[OLPC India] Digital Bridge

[sankarshan]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Nagarjuna G <nagarjun at gnowledge.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Saurabh Adhikari <adhikaris at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Representation:
>>
>> Just like we can buy and use say a Maruti or GM or Ford or Toyota or any
>> other car but we cannot "represent" their company to carry out any business
>> without an specific agreement to do so.
>>
>> The contact address for OLPC India is <Contact-OLPC-India at laptop.org>
>>
>
> I agree with you that not just anybody can represent an organization,
> there must be a clarification that is better than the analogy given
> above.  The analogy indicates strict ownership of OLPC India.  If you
> wish OLPC India to be a community driven organization, as is the case
> with other free software projects, we wish it to be different.  Some
> more clarification is required on who can represent?

The reason I asked was as follows. There are times when I am asked to
talk about FOSS/Education or, Contributing to FOSS and so forth and, I
generally end up using my experiences of contributing to OLPC/Sugar.
The analogy which Saurabh puts out makes it difficult for me to
continue to use OLPC or, OLPC efforts in India during my talks.

The analogy is fine for business, but in case of OLPC (in India) there
is the added factor of crowd-sourcing and community. If there was some
public discussions behind the decision which brought out the analogy,
it would have been appreciated.

I would like to suggest that you maintain a landing page on the
internet with the contact details etc clearly marked out. I may have
missed a previous posting of such an URL in which I case I apologize.


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sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>