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Re: Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Re: Value (from FSF-India)
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From: <as...@mi...> - 2002-03-20 14:45:26
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>great idea. maybe you can lead this part of
the discussion at the workshop, and maybe also coordinate development of such a
platform?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>are u still coming to bombay this weekend?
vijay is here this wknd also and we can all get together and
talk...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--tapan</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Re:
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<DIV><BR></DIV><PRE><FONT size=2>Tapan,
I see a lot of value in what you are proposing.
In fact I was thinking along the same lines. I just attended a two-da
y meeting of regional partners (read NGOs) of OneWorld South Asia in
Delhi in which I presented a case for enabling ICTs for local languag
es keeping in mind the work these NGOs are doing among people at the
grassroots level. I could see some of the NGOs were pretty savvy when
it came to use of ICTs, while most were ICT challenged. They need he
lp, handholding and constant motivation in getting onto the ICT bandw
agon. And almost all of them expressed a desire to be part of a forum
/platform where their ICT related queries would be answered timely an
d in a language they understand. This is where networks like OneWorld
or sourceforge can play a major role. Maybe we can have a parallel n
etwork for NGOs (NGO-computing ?) on the lines of Indic-computing. I
proposed to OneWorld to act as ICT evangelist to these NGOs.
BTW
, most of these NGOs are on email and even have a functional website.
Ashish
> -----------------------Original Message------------
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> From : 'Tapan S. Parikh' <TA...@YA...>
> To
: 'fsf...@mm...' <FSF...@MM...>
> Sent Date
: Tue Mar 19 18:51:58 IST 2002
> Subject : [Indic-computing-devel
] Re: Value (from FSF-India)
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>
> Raj,
>
> This is
one hope of the workshop that we have been talking about and
> th
at you alluded to. To bring the developer community, particularly
> progressive, aware technicians such as ourselves, closer to the NG
O,
> development and govt communities, so we can better understand
> their needs, and provide better thought-out tools that meet the
ir
> requirements, while still remaining technically sound, true t
o our ideals
> of interoperability and freedom, whatever they may
be for us.
>
> There are tons of NGOs to work with, Sristi (wh
o I used to work with) and
> SEWA in Ahmedabad come immediately to
mind because I have first-hand
> knowledge. Also many various go
vt agencies could use help, and as someone
> enlightened me about
earlier today, starting to interface with them on the
> advantages
of free software is a definite possibility. Get together with
>
other developers, and people you know in the larger community, and st
art to
> make inroads if you can.
>
> But I know this is ha
rd until there is a platform of dicussion to which we
> can both c
ome to to discuss, which is not technically intimidating to the
>
NGO / govt side, nor tedious and undirected to the technical side.
> Otherwise discussion will be unfocused and vague and will lead now
here,
> which I also tell you from first hand experience.
>
> One thing I am imagining as I write this is very interesting - how
about a
> sourceforge type platform for rural and development gro
ups to post software
> problems on? These could then be refined i
n to full-fledged software
> specifications, and then taken up by
people like us who find such projects
> interesting to develop. T
hat would be a great work model, and maybe we can
> start talking
about building such a web platform. Where to start? Can we
> sta
rt discussing the requirements for such a platform? Can we make it a
> sourceforge project, and start working on it? (Hypothetical qu
estions,
> because of course we can!) I look forward to it, I thi
nk it would be a
> great contribution if we could do that.
>
> --Tapan
>
> >
> > Can we collect the details of NGOs an
d other groups so that we can get
> > in touch with them. Kerala S
astra Sahitya Parishad is one such
> > organization in Kerala.
>
>
> > Any one involved with NGOs here?
> >
> > > - setting
up training and education forums and trying to get
> > > people,
particularly from these communities, involved
> >
> > Rather, c
an we work on creating some training material so that the
> > NGOs
can use it to learn themselves, This will be more productive i
>
> the long run as they need not be dependent in us.
> >
> > One
such example is the tutorial collection of TugIndia.
> > <HTTP: tutorials.html www.tug.org.in> If we can get about 10 - 15
> > peo
ple and if each can write a chapter we can create some nice
> > tu
torial and use this mail list to answer the queries for the tutorial
> > users.
> >
> > > - analyzing the needs of local language
and rural software in
> > > India and start developing tools and
applications
> >
> > This is a very important step. I am lookin
g fwd to attend the
> > conference you are organizing. I myself is
working on and off on
> > various stuff for Malayalam.
> >
>
> raj
>
>
>
>
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