Free Software Foundation of India

"FSFI" redirects here. For the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale, see International Women's Sports Federation.

The FSF India logo, By Niyam Bhushan

The Free Software Foundation of India (FSFI) Is an Indian sister organisation to the US-based Free Software Foundation. It was founded in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), the capital of Kerala in 2001,^[1] as a non-profit Company.^[2] The FSFI advocates to promote the use and development of free software in India. This includes educating people about free software, including how it can help the economy of a developing country like India. FSF India regards non-free software as not a solution, but a problem to be solved. Free software is sometimes locally called swatantra software in India.

In 2003, after meeting with FSF founder Richard Stallman, the President of India Dr. Abdul Kalam^[3]^[4] urged Indian computer scientists and professionals to use free and open-source software^[5] in research and development.^[6]

Logo

The left side of the FSF India logo resembles the famed Ashoka Chakra, that also appears on the Indian national flag, while its right half is a depiction of a compact disc. The combination of both symbols is intended to draw attention to the similarity between political freedom and free software, the latter of which the FSF promotes.

The Ashoka Chakra, in addition to being a long-standing Hindu symbol of time, also resembles Mahatma Gandhi's charkha (spinning wheel) and thus in the current context, may symbolize the Indian independence movement which resulted in India's freedom from British occupation.

Structure

Board of Directors

Nagarjuna G., Chairman
Arun M., Secretary
Anand Babu
V. Sasi Kumar
Y. Kiran Chandra

Working Group

Abhas Abhinav
Abhradip Mukherjee
Frederick Noronha
Renuka Prasad
Sasi PM
Sayamindu Dasgupta
Satish Babu
Sunil Mohan Adapa
Suraj
Tathagata Banerjee
Warren Brian Noronha

Webmasters

Anivar Aravind
Alpesh Gajbe
Praveen A
Sayamindu Dasgupta
Sunil Mohan Adapa

References

External links

Free Software Foundation of India
A LinuxJournal interview with FSF-India team members
Slashdot and Hindu articles (dated 2002) regarding Stallman's visit to India.
Slashdot and Hindu articles (dated 2002) regarding Dr. Kalam's endorsement of free software.
A Blue-GNU interview: FSF India's Impact Far-Reaching

Free Software Foundation

People	Richard M. Stallman

GNU Project	GNU General Public License GNU Lesser General Public License Affero General Public License

Other projects	Free Software Directory FSF Free Software Awards Free Software Foundation anti-Windows campaigns Defective by Design

Sister organizations	FSF Europe FSF Latin America FSF India League for Programming Freedom

See also	List of (GNU/)Linux distributions endorsed by the Free Software Foundation

Free and open-source software

General	Alternative terms for free software Comparison of open-source and closed-source software Comparison of source code hosting facilities Free software Free software project directories Gratis versus libre Long-term support Open-source software Open-source software development Outline

Software packages	Audio Bioinformatics Codecs Collaboration Configuration management Device drivers Graphics Wireless Geophysics Health Mathematics Operating systems Programming languages Routing Statistics Television Video games Web applications Content management systems E-commerce Word processors Android apps iOS apps Commercial Trademarked Formerly proprietary

Community	Free software movement History Open-source software movement Organizations Events

Licenses	Apache APSL Artistic Beerware Boost BSD CC0 CDDL EPL GNU GPL GNU LGPL ISC MIT MPL Ms-PL/RL WTFPL zlib

License types and standards	Comparison of free and open-source software licenses Contributor License Agreement Copyfree Copyleft Debian Free Software Guidelines Definition of Free Cultural Works Free license The Free Software Definition The Open Source Definition Open-source license Permissive free software licence Public domain Viral license

Challenges	Binary blob Digital rights management Hardware restrictions License proliferation Mozilla software rebranding Proprietary software SCO/Linux controversies Secure boot Software patents Software security Trusted Computing

Related topics	The Cathedral and the Bazaar Forking Microsoft Open Specification Promise Revolution OS

Book Category Commons Portal

GNU Project

History	GNU Manifesto Free Software Foundation Europe India Latin America History of free software

Licenses	GNU General Public License GNU Lesser General Public License Affero General Public License GNU Free Documentation License GPL linking exception

Software	GNU (variants) Hurd Linux-libre glibc Bash coreutils findutils Build System GCC binutils GDB GRUB GNOME GNUstep GIMP GNU Emacs GNU TeXmacs GNU Octave GNU R GSL GMP GNU Electric GNU Archimedes GNUnet GNU Privacy Guard Gnuzilla (IceCat) GNU Health GNUmed GNU LilyPond GNU Go GNU Chess Gnash Guix Guix System Distribution more...

Public speakers	Alexandre Oliva Benjamin Mako Hill Bradley M. Kuhn Eben Moglen Federico Heinz Georg C. F. Greve John Sullivan Loïc Dachary Matt Lee Nagarjuna G. Ricardo Galli Richard Stallman Robert J. Chassell

Other topics	GNU/Linux naming controversy Revolution OS Free Software Foundation anti-Windows campaigns Defective by Design

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 7/9/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.