[OLPC India] President APJ Abdul Kalam shows keen interest in OLPC XO

[Sameer Verma]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Satish Jha OLPC <satish at laptop.org> wrote:
> I spent a part of this afternoon with President Kalam together with my
> colleague Amit Bhatia.
>
> As always, President Kalam was very encoraging, said we were trying to live
> his dream of saving the children from carrying a cruel load and connected us
> to a couple of potential key drivers for the deployment of OLPC in India.
>
> Clearly a people's president..
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Hi Satish,

Congratulations!!! President Kalam is clearly a sharp man with a
pragmatic view of education. He's also an avid supporter of Free and
Open Source Software
(http://www.google.com/search?q=abdul+kalam+open+source), and
considering that he works with systems, he understands the value of
FOSS well beyond just a rhetoric or statement of fashion.

His blessings are really important. I hope you've given him a
Sugar-loaded XO as a memento.

cheers,
Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/