Fsf-friends May 2005

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Hadn't these guys heard about Free Software?
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 07 May '05

07 May '05

LONDON : JAIL FOR 'ROBIN HOODS' WHO COST MICROSOFT MILLIONS Source: The Indian Express Four Britons were jailed on Friday for being part of a global gang described as ?Robin Hoods? who stole expensive software from rich companies and gave it away for free over the Internet. The group, described by prosecutors as 'sad individuals' who spent their lives in front of computers, were said to have cost firms such as Microsoft Corp millions of dollars in profit and enraged its chairman, Bill Gates. Prosecutors told London's Old Bailey criminal court that the four men, motivated by a hatred of software companies, were the key players in an international ring called DrinkorDie.com, said to be one of the world?s most sophisticated Web piracy groups. The gang allowed Internet surfers to download new software for free, often before it came on the market, including the Windows 95 operating system two weeks before it was released. http://www.nalsartech.org/tikiwiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=4151 _____ _/ ____\____ Frederick Noronha (FN) * 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.goanet.org \/

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NRCFOSS needs suggestions to design electives for CS in F[L]OSS
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 06 May '05

06 May '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sreekanth S Rameshaiah <sree(a)mahiti.org> Date: Fri May 6, 2005 3:45pm Subject: [Fwd: [blug-non-tech] NRCFOSS need your suggestion to design Electives for CS in FOSS] mukruthi4u Offline Offline Send Message Send Message Edit Membership Edit Membership Apologies for cross posting... Thought this was useful to the list - sree -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Saravanan M K <mksarav@...> Reply-To: linux-bangalore-non-tech(a)yahoogroups.com To: linux-bangalore-non-tech(a)yahoogroups.com Subject: [blug-non-tech] NRCFOSS need your suggestion to design Electives for CS in FOSS Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 17:49:24 +0800 Dear All, The National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software (NRC-FOSS) which has been established at MIT campus of Anna University, is going to conduct training for 100 teachers, from 50 different engineering colleges in Tamilnadu (2 per college) to provide two elective courses for Computer Science students in the area of FOSS. The training will help the teachers to handle the elective courses in their respective colleges. The first batch of 100 teachers, training is planned some time in June 2005. I would like to hear from the FOSS community members what are the things that you want to include in the elective courses (to CS students in the 3rd year). Remember we have only 45 hours per elective. Thus we can't include each and every possible topics in FOSS. I will collect all your suggestions and pass it to the respective authorities at NRCFOSS. It is time for us to react and provide constructive feedback to design a proper elective course for CS/IT students to spread FOSS in India. Let us brain storm the topics first and then come up with a time slot for each topic to fit in 45 hours for each elective. Note: I am not an employee of NRCFOSS and simply doing it voluntarily inorder to provide them the feedback as a member of FOSS community to device some good syllabus for the FOSS electives. -- mks -- -- M K Saravanan -- Sreekanth S Rameshaiah Executive Director Mahiti Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Ph: +91 98455 12611 www.mahiti.org "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi www.mahiti.org/Team/Sreekanth _____ _/ ____\____ Frederick Noronha (FN) * 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.goanet.org \/

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Directory of Indian Free Software Projects
by Rakesh 'Arky' Ambati 05 May '05

05 May '05

Please visit this URL http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/?IndianFreeSoftwareProjects and you will find the Directory of Indian Free Software Projects here on FSUG Wiki. Please contribute more inputs... everyone's support helps in building our common awareness. FSUG-Bangalore! Thanks FN -- Rakesh 'Arky' Ambati <rakesh_ambati(a)yahoo.com>

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The social structure of FLOSS
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 03 May '05

03 May '05

REPORT: The social structure of free and open source software development Metaphors, such as the Cathedral and Bazaar, used to describe the organization of FLOSS projects typically place them in sharp contrast to proprietary development by emphasizing FOSS's distinctive social and communications structures. But what do we really know about the communication patterns of FOSS projects? How generalizable are the projects that have been studied? Is there consistency across FOSS projects? Questioning the assumption of distinctiveness is important because practitioner-advocates from within the FOSS community rely on features of social structure to describe and account for some of the advantages of FOSS production. - First Monday http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_2/crowston/ _____ _/ ____\____ Frederick Noronha (FN) * 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.goanet.org \/

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