[Commons-Law] Report from Kerala

[jawahar at sarai.net]

did you know that for some time now the District Courtrs in Delhi are being
computerised with Linux as the OS -
although i must admit that some of the people who operate it that i have
spoken with it are peeved that they have not been consulted during the
process

Jawahar




On May 27, 7:54 pm Pedro de Paranagua Moniz <pedro_paranagua at yahoo.com.br>
wrote:
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8319
>
> India's Upcoming Free Software, Free Society Conference
>
> Free software advocates and IT delegates from around the world will
> be in Kerala, India, this week in the hopes of building free software
> collaborations for the future. Free software offers its users various
> freedoms. In India, free software enthusiasts are working on a new
> one--the freedom to build bridges to potential partners half-way across
> the globe who are facing similar developmental concerns or
> challenges. To help facilitate this bridge-building process, the Free
> Software Foundation of India is organising a four-country conference to
> be held May 28-29, 2005. The Free Software, Free Society conference
> brings together hackers from an unlikely set of nations, people who
> don't speak the same language but who do see much in the idea that
> knowledge is most powerful when it is shared freely. Arun M,
> arun at gnu.org.in, one of the key organisers of this event, said, "The
> Free Software movement has shown a new way of knowledge creation based
> on collaboration and social ownership. This conference explores the
> possibilities of applying the Free Software model in addressing broader
> questions such as governance, digital inclusion, development and
> culture."
>
> Free Software, Free Society is being organised by the Free Software
> Foundation of India, along with Italy's Hipatia project, the Society
> for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment (SPACE) in Kerala
> and the Indian Institute of Information Technology and
> Management-Kerala (IITM-K). The conference will be held at Technopark,
> a technology and software promotion centre in the state-capital of
> India's southernmost state of Kerala....
>
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