Fsf-friends October 2005

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Help abolish software patents
by Nikhil Prabhakar 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

Hi all, *Luminaries are calling on Worldwide Community to vote against Software Patents.Plz help in abolishing software patents by voting online for *Florian Mueller, the founder of the NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign. http://www.ag-ip-news.com/GetArticle.asp?Art_ID=2254&lang=en Regards Nikhil Prabhakar "Live Life Ethically" www.gnu.org/philosophy <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy>

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Brand Ambassador of Microsoft Inc
by doxa＠sancharnet.in 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Friends, The sudden discovery of an ambassador in Minister Dayanidhi Maran by Microsoft Inc is not surprising in the wake of the much touted training of teachers in Tamil Nadu (a project whose sibling met with an untimely death in Kerala, thanks to efforts of a few volunteer activists). But what is surprising is to see the Minister shamelessly sitting atop foolish advertisements of the corporate telling us *what ought to be the right way to address digital divide*. Perhaps it would do a world of good if someone from Tamilnadu retold the story of Don Quixote to the Minister (in its 400th year of celebrations). CK Raju Thrissur ---------------- http://ernakulam.sancharnet.in/doxa

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Isn't it ironical?
by Nikhil Prabhakar 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

Hi All, Just now going through the web I reached a site ( http://www.linux-mag.com) which is supposed to promote GNU/Linux (or at least it seems to be ).I found M$ ads there which were telling people to believe that Windoze is more powerful. This has really disturbed me. What these so called Open Source guys trying to achieve? They are doing more harm to the community. The point I'm trying to prove here is that untill and unless you believe in the philosophy behind the free software movement you will achieve no good.It's like going one step forward and two step backwards. Expecting comments and suggestions. Regards Nikhil Prabhakar "Live Life Ethically" www.gnu.org/philosophy <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy>

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[Fsf-friends] Helping free software projects... with coding, servers, etc?
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Kapil Karekar <kk(a)libretech.com> on the FSF-India mailing list was enquiring about the availability of any list of Indian Free Software projects which would like any kind of support -- in terms of coding, servers etc. He later found it at: http://fsf.org.in/free-software-directory/dir.html Check out the list and offer any support you can. FN PS: This is an invite to Free Software enthusiasts to build links with the ITforDevelopment network, one of which is out at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick 'FN' Noronha | fred(a)bytesforall.org Co-Founder, BytesForAll.org | http://fn.swiki.net Goa, India | +91(832)2409490 Cell 9822122436 -------------------------------------------------------------

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[Photos] GNU/Linux workshop for NGOs
by Shakthi Kannan 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Greetings! ILUGC (www.chennailug.org/wiki) in collaboration with CIOSA (http://www.ciosa.org.in/) organized a GNU/Linux workshop for NGOs on Sunday, October 16, 2005 at Ma Foi Academy, Chennai. It was an introductory session on free software, openoffice, desktop applications, Internet applications, multimedia on GNU/Linux. Thanks to Prasanna (CIOSA) for taking the initiative, Asokan Pichai (Ma Foi) for providing us with the facilites at Ma Foi, Vamsee Kanakala (Ma Foi) for coordinating the events. Thanks also goes to ilugc volunteers Bharathi, Raman, Hariram, Sudharshan, Ramanathan et. al. You can check out the photos (twenty-seven) taken during the workshop from: http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album19 Regards, SK -- Shakthi Kannan, MS Software Engineer, Specsoft (Hexaware Technologies) [E]: cyborg4k(a)yahoo.com [M]: (91) 98407-87007 [W]: http://www.shakthimaan.com [L]: Chennai, India __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/

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[Photos] [GLV] RSS, Atom with GNU/Linux
by Shakthi Kannan 15 Oct '05

15 Oct '05

Greetings! Thanks to Ramkumar, CSD, IIT-M who gave a talk on "RSS, Atom with GNU/Linux" on Saturday, October 15, 2005 at Ma Foi Academy, Chennai. You can check out the photos taken during the presentation from here: http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album18 Regards, SK -- Shakthi Kannan, MS Software Engineer, Specsoft (Hexaware Technologies) [E]: cyborg4k(a)yahoo.com [M]: (91) 98407-87007 [W]: http://www.shakthimaan.com [L]: Chennai, India __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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debian cds
by Srijit Sreekumar 15 Oct '05

15 Oct '05

is there any place in trivandrum where i can get debian dvds of woody & sarge? -- Srijit srijit(a)gmail.com siju333(a)gmx.net Advanced Member at www.myasianet.com <http://www.myasianet.com>

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South Asia Quake Help - Asterisk Server needed
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

Thanks to Irfan Khan <khania(a)super.net.pk> and Kris Dev for forwarding this... FN -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [LinuxPakistan] South Asia Quake Help - Asterisk Server needed Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:12:53 -0500 From: Tariq <tariq(a)linuxpakistan.net> To: general(a)linuxpakistan.net Request for help from quakehelp_AT_gmail_DOT_com. Please Help!!! Hello, As part of the South Asia Quake Help Blog (http://quakehelp.blogspot.com) & Wiki efforts, we are trying to setup a SMS2Web/Web2SMS system in Pakistan/India (affected areas). As has been in other recent disasters, SMS seems to be the only available communication means in the affected areas. This system if setup could be used by relief workers, affected people and other volunteers to exchange important information about their relief needs, situation reports etc. Major Relief Agencies have shown interest in such a system. We have been trying for the last 72 hours or so with little success. We are looking Asterisk (Open Source IP PBX) Linux Servers, some Asterisk Hardware and a few phone lines in Pakistan or India. More detailed information on what's needed is available here: http://quakehelp.blogspot.com/2005/10/urgently-needed-asterisk-linux-server… As an Asterisk/Lunx tech user in Pakistan, we thought you might be able to help us with this relief effort. We found your contact information here: http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/archive/cu-wireless-dev/2005-May/000488.h… Looking forward to hearing back from you. Thanks in advance, Bala Pitchandi & Angelo Embuldeniya -- The QuakeHelp Team http://quakehelp.blogspot.com Our Other Online Projects: http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com http://katrinahelp.blogspot.com http://ritahelp.blogspot.com http://quakehelp.asiaquake.org http://www.tsunamihelp.info http://www.katrinahelp.info http://www.ritahelp.info The World Wide Help Group http://groups.google.com/group/WorldWideHelp -- Linux Pakistan 4 - E - 1/6 Nazimabad Karachi - 74600 Phone +92-21-6622134 Email tariq(a)linuxpakistan.net Web http://www.linuxpakistan.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list General(a)linuxpakistan.net http://mail.linuxpakistan.net/mailman/listinfo/general_linuxpakistan.net BACKGROUND: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk_PBX Asterisk PBX >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Asterisk official logo. Enlarge Asterisk official logo. Asterisk is an open source software implementation of a telephone private branch exchange (PBX). Like any PBX, it allows a number of attached telephones to make calls to one another, and to connect to other telephone services including the PSTN. "Its name comes from the asterisk symbol, *, which in UNIX (including Linux) and DOS environments represents a wildcard, matching any filename." [1] Asterisk is free software, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Mark Spencer of Digium originally created Asterisk and remains its primary maintainer; dozens of other programmers have contributed features and functionality. Originally designed for the Linux operating system, Asterisk now also runs on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, and Microsoft Windows, although as the "native" platform, Linux is the best-supported of these. The basic Asterisk software includes many features previously only available in expensive proprietary PBX systems -- voice mail, conference calling, interactive voice response (phone menus), and automatic call distribution. Users can create new functionality by writing dial plan scripts in Asterisk's own language, by adding custom modules written in C, or by writing Asterisk Gateway Interface scripts in Perl or other languages. To attach ordinary telephones to a Linux server running Asterisk, or to connect to PSTN trunk lines, the server must be fitted with special hardware. (An ordinary modem will not suffice.) Digium and a number of other firms sell PCI cards to attach telephones, telephone lines, T1 and E1 lines, and other analog and digital phone services to a server. Perhaps of more interest to many deployers today, Asterisk also supports a wide range of Voice over IP protocols, including SIP and H.323. Asterisk can interoperate with most SIP telephones, acting both as registrar and as a gateway between IP phones and the PSTN. Asterisk developers have also designed a new protocol, IAX, for efficient trunking of calls among Asterisk PBXes. By supporting a mix of traditional and VoIP telephony services, Asterisk allows deployers to build new telephone systems efficiently, or gradually migrate existing systems to new technologies. Some sites are using Asterisk servers to replace aging proprietary PBXes; others to provide additional features (such as voice mail or phone menus) or to cut costs by carrying long-distance calls over the Internet (toll bypass). VoIP Telephone Companies have begun to support Asterisk PBX's. A recent article in the Geek Gazette, explains how to configure an Asterisk system to work with BroadVoice. VoicePulse also offers support for Asterisk. [edit] External links * Asterisk home page * Asterisk Handbook, Version 2 * Asterisk Enterprise Edition * Hardware-Oasis.com VoIP Distributor (4-Port card Sirrix.PCI4S0 with Asterisk support) * Asterisk Wiki * Russian Asterisk Community * Norwegian Asterisk Community * Asterisk @ Home -- simplified Asterisk installation and administration for the home user * Hardware components for Asterisk PBX building * High Level white paper on the Asterisk PBX * Book: Building Telephony Systems with Asterisk, by Packt Publishing ISBN: 1-904811-15-9.

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On Mono
by balachandran c 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

Assuming: 1) Software Patents are harmful to the society, and hence not to be supported, 2) Ideals behind FS is more important than the future of a particular product, Why are people against Mono? It is FS, so its licence is definitely not a threat. The most popular reason seems to be the fear of *possible* violation of software patents. Again, let us assume that the community is incapable of replacing infringing code with non-infringing code. If I support free speech, and I ask someone not to speak their mind because that person might be violating some law in his country, I am being a hypocrite. Similarly, if I am against software patents, I should not be castigating some project due to possible software patent violation. (How many software patents do you think linux is *possibly* violating? What is your opinion about using linux?). At best, this is a non-existent issue, and at worst it is civil disobedience, in *some* countries. Don't you think we should be consistent in our views? What do you think about the subject? Offtopic: Even after taking into account the Novell marketing, those Mono guys are doing some wonderful work. Take a look at the number of new apps based on it (f-spot, beagle, tomboy etc). I don't think anyone should be apologizing for mentioning beagle, a FS, on FSF mailing list. Cheers, Bala.

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wsfii
by Nagarjuna G. 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

I attended wsfii in London, and met several hackers who are getting together to make alternative free netowrks and free information infrastructures. New developments that are taking place in wireless, and radio communications are very opromising and becoming very economical. I was meaning to write about the event for so long, but nnot getting time. so I thought I will at least send you the links so that you will browse them. http://81.168.51.180/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page: hivenetworks this group playes with asus boxes and did wonderful things, like wireless radio stations, webcasting, servers etc. I carried one of their boxes, and a flash also, all running linux kernel. http://www.freifunk.net/ the german hackers who developed mesh netowrks in berlin, and I have seen thisin action. very impressive. I have their firmware in the linksys wireless routers which run linux kernel. the most commendable is the freenetworks.org, djursland in denmark. they have built a world largest wireless network connecting several villages. their free information infrastructure is a good example for India to follow. also met people who are leading in free map projects of london and mumbai. and also the gnoweldge.org those of you who are interested in developing free netowrks with radio and wireless, please contact me. I will keep in mind your names for the January workshop at Mumbai, where the will be coming to train, and also conduct road shows. India will be hosting thte international WSFII event in Bangalore and in five other places during november 2005. I will be out again for another ten days, and will give you more details, meanwhile send me names if you are interested in the FII. Nagarjuna

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