On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Anivar Aravind<[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Vikram > Vincent<[email protected]> wrote: >> First they ignore you >> Then they laugh at you >> Then they they fight you >> Then you win >> >> - Gandhi Neat quote on the FSMK T-shirt! :) >> >> "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, >> then you win." >> -- Mahatma Gandhi >> >> With this message a few geeks at Free Software Movement Karnataka >> (FSMK) have been working on popularizing the open source software in >> the government schools and offices. "Karnataka Government decided to >> use free software for 8th 9th and 10th standards as a part of their >> i...@schools project(Information and Communication Technology). As of >> now It is vendor controlled project (Educom, EVeron, etc are >> implementing it) under BOOT (Build Operate Own & Transfer)scheme. For >> making it more accessible to teachers & students(IT enabled learning), >> we are initiating this training as a pilot project in bangalore. This >> is organised by DSERT and a Consortium of Free Software Organisations >> in Bangalore (FSUG Bangalore, Sampada, FSMK, ITfC, DeepRoot Linux, >> IT4Change & Moving Republic are the organisations associated.)", said >> Naveen Mudunuru, an active volunteer with FSMK. > > I believe it is a quote from my facebook album http://bit.ly/iBlKI No > issues even though same copy paste attributed to naveen . Joining > with the spirit :-)
Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust" : http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html "That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty. In the ten years that we have worked together, I can recall only one case of miscoordination of work. On that occasion, I discovered that we both had written the same 20-line assembly language program. I compared the sources and was astounded to find that they matched character-for-character. The result of our work together has been far greater than the work that we each contributed. " Though in this case there seems to have been a mistake in attribution :-) > > Also I would like to comment the contribution of Volunteers of FSMK , > FSUG Bangalore , Anupama & Vinay from IT4Change , Omshivprakash from > Sampada (for his excellent Kannada Training material for open office) > , Madhusudhan & team for Installation of Distro in SSA Lab, SSA staff > , DSERT & Everon (the vendor) > > Naveen's classes were fabulous as usual & his coordination is also > commendable . > > Cheers to all who made it as a success > > ~ Regards > Anivar Aravind > > > -- > "The resources of the world are for us all to share. Let us affirm our > faith in that common cause" - Dr. Ilina Sen > _______________________________________________ > FSUG-Bangalore mailing list > [email protected] > http://mm.gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsug-bangalore > _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
