Quizas alguien quiera participar en esto, en todo caso son buenas noticias para el software libre, el que lo desee me avisa y lo ponemos en contacto con Arun. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arun M <[email protected]> Date: 29-mar-2006 11:07 Subject: [hipatia] Free Software in Kerala election To: Coordinadores de Hipatia <[email protected]> Dear Hipatian's I wanted to share a happy news with all of you. Kerala state in India is going to election next month. Two major political forces are United Democratic Front and Left Democratic Front. Yesterday LDF published their election manifesto. It says that LDF will support use and development of free software. It is first time in India a political group publicly stating its support for free software. History of Kerala elections and current political situation in Kerala tells us that LDF is sure to win in this election. If so we will have a major role to play in IT sector of the state. Kerala is a financially weak but general living condition is better than many part of the world. This happened because of several social movements including victory of communist party in 1957 through ballot(some people say it was first time in the world, but our communist chief minister of that period says it is second). We have been highligted by many economist including Nobel Laurate Amartya Sen as an example of the fact that GDP doesnt have much correlation with HDI. Total Population 31,838,619 (Density : 819/sq km) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala In coming days I would like to request support from all of you in participating and building a people centered IT Policy and action plan for Kerala. We wont be able to put in lots of fund. But we can put in people committed and active. One interesting character of people form Kerala is that you will be able to find one from Kerala in every corner of the world ;) After reaching moon Niel Amstorng decided to start his moon walk. He thought he is alone and was feeling bad. Suddenly when he came out he found that there is a Keralite (often called Malayalee) running Tea Shop there. http://static.flickr.com/33/40772047_abbb2d10a1_m.jpg With regards, Arun. _______________________________________________ lista coordinadores-hipatia [email protected] http://listas.hipatia.info/mailman/listinfo/coordinadores-hipatia www.listas.hipatia.info - [email protected] -- Diego Saravia [email protected] NO FUNCIONA->[email protected]