Gotta go do my turn on the stage in a
couple of hours.
Konrad Becker from Public Netbase in Austria
was here last night. Konrad's putting together a new
cyberculture event in Vienna. I went to the
last one, "Open Cultures." It rocked.
I dunno quite what it is about Konrad, but every
time I run into him I seem to hear the zither soundtrack
from the Orson Welles film "The Third Man."
The World Social Forum in Bombay is over now,
but the Indian free-software guys who were
running their infrastructure are still bragging about
it. Boy, is it ever odd to have lived long enough
to see Indians in a bold, rollicking, swaggering,
self-assertive national mood. "We're the Indian
GNU/LINUX globalista youth revolution, baby!"
Yeah! Okay fellas! You guys enjoy that while
you've got it!
IN ANOTHER WORLD, ALREADY: Arun M reports from the
World Social Forum, a prestigious event held in Mumbai: Free Software keeps
communications alive at the WSF The Media Center at WSF 2004, equipped with
a complete network lab of 120 computers and 40 lap-top connections was
maintained open and functional 24 hrs for the entire forum with Free
Software.
This is the first time in WSF history, that media members were allowed
access to the facilities at the center 24 hours a day. The challenges were
present every day of this world forum, although no official complaints: the
dedicated effort of fifty Free Software Foundation (FSF) volunteers and
members, with great enthusiasm and considerable knowledge helped in all
technical aspects to make this first-time event a reality.
Keep in mind this is a youth revolution, since most of the FSF volunteers
are younger than 21. They all showed the world that we do not need
restrictions and privatization of systems of information, that knowledge and
human communications are truly free and democratic.
The software's name? It's GNU/LINUX
On the initiave of Dr Nagarjun G., board of directors of the FSF, the entire
media center at the WSF, from which about 2,000 journalists generated
reports and news, Free Software is not possible, but REAL.
For more information, visit GNU Web Site
P.S. FSF members already consider themselves living in Another World.
http://www.wsfindia.org/newsdetails.php?id=22
