[smc-discuss] [fsug-tvm] Re: Pirate Cycling in Trivandrum

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Its at 10:30 PM.

Regards,
Balasankar C
http://balasankarc.in


2013/9/30 Praveen A <pravi.a at gmail.com>

> We got coverage in Kerala editions of Times of India and Madhyamam. We
> were also interviewed by NP Chandrasekharan for Anyonyam. It will be aired
> in Kairali People TV at 10 pm (in 20 minutes). It is also available to
> watch online live.
>
> On Sep 29, 2013 12:17 AM, "Praveen A" <pravi.a at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We reached here on Wednesday 24th night 10pm after cycling 4 days. On 21st
> we (me and Sooraj) covered Thrissur to Ernakulam, on 22nd Sooraj, Manu and
> Vishnu Aluva (Madhusoothanan Nair) covered Ernakulam to Allepey and on 23rd
> Sooraj and Vishnu covered Allepey to Kollam (they visited schools on the
> way in Harippad and other places). On 24th we had an interaction with
> school students came from many schools. 24th night was a hacknight at hotel
> Ya Ali in Kazhakkoottam. It was arranged by ICFOSS. Anish and team ported
> Freedom Toaster to Raspberry Pi and burned a CD with it. On 25th morning we
> presented it to ICFOSS director Satish Babu. We visited Kerala University
> Karyavattam campus and had good disussions at Bioinfomatics and Malayalam
> departments. Haknight continued at SPACE. Yesterday we covered LBS
> engineering college of women and discussed Free Culture and pirate ideas.
> The response was very good and there were very good questions like if we
> don't have patents won't technologies like Atom bomb be misused. That time
> we couldn't think about the fact that you have to publish a patent and atom
> bomb is a state secret. We suggested if Japan had an atom bomb US would
> have thought twice before bombing. When I said we don't know everything,
> there was a comment that "they know it already" :)
>
> Then we had another good session at Government College for women. This
> time we were interacting with students from Malayalam department and focus
> was on language and culture. Sooraj had to accept defeat when he said he
> don't like Adoor movies as he was criticizing people who didn't like
> Santhosh Pandit. We started our session asking them why are they studying
> Malayalam? Initially one said they will get a teachers job, but others said
> they love the language and some realized the important language play in our
> culture. We added Knowledge and Energy as two basic necessities of life and
> how we are made dependant. Creating dependency and erasing history are two
> ways of controlling a people. So we emphasiced on selef reliance in
> knowledge and energy. Solar and biogas were taken as examples. I focused on
> Eben Moglen's line of argument about how printing technology revolutionized
> sharing of knowledge and how digital tehnology offers a similar potential,
> but deliberately chained from achieving its potential of providing everyone
> all the knowledge they want. I also emphasised how copyright was born in
> the printing press era and how it is an impediment to progress in the
> digital world.
>
> Another favorite example of mine was of Akshaya Pathra in Mahabharata and
> how digital technology is an infinite source of knowledge. I posed a
> hypothetical situation of a machine like Akshaya Pathra which costs 1 crore
> to make. To recover the cost and make profit 100 rupees per meal is
> charged. What would they do if someone hungry turns up without money? Most
> people said they would feed the hungry. I told them how copyright denies
> people without money knowledge, entertainment and information. I also
> introduced crowd funding where people raise the money initially and share
> the product they make. We compared it with how local clubs organize events
> printing vouchers.
>
> In the evening we visited Shantigiri Ashram and had good disussion with
> Viswabhoda swamy and Gurudharmananda swamy. It was interesting. Especially
> since Viswabodhaswamy is already a wikipedia contributor, reported bug in
> openoffice, knows most people in the community and migrated the ashram to
> gnu/linux.
>
> Today I was at Technopark for Free Software Young professionals meet in
> the morning and we interacted with many journalists at SPACE office in
> Vellayambalam, where we are staying right now. Tomorrow I will be taking a
> session on contributing to Free Software again at technopark. We are
> planning to visit deaf school at Vellayani on Monday. If anyone has some
> contats there connect us. Tuesday morning we are planning to leave for
> Kollam district via MC Road. This time we will be spending 2 days in a
> district. If you are interested in organizing events on our way contact me
> 09561745712 or Sooraj 9995551549.
>
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