Fsf-friends March 2003

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China's Goal to Train 1Million + in Linux (fwd)
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- I don't know the specifics of the program....someone else might be able to enlighten us further....at the egovos conference in Washington D.C. this week it was mentioned that the government of China and I believe IBM are working on a joint effort to train more programmers than you can "shake a chop stick" at. This is the software equivalent IMHO of the pc revolution being fueled by low cost, pacific rim based chip and component manufacturing capability. So any bets on when the tsunami hits the stock prices of the usual suspects? Joseph -- +=======================================================+ | Joseph Dal Molin | E-mail: dalmolin(a)e-cology.ca | | President | Web: http://www.e-cology.ca | | e-cology Corporation | Phone: 1.416.232.1206 | +=======================================================+

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bandwidth throttling (fwd)
by Manu J 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

Hi, Can anyone help me out with bandwidth throttling using squid i used delay access,but it didn't quite work out I'm using squid bcos bandwith throttling has to be done based on url's.Only specific types os site access needs to be throttled. there is an appropriate acl and delay_access i have one delay pool of class 2 type and in delay parameters is like this delay_parameters 1 15000/15000 3000/3000 ideally this should allow individual users to access sites at 3KB/s and total bandidth should'nt exceed 15KB/s. when there is only one user this works fine but when three or more are connected speed drops below 1KB/s.I checked it by accessing an internal ftp server with normal transfer rates around 1 MB/s.So the problem lies with squid. Any idea as to how to sort this out??Or where can i get more help?? Thanks Manu -- 353 Tapti IIT Madras website-http://www.ee.iitm.ernet.in/~ee01b044

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WANTED: Programmers to localize Mozilla
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

One of India's prominent Internet companies has been looking for programmers who will help localize Mozilla to Indian languages. Those who apply need to have at least 2-3 years experience, but above all, a passion for the Internet and for free /open source software. The objective of Indianizing Mozilla is to revolutionize computing in Indian languages, especially on the Internet. The selected individuals will be based in Mumbai. Contact venky(a)indlinux.org or karunakar(a)indlinux.org. For more details, see the attached job description. Regards, Venky ===== Mozilla Indianization ===================== 1) Goal: Enable Mozilla browser to display & handle indian languages properly, with proper font technology available. Localize Mozilla interface also to indian languages. 2) Project Requirements: All work done should be contributed back to Mozilla codebase, so that it becomes part of it. Solutions arrived at should make into main tree, rather than be done as adhoc hacks / addons / patches. i) i18n part (involving changing mozilla codebase) : a - Should be able to render Indian languages encoded in Unicode/UTF-8 b - Use a standardized font technology - eg OpenType. c - Support any encodings standardized for a language eg ISCII, TSCII, KSCLP (KGP) ii) l10n part (no code change - UI customization, translations of UI and Help text): a - Incorporate locale support (chrome level) b - Translate Mozilla UI into indian languages c - Making indianized mozilla theme - custom graphics,logos 3) Skill sets req a - Knowlegde of at least two Indian languages - reading & writing, script & language processing level 2.i & 2.ii.b b - C, C++, XML, Java for 2.i c - Graphics expertise for 2.ii.c d - For translator - good vocabulary in English & at least one Indian language, previous exp in translation also helpful. e - Proj. mgmt skills, ability to work with volunteers remotely, coordinate work through email/IM/group meetings. f - Interest in localization and passion for having indian languages on mozilla. g - Work experience of 2-3 years in the IT industry Current status: Mozilla supports Unicode, so all indian languages represented in Unicode work at unicode level - no proper rendering, if a suitable unicode font is available. ie proper vowel sign positioning, conjuncts etc are not avialable. Some work is on by Prabhat Hegde from Sun Microsystems on adding devanagari support, basically by using Pango (www.pango.org) rendering engine. He is exploring doing it using Opentype fonts. (Any one working for this should work with Prabhat for guidance & review, as he already has experience in Mozilla codebase ) Some hindi translation work has been done by a group based in Mumbai, available at http://www.bttlindia.com/mozilla/ . Some translation work for Tamil is also on. (These translations should be reused, instead of starting from scratch) Notes: 2.i has to be done in active participation with Mozilla developers & done at those forums ( mozilla-i18n , mozilla-l10n ) 2.ii.b is pure translation work, can be done in centralized or distributed fashion. 2.i.c - Since ISCII, TSCII etc are not registered character sets, it may not be possible to use them with Mozilla autodetection feature. Some workaround could be suggested. ISCII text will basically be converted to Unicode internally for display, enabled through use of \\\'iso8829-12\\\' ( reserved for Indic - ISO is waiting for us to settle to something :) . (The rationale to support ISCII is since ISCII chars will take 1byte, UTF-8 indic characters take 3bytes, or 7 bytes when used as named character references - The debate will pick up heat when indian languages are fully supported ) --------------------------- * Indian Linux project * * http://www.indlinux.org * --------------------------- -- Frederick Noronha : http://www.bytesforall.org : When we speak of free Freelance Journalist : Goa India 403511 : software we refer to Ph 0091.832.409490 : Cell 0 9822 122436 : freedom, not price.

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T-Shirts
by Arko Provo Mukherjee 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Hello Everyone, I am also a member of ILUG-CAL which can go for T-Shirt production to raise fund. FSF-INDIA is a registered organisation. So I think that we can also go for T-Shirt Production to collect fund. We can even add caps to the list. We can put ads on Freedom Matters. We can request to the different LUGS,GLUGS,FSUGS etc to buy them. I think it will be a success. Waiting for comments Arko

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Tvm phone directory story in LWN.net
by KG Kumar 18 Mar '03

18 Mar '03

http://lwn.net/Articles/25694/ -- KG Kumar Indian TeX Users Group kg at tug dot org dot in ------------------------

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Unilever switching to GNU\Linux
by KG Kumar 18 Mar '03

18 Mar '03

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,79330,00.html?… -- KG Kumar Indian TeX Users Group kg at tug dot org dot in ------------------------

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Check This Out
by Arko Provo Mukherjee 18 Mar '03

18 Mar '03

Hello Guys, Check this out. URL: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-992824.html Arko

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Check This Out
by Arko Provo Mukherjee 18 Mar '03

18 Mar '03

Hello Guys, Check this out. URL: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-992824.html Arko

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Hindu Business Line on free software & Tvm phone directory
by KG Kumar 18 Mar '03

18 Mar '03

http://www.blonnet.com/2003/03/18/stories/2003031801531700.htm -- KG Kumar Indian TeX Users Group kg at tug dot org dot in ------------------------

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The Hindu on Free Software & Tvm. tel. directory
by KG Kumar 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

http://www.hinduonnet.com/stories/2003031707890300.htm -- KG Kumar Indian TeX Users Group kg at tug dot org dot in ------------------------

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