Fsf-friends August 2004

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by Manjush G.Menon

Original Message ----- From: "IT@School" <itschool(a)asianetindia.com> To: <manjushmenon(a)hotmail.com> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 5:08 PM Subject: Reply > Mr.Manjush G. Menon > We are not giving to depend totally on Ms. Products. Rather MS > Office is taught along with open office and Windows along with Linux > from this year. Arranging the resource persons for training an open > software, making available the software, the maintenance of a help desk > etc. are logistical issues which could not be immediately undertaken. > We plan switch out to open software within three years. > Executive Director > ---- Original Message ----- From: Manjush G. Menon To: itschool(a)asianetindia.com Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 5:46 PM Subject: Respected sir, From Manjush G. Menon, Sr.Programmer, Sofker Solutions Pvt Ltd, Kochi-18. To The Executive Director, 'IT @ SCHOOL' Project, SCERT Buildings, Poojapura, Thiruvananthapuram-12. Respected sir, SUB: In protest against the inclusion of products from multinational companies in the syllabus of 'IT @ SCHOOL' It's a very dissappointing fact that when the whole world is moving towards Free software, we at kerala are going behind a major MNC - Microsoft. I hereby register my protest in such an act from 'IT @ SCHOOL' Project team. Breaking of prototypes will definetly help us in finding economical and high quality products for our future generation. For students and programmers, the GNU Linux contains 'GNU Compiler Collections' which includes C, C++, FORTRAN, PERL, TCL etc. Also, for DTP and other publishing purposes, it includes GNU Office utilities like Abi-Word, gedit, and other worksheet utilities, all these with a nominal cost of Rs 700-800/-. The software as it is, is free and the cost is accounted towards the media (CD + Documentation) included. By this letter, I urge you to take this matter seriously and suggest necessary modifications in the action plan of 'IT @ SCHOOL' project. Wishing you all the best and wishing all 'Students @ SCHOOL' a bright future, Thanking you, Yours faithfully Manjush G. Menon. ______________________________________________________ Check out all the latest outrageous email attachments on the Outrageous Email Chart! - http://viral.lycos.co.uk

17 years, 8 months

PERUVIAN EFFORT COULD BAN MICROSOFT ON GOV. COMPUTERS (fwd)

by Frederick Noronha

Thanks to George Lessard for posting this across. FN ---------- Forwarded message ---------- PERUVIAN EFFORT COULD BAN MICROSOFT ON GOV. COMPUTERS Peruvian Congressman Edgar Villanueva is pushing legislation to obligate all public institutions to convert exclusively to open-source software. Open-source programs, embodied by the Linux operating system, have underlying code available to anyone who wants to modify or customize it. Such software, in unadorned form, can be downloaded from the Internet for free. Villanueva hopes his measure triggers activity in Peru's software industry by freeing programmers from the constraints of working with coding controlled by a few large companies. Open-source could take the expense out of software upgrades; which is important for a country like Peru that owes about $30 million in overdue software license fees. [SOURCE: San Jose Mercury, AUTHOR: Associated Press] (http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/3531007.htm)

18 years, 8 months

Kerala and free soft

by Arun M

Hi Friend, Sorry for not keeping you all updated. We are having lot of work in Kerala. Yesterday we organised a workshop for Journalists jointly with Working Journalists association. It was poorly attended due to other reasons like another parallel event and journalist here in Kerala were having lot of work for last few days. But those who came really enjoyed the workshop. They went back with a commitment to free software movement. They have demanded their association to have another workshop on free software. Kerala is now seeing strong debate on local body computerisation and free software. A study conducted by a group (i was also there) exposed the fact that local body computerisation pilot effort is a failure and state wide rollout based on this shouldnt happen. Government is planning for a state wide rollout of Rs 150 crore e-gov program on M$ platform. We have to stop this. Arun.

18 years, 9 months

Report of Software Freedom Day 2004 in Goa, India

by Frederick Noronha (FN)

Please visit http://softwarefreedomday.org/wiki/index.php/Goa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick Noronha (FN) Near Convent, SALIGAO 403511 GOA India Freelance Journalist Tel: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 fred at bytesforall.org fredericknoronha at vsnl.net http://www.ilug-goa.tk (GNULinux Users Group Goa)

18 years, 9 months

Linux posters

by Puneet

Hi all, I am looking for some of the cool wall posters on Linux theme. I am putup in bangalore. any idea where i can get it ? regards, Puneet

18 years, 9 months

[Fsf-friends] Please see http://softwarefreedomday.org/wiki/index.php/Goa

by Frederick Noronha (FN)

Please see the URL below for the report of Software Freedom Day event held at RIT-Shiroda, and also some photos from the scene: http://softwarefreedomday.org/wiki/index.php/Goa FN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick Noronha (FN) Near Convent, SALIGAO 403511 GOA India Freelance Journalist Tel: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 fred at bytesforall.org fredericknoronha at vsnl.net http://fn.swiki.net (FN's swiki)

18 years, 9 months

Creating events for journalists

by doxa＠sancharnet.in

>> we focus more on inviting more people to join our mailing lists? >We should try to bring more people to the list. >Regarding journalists what i find is that they dont really understand >technology. Educating journalists can really help us. If we educate Arun, Perhaps it would be more better if we created localised "issues", "events" or "stories" for them to write. The journalists need to have some element of "activism" within themselves to carry on with their profession, which many have. In that sense, we are a gifted lot. We should really become a disintegrated lot here, and should be coming out with a multitude of ideas. Journalists only need to be informed. We will then see those journalists coming out with their creativity - and "those affected" coming out with their "defensive version" of the story. Rgds, Raju

18 years, 9 months

Re: [Fsf-friends] FLOSS in Parliament... (2003)

by Mayank Sharma

Interesting read Fred. But it makes me wonder. As far as I know the third answer is false unless just a few thousand rupees of public money is spent on institutions like CDAC. They also develop lots of non-GPLed stuff that remains that way till oblivion. Secondly, institutions like TDIL, although out of the educational institute arena as limited in the question, are investing in solutions on closed source architectures. I guess its time to ask the question again. Mayank On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 Frederick Noronha(FN) wrote : >http://164.100.24.219/rsq/quest.asp?qref=89320 > > GOVERNMENT OF INDIA >MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY >MINISTRY OF 69 >RAJYA SABHA >UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 976 >TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.12.2003 > >PROMOTION OF FREE LIBRE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE > > >976. SHRI FALEIRO EDUARDO MARTINHO > >Will the Minister of COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:- > > >(a) what steps have been taken since the announcement of the Linux India Initiative by Government on the issue of promoting free/libre and open source software within the country; > >(b) the level of usage of FLOSS products in Government and semi- Government organizations; and > >(c) whether the research benefits of publicly-funded computing institutions would be made sharable to all, by placing the same under the General Public Licence (GPL) or similar licences that do not restrict sharing of knowledge due to copyright restrictions? > >ANSWER > >MINISTER OF STATE FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY(SU THIRUNAVUKKARASAR) > >(a): Two more consultative meetings have been held since then for in-depth discussion on projects and policy positions to be taken-one within the Government and associated agencies and another with NGOs/Civil Society. Various related initiatives, as planned, under Linux India Initiative exercise are also being pursued. > >(b): They are growing. > >(c): Research benefits of publicly funded computing institutions are being shared wherever appropriate. For instance, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) had added components relating to a number of Indian languages for Linux available under General Public Licence (GPL) in September, 2003. Similarly, open office solutions have been provided for Indian languages under GPL developed by C-DAC, CollabCAD software developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) package has also been put in a limited sharing mode within certain agencies of Government. C-DAC has also put its Indian fonts in public domain. Wherever appropriate, software developed under public funded efforts are being shared under GPL or similar licenses that do not restrict the sharing of knowledge due to copyright restrictions. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Frederick Noronha (FN) Near Convent, SALIGAO 403511 GOA India >Freelance Journalist Tel: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 >http://www.ilug-goa.tk (GNULinux Users Group Goa) > >_______________________________________________ >Fsf-friends mailing list >Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in >http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends

18 years, 9 months

FLOSS in Parliament... (2003)

by Frederick Noronha (FN)

http://164.100.24.219/rsq/quest.asp?qref=89320 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MINISTRY OF 69 RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 976 TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.12.2003 PROMOTION OF FREE LIBRE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE 976. SHRI FALEIRO EDUARDO MARTINHO Will the Minister of COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:- (a) what steps have been taken since the announcement of the Linux India Initiative by Government on the issue of promoting free/libre and open source software within the country; (b) the level of usage of FLOSS products in Government and semi- Government organizations; and (c) whether the research benefits of publicly-funded computing institutions would be made sharable to all, by placing the same under the General Public Licence (GPL) or similar licences that do not restrict sharing of knowledge due to copyright restrictions? ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY(SU THIRUNAVUKKARASAR) (a): Two more consultative meetings have been held since then for in-depth discussion on projects and policy positions to be taken-one within the Government and associated agencies and another with NGOs/Civil Society. Various related initiatives, as planned, under Linux India Initiative exercise are also being pursued. (b): They are growing. (c): Research benefits of publicly funded computing institutions are being shared wherever appropriate. For instance, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) had added components relating to a number of Indian languages for Linux available under General Public Licence (GPL) in September, 2003. Similarly, open office solutions have been provided for Indian languages under GPL developed by C-DAC, CollabCAD software developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) package has also been put in a limited sharing mode within certain agencies of Government. C-DAC has also put its Indian fonts in public domain. Wherever appropriate, software developed under public funded efforts are being shared under GPL or similar licenses that do not restrict the sharing of knowledge due to copyright restrictions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick Noronha (FN) Near Convent, SALIGAO 403511 GOA India Freelance Journalist Tel: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 http://www.ilug-goa.tk (GNULinux Users Group Goa)

18 years, 9 months

Software Freedom Day

by swathantra software

Hello to all, Celebrating Software Freedom We are planning to celebrate Software Freedom day(SFD) on 29th August 2004 at Kannur. Though International Software freedom Day is celebrated on 28th August, People in Kerala celebrate ONAM festival on same Day; so we planned to organize the function to celebrate SFD on 29th. The function is being organized by KSSP( Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishath) Kannur unit & Swathantra Software Solutions & Support,(S2S2) Kanuur. There will be an Inauguration & Introductory speech followed by technical demos & presentations on Free Software products. The technical section will have Live GNU/Linux system presentation using Knoppix CD, Free Software applications on windows based on OpenCD & GNU WIN CD. Following CDs will be on display at the venue. 1) Fedoroa Core 2 2) Mandrake 10 3) Debian 3.02r 4) Slackware 10 5) FreeBSD 6) KNOPPIX 3.4 7) GNU/HURD 8) Gentoo CD 9) OpenCD 10)GNU WIN II 11)HOWTO CD 12) K12 LTSP The program schedule is given below Venue : Parishad Bhavan ,Near Chinmaya balabhavan,Kanuur, Kerala Date : Sunday,29th August 2004 Time : 2 PM Inaugural & introductory speech by Sri.T Gangadharan,KSSP national member : 3 PM Demo & Presentations on Free Software products followed by discussions Everybody is invited Regards Sujeevan.P S2S2, Kannur _____________________________________________________________ Linux.Net -->Open Source to everyone Powered by Linare Corporation http://www.linare.com/

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