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[Fsf-friends] INDIA: Request to sign a petition favouring Free Software in the campus
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

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 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.net http://goabooks.swiki.net |__| |___| / http://www.bytesforall.net http://www.bytesforall.org \/ ----------------------------------------------------- Writing with a difference, on issues that really make the difference.

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[urdu-indic] [ANNOUNCE] New list for F/OSS based Urdu Localization
by Indranil Das Gupta 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

Dear all, As mentioned in the email from Najmun [1] I have setup a mailing list for co-ordination and discussions about Urdu L10N on the Free/Open Source platform, particularly the effort we are trying to drive from Kolkata. To subscribe to the mailing list please visit http://mail.randomink.org/mailman/listinfo/urdu-indic_randomink.org The archives are not accessible right now, due to a server config problem that we are trying to get fixed ASAP. cheers, -indra. References: [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12378942 -- L2C2 Technologies -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [ Innovations that make a Difference ] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Email : indradg(a)l2c2.org Phone : (0)-98300-20971 WWW : http://www.l2c2.org _______________________________________________ Urdu-indic mailing list Urdu-indic(a)randomink.org http://mail.randomink.org/mailman/listinfo/urdu-indic_randomink.org

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[ANNOUNCE] New list for F/OSS based Urdu Localization
by Indranil Das Gupta 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

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Joropo and FSFS Conference
by arun＠gnu.org.in 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Hi, FSFS Conference has slowly moving beyond talks. Network established by the conference are starting to bear its fruit. Anand Babu, Director of FSF India is now visiting Venezuela to have further discussions on developing Venezuela into a free software super power. PDVSA is planning to create a free software based super computer. Special thanks to Juan for floating this idea during the conference. Long Live 'Joropo' ;) This is just the starting.. More details see: http://www.aporrea.org/dameverbo.php?docid=63366 For more details on FSFS Conference see: http://fsfs.hipatia.net See link below for report on Italian Newspaper Il Manifesto http://www.ilmanifesto.it/Quotidiano-archivio/10-Luglio-2005/art76.html PS: Joropo is the code name proposed for Venezuela Super Computer. Which should soon join top100. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joropo

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FSF India Foundation day
by Arun M 18 Jul '05

18 Jul '05

Hi Friends, 21st July is FSF Indian Foundation Day. This years we are having the main events in Andra Pradesh. Activities for the day includes. 1. Formation of 21 GLUGs across the state. 2. Demonstration of Telungu Localised GNU/Linux in 21 villages. Kiran Chandra and his highly active team is building a strong free software movement in AP. All are welcome for the party... With regards, Arun.

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[Fwd: [Ilugc] [Photos] GNU/Linux workshop, July 16, 2005, Saranathan College of Engineering, Tiruchi]
by Ramanraj K 17 Jul '05

17 Jul '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Ilugc] [Photos] GNU/Linux workshop, July 16, 2005, Saranathan College of Engineering, Tiruchi Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 03:16:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Shakthi Kannan <cyborg4k(a)yahoo.com> To: ilugc(a)ae.iitm.ac.in CC: fsf-tn(a)gnu.org.in Greetings! I would like to thank the Tiruchirapalli MYSQL group and CSE department faculty, students, and the management of Saranathan College of Engineering, Tiruchirapalli for giving me an opportunity to conduct a one-day GNU/Linux workshop. Thanks to Ramkumar L, S. Srinivasan, T. Shivakumar, Arul Jeeva, and Lakshminarayanan of Tiruchirapalli MYSQL group, http://www.harshainfotech.com/, and http://www.rajaramsystems.com/. http://mysql.meetup.com/70/ Special thanks to Ramkumar L who has been working with me in planning this event for the past two weeks. Thanks to Prof. Venkatasubramanian, HOD, CSE Department, Saranathan College of Engineering for coordinating the sessions. http://www.saranathan.ac.in/ The workshop was announced in the newspapers, The Indian Express and The Hindu. The photos of the workshop (and the trip) can be viewed from here: http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album12 The MYSQL group is working on using LAMP on GNU/Linux for the Pulivazham village cooperative society milk center farmers. They require to keep track of accounts, volume of milk stored in the facilities, and general book-keeping activities. Ramkumar L: Regarding the contacts: 1. Sarvannan (Lucas-TVS) - told me during Raman's talk on LTSP that they supply Linux drivers for their printers. So, Pulivazham center printers should work with GNU/Linux. 2. Gaurav - from http://www.gnulinuxclub.org is interested in php, web admin. He should start building a database of companies working/using LAMP in India for career opportunities. You can let him know of harshainfotech.com and your services. 3. Sivasankar Chander - told me at MIT, "Carte Blanche" 2005 about 'Cascade Systems & Solutions', Plaza center near Gemini circle, about HP E-Vectra systems that are about Rs.5000/-. He runs FC on it. So, for low-cost solutions, you might want to check this out. 4. Bharathi S - and other networking gurus, might provide some contacts/tips on line-of-sight solutions for networking all the villages together. Folks, right now they have a dial-up offer from BSNL at Rs.25/- per hour :o. Good luck to the Tiruchirapalli MYSQL team for this project. Hopefully next time when we visit you guyz, we will see Pulivazham farmers using GNU/Linux for their day-to-day activities. Thanking you all once again, SK -- proudly anti-micro$oft ------------------------------------------------------------ Shakthi Kannan, MS Software Engineer, Specsoft (Hexaware Technologies) [E]: shaks(a)shakthimaan.com [M]: (91) 98407-87007 [W]: http://www.shakthimaan.com [L]: Chennai, India ------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail for Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-request(a)ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

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This weekend's ILUG-Goa meet 23072005 * Goa Science Centre 1500-1700
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 17 Jul '05

17 Jul '05

Just a brief note... from ILUG-Goa. If you wish to invite your friends over to encounter Free/Libre and Open Source Software, this weekend's meet is as good as any you would get. We already have a couple of issues on the agenda: Prof Anil Seth wrote: "I have been experimenting with LTSP - adding local applications and would be happy to discuss what I have been trying." What's that? Quote from Wikipedia: Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) is an add-on package for Linux that allows many people to simultaneously use the same computer. Applications run on the server with a terminal known as a thin client handling input and output. These thin clients are also known as X Terminals. Generally, they are low-powered and lack a hard disk. This technology is becoming popular in schools as it allows pupils access to computers without purchasing expensive desktop machines. Some examples of a distributions using LTSP are K12LTSP, Skolelinux and Deworks. The founder and project lead for LTSP is Jim McQuillan. Endquote. [See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTSP and http://www.ltsp.org ] Vidyadhar Gadgil roped in his Vipassana friend and long-time ILUG-Goa member Shankar of the National Institute of Oceanography to talk about LaTex, TeX and Lyx. LATEX is a document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. It offers programmable desktop publishing features and extensive facilities for automating most aspects of typesetting and desktop publishing, including numbering and cross-referencing, tables and figures, page layout, bibliographies, and much more. LaTeX was originally written in 1984 by Leslie Lamport and has become the dominant method for using TeX —few people write in plain TeX anymore. The current version is LaTeX2ε. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX LyX is a document processor following the "what you see is what you mean" paradigm (WYSIWYM), as opposed to the WYSIWYG ideas used by word processors. This means that the user only has to care about the structure and content of the text, while the formatting is done by LATEX, an advanced typesetting system. LyX is designed for authors who want professional output with a minimum of effort and without becoming specialists in typesetting. The job of typesetting is done mostly by the computer, following a predefined set of rules called a style, and not by the author. Specific knowledge of the LATEX document processing system is not necessary but may improve editing with LyX significantly for specialist purposes. Although LyX is popular among technical authors and scientists, for its advanced mathematical modes (e.g.), it is increasingly also been used by social scientists and others for its excellent Bibtex integration and document managing features. It can handle documents ranging from books, notes, theses to articles in refereed journals. Recent versions of the software support right-to-left languages like Hebrew and Arabic. A separate release for Chinese, Japanese and Korean language support is also available. The LyX document processor is available for various operating systems like several Unix platforms including Mac OS X, OS/2, Windows/Cygwin and Linux. A Windows port that does not need Cygwin/X is in advanced stages. LyX is an open source software that can be redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyx Do come... pass the word around. There's a lot of info-sharing which you could gain from... FN ======================================================================= PS: St Xavier's College, Mapusa (Goa) launches The Xavier's Open Source Cell on July 23, 2005 at a program from 10.30 am to 11.45 am. =======================================================================

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India's premiere FOSS event -- Linux Bangalore 2005 this december
by Praveen A 16 Jul '05

16 Jul '05

Hi folks, LB is a completely community driven conference on Free and Open Source Software conducted at bangalore every year. This is the fifth edition of the event. Some of the key speakers of the event last year were Harald Welte [IP table/netfilter core developer], Brian Behlendorf of Apache, Warner Armesberger [guy behind lilio ] ... The dicussion about the format and other details are already started. It is open for every one's suggestions. It is completely community driven. The discussions are on at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-bangalore-2005 and the website is http://www.linux-bangalore.com I hope you all will actively participate in the discussions. Lets make this a grand success and claim a position for India in the world FOSS map. Regards Praveen A -- "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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Health Campaign through Internet
by satish reddy 16 Jul '05

16 Jul '05

Hi Friends, We are creating awareness campaign about obesity related problems for computer professionals and need like minded people who can help in the campaign. One to two hrs work on internet would be sufficient. Serious people who are interested to know info,pl mail to satish_reddy50(a)yahoo.com Hv a g8 weekend. Satish reddy ,9246112080 Hyderabad. --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page

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(OT) Cheaper Laptop equivalent- What is it's name
by NS Srikanth 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

Hi All, Some time back there was a news item about a smaller version of laptop with the cost ranging from Rs 8500 for monochrome display and Rs14000 for colour display. >From morning I am breaking my head, for the life of me , I am unable to come up with its name. It is from Indian company and it is not simputer. Can anybody help out ? NS Srikanth

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