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LINUXForYou * Dec 2003 (Vol 1 No 10)
In India Rs 50 (with CD)
http://www.linuxforu.com
Pages 102 * US$7.95 0 74470584957
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THIS ISSUE has probably reached your city. Saw it in Bangalore, and also got
a complimentary copy from the LFY team at LinuxBangalore2003. But when I
reached back to Goa on Dec 4, it wasn't in as yet. So it might take time to
reach 'small town' India... FN
REVIEWED: Mandrake 9.2 * …
[View More]PhProjekt * StarOffice 7.0
COMPUTERS AT TIS HAZARI, the session courts for the city of New Delhi, are
being shifted over to Linux, courtesy the National Informatics Centre. -
Rahul Chopra in this month's editorial.
LINUX LEARNING CENTRE at Bangalore is offering courses
in administration, security, development (internals and
programming essentials, programming with Qt, device
driver programming, MySQL & PHP), RHCE and Red Hat
rapid track certification. www.linuxlearningcentre.com
DotGNU RELEASES CD: It can now be used to implement application programs and
Web services in C# and C applications under multiple operating systems,
including GNU/Linux, FreeBSC, MacOS, MS Windows. The 219 MB release 0.1 CD
is available as a free download at
http://download.freedom.biz/dotgnu/dotgnu-0.1-cdrom.iso.gz.torrent
e-Bridge calls itself "the new state-of-art training
facility from eSpark Infotech is now open in the
heart of Bangalore". It's offering embedded Linux courses
(Linux fundamentals, programming Linux, embedded C & Linux,
realtime C & Linux, Linux internals, device drivers,
networking) and DSP courses (DSP fundamentals, TI/analog
dev programming, audio/video, image processing,
bio-medical systems). www.ebridgesolutions.netLinux.net provides a free e-mail service to those who want an e-mail address
that ends in '@linux.net'
MAJOR UPDATES and releases: OpenNA Linux 1.0, Gibraltar
Firewall 1.0, Xandros Desktop 2.0, Onebase Linux 2.0,
CUPS 1.120rc6.
CAN YOU MAKE money with open source? Registration entails a "nominal fee" of
Rs 5000 for a three-day conference. http://www.linuxasia2004.com/attendees/
February 11-13, 2004, New Delhi.
SEND IN YOUR favourite slogans for a tee-shirt, and win
five free copies of the shirt... LFYedit at efyindia.com
MONEY CAN't buy respect, says Robert Adkins. Some of us might have met this
guy at LB2003 in Bangalore. He's the CTO of Technetra Corp, and an advocate
and implementer of FLOSS solutions for government. He can be contacted at
radkins at technetra.com
CAREERS WITH FLOSS: The number of students opting for
courses in Open Source is growing steadily, even as industry
experts predict a growing need for trained professionals
in this expanding field.
EXIT RED HAT, ENTER FEDORA: It's official now; the free (of cost) version of
Red Hat Linux will not be available anymore. This has created a lot of FUD
in an already unstable environment, thanks to the SCO episode. But is Red
Hat closed for good?
WEB-BASED COLLABORATION SOFTWARE: PHProjekt is an easy-to-install
collaboration suite, which runs on the open source platform and
databases. As the design of the system is developer-friendly,
adding new features and components is a piece of cake.
STAROFFICE: The latest version of Sun's office suite, StarOffice 7, may just
be the right solution for the cost-conscious user. It loads faster than the
earlier version, and sports some noticeable improvements.
IN THE LFY CD THIS MONTH: Slackware (the "oldest Linux distro")
and a range of GNU software for Windows users.
FALLING BACK on backup systems.
MAKING ADOPTION OF Linux in the enterprise easy. www.linux4e.com
Business partners required: http://wwww.linux4e.com/partners
ooWRITER HELPS YOU create your own templates and styles so that you can work
with documents easily.
Open Source is key to IBM's vision of computing. User
empowerment is key to Microsoft's, writes Alolita Sharma
USING DATABASE functions in Calc, a tutorial. (Wish there were more how-tos
for the user in this mag! --FN)
HALDIA DOCKS: it has a uniquely designed Linux installation
with an active-active cluster set up, which is considered
the best of its kind. This has ensured efficiency and
cost-effectiveness.
BASIC UNIX commands and concepts: an extract from *Running Linux* (Shroff
Publishers, Pp 674 only Rs 425 in India).
VxWorks and LynxOS are definitely the biggest embedded
operating systems in use today. But slowly they are
acknowledging the power of GNU/Linux and how it can
help them maximise deployments.
HELP LINUX GO INDIAN: By using various translation tools, you can join
Language translation groups working across India to help translate GNU/Linux
into your language.
EXPERT INTRODUCTION: Multi-threaded programming under Linux.
KICKSTART YOUR Linux installation (Part I): Installing Red Hat Linux on
multiple machines one after another can be quite tedious. To avoid answering
the same question over and over again, try the KickStart method, as it does
not need any user intervention.
WRITE CHEQUES. NOT JUST BOOKS: Niyam Bhushan on how
anybody can turn thoughts into words, and words into wealth.
NFS CLIENTS for Windows.
OpenSSL PACKAGE offers a vast crypto library of algorithms
WAIT QUEUES in Linux device drivers
UNDERSTANDING recursive sub-routines
INDIA-RELATED NEWS:
HP launches GNU/Linux laptop
Mandrake's latest distribution
Oracle announces 10g for GNU/Linux
Delixus offers India Linux
CxProtect anti-virus mailing solution for mail-servers
Trade management system from Network Programs
Netweb Technologies unveils Tyrone
MRO-Tek rolls out Network Management Systems
Review of FLOSS at BangaloreIT.com
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DISCLOSURE: This journalist (FN) writes a monthly column for LFY and gets
paid for it. Promoting awareness about the content of LFY however is not
part of the job, and is carried on with the intention spreading awareness
about FLOSS among different GNU/Linux user groups in India.
--
Frederick Noronha : http://www.fredericknoronha.net : When we speak of free
Freelance Journalist : http://www.bytesforall.org : software we refer to
Ph 0091.832.2409490 : Cell 0 9822 122436 : freedom, not price.
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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
…
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> 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
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Please sign this petition if you agree with it... it's an attempt to convince a
prominent technological university in Bangalore (VTU) to be opened to the use
of Free Software too.
http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/?VTU-FLOSS_Campaign
Krishna Pagadala, San Jose, USA. I have benefitted highly from the Free
Software movement and the Freedoms it has provided. Specifically the Freedom to
learn from the source code has helped me in getting a high-technology job in
the US. I wish that all students …
[View More]enjoy the all the Software Freedoms.
Pramode C.E, IC Software: I would like to add that there are efforts under way
to develop innovative hardware experimentation platforms using GNU/Linux to
improve the quality of Physics (as well as Engineering) education; and the best
part is that it's being done in India. Please visit
http://www.nsc.res.in/~elab/phoenix/ to know more about the `Phoenix Project'
being developed by Ajith Kumar at the Nuclear Science Centre, India. The wealth
of high quality tools and the open nature of the platform is of immense value
to young engineers and scientists raring to unleash their creativity; the
lessons in freedom and sharing that students learn by using GNU/Linux will also
go a long way in shaping their character as caring and responsible human
beings.
ashidhar b desai ,6th sem E&C, B.V.Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering &
Technology Hubli,Karnataka,India ,FLOSS is an excellent alternative for the
existing commercial softwares..Academics(colleges and univ) is the best way to
promote and support "Free Software".It will be a great initiative if the univ
adopts it(it will become an example for other univ & institutes). News about
open source and gnu/linux stuff---Indian Inside . Lets get Liberated.LONG LIVE
OPEN SOURCE.
Praveen Arimbrathodiyil (National Instititute of Technology, Calicut) Fri Mar
11 17:34:50 IST 2005 We use GNU/Linux in our main Computer center. It saves a
lot of money of the college as there is no licence fee to be paid for each
users. Since the source code of the softwares are available many computer
science students do projects based on Linux kernel and other such projects. The
possibility of use of thin-clients (which our computer center use) reduces the
cost of hardware dramatically. It has proved to be beneficial to our college
and I urge you to chose Free Software for giving a better alternative for
students.
Debapriyo Sarkar. Final year student of BCA, Goa. As a student, I plead to
every university, to adopt, encourage and spread the use of Free/Libre Open
Source Software (FLOSS). The benefits are clearly far-more significant than
cost savings (which of course is a huge motivating factor). The quality of
software reviewed and worked on by virtually the entire developer community of
the world is definitely at least world-class if nothing else. It is possible to
save on costs with $0 priced closed source software often termed as freeware,
but the limited resources of the single developer or the couple of developers
behind the software makes future of such software bleak. Compared to that,
software released under an open source license, helps user as well as developer
involvement to happen as deeply and transparent as no other licensing model can
support. As the letter includes the following (stripped) statement "...Octave,
which is simulation software written by University professors. This usually
comes with the GNU/Linux Operating System." which clearly shows that professors
of universities elsewhere have contributed to the solution of making quality
software available to the students and colleges alike under a license that
welcomes further contributions to improve the project virtually endlessly. As a
personal experience, I often have used open source alternatives whenever
acquiring the proprietary packages meant depending on the lab assistant to
provide the CD for illegal copying or genuinely going out and shelling out all
those huge wads of cash for functionality that was already at my disposal with
added advantage of continuing development and a long-life (of the software). As
universities use and recommend use of open source software,rate of development
is bound to grow with more and more students using the same version of software
both at college and home (no limited cheap "student" edition which are "cheap"
imitations with myriad "limitations"). Also professors' contributions in the
form of bug reports, bug fixes, new functionality patches and their work in
increasing awareness about the benefits of using open source software would
help improve quality of free software to an enormous extent.
Vijay Kumar, Chennai, India. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html
.P.Sujeevan,Project leader, S2S2, Kerala .Here at kerala at school level more
than 50 of schools are still using GNU/Linux.Also SSLC IT practical examination
has successfully done under the linux operating system.Some schools are still
using the Linux terminal server systems.Next year aggressive work is planning
to implement complete linux environment in schools.http://s2s2net.netfirms.com
_____
_/ ____\____ Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa
\ __\/ \ India T +91.832.2409490 M +919822 122436
| | | | \ http://fn.swiki.nethttp://goabooks.swiki.net
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Writing with a difference, on issues that really make the difference.
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>Yes, I'll second that. We all must remember that Sarath is
> in his teens and in his enthusiasm ( or due to TV publicity)
> must have overstepped some aspects. As another poster posted,
> it can be softly pointed out and right way can be pointed out.
> Then we may have a prodigy in our midst.
I think we missed out completely on the age of Sharat. A similar episode once had surfaced on a mailing list on php-db where another 'child prodigy' (one Tonu) was advising programmers at …
[View More]NASA a few years back. When Tonu was bombarded with advises, he had to cry out that it was time for him to have an ice-cream with his friends, which prompted 'the list' to check out his age.
I think we need to have a diplomacy while dealing with newbies and 'child prodigies'.
Cheers Sarath. Go ahead and do things. If someone tells you that something had been a mistake, correct it and proceed. We desperately need people like you.
CK Raju
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The patent office has published a draft practice manual at
http://patentoffice.nic.in/ipr/patent/manual.htm and called for
suggestions:
<quote>
MANUAL OF PATENT PRACTICE & PROCEDURE - PATENT OFFICE, INDIA (2005)
Last Date of Submission of Suggestions extended upto 20th August 2005
</quote>
Though TRIPS clearly says "Computer programs, whether in source or
object code, shall be protected as literary works under the Berne
Convention", and the Patents Act also excludes …
[View More]computer programs from
patentability, the Patent Office, on the strength of many US cases, has
tried to classify computer programs and has attempted to make a few
exceptions. Computer programs cannot be patented as part of any
invention, as much as any mathematics involved in an invention cannot be
patented. The draft manual has been published at the above site, and
please send your feedback so that we may address the issues involved.
A few quotes from the Draft Manual:
<quote1>
3(K) a mathematical or business method or a computer program perse or
algorithms.
computer program product is claimed as "A computer program product in
computer readable medium", "A computer-readable storage medium having
a program recorded thereon", etc. In such cases the claims are treated
as relating to software perse, irrespective of the medium of its
storage and are not held patentable.
Examples in respect of other categories of subject matter are
Scheme or method of bookkeeping.
Business method in the field of accounting.
Method of tax collection.
A contents display method for displaying contents on a screen,
A method for controlling an information processing apparatus, for
communicating via the Internet with an external apparatus,
A method for transmitting data across an open communication channel on
a wireless device that selectively opens and closes a communication
channel to a wireless network, and each wireless device including a
computer platform and including a plurality of device resources that
selectively utilizes a communication channel to communicate with other
devices across the network
All the above methods though utilise computer programs for its
operation,
are not computer programs as such and hence allowable
On the other hand,
A method of executing a computer program, in which at least part of the
copy of the program available for execution is analysed to determine
whether or not any change has been made thereto, and in the event
that a
change is detected, a further copy of the program is retrieved and
caused to
be executed instead of the first copy,
A method for generating a new computer program using a software
development tool,
These are the programs solely intellectual in its context and hence not
allowable.
The Guidelines for examination of Computer-related inventions are given in
Annexure 2
<\quote1>
The examples used to justify patentability for some of the kinds of
computer programs, is very vague and was very difficult for me to
follow. Could someone please explain what it means?
<quote 2>
9.CONCLUSION
The statute excludes from patentability the software per se. The
inventions relating
to the application of the computer program or software is held
patentable under the
Indian Patent Act, 1970 when claimed in combination of hardware and
software
components of a computer which provides a "technical advancement " over the
prior art. It is necessary for the applicant to describe the "technical
contribution" to
the prior art when the invention involves software. The technical
problem, which
needs to be solved by the invention, should be sufficiently described as
to how the
hardware is controlled by the software to overcome the previously described
problem. The "technical character" of the invention should be brought
out clearly in
the claims.
</quote2>
TRIPS is conveniently forgotten, and heavy reliance has been made upon
US decisions that have no application to India. IMO, US should change
its patent practice to fulfill its TRIPS obligations and any illegal
practices in the US that are contrary to TRIPS cannot be cited as
examples here in India.
Besides, the manual gives the following example:
<quote>
EXAMPLE (1) If one has invented a new kind of spray bottle patents may be
granted for -
. The bottle itself (a product)
· A chemical in the plastic (chemical composition)
· The spraying mechanism (an apparatus)
· How you extruded the plastic (a process)
</quote>
I suppose, if the contents of the spray bottle happened to be water, the
patent office would not patent water along with the new invention. If
we can see why water is not patentable along with the sprayer, then
there should be no difficulty in seeing that novel computer related
hardware inventions could be easily patented, excluding any computer
programs it may use. The computer programs the invention uses would be
"protected" by copyright law, but never fall within the scope of the
patent.
Please comment. Let us please take up the issue as soon as possible.
Regards,
Ramanraj.
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> From: Krishna Pagadala <krishnaact(a)yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] SLYNUX - Gaining Cheap Popularity
> To: Principal Support List of FSF-India <fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in>
> Message-ID: <20050628154027.93858.qmail(a)web52601.mail.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> Most of the reporters are clueless about computers,
> and come to interview Sarath just because it makes a
> "good" news item. I dont think they …
[View More]have any interest
> presenting the issue well.
>
> If anybody wants to understand the media, please
> watch/read Manufacturing Consent.
> http://chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=32
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375714499/qid=1119972544/sr=8
-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-2201387-8431267?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
>
> As for trademark infringement, please cut Sarath some
> slack. Do we want to live in permission culture or in
> free culture? http://www.free-culture.cc/
Yes, I'll second that. We all must remember that Sarath is in his teens and
in his enthusiasm ( or due to TV publicity) must have overstepped some
aspects. As another poster posted, it can be softly pointed out and right
way can be pointed out. Then we may have a prodigy in our midst.
>
> Regarding renaming xmms to linamp, again do we want to
> take permission from the powers that be every time? Is
> it a world worth striving for? living in?
>
> I think Sarath has all the rights to do what he has
> done.
>
> And regarding the nonsense of piracy, please read
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy
>
> -Krishna
Really enlightening !
NS Srikanth
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Hello GNUHeads,
I just saw a program (samakalikam) in Kairali TV. They were showing
Sharat Lakshman and his newly developed OS "SLYNUX". I hope you all also
read this mail.. Sharat.
We had lot of discussions on this topic some months back. At last Sharat
himself told us that he just remastered knoppix
(http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2005-January/002756.html).
But right from the news in Hindu, he claims that he build an OS based on
linux and it is user-friendly like Windows. This …
[View More]is making false
impression in majority of public (who are non-IT people).
In TV program he was telling that he renamed xmms to linamp and gaim to
slynux messenger so that people who come from windows world understand
easily. Does these products allow to change their name like this. Also
names like My computer, My documents are trademark of Microsoft, IAC. He
uses these terms to make SLYNUX mimic like windows. These are trademark
infringement.
His new site www.slynux.co.nr has proofs (screenshots) to support this.
He now invite the community to join the slynux development. This can put
others also in danger.
What is your goal, sharat ? If you want to advocate the advantage of FS,
this is not a good way, IMO. Hackers from different part of the world
work hard to achieve this goal, join them. See distros like Mandrake,
Fedora, Ubuntu ...
Just renaming the efforts of those hackers and gaining cheap popularity
is bad. May be you are too young to understand this. Atleast your
parents (or the people who support you) should understand this. You are
really insulting the hackers who build knoppix and other GNU tools
bundled with it.
If you are a real hacker, join with savannah or similar group of
hackers.
Regards
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Dileep M. Kumar || dileep AT kumarayil DOT net || www.kumarayil.net
Our future depends on our philosophy - Richard M Stallman
No Software Patents:
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/index.html
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Hi all,
L2C2 Technologies (www.l2c2.org) has published a LiveCD featuring the latest
version (2.2.3) of Koha (http://www.koha.org) - The World's first Opensource
Integrated Library System (ILS). It can be freely downloaded from Koha's
Sourceforge site.
The download URL is :
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=16466&package_id=58674
About the Koha LiveCD
---------------------
The Koha Live CD is designed to provide the potential user with a "feel" of
what
Koha is like, …
[View More]without requiring the user to actually install anything in the
computer's hard disk. To use the CD, one has to simply put it in one's CD-ROM
drive, and reboot. A fully featured version of Linux loads off the CD-ROM and
one can easily check out and play around with Koha via the Mozilla Firefox web
browser provided in the Linux desktop environment that starts up.
The CD comes with a sample dataset of about 1000 titles to enable the users to
get a feel of the day-to-day operations. For example, one can create a new user
and try out the circulation module which supports keyboard-wedge style barcode
readers .
The core components inside the Koha Live CD (version 1.0), all of which work
together to provide the ultimate end user with the experience of Koha are:
* Koha (version 2.2.3)
* Apache HTTP Server (version 2.0.53) with mod_perl support
* Perl (version 5.8.4)
* MySQL (version 4.1.10a)
* XFCE4 Desktop Environment (version 4.1.10a)
* Mozilla Firefox Web Browser (version 1.0.2)
* Kbarcode barcode generation software (version 1.8.0)
* GLabels label designer (version 2.0.1)
With best regards,
Indranil Das Gupta,
Chief Technology Architect
L2C2 Technologies
E-Mail: indradg(a)l2c2.org
Phone : (0)-98300-20971
L2C2 Technologies
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Dear All:
Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to interested individuals
and organisations. For more information and to register, contact
Sonia Nazareth at +91.22.2382.1893 or +91.98199.39820 or write to
sonia(a)cometmedia.org
Best,
S.K.
_____
Comet Media Foundation presents
CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA
seminar and exhibition
interactive presentations with the finest minds
on the hottest topics in New Media
DATES:
FRIDAY 1st, SATURDAY 2nd and SUNDAY 3rd July 2005
TIME:
10.00 A.M. …
[View More]to 5.00 P.M. Daily
VENUE:
Bosco Hall
St Andrews Church Compound, Hill Road
Bandra West, Mumbai 400050
a COSMOS foundational event
CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA is a festival composed of a seminar, an
exhibition and scope for many interactions. It aims to create
awareness among students about the new and viable professional
options unleashed by emerging information and communication
technologies.
Friday 1 July 2005
NEW MEDIA FOR COMMUNICATIONS Seminar
10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M.
Saturday 2 July 2005
NEW MEDIA FOR A NEW WORLD Seminar
10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M.
Friday 1 July, Saturday 2 July and Sunday 3 July
NEW MEDIA Exhibition
10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M.
CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA will have an inter-disciplinary approach, with
experts and established professionals from a wide variety of work
areas sharing their experiences and visions of the future. This is an
unique opportunity for students to interact with experts in order to
make a strategic career choices.
COSMOS is a recently-launched initiative of the Comet Media
Foundation in Mumbai, exploring the complex and densely woven field
in which science, technology and society overlap. The educational
programme of COSMOS is scheduled to be operational by 2006. For more
information on the Comet Media Foundation visit
http://www.cometmedia.org
The CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA festival is open to all. Entry to the
exhibition is free. The seminar presentations require pre-
registration, as seats are limited. The registration charges are Rs
200. For more information and to register, contact Sonia Nazareth at
+91.22.2382.1893 or +91.98199.39820 or write to sonia(a)cometmedia.org
FRIDAY 1 JULY 2005
NEW MEDIA FOR COMMUNICATIONS Seminar
(25 minute presentation will be followed by 15 minute question and
answer sessions)
10:00 to 10:15
Introduction
CHANDITA MUKHERJEE
Comet Media Foundation, Documentary Film-Maker
10:15 to 10.45
Keynote Address "the unfolding new media scenario "
NINA SABNANI
Head, Department of New Media Studies
National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad
10.50 to 11:30
"Making it in the games industry"
REENA GEORGE
Human Resources Manager, Indiagames Ltd, Mumbai
HRISHI OBEROI
Head of 3D and Console Games, Indiagames Ltd, Mumbai
11:30 to 11.45
BREAK
11:50 to 12:30
"Animation as a career for the future"
SHILPA RANADE
Faculty Member, Industrial Design Centre (IDC), Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT), Mumbai
12:35 to 1:15
"Can writing be a viable career? Exploring web-journalism"
KIRAN JONNALAGADDA
Blogger and Information Architect, Seacrow Labs, Bangalore
1.20 to 1.30
"The power of the portal: a case study"
Z. ANSARI
rediff.com
1:30 to 2:15
LUNCH
2:20 to 3:00
"Entrepreneurship in the age of new media: entertainment and commerce"
TOBY MORNING
Chairman, Urban Technology Ventures, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
3:05 to 3:20
BREAK
3:25 to 4:05
"Opportunities in audio-visual post-production"
NEIL SADWELKAR
Editor and Editing System Consultant,
Technical Consultant to Pixion Studio
4:10 to 4:30
Concluding Remarks
NIRMALENDU JAJODIA
Software Developer,
Board Member, Comet Media Foundation
SATURDAY 2 JULY 2005
NEW MEDIA FOR A NEW WORLD Seminar
(25 minute presentation will be followed by 15 minute question and
answer sessions)
10:00 to 10:20
Introductory Note
NIRMALENDU JAJODIA
10:25 to 11:05
"Emerging careers in the new information age"
GURUNANDAN BHAT
Chief Technologist, Synapse, Goa
11:10 to 11:50
"Future prospects for sound specialists"
P. BALARAM
Audio Engineer, Audeus Studios, Mukta Arts, Mumbai
11:55 to 12:10
BREAK
12:15 to 12:55
"Careers in e-learning"
RUPESH GOEL
Head, Simulations, Tata Interactive Systems
1:00 to 1:40
"GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications"
VINEET SHROFF
Founder-Director, Biond Software, Mumbai
1:40 to 2:25
LUNCH
2:30 to 3:10
"New media as an area of research and training"
NISHANT SHAH
Research Scholar,
Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore
3:15 to 3:30
BREAK
3:35 to 4:15
"ICTs, social development and business models"
JAYALAKSHMI CHITTOOR
Editor, I4D Magazine,
Centre for Science Development & Media Studies (CSDMS), New Delhi
4:20 to 4:30
Vote of Thanks
INDRANIL CHAKRAVARTY
Film-Maker and Project Director, COSMOS New Media Initiative,
Comet Media Foundation, Mumbai
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
NINA SABNANI teaches Communication Design at National Institute of
Design, Ahmedabad. After a degree in Fine Arts from Baroda, she
studied animation at NID and in the UK. Later, she did a post
graduate programme in Television & Film from the USA on a Fulbright
Fellowship. She has evolved with the times to embrace a wide range of
subjects in her profile. At present she teaches courses in Visual
Scripting for Animation, Interaction Design, Linear and non-linear
story telling, Games design, Illustration and Multi-sensory Design.
http://www.nid.edu
REENA GEORGE currently Manager Human Resources at Indiagames, had
extensive experience in the IT industry. A part of the dynamic
industry of wireless gaming, Reena has taken Indiagames from an 80
member team to over 250 employees in the past one year. She is an
active member of the HR Infotech Association, Mumbai.
http://www.indiagames.com
HRISHI OBEROI is currently Head of the 3D & Console games at
Indiagames. He has specialised in computer graphics and animation and
has designed and programmed 2D and 3D games for mobile phones. Hrishi
is currently producing a console named "Ashoka". He is active in the
International Game Developer's Association, Mumbai chapter, organises
gaming events like WCG India and speaks in technical forums concerned
with games development in India.
http://www.indiagames.com
SHILPA RANADE is a faculty member at the Industrial Design Centre,
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. A gold medallist from Sir J.
J. Institute of Applied Art, she did her Masters in Visual
Communication from IDC, IIT, Mumbai and subsequently completed an
M.Phil in Animation from the Royal College of Art, London. Her
animation film Mani’s Dying won the critics award at the Bombay
International Short Film Festival, 1996 and was nominated for the
best British short film award at the British Short Film Festival, 1995.
http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in
KIRAN JONNALAGADDA is a writer and programmer who works at the
crossing of media, technology and the web. Currently a consultant
technologist at various organisations, he is also an Independent
Research Fellow at Sarai, studying how the user interface affects
online communities. He is also a collaborator on the Mumbai Free Map
Project of CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust), Mumbai, a
member of the Plone Foundation, and a trustee of the Tapovan School
in rural Bangalore. An observer and participant in blogging, Kiran is
also an occasional journalist and a keen photographer.
http://www.seacrow.comhttp://www.freemap.in
TOBY MORNING is an entrepreneur who heads Urban Technology Ventures,
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. This group of internet-based
companies aims to leverage technology and “serve as a catalyst for
creating a more peaceful, healthy, prosperous planet for future
generations”. Toby’s passion for music has taken him from event
promotion to music distribution and concert promotion to the Internet
radio portal djunion.com. Toby’s focus is on developing the company’s
internet services, and he is in India investigating various fresh
business opportunities with Indian partners.
http://urbantechnologyventures.com
NEIL SADWELKAR spends most of his waking hours as an editor and edit
system consultant, currently at a large post production house called
Pixion. Neil started out making sky shows in the Planetarium, moved
to 16mm film and then followed video through its evolution as a
professional medium. Neil has been associated with documentary and
feature film-making in all the possible capacities—sound recordist,
editor, camera person, director. He has been a contributing editor at
Misenscene, and forum host at the DMN Forums’ Final Cut Pro forum.
http://www.sadwelkar.com
GURUNANDAN BHATT enjoys working on applications that allow people to
organise, share and disseminate data and collaborate in useful,
productive and innovative ways. Currently Chief Technologist at
Synapse, Goa, a company that “partners with clients to solve their
business problems through information-based initiatives” Gurunandan
has worked extensively on designing and developing complex yet
inexpensive information systems. An ardent proponent of Open Source
software, he regularly speaks at events, has authored several books
and writes for technology magazines.
http://www.plusthought.org
BALARAM PONDENKANDATH graduated from FTII Pune in sound recording and
sound engineering. He has designed, installed and worked as a
recordist at a number of leading sound studios such as Sargam Studio,
Audio Bytes of Mumbai, VGP Digital Studios, ABM Digital Studio,
Maryan Digital Studio of Chennai and Navodaya of Trivandrum, Jeevan
TV satellite channel of Cochin and the dubbing and DTS mixing studios
for Easwary Films, Banglore. Currently Balaram is the chief recording
engineer at Audeus Studio for Mukta Arts. He consultants with the
Music Archive at St. Paul's, Bangalore and does sound engineering for
musical shows in India and abroad.
http://www.muktaarts.com
RUPESH GOEL is Head, Simulations, Tata Interactive Systems, a large
developer of custom e-learning solutions. It has a multi-disciplinary
team of over 700, including content developers, 3-D animators &
modellers, software engineers and instructional designers. TIS e-
learning programmes cater to the needs of diverse sectors in the
corporate, educational and government arena. Its offerings include
business and educational simulations, enterprise applications
training, adaptive assessments, story-based learning objects, game-
based learning, teacher tools and teaching aids and a host of other
applications.
http://www.tatainteractive.com
VINEET SHROFF trained in aeronautical engineering at IIT Powai. He
founded Biond Software in 1994 with Milind Dalvi. Biond is in the
space of creating GIS datasets or digital maps for India. His
expertise includes procurement and analysis of high-resolution
satellite imagery, vectorisation and CAD work, physical field survey
and application software development. Vineet is also the founder
director of Newreka Chemicals and CEO of Standard Engineers. His
special interests include growing exotic fruits.
NISHANT SHAH is a researcher in contemporary culture and new digital
media based at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society
(CSCS), Bangalore. His interests are in looking at the formation of
online communities in the third world through blogging. The
construction of identities online and the patterns of social
structure that arise due to these activities are of immediate
interest to him. Nishant has been designing and teaching courses in
contemporary digital cultures for undergraduates at Christ College
and St. Joseph's College, Bangalore. His work has been published in
various poetry anthologies and he dreams of writing a novel some day.
http://www.cscsban.org
JAYALAKSHMI CHITTOOR has written extensively on gender, consumer
issues, ICT4D, mountain issues and natural resources management and
has experimented with new electronic media for community building and
networking. Heading the i4d programme of the Centre for Science,
Development and Media Studies, she brings out the monthly magazine
“i4d” and coordinates two research studies. She also works as
regional Asia advisor to Bellanet International, promoting ICT tools
to provide opportunities to disadvantaged communities and for
providing democratic space in the world of the Internet.
http://www.i4d.csdms.inhttp://www.i4donline.net
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Dear All:
Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to interested individuals
and organisations. For more information and to register, contact
Sonia Nazareth at +91.22.2382.1893 or +91.98199.39820 or write to
sonia(a)cometmedia.org
Best,
S.K.
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Comet Media Foundation presents
CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA
seminar and exhibition
interactive presentations with the finest minds
on the hottest topics in New Media
DATES:
FRIDAY 1st, SATURDAY 2nd and SUNDAY 3rd July 2005
TIME:
10.00 A.M. …
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VENUE:
Bosco Hall
St Andrews Church Compound, Hill Road
Bandra West, Mumbai 400050
a COSMOS foundational event
CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA is a festival composed of a seminar, an
exhibition and scope for many interactions. It aims to create
awareness among students about the new and viable professional
options unleashed by emerging information and communication
technologies.
Friday 1 July 2005
NEW MEDIA FOR COMMUNICATIONS Seminar
10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M.
Saturday 2 July 2005
NEW MEDIA FOR A NEW WORLD Seminar
10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M.
Friday 1 July, Saturday 2 July and Sunday 3 July
NEW MEDIA Exhibition
10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M.
CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA will have an inter-disciplinary approach, with
experts and established professionals from a wide variety of work
areas sharing their experiences and visions of the future. This is an
unique opportunity for students to interact with experts in order to
make a strategic career choices.
COSMOS is a recently-launched initiative of the Comet Media
Foundation in Mumbai, exploring the complex and densely woven field
in which science, technology and society overlap. The educational
programme of COSMOS is scheduled to be operational by 2006. For more
information on the Comet Media Foundation visit
http://www.cometmedia.org
The CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA festival is open to all. Entry to the
exhibition is free. The seminar presentations require pre-
registration, as seats are limited. The registration charges are Rs
200. For more information and to register, contact Sonia Nazareth at
+91.22.2382.1893 or +91.98199.39820 or write to sonia(a)cometmedia.org
FRIDAY 1 JULY 2005
NEW MEDIA FOR COMMUNICATIONS Seminar
(25 minute presentation will be followed by 15 minute question and
answer sessions)
10:00 to 10:15
Introduction
CHANDITA MUKHERJEE
Comet Media Foundation, Documentary Film-Maker
10:15 to 10.45
Keynote Address "the unfolding new media scenario "
NINA SABNANI
Head, Department of New Media Studies
National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad
10.50 to 11:30
"Making it in the games industry"
REENA GEORGE
Human Resources Manager, Indiagames Ltd, Mumbai
HRISHI OBEROI
Head of 3D and Console Games, Indiagames Ltd, Mumbai
11:30 to 11.45
BREAK
11:50 to 12:30
"Animation as a career for the future"
SHILPA RANADE
Faculty Member, Industrial Design Centre (IDC), Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT), Mumbai
12:35 to 1:15
"Can writing be a viable career? Exploring web-journalism"
KIRAN JONNALAGADDA
Blogger and Information Architect, Seacrow Labs, Bangalore
1.20 to 1.30
"The power of the portal: a case study"
Z. ANSARI
rediff.com
1:30 to 2:15
LUNCH
2:20 to 3:00
"Entrepreneurship in the age of new media: entertainment and commerce"
TOBY MORNING
Chairman, Urban Technology Ventures, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
3:05 to 3:20
BREAK
3:25 to 4:05
"Opportunities in audio-visual post-production"
NEIL SADWELKAR
Editor and Editing System Consultant,
Technical Consultant to Pixion Studio
4:10 to 4:30
Concluding Remarks
NIRMALENDU JAJODIA
Software Developer,
Board Member, Comet Media Foundation
SATURDAY 2 JULY 2005
NEW MEDIA FOR A NEW WORLD Seminar
(25 minute presentation will be followed by 15 minute question and
answer sessions)
10:00 to 10:20
Introductory Note
NIRMALENDU JAJODIA
10:25 to 11:05
"Emerging careers in the new information age"
GURUNANDAN BHAT
Chief Technologist, Synapse, Goa
11:10 to 11:50
"Future prospects for sound specialists"
P. BALARAM
Audio Engineer, Audeus Studios, Mukta Arts, Mumbai
11:55 to 12:10
BREAK
12:15 to 12:55
"Careers in e-learning"
RUPESH GOEL
Head, Simulations, Tata Interactive Systems
1:00 to 1:40
"GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications"
VINEET SHROFF
Founder-Director, Biond Software, Mumbai
1:40 to 2:25
LUNCH
2:30 to 3:10
"New media as an area of research and training"
NISHANT SHAH
Research Scholar,
Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore
3:15 to 3:30
BREAK
3:35 to 4:15
"ICTs, social development and business models"
JAYALAKSHMI CHITTOOR
Editor, I4D Magazine,
Centre for Science Development & Media Studies (CSDMS), New Delhi
4:20 to 4:30
Vote of Thanks
INDRANIL CHAKRAVARTY
Film-Maker and Project Director, COSMOS New Media Initiative,
Comet Media Foundation, Mumbai
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
NINA SABNANI teaches Communication Design at National Institute of
Design, Ahmedabad. After a degree in Fine Arts from Baroda, she
studied animation at NID and in the UK. Later, she did a post
graduate programme in Television & Film from the USA on a Fulbright
Fellowship. She has evolved with the times to embrace a wide range of
subjects in her profile. At present she teaches courses in Visual
Scripting for Animation, Interaction Design, Linear and non-linear
story telling, Games design, Illustration and Multi-sensory Design.
http://www.nid.edu
REENA GEORGE currently Manager Human Resources at Indiagames, had
extensive experience in the IT industry. A part of the dynamic
industry of wireless gaming, Reena has taken Indiagames from an 80
member team to over 250 employees in the past one year. She is an
active member of the HR Infotech Association, Mumbai.
http://www.indiagames.com
HRISHI OBEROI is currently Head of the 3D & Console games at
Indiagames. He has specialised in computer graphics and animation and
has designed and programmed 2D and 3D games for mobile phones. Hrishi
is currently producing a console named "Ashoka". He is active in the
International Game Developer's Association, Mumbai chapter, organises
gaming events like WCG India and speaks in technical forums concerned
with games development in India.
http://www.indiagames.com
SHILPA RANADE is a faculty member at the Industrial Design Centre,
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. A gold medallist from Sir J.
J. Institute of Applied Art, she did her Masters in Visual
Communication from IDC, IIT, Mumbai and subsequently completed an
M.Phil in Animation from the Royal College of Art, London. Her
animation film Mani’s Dying won the critics award at the Bombay
International Short Film Festival, 1996 and was nominated for the
best British short film award at the British Short Film Festival, 1995.
http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in
KIRAN JONNALAGADDA is a writer and programmer who works at the
crossing of media, technology and the web. Currently a consultant
technologist at various organisations, he is also an Independent
Research Fellow at Sarai, studying how the user interface affects
online communities. He is also a collaborator on the Mumbai Free Map
Project of CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust), Mumbai, a
member of the Plone Foundation, and a trustee of the Tapovan School
in rural Bangalore. An observer and participant in blogging, Kiran is
also an occasional journalist and a keen photographer.
http://www.seacrow.comhttp://www.freemap.in
TOBY MORNING is an entrepreneur who heads Urban Technology Ventures,
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. This group of internet-based
companies aims to leverage technology and “serve as a catalyst for
creating a more peaceful, healthy, prosperous planet for future
generations”. Toby’s passion for music has taken him from event
promotion to music distribution and concert promotion to the Internet
radio portal djunion.com. Toby’s focus is on developing the company’s
internet services, and he is in India investigating various fresh
business opportunities with Indian partners.
http://urbantechnologyventures.com
NEIL SADWELKAR spends most of his waking hours as an editor and edit
system consultant, currently at a large post production house called
Pixion. Neil started out making sky shows in the Planetarium, moved
to 16mm film and then followed video through its evolution as a
professional medium. Neil has been associated with documentary and
feature film-making in all the possible capacities—sound recordist,
editor, camera person, director. He has been a contributing editor at
Misenscene, and forum host at the DMN Forums’ Final Cut Pro forum.
http://www.sadwelkar.com
GURUNANDAN BHATT enjoys working on applications that allow people to
organise, share and disseminate data and collaborate in useful,
productive and innovative ways. Currently Chief Technologist at
Synapse, Goa, a company that “partners with clients to solve their
business problems through information-based initiatives” Gurunandan
has worked extensively on designing and developing complex yet
inexpensive information systems. An ardent proponent of Open Source
software, he regularly speaks at events, has authored several books
and writes for technology magazines.
http://www.plusthought.org
BALARAM PONDENKANDATH graduated from FTII Pune in sound recording and
sound engineering. He has designed, installed and worked as a
recordist at a number of leading sound studios such as Sargam Studio,
Audio Bytes of Mumbai, VGP Digital Studios, ABM Digital Studio,
Maryan Digital Studio of Chennai and Navodaya of Trivandrum, Jeevan
TV satellite channel of Cochin and the dubbing and DTS mixing studios
for Easwary Films, Banglore. Currently Balaram is the chief recording
engineer at Audeus Studio for Mukta Arts. He consultants with the
Music Archive at St. Paul's, Bangalore and does sound engineering for
musical shows in India and abroad.
http://www.muktaarts.com
RUPESH GOEL is Head, Simulations, Tata Interactive Systems, a large
developer of custom e-learning solutions. It has a multi-disciplinary
team of over 700, including content developers, 3-D animators &
modellers, software engineers and instructional designers. TIS e-
learning programmes cater to the needs of diverse sectors in the
corporate, educational and government arena. Its offerings include
business and educational simulations, enterprise applications
training, adaptive assessments, story-based learning objects, game-
based learning, teacher tools and teaching aids and a host of other
applications.
http://www.tatainteractive.com
VINEET SHROFF trained in aeronautical engineering at IIT Powai. He
founded Biond Software in 1994 with Milind Dalvi. Biond is in the
space of creating GIS datasets or digital maps for India. His
expertise includes procurement and analysis of high-resolution
satellite imagery, vectorisation and CAD work, physical field survey
and application software development. Vineet is also the founder
director of Newreka Chemicals and CEO of Standard Engineers. His
special interests include growing exotic fruits.
NISHANT SHAH is a researcher in contemporary culture and new digital
media based at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society
(CSCS), Bangalore. His interests are in looking at the formation of
online communities in the third world through blogging. The
construction of identities online and the patterns of social
structure that arise due to these activities are of immediate
interest to him. Nishant has been designing and teaching courses in
contemporary digital cultures for undergraduates at Christ College
and St. Joseph's College, Bangalore. His work has been published in
various poetry anthologies and he dreams of writing a novel some day.
http://www.cscsban.org
JAYALAKSHMI CHITTOOR has written extensively on gender, consumer
issues, ICT4D, mountain issues and natural resources management and
has experimented with new electronic media for community building and
networking. Heading the i4d programme of the Centre for Science,
Development and Media Studies, she brings out the monthly magazine
“i4d” and coordinates two research studies. She also works as
regional Asia advisor to Bellanet International, promoting ICT tools
to provide opportunities to disadvantaged communities and for
providing democratic space in the world of the Internet.
http://www.i4d.csdms.inhttp://www.i4donline.net
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