[school-discuss] RE: From India

["Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>]

That's great! It will reach out to many. FN
PS: This is from India's only magazine exclusively devoted to GNU/Linux. 
It is read across the country, and is widely noticed among user groups. 

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, rahul wrote:


> Hi Fred,
> 
> Good News! Next issue of LINUX For You (Jan 04) carries FreEDUC CD!
> 
> Rahul
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frederick Noronha (FN) [mailto:fred@bytesforall.org]
> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 2:10 AM
> To: Hilaire Fernandes
> Cc: rahul (EFY); council
> Subject: Re: From India
> 
> 
> Yes, I do know the people of LinuxForYou, and infact write a monthly
> column for them. I'll put you in touch with their editor, Rahul. Infact, I
> was mentioning that FreEDUC would be a great product for them to circulate
> too. FN
> 
> On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 10:18:55 +0530 (IST)
> > "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org> wrote:
> >
> >       Dear Senhor Fernandes:
> >
> >       I've always wondered -- are you Portuguese, Brazilian or Goan ;-)
> >
> >
> > Some of my ancestors and familly are from both places. I don't remember
> > any relative in GOA, but well how knows. However my root are for now in
> > France :)
> >
> >
> >       Now to the issue -- can you send me a copy of the latest FreEDUC,
> >       with the
> >       instruction guide? I'd love to popularise it in India.
> >
> >
> > FREEDUC is free as free speech not as free beer :-) We already got
> > solicitation to send FREEDUC to India moreover we have not yet printed
> > any instruction guide. Instead of sending you *one* physical media
> > containing the FREEDUC, we would like to work with you to find a
> > solution to get a lof of pressed FREEDUC cd to be distributed in India.
> >
> > One solution we are working on in Europe is to contact Linux magazine
> > and proposed them a deal to distribute FREEDUC cd in their magazine + to
> > press an additional number of cdrom to be distributed localy.
> >
> > Do you know such magazine we could contact to propose such a deal?
> >
> >
> > Hilaire
> >
> > PS: I read several of your article about FREEDUC, thanks to talk about
> > it, but also I would like to suggest you to talk about OFSET which is
> > the organization supporting the development of FREEDUC and some other
> > stuff. And do forget OFSET need aswell financial support to go on.

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