[Fsf-friends] Celebrating annual day of FSF India
Mahesh T. Pai
paivakil@vsnl.net
Tue Jun 15 01:36:11 IST 2004
V. Sasi Kumar said on Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:01:41PM +0530,:
> to discuss our activities, so that we could think of other
> activities in the future at Thiruvananthapuram, and also
> co-ordinate with people in other places who may be interested in
> conducting such programmes elsewhere.
Decentralised celebrations by local user groups will, IMO be more
effective.
And we should concenterate on freedom.
By July 21st, Gimp will 2.1, unstable version 2 of OOo will be
available, and Scribus will be at 1.3. The Linux kernel 2.6.8 will be
in RC1, and 2.4.28 will be out.
My September 21, and for every third month after that, you can
increment each version number by 2.
Good thing? Yes. Definitely.
But, the movement has to focus one issue - `freedom'. More than
install fests and demos, the occassion should be used to talk about
freedom and importance of free software. Once people decide thay want
freedom, the need for instllfest as means of attracting people to the
GNU will vanish. But to help them actually use the software, we need
such demos and fests.
BTW, we keep on forgetting the HURD kernel.
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