Fsf-friends April 2004

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Gnus Grazing
by Rakesh Ambati 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

Hi Suraj & Senthil, Perhaps we can have a informal Gnus Grazing this weekend.Am looking for a grazier (sponsor) who can provide us a gazing (place to meet). If anyone is interested in providing a premises for the meet,Please send me a email off list. --arky --- Suraj <suraj(a)symonds.net> wrote: > Senthil_OR(a)Dell.com wrote on Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at > 12:19:01PM +0530: > ,---- > | Welcome! It would be good meeting for us all. > And I have seen few > | others (from blore) at fsf-friends list. Lets > | call 'em up as well. > `---- > > whoa! I would love to meet up! When? Where? > > cheers, > > -Suraj > > -- > ,-----------------[http://www.symonds.net/~suraj/]---o > | Britain adopted the Gregorian calender in 1752, by > which time they were 11 > | days behind the rest of Europe, which had changed > in 1582. The date was simply > | moved forward - September 3rd became September > 14th. > `------------------------------[suraj(a)symonds.net]---o __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Anand Babu] Re: thanks
by Anand Babu 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

-- _.|_ (_||_) Free as in Freedom <www.gnu.org>

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Article on free software... reporting from India
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hi everyone, I have written an article on free software in India and Canada. You can read it at: http://www.rabble.ca/news_full_story.shtml?sh_itm=3d9755aef06d3654ab98d07488 e37a5a&r=1 There is also a discussion happening in the babble section: http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=31&t=000211 Please send out to as many people as you can in India. Cheers, Frédéric Dubois Independent journalist Montreal, Canada

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Events in technical festival
by Sumit Suman 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Hi, I'm a third year computer science and engineering undergaduate at IIT Guwahati. IITG has a number of students with tremendous interest in open source softwares and development. In general there is a strong support base for the cause. We also run among other things a mirror server for Debian distributions. IITG is celebrating the sixth edition of its national level technical fetival - Techniche 2004 from 3rd to 5th September 2004. We are willing to provide a major focus to open source in this festival. The possibilities could be - 1. An lecture by a very popular personality - like Alan Cox(is it possible to get him to India? if yes, how?) 2. A workshop on open source for engineering students(IITG + colleges of North East, W. Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, etc).(Who all can conduct this and what can be the focus areas?) 3. A contest for students for open source development. It would be of immense help if you could offer your valuable suggestions. Eagerly awaiting your response, Sumit Suman --

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Project Gutenberg Buys Amazon.com
by Rakesh Ambati 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

hello list, Here something very interesting to read. http://www.gutenberg.net/events/pg-amazon-apr1.html -arky __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/

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Project Gutenberg (revisiting issue)
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

A hoax for a good cause... hope this drew some more attention to Project Gutenberg. Imran, copyright-expired books is one category. It's also possible to put up there books who's authors have no objection to sharing. I got two such books put up in the past few months. One was a book on wildlife experences in Goa, and the other, a critique of journalism in this part of India written collaboratively by 21 journalists. I do wish too that many more India-related books would be up on Project Gutenberg. I read recently of a contract given to IIIT-Hyderabad for digitising books on "numerous topics". They were contracted by the Universal Digital Library (UDL) and claim good progress. But I'm not sure what purpose these digitised books would be deployed for. Free software ideals should go beyond software... and into various other fields. FN > From: Imran William Smith <imran(a)imran.info> Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] > Project Gutenberg Buys Amazon.com To: fsf-friends(a)gnu.org.in Message-ID: > <4076FE56.6030200(a)imran.info> Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Check the URL. April 1st. i.e. it's a joke. > > Nevertheless, I encourage everyone to investigate Project Gutenberg and > consider contributing. The aim is to transcribe large amounts of paper > books and other texts into electronic format, provided that their > copyright has expired (making this legal). > > Imran Malaysia > > > Rakesh Ambati wrote: > > >hello list, > > > >Here something very interesting to read. > > > >http://www.gutenberg.net/events/pg-amazon-apr1.html

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Microsoft's midlife crisis
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 11 Apr '04

11 Apr '04

MICROSOFT'S Midlife Crisis BusinessWeek - USA ... Robert W. Egan, vice-president for information technology at Boise Cascade Corp. ... Tech companies are staring hungrily at China and India as their next growth ... <http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2004/tc2004049_0994.htm>

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[Fsf-friends] Asia FLOSS issues: Mailing list for sharing information
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 11 Apr '04

11 Apr '04

In view of the need to share *information* about what's happening on the Free/Libre and Open Source Software space in Asia, I have set up this mailing list, and would like to invite everyone interested to join the same. - To post on your mailing list, simply send email to gnulinuxinasia(a)freelists.org. - Users can subscribe to your list by sending email to gnulinuxinasia-request(a)freelists.org with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface. - Log on to http://www.freelists.org/list/gnulinuxinasia - Online, searchable archives of your list are available at http://www.freelists.org/archives/gnulinuxinasia Each list's archive is automatically updated as new messages come in. Thank you. FN ----------------------------------------------------------------- April 2004 | Frederick Noronha, Freelance Journalist Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | Goa India 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 1 2 3 | ---------------------------------------- 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | Email fred at bytesforall.org 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | Writing with a difference 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | ... on what makes *the* difference 25 26 27 28 29 30 | http://www.bytesforall.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- CHECK OUT USENET http://www.algebra.com/~scig/approved/threads.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Urgent email to fredericknoronha at vsnl.net Mobile 9822 122436

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[Fwd]: Digital Signatures - Acrobat
by Mahesh T. Pai 11 Apr '04

11 Apr '04

For your information. ----- Forwarded message from Ken Walker <kgw(a)lunar.ca> ----- > Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 18:19:32 +0000 > From: Ken Walker <kgw(a)lunar.ca> > Subject: Digital Signatures - Acrobat > To: Debian-Lex <debian-lex(a)lists.debian.org> > User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 > > I practice law in British Columbia. Although I use Linux on our file and > print server, I have not yet changed the several other workstations to Linux. > I like what I see in OpenOffice and have plans to switch the support staff > over to the windows version of that package and then, if that works out, go > to an all Linux network. > > Suddenly though, there is a problem. Our Law Society and the provincial > government have developed a new system for land title registrations > ( http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/landtitle/EFS_web_site/) and for corporate registry > filings ( http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/landtitle/EFS_web_site/) > > The Land Title system require digital signatures and use pdf format files for > documents submitted. I am not sure at this point whether the Corporate > Registry requires digital signatures. The use of Acrobat Standard v6 is > required for Land Titles and it is only available in MSWindows. See > http://www.juricert.com/j2a/efs.htm. > > Generally the various registries do not seem to recommend use of anything but > Windows and Mac software: > https://www.bconline.gov.bc.ca/system_req.html > > I am wondering whether any others in the Debian-Lex group have dealt with > these sorts of issues before and in particular whether there is Linux > software capable of editing pdf files and attaching a digital signature the > same way that Acrobat Standard does. > > I suspect that this sort of authentication will be required by various > registries as this sort of interaction with government grows. It is > something we ought to keep in mind as Debian-Lex is developed > -- > Ken Walker > http://lunar.ca > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lex-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ Mahesh T. Pai, LL.M., 'NANDINI', S. R. M. Road, Ernakulam, Cochin-682018, Kerala, India. http://paivakil.port5.com +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+

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Gnus Grazing
by Rakesh Ambati 11 Apr '04

11 Apr '04

Morning Friends, Happy Easter !! For a few weeks now, I was trying to find out whether there is any kind of meeting of GNU members here is bangalore.It seems there is none.(Please correct me ?) While interacting with some of my friends here on FSF-Friends mailing list,I thought of calling for such regular meeting. H'm, why don't we name it as a 'Gnu Grazing'. Anyone interested ? cheers arky __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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