On Thursday 02 October 2014 08:21 PM, Vignesh Prabhu wrote: > Hi, > > Its very good to see how Debutsav'14 is shaping up. If possible I would > suggest screening Internet's Own Boy[1] movie during the fest. The movie > is very well made and has very good impact on the viewers. Though I do > not know if Aaron had directly contributed to Debian but for someone > from India, it is definitely opens up many questions as to why we need > to talk about freedom, freedom of knowledge and freedom of Internet. > Another reason why we should promote it is that other than Free Software > Community, no one can connect to someone like Aaron and hence only we > the Free Software Community need to spread the word about what he did > and what happened to him and how it also has larger impact on us. As > someone rightly pointed out, he is the first martyr of the Internet > Freedom revolution. We at FSMK Summer Camp 14 had screened the movie for > our 200 participants and its impact was very visible from the responses > of the students during the discussion which was led by Lawrence Liang > from Alternative Law Forum. PyCon India also had screened the movie in > Bangalore[2] and the response was very good. I hope Debutsav'14 can also > find some time to screen the movie and spread the ideas that Aaron was > working on. FSMK is also trying to come up with subtitles for the movie > in Indic languages to take the movie to more and more people. I myself > am doing it for Hindi and almost 70% is done[3]. Other volunteers at > FSMK have taken up kannada and around 30% is done[4]. If interested some > students can take it up as an activity to come up with subtitles in > Malayalam and also target to finish it up before the event. Thanks Vignesh for those suggestions. I also think we should screen this movie.
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