[Techtalk] [IndiChix] Fwd: [WFS-India] Fwd: Poster Competition

[A. Mani]

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:52 PM, स्वक्ष <svaksha at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kendra made some nice edits, so I've updated it. Here is the link:
> http://mailman.linuxchix.org/pipermail/techtalk/2013-June/025133.html


This write up is more or less all right but flawed when it comes to
framing the cultural perspective and has outright lies in it.

So here is a second modification:


>Yerm, well, I'm into Linux, I'm a chick, and I think it's relevant. I used
> to do a lot of copywriting for NGOs, so here is my "bugfix" :) - feel free
> to tear it up.

Thanks.

GNU/Linux  or are you a kernel devel :)

Some points:

'to a first world country' : that is framing with a development model in mind.
half a billion Indians on Internet ..... SOURCE?.
souls ... nonsense :)
planck time = 5.39106(32) × 10−44 s
So very few people actually go online .... :)
Cell phone adoption figures are not clear due to people having too
many subscriptions.
"remain rooted in the Indian ethos" ... that is condemning them to a
wretched life.
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*India is a multi-ethnic, multi-racial country one billion strong and
growing. The road of a developing nation is a long
and arduous one, and among India's most pressing problems are official
corruption and the suppression of women and the LGBT community.*
*
*
*Though India is an ancient nation with a 5000-year history, a
substantial section of
its well-off people have embraced modern technicality, from cell-phone
toting farmers to
tweeting teenagers, technophile home-makers to artistic designers, and
more who are coming online, communicating, coding and interacting
in real time. *
*
And yet, these people are still struggling to finding their voices while
retaining basic human values within our society. Your challenge is to bring
out your virtual brushes and pictorially depict this struggle while
celebrating their diversity.

Do you see any point in India's history while looking forward into
its future? Exercise your creative freedom with Free/Libre open source
software and other technologies. Your poster may be the inspiration that
gives them a voice to fight for their rights, a vision of a better tomorrow,
a tomorrow that gives them the freedom and space to dream while allowing
them to explore the problems of their culture.*

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The current plan is to restrict possible topics for posters
I think we need a additional section for that because of the above.




Best

A. Mani


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