[Commons-Law] EFF-India?

[Badri Natarajan]

I agree with everything Lawrence has said.

Specifically, carrying on from his email, I think the way to move forward 
now is:

1. To identify and gather people who may be interested/helpful to the 
project in an informal manner.

2. Decide on issues to pursue.

3. Pursue them. That is to say, for example, if the Yahoo Groups blocking 
issue had still been active, there could have been some action taken 
regarding it. Or perhaps an initiative to find out more details regarding 
the Electronic Voting Machines being used in the elections. (Except for 
assertions that they are "tamper proof", I have seen precious little info 
about them). Or maybe a letter trying to counter the lobbying efforts for a 
DMCA style anti-circumvention provision in India. Small things to be sure, 
but concrete steps and *action* moving towards a larger role, and an 
eventual institutional presence of an EFF-India.

Any initiative like this needs to be driven through with a good deal of 
enthusiasm - a lot of people are no doubt interested, but it will have to 
be co-ordinated and pushed through - all that energy must be harnessed and 
*action* must be taken.

Badri

PS - Lawrence, you are either awake really early or really late, if you're 
in India!