[Discuss] The small Indian movement!

[Ashfaq Farooqui]

Hi,

Here's my report on last weeks symposium i spoke to you guys about.

http://photoelectricchefs.weebly.com/1/post/2012/10/reportfreedom-hardware-symposium.html

Harshita blogs about the event:
http://footprintsthroughmymind.blogspot.in/2012/10/freedom-hardware-symposium-bmsit.html

the media covers the event:
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/the-buzz-is-about-free-hardware/article3950776.ece

I would love to hear from you guys, on what you think and suggestions for
improvement.

Regards,
Ashfaq

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Catarina Mota <catarina at openmaterials.org>wrote:

> Wow, this sounds great! OSHWA is here to help of course, but more than
> give you suggestions I would love to hear about your experiences with
> growing the open source hardware movement in India: what works, what
> doesn't work, what people are interested in, what knowledge and tools
> should locations where OSHW is well established be making available to the
> rest of the world, etc.
>
> Catarina
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Ashfaq Farooqui <
> ashfaq.farooqui at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey All,
>>
>> The Open hardware movement has been taking great strides all over the
>> world, but down here in India it doesn't seem to have the same vigour.
>> A friend of and me recently took up responsibility of motivating more
>> students. And it was quite a success.
>> I shall be sending in a report shortly,
>> Our objective is concentrating at the roots, that is we want to instill
>> in them a sense of work and a culture of community learning(which lacks
>> down here). And as electronic enthusiasts we are teaching them electronics.
>> along with us a few software students are actively teaching Computer
>> science. so we have a brilliant team.
>>
>> photoelectricchefs.weebly.com/fhm.html
>>
>> Here's our small FAQ page about what we do.
>>
>> Please feel free to give us your suggestions and comments,will help us
>> improve.
>>
>> Do get in touch with us for any clarifications,
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Ashfaq.
>>
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