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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16/07/16 14:48, Vikas Tara wrote:<br>
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New National Education Policy-2016 draft has recently been made
available to public for inputs.<br>
This whole draft does not refer Free and Open Source Software
even once !<br>
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Free Software is the real future of tomorrow. Without Free
Software, Education Policy is meaningless.<br>
Friends, this new policy draft clearly indicates that Education
and in turn the whole Country will continue to be slave of
Microsoft if we don't act immediately.<br>
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We must hang together and pressurize MHRD to make FOSS mandatory
in Education. This must be done before 31st July 2016, as this
is the last date given by MHRD to accept suggestions of citizens
about NEP-2016.<br>
Please sign the petition before 31st July 2016 and save our
country :<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.change.org/p/petition-for-mandating-use-of-free-and-open-source-software-in-new-education-policy-2016">https://www.change.org/p/petition-for-mandating-use-of-free-and-open-source-software-in-new-education-policy-2016</a><br>
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This Petition is supported by Free Software Foundation (FSF,
India), Digital Freedom Foundation and many Linux and FOSS
Groups.<br>
Kindly share this message as early as possible with maximum
number of FOSS lovers.<br>
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Thanks and Regards<br>
Milind<br>
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<b>"Yes. We need spread the word to all the groups to seek more
signatures. It is an important petition"</b><b><br>
</b><b> - Prof Nagarjuna G, </b><b><br>
</b><b>Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education,</b><b><br>
</b><b>Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai,</b><strong
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Chairman, FSF, India.</strong><b> </b><b><br
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Thanks for the heads up - we will start promoting this too!<br>
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Regards<br>
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Vik<br>
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Arrg! I just went to sign and realised it's an advert for BOSS Linux
:(<br>
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I think you'll do better in terms of engaging other FOSS projects
and community if the petition and video are about FOSS rather than a
single product.<br>
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Perhaps we can come up with a video that celebrates Indian FOSS
projects such as ours or GnuKhata?<br>
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