[PLUG] Its time to take action....

[Milind Oka]

NP Vikas. I agree with you.

Will upload Gnukhata video in place of BOSS. I talked to team. will 
upload within a couple of hours.

Thanks for your support.

Milind

On Saturday 16 July 2016 07:21 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> On 16/07/16 14:48, Vikas Tara wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> New National Education Policy-2016 draft has recently been made 
>>> available to public for inputs.
>>> This whole draft does not refer Free and Open Source Software even 
>>> once !
>>>
>>> Free Software is the real future of tomorrow. Without Free Software, 
>>> Education Policy is meaningless.
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>> Please sign the petition before 31st July 2016 and save our country :
>>>
>>> https://www.change.org/p/petition-for-mandating-use-of-free-and-open-source-software-in-new-education-policy-2016
>>>
>>> This Petition is supported by Free Software Foundation (FSF, India), 
>>> Digital Freedom Foundation and many Linux and FOSS Groups.
>>> Kindly share this message as early as possible with maximum number 
>>> of FOSS lovers.
>>>
>>> Thanks and  Regards
>>> Milind
>>> -------------
>>> *"Yes. We need spread the word to all the groups to seek more 
>>> signatures. It is an important petition"**
>>> ** - Prof Nagarjuna G, **
>>> **Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education,**
>>> **Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai,**
>>> Chairman, FSF, India.****
>>> *
>> Thanks for the heads up - we will start promoting this too!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> Vik
>
> Arrg! I just went to sign and realised it's an advert for BOSS Linux :(
>
> 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.
>
> Perhaps we can come up with a video that celebrates Indian FOSS 
> projects such as ours or GnuKhata?
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> plug-mail mailing list
> plug-mail at plug.org.in
> http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://list.plug.org.in/pipermail/plug-mail/attachments/20160716/c71cb373/attachment.html>