Fsf-friends April 2005

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Software Freedom Day, on September 10, 2005 ... you can join in
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Software Freedom Day 2005 is to be held on September 10, 2005. If you believe that freedom is a vital part of the software process, do join in marking this day in your part of the globe. It has been called a "global grassroots marketing campaign" for Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). To find out more on how you and your team can sign-up, please visit http://www.sfd2004.org/ This event depends on your support. Every volunteer counts! FN _____ _/ ____\____ Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa \ __\/ \ India T +91.832.2409490 M +919822 122436 | | | | \ http://fn.swiki.net http://goabooks.swiki.net |__| |___| / http://www.bytesforall.net http://www.bytesforall.org \/ ----------------------------------------------------- If you are related to the field of IT (or even if not) please visit http://www.bytesforall.org, a network on how computers can help the commonman, and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers

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Vision 2020 document from GOI
by Krishna Pagadala 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

The second chapter is very interesting and I think relevant to FSFI. It is titled Uncommon Oppurtunities Knowledge and Information Technology Knowledge Resources http://prajanet.org/docs/pl_vsn2020.pdf Also does anybody know anything about Mr. G. Jacobs, he had contributions to the section on "Knowledge Society" Thanks Krishna ===================================== To Reflect, to Inspire and to Empower http://www.employees.org/~krishnap/ The great moral question of the twenty-first century is: If all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information, can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone -- if everyone can have everything, everywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone from anything? -Eben Moglen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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A magazine for GNU/Linux newbies
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:58:35 CST From: "TUX magazine" <carlie(a)ssc.com> Subject: A magazine for Linux newbies TUX, www.tuxmagazine.com, is the first and only magazine for the new Linux user. Within each digital edition of TUX, we explore every facet of the modern Linux desktop, providing a new breed of Linux user with the tools and information to make their Linux desktop experience complete. Subscriptions are FREE! Sign up today, http://www.tuxmagazine.com/subscribe . TUX, published monthly as an easy to read PDF, provides informative user columns with rich, graphical content and covers everything for home, work, and play. TUX provides Linux users with easy to understand tutorials, insightful hardware and software reviews, enlightened opinion, useful tips and tricks, and in-depth exploration of the tools computer users need every day. Our style is hands-on, welcoming and non-threatening, speaking in a jargon-free style that everybody can understand. TUX recognizes that a new breed of Linux user is emerging, the Linux consumer, whose needs are an opportunity waiting to be addressed, further recognizing that this new Linux user is a powerful and rapidly growing economic force. The new Linux user is a well educated computer user and technology enthusiast who uses computers every day and in nearly every facet of their everyday life. Life with computers doesn't stop at the office. They see their systems as communication centers, productivity tools, game machines, planners and personal digital assistants, learning mechanisms and more. TUX understands that as a desktop user at both home and work, these new Linux users write letters with their word processor, calculate budgets in a spreadsheet, talk to their co-workers, clients, and friends around the world using email, instant messaging, and video conferencing. They listen to music and watch videos. They rip songs and burn CDs to listen to in their cars. They play games of all kinds. They balance their checkbooks, surf the web, organize photographs, make home movies, doodle, send pictures to relatives... or to put it another way, this new Linux user does everything with their computers that computers can do. Tux is dedicated to fulfilling the needs of this new Linux user, the Linux consumer. If you're interested in learning more about TUX's editorial mission, submitting a product for review, advertising, learning more about writing for the digital magazine, or simply would like further information, please e-mail us at info(a)tuxmagazine.com. TUX magazine is published by SSC (www.ssc.com), publishers of Linux Journal. ########################################################################## # Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: cola(a)stump.algebra.com # # PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. # # This group is archived at http://stump.algebra.com/~cola/ # ##########################################################################

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IT@SCHOOLS
by M.Balakrishna Pillai 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

News in Malayala Manoram Daily (April 24, 2005) page 6 IT from STD 5 to B.Ed. Are they using Free Softwares ? With regards M.Balakrishna Pillai

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No More Free BitKeeper
by Praveen A 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

<quote>BitKeeper was first utilized by a Linux project in December of 1999, when it was employed by the Linux PowerPC <http://penguinppc.org/kernel/>project. Then in February of 2002, Linux creator Linus Torvalds decided that BitKeeper was "*the best tool for the job*" and started using it to manage the mainline kernel, an event that received much attention in the free and open source communities [story <http://kerneltrap.org/node/444>], and beyond. BitMover <http://bitmover.com/>, the company behind BitKeeper, was founded by its current CEO, Larry McVoy [interview<http://kerneltrap.org/node/222>], who originally conceived of BitKeeper as a tool to keep Linus from getting burnt out by the growing task of managing the Linux Kernel. Since Linus began using the tool three years ago, the pace of Linux kernel development has doubled </quote> Read full feature at http://kerneltrap.org/node/4966 -- "GNU is the system, and Linux is the kernel." A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org My Weblog at http://www.pravi.co.nr Rediscover the web ! Get firefox at http://www.getfirefox.com Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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Ubuntu GNU/Linux
by Anand Babu 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

,----[ Ramanraj K <ramanraj.k(a)gmail.com> ] | [ Re: Workshop on TRIPS Treaty and Computer Programs at UoM ] | participants may be people totally new to free software. We have | received about 100 Ubuntu CD sets, which we will distribute to the | participants to introduce them to free software. `---- Though Ubuntu team did a very nice job, they call their distribution (operating system) as Linux and not as GNU/Linux. It concerns me to promote them. -- Anand Babu GPG Key ID: 0x62E15A31 Personal Blog [http://freedom.freeshell.org] The GNU Operating System [http://www.gnu.org]

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MPlayer and the patents
by Dilip V 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

Hola, The end draws near for the sucessful floss project MPlayer.. I just visited the site of MPlayer for downloaded the 1.0 pre7 source. Then I found the following in their website./ MPlayer is seriously threatened by software patents due to the numerous patented multimedia techniques. Also threatened are the many programs built upon MPlayer and the other free software multimedia players, like xine, VLC, avifile, gstreamer and especially FFmpeg, which provides the framework all of the above players use. Read more .. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/index.html - - Dilip V, http://www.dilpu.net/

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Expectation from fresh graduates
by H S Rai 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

http://punjabinfotech.org/ is organising workshop on "Northern Gateway to Software Industry - Expectations of Industry from fresh technical graduates" on 23rd April 2005 in Shivalik View Sector 17, Chandigarh. There, interaction is expected between Industry expert, expert from Engg. colleges and Technical University, and students. I am not sure about the representatives from non-proprietary software industry. If they will not be there, then there may be only expert from proprietary firms and that mat have impact on policy in Computer Education. I suggest, if any one want to convey his/her view regarding expectation of non-proprietary softwar or FLOSS industry, then please mail to: md(a)punjabinfotech.org or nskalsi(a)punjabinfotech.org -- H.S.Rai : ####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]####################### Sub : Troubled by spam ? LOST #124 If you are troubled by spam [http://combat.uxn.com] may be of interest to you ... ####[bish (at) nde.vsnl.net.in]############################### :

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IT@school in Maharashtra
by Sameer N I 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

Hi, I was wondering if there is any movement in Maharashtra regarding use of Free Software in school IT education? Does anyone here have any ideas regarding this? Sameer.

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OpenOffice
by Ankit Malik 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

OpenOffice is often touted as the completely free office suite [correct me if i am wrong]. But isn't OO based on JAVA? And Java is not free by FSF standards. So what abt OO??? -- _______________________ Ankit Malik http://scribbler.tk

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