[Hamara-devel] hamaralinux.org should take a public stand in support of net neutrality

[Vikas Tara]

On 16/04/15 18:49, shirish wrote:
> at bottom :-
>
> On 04/16/2015 10:31 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
>> On 16/04/15 16:53, shirish wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> Hamaralinux.org as a start-up would be adversely effected if TRAI 
>>> alters the provisions of net neutrality as it stands today/now.  The 
>>> document as shared by Akshay sometime back 
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GEKgyavvM_HaQWPEuhwD3M-kEOX2dZXFz5gb1t-uge4/ 
>>> could be used as a starting point as well as points generated by 
>>> http://www.savetheinternet.in/ along with the pictures, parodies 
>>> (for instance the one by Amul) all of which will go a long way in 
>>> telling what we believe in.
>>>
>>> Optionally we could also use liberally or otherwise the logos for 
>>> savetheinternet.org when people are signing up for the mailing list.
>>>
>>> I am in the process of generating my own set of replies on an 
>>> individual level to TRAI's set of 20 questions which they have posed 
>>> as well.  Will encourage others to join there as well. Possibly will 
>>> answer all between today and tomorrow.
>>>
>>> Looking for feedback and what people think of the above.
>> Agree - I did attend the online meeting by the savetheinternet.in 
>> guys earlier this week and retweeted them. See 
>> https://twitter.com/hamaralinux.
>>
>> I also said that we would carry their banners on our website.
>>
>> I think we should also, as you say, have a very public stance on this 
>> - so maybe a page on the website?
>
> Agree with that.  The easiest way would be to dump/share all the 
> existing petitions and what not which are there on  the web, link to 
> them along with some of the infommercials  (the AIB show on Net 
> neutrality) and things like that. That would be good because it would 
> be pretty much integration of what content already is available.
>
> If we choose to however make new content, it will be harder as we 
> would have to do some work.  For instance, what could be done is using 
> the data from Economic  Survey of India (published and available each 
> year) of the last five years and share their findings + Nasscom's 
> findings of the last five years as well.  You will get graphs of both 
> entities which show that software per-se has pretty much good impact 
> on the GDP and more so with small and medium-scale IT services making 
> much more of an impact as well. This could also be used to show how 
> much they would grow without any undue regulation at today's pace.
>
> We could also use Akamai's  State of Internet of the past five years 
> which again shows that net connectivity has stagnated or even reversed 
> slightly in India.  While the numbers may increase, the rate of growth 
> has been static or even slightly reversed than before.
>
> The last could be showcasing all the profits of the various TSP's of 
> the last five years vis-a-vis their number of customers. This could be 
> done with help of  looking at various P & L's of the big five company 
> of the five last years + reports on medianaama.com  which also state 
> the same.
>
> The idea would be to simply state that even though TSP's have been 
> profiting, it has not been to the benefit of the consumers and this 
> only make them more powerful without any improvements to user experience.
>
> If we go with the harder way, I could help out with getting all the 
> data if somebody else takes the responsibility of making nice-looking 
> graphs/infographics with that data. Because making data stand out 
> visually is also an art, one I am not good at all.
We can get one of our designers to work on info graphics.

The hard way does have the added bonus of helping us gain publicity for 
the project - but we need to balance that with other hamara linux work.

It might be better to take the easy approach right now - and not dilute 
our efforts - but instead help the existing net neutrality projects by 
publicising them?
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