On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 03:25 +0530, narendra sisodiya wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Arjun Ghosh অর্জুন <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:49 PM > Subject: [...@iitd:6133] Delhi University sells out to M$ > To: [email protected] > > > This is to bring to the notice of the FOSS community an ongoing > project undertaken by the University of Delhi to use public resources > to propagate the profit-making might of Microsoft. > Pritty dangerous situation. I am interested to know what kind of stuff is being promoted? Are these teachers from the science background or is it an orverall teaching sector they are targetting?
> Teachers in various colleges are being forced to attend these > workshops, apparently to make them tech-savvy, but it is nothing other > than a blatant advertisement of Microsoft. Could we plan a signature > campaign or online petition against this action? > One solution could be to use RTI to understand the entire process and get the proposals being submitted to the univercity by Microsoft or who ever? > The other remote possibility is to get colleges to support free software and have a bottom up approach where authorities from those colleges make a proposal on somewhat similar lines like the one already given by the proprietory counterparts. If we can successfully convince a few colleges and get the ball roling then might be some thing can be done about this. I said this is a "remote" possibility because we can't asume that there are indeed colleges under Delhi univercity which already use FOSS in their labs or have some kind of commitment to use it in trainning. May be people from Delhi like Narendra can be a better person to find this out. I remember we were planning some kind of project with the Maharashtra government. I don't know if that is still alive and has any one met the concerned personal with a tentative or completed proposal? I asume not because there is no such email offlate on this mailing list. I think we should not relax and at least some people must give some dedicated time for this work. It could be part time volantary contribution, but some consistency is recommended, else we will always be at the loosing side, given the aggressive method of promotion by these selfish profit making companies. Happy hacking. Krishnakant. > Arjun Ghosh > > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > > > > _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
