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From: Aswin Karuvally <aswinbabuk@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:45:15 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] added icfoss forum request

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+From,
+The Free Software User's Group, Trivandrum
+
+12th July, 2018
+
+To,
+The Director,
+ICFOSS, Trivandrum
+
+
+SUBJECT: Request for Computing resources for hosting Free Software QA Forum
+
+
+Respected Sir,
+
+The Free Software Community in Kerala currently uses the Telegram channel
+"GNU/Linux lovers" for solving user's problems related to GNU/Linux and other
+free software.
+
+The issue we are facing with the channel right now is that, it forces the 
+community members to debug issues that have been answered already.
+
+When a person poses a question which is then solved by one of the community
+memebers, the solution is stored in the chat history.
+
+When another person faces the same issue at a later point in time, it is hard
+for him/her to browse through the chat history and look if there is already a
+solution for it.
+
+This means, the community members end up solving the same problems over and
+over again.
+
+It would  be very helpful for the whole Free Software community in Kerala and
+possibly in India, if there would be a forum where questions can be posted. The
+obvious advantage being easy browsing and viewing of questions and solutions.
+
+As the head of the premier organization in the Free Software sphere in Kerala,
+it would be wonderful if you could arrange for the computing resources needed
+for the same.
+
+As the number of simultaneous users on the forum is going to be low initially,
+a virtual machine instance with the following configuration would suffice:
+
+Processor   : 1 vCPU
+Memory      : 4 GB
+
+
+Hoping for a positive response,
+The Free Software users Group Trivandrum
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