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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/FSMILOGO.svg/220px-FSMILOGO.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/FSMILOGO.svg/330px-FSMILOGO.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/FSMILOGO.svg/440px-FSMILOGO.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="354" data-file-height="354" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Free Software is the future, Future is ours</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Abbreviation</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">FSMI</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Formation</th><td class="infobox-data note">March 21, 2010<span class="noprint">; 14 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2010-03-21</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Coalition of Organisations</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Purpose</th><td class="infobox-data">To take <a href="/wiki/Free_software" title="Free software">free software</a> and its ideology to all computer users and to all sections of society.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Region served </div></th><td class="infobox-data">Indian Union</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">President</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prabir_Purkayastha&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Prabir Purkayastha (page does not exist)">Prabir Purkayastha</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">General Secretary</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kiran_Chandra_Yarlagada&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kiran Chandra Yarlagada (page does not exist)">Kiran Chandra Yarlagada</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Main organ</div></th><td class="infobox-data">General Council</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fsmi.in/">fsmi.in</a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Free Software Movement of India</b> (<b>FSMI</b>) is a national coalition of various regional and sectoral <a href="/wiki/Free_software_movement" title="Free software movement">free software movements</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Bangalore" class="mw-redirect" title="Bangalore">Bangalore</a> during 20–21 March 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> FSMI is a pan Indian level initiative to propagate the ideology of free software and to popularize the usage of the <a href="/wiki/Free_software" title="Free software">free software</a>. One of the declared aims of the movement is to take Free Software and its ideological implications to computer users “across the <a href="/wiki/Digital_divide" title="Digital divide">digital divide</a>”, to under-privileged sections of society.<sup id="cite_ref-fsmk_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fsmk-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DeshabhimaniNews_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DeshabhimaniNews-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Member_organisations">Member organisations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_Software_Movement_of_India&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Member organisations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b>Regional movements</b> <ul><li>Democratic Alliance of Knowledge Front, Kerala (abbrv. DAKF)</li> <li>Free Software Movement of Delhi/NCR</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_Software_Movement_of_Karnataka" title="Free Software Movement of Karnataka">Free Software Movement of Karnataka</a> (abbrv. FSMK)</li> <li>Free Software Movement of Maharashtra (abbrv. FSMM)</li> <li>Free Software Movement of Rajasthan</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation_Tamil_Nadu" title="Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu">Free Software Foundation Tamilnadu</a> (abbrv. FSFTN)</li> <li>Free Software Movement of West Bengal</li> <li>Swadhin, Odisha</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swecha" title="Swecha">Swecha</a>, Telangana & Andhra Pradesh</li></ul></li> <li><b>Sectoral movements</b> <ul><li>Appropriate Technology Promotion Society</li> <li>Knowledge Commons</li> <li>National Consultative Committee of Computer Teachers Association(abbrv. NCCCTA)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation" title="Open Source Geospatial Foundation">Open Source Geospatial Foundation</a> India (abbrv. OSGEO India)</li></ul></li></ul> <p>Sectoral movements such as 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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_Software_Movement_of_India&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>FSMI elects the General Council, Executive Committee, Office Bearers including General Secretary & President in FSMI National Conferences. </p><p>The founding conference of FSMI elected a General Council having 69 members, an Executive Committee with 28 members with Joseph Thomas as the founding President and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kiran_Chandra_Yarlagadda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kiran Chandra Yarlagadda (page does not exist)">Kiran Chandra Yarlagadda</a> as founding General Secretary. The second national conference named as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fsftn.gitlab.io/4ccon/">4Ccon</a> was held in B.S. Abdur Rahman University, Vandalur, Chennai. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Prabir_Purkayastha&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Prabir Purkayastha (page does not exist)">Prabir Purkayastha</a> was elected as the President and Kiran Chandra Yarlagadda was re-elected as the General Secretary at the second conference. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Objectives">Objectives</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_Software_Movement_of_India&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Objectives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>FSMI is a pan Indian level initiative to propagate the ideology of free software and to popularize the usage of the <a href="/wiki/Free_software" title="Free software">free software</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-fsmk_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fsmk-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-fsmk_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fsmk-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DeshabhimaniNews_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DeshabhimaniNews-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Activities">Activities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_Software_Movement_of_India&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) had made mandatory the use of the proprietary Office 365<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in all engineering colleges in the country. This mandatory mandate was rescinded after intervention by several groups led by FSMI.<sup id="cite_ref-office360_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-office360-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Free Software Movement of India (FSMI) has alleged that the new Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions are illogical. It argues that they violate the spirit and law contained in the amended Patents Act of 1970 and could pose a grave threat to innovation in our country. It cautioned that permitting software patents through the backdoor would severely restrict the innovative capabilities and would adversely impact the creative and entrepreneurial spirit of the youth in the India.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>FSMI has strongly criticized the Indian Telecom Giant Airtel for tampering user's online communications on its <a href="/wiki/3G_network" class="mw-redirect" title="3G network">3G network</a>, and maliciously inserting advertisements into its user's data. In a statement issued they also stated that Airtel acted in violation of the privacy rights of at least thousands if not millions of Indian citizens and has rendered their online communications unsafe.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> FSMI appealed to all groups working on net neutrality to oppose Airtel and Flash Networks illegal and unethical actions and share the code that exposes Airtel widely, thus defeating corporate attempts to muzzle citizens right to free speech (which are only intended to cover up acts of corporate malfeasance).</li> <li>A call to Protest on 9 June 2012 for Internet Freedom was given by FSMI to which there was a good response across the country. In Hyderabad police scuttled a planned protest by activists of Free Software Movement of India (FSMI). A good number of software engineers, students and other campaigners assembled near People's Plaza on the Necklace Road.A senior police official threatened FSMI activists with arrest and confiscation of all protest material and T-shirts. The activists contended that theirs was a token protest and they had no plans to organise a rally. The police initially took Y. Kiran Chandra, General Secretary of FSMI in to policy custody along with fellow activists. After hour-long arguments, the police spoke to higher officials who directed them to be shifted to Indira Park. The protestors left the venue with a police patrol team piloting the protest for.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>National Convention for Academics and Research was organised by FSMI in December 2011. The conference was inaugurated by former President of India Dr A P J Abdul Kalam. The concept of Free Software, wherein knowledge is created by the community for the community, without being driven by commercial interests, must be extended to research to solve problems in health care, agriculture, energy and safe drinking water, the former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, said.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversy">Controversy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_Software_Movement_of_India&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Controversy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A report in the <a href="/wiki/Malayalam" title="Malayalam">Malayalam</a> daily <i><a href="/wiki/Mathrubhumi" title="Mathrubhumi">Mathrubhumi</a></i> stated that the new organisation was under the tutelage of certain political parties and that it had driven a wedge in the free software movement in India by sidetracking the <a href="/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation_of_India" title="Free Software Foundation of India">Free Software Foundation of India</a> (FSFI).<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The report in <i>Mathrubhumi</i> was criticized by FSMI in another newspaper for not upholding basic journalistic ethics and code of conduct of contacting the FSMI leadership before making allegations.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A rejoinder to the report has been published by FSMI.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>Mathrubhumi</i> article stated that the general secretary of FSMI, Kiran Chandra was a representative of Novell while the FSFI website showed that he is on the 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