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2009-03-05 Thread pavithran
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Vikram Vincent wrote: > > > > and the FOSS community in Karnataka was in > > disarray. Now a strong FOSS community has emerged and > > I think that you should not come to these conclusions just from your > interactions with a > couple of people on online groups and/

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2009-03-02 Thread Vikram Vincent
2009/3/2 Kenneth Gonsalves : > we are working on it, and will shortly be conducting a meeting with > responsible people in VTU and the Karnataka government. We have a mandate to > *promote* foss - we do not have a mandate to oppose universities signing MOU's > with vendors of proprietary software.

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2009-03-02 Thread Vikram Vincent
2009/3/2 Kenneth Gonsalves : > On Monday 02 March 2009 13:58:00 Vikram Vincent wrote: >> In Karnataka we had a "Say NO to VTU-M$ tie-up". It would have been good >> had NRCFOSS been an actual signatory apart from verbal support. > > this does not fall under NRC-FOSS's mandate/terms of reference. I

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2009-03-02 Thread Vikram Vincent
In Karnataka we had a "Say NO to VTU-M$ tie-up". It would have been good had NRCFOSS been an actual signatory apart from verbal support. We shall be continuing this campaign again and I hope that NRCFOSS will play an active role. Vikram Vincent 2009/3/2 Vikram Vincent : > > I don't maintain the bl

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2009-03-02 Thread Vikram Vincent
Greetings, > I have been requested by Prof C N Krishnan to post the following reply to the > post mentioned in the subject: > > "I coordinate the NRCFOSS Project in Anna University. I certainly > appreciate the interest and concern shown by the author, and I am sure > that lots more can be (should

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2009-03-01 Thread Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன்
Hi KG, > > >>"I coordinate the NRCFOSS Project in Anna University. I certainly > appreciate the interest and concern shown by the author, and I am sure > So please do contact me.My name is C N Krishnan, and my e-mail is cnkrish > at au-kbc dot > org" > One suggestion,you could also paste the sam

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2009-03-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, I have been requested by Prof C N Krishnan to post the following reply to the post mentioned in the subject: "I coordinate the NRCFOSS Project in Anna University. I certainly appreciate the interest and concern shown by the author, and I am sure that lots more can be (should be ) done by us