that the linux hype is diverting a lot of the attention that tackles the information gap, including small traditional community radio initiatives tackling local issues.
<**sigh***> ilugd seems to be doing ok. doing installs.;-). On a serious note however, yep,I was asking if someone had a working amateur radio/linux/ax.25 setup, and if we could get together to check it out sometime considering that its a little trouble getting the reqs for a comm license. Anyways i guess the Ham groups would be better at this. thats it. Shaji K V --------------- Beam Me Up, Scotty!... On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 09:15:15 +0530, "Raju Mathur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi Shaji, > > >>>>> "Shaji" == Shaji K V <Shaji> writes: > > Shaji> Whats the point anyways? community radio would have helped > Shaji> more than this "install-linux-everywhere" > Shaji> approach. Development agencies and the now mushrooming NGOs > Shaji> in India and places like ours are anyways dominated by fund > Shaji> givers, the ever so fashionable middle class elite and > Shaji> their simplified concerns so much, that western assumptions > Shaji> about literacy and information uptake are arbitarily > Shaji> applied to the situation here. Awareness helps, > Shaji> Information helps, Literacy helps, reducing the cost of > Shaji> access to Information also helps, but computers and linux > Shaji> arent the complete answer. Its funny the way linux is being > Shaji> pimped these days. > > Umm, I can see your point, but I don't think I see your point. > Linux-Delhi (ILUG-D) is not an independent entity, it's an amorphous > mass consisting of its members. You are one of them. > > If you're not happy with the direction in which the group is going, do > something about it. You have as much say in the running of ILUG-D as > anyone else. > > So can we expect some concrete proposals from your side on projects > which would take the group towards a Better, Cleaner, Saner and 99% > Fat-Free world? And not just, `Why don't we do X, Y, Z?' please: if > you want things to happen, you have to get the ball rolling and put in > all the effort that implies. > > Regards, > > -- Raju > > Shaji> [snip] > > -- > Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ > It is the mind that moves > > ================================================ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe > in subject header. Check archives at > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > > -- Shaji K V [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://fastmail.fm/ - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
