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Free Software Movement of India (FSMI) is a national coalition of various regional and sectoral free software movements operating in different parts of India. The formation of FSMI was announced in the valedictory function of the National Free Software Conference - 2010 held in Bangalore during 20–21 March 2010.〔News in OneWorld South Asia: (【引用サイトリンク】title=National Free Software Coalition Formed in India )〕〔News in in.com:(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Free Software Coalition Formed )〕〔News in Linux Today: (【引用サイトリンク】title=Free Software Movement Karnataka )〕〔Website of National Free Software Conference - 2010: (【引用サイトリンク】title=National Free Software Coalition Formed )〕〔News in Communications of the ACM: (【引用サイトリンク】title=National Free Software Coalition Formed )〕〔News in Erodov.com: (【引用サイトリンク】title=National Free Software Coalition Formed )〕〔News in The Hindu: 〕〔News in Malayalam daily Madhyamam: (【引用サイトリンク】title=ദേശീയ സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയര് സമ്മേളനം സമാപിച്ചു )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Free Software Movement Karnataka )〕 FSMI is a pan Indian level initiative to propagate the ideology of free software and to popularize the usage of the free software.〔The Hindu: 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Free Software Movement has arrived on the National Scene! )〕 One of the declared aims of the movement is to take Free Software and its ideological implications to computer users “across the digital divide”, to under-privileged sections of society.〔〔News in Malayalam daily Deshabhimani : 〕 Free Software movements in different states such as Swecha〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Website of Swecha )〕 (Andhra Pradesh & Telangana), Free Software Movement of Karnataka (FSMK),〔 name="FSMK">(【引用サイトリンク】title=Website of FSMK )〕 Democratic Alliance for Knowledge Freedom (DAKF)(Kerala), Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu (FSFTN)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Website of FSFTN )〕 (Tamil Nadu) and FSMWB (West Bengal) are partnering with the coalition. Sectoral movements such as Knowledge Commons,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Website of Knowledge Commons )〕 Academics Initiative, OSGEO India and the National Consultative Committee of Computer Teachers (NCCCTA) joined the national coalition at the very initial stage itself. FSMI differentiates itself from other organisations, forums or user groups in the free software domain by the method of movement building which is primarily grass root and mass movement.〔Article in Frontline: (【引用サイトリンク】title= Freedom movement )〕〔Article in Frontline: (【引用サイトリンク】title=Broad front ) 〕 ==Governance== The founding conference of FSMI elected a General Council having 69 members, an Executive Committee with 28 members and the following office bearers. * President : Joseph Thomas (Appropriate Technology Promotion Society, Kochi〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Appropriate Promotion Society )〕) * General Secretary : Kiran Chandra (Free Software Activist, Swecha) * Vice Presidents : K. Gopinath〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Home page of Prof. K. Gopinath )〕 (IISc, Bangalore), Debesh Das,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Profile of Prof. Debesh Das )〕 Prabir Purkhayastha〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Profile of Prabir Purkhayastha )〕 * Secretaries : Jay Kumar (FSMK), Nandini Mukherjee (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)(FSMWB), Siddhartha Malempati〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Profile of Siddharth Malempati )〕 (Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu) * Treasurer : L. Pratap Reddy〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Profile of Dr. L. Pratap Reddy )〕 (Swecha〔) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Free Software Movement of India」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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