Witness the setting up of a internet facility for staff and students at the Rani Kajal Jeevan Shala school at Kakrana, by Open Solutions Architect, Arjun Venkatraman हैकर (hacker)/浪人(ronin)
Arjun’s Version –
What is हैकरgram?
है – Hai – Hindi word for “Is”, refers to Being
कर – Kar – Hindi word for “Do” refers to Doing
-gram – Something written, drawn or otherwise recorded. (src – http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-gram) ….and it also sounds like the Hindi word for villageSo…
हैकरgram is an effort to –
Identify and locate communities committed to becoming both functional and sustainable
Document and share who these communities are being and what they are doing to become sustainable and functional
We do this at http://hackergram.org
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