On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 12:18 +0530, Koustubha Kale wrote:
>> As you may be aware, VPM, Thane
>
> a few words on what is VPM and why Thane in preference to Kolkata and
> why this groups is asked to vote (I have never seen a single post on
> Koha in this group).
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Vidya Prasarak Mandal, Thane is a educational trust based in Thane on
outskirts of Mumbai. ( www.vpmthane.org ). It has schools and colleges
providing education to about 15000 students.
VPM, Thane is a big proponent of FOSS. It uses FOSS on most of its
800+ computers and servers. It has also conducted many GNU/Linux
workshops and seminars.
Through its project Granthalaya.org ( www.granthalaya.org ) VPM, Thane
intends to create bibliographic union database of holdings of all the
public libraries in Konkan area including Thane. Vidya Prasarak Mandal
intends to help the participating libraries for computerizing their
holdings by providing them an open source library software Koha for
the purpose. Through this project VPM, Thane already has helped many
libraries digitize their catalouges and computerize their operations.
For this purpose VPM, Thane has been involved with the Koha community
and desires to bring the Koha conference with its worldwide community
of developers and librarians to its campus in Thane. This will benefit
the students, staff, libraries and FOSS users in the region, hence the
mail requesting support to the GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai
I hope you will support and participate in this initiative..
Regards,
Koustubha Kale
Anant Corporation
Contact Details :
Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes
Naka, Thane (w),
Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601.
TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109
Mobile : +919820715876
Website : http://www.anantcorp.com
Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2
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