Fsf-friends August 2005

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by Manjush G.Menon

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 > etc. are logistical issues which could not be immediately undertaken. > 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

17 years, 5 months

FreeSoftwareDay

by Thejesh GN

Are we doing anything in Bangalore ? -- Thanks, Thej http://www.techmag.biz

17 years, 6 months

Tools for Journalist

by Manilal K M

Hi all, Is there any specialised tools in GNU/Linux for use of Journalists(Newspaper)? I think scribus is one of them.If there are any more tools please provide info about it. GUI based tools are prefered. also let me know that whether they are used in the industry. regards Manilal

17 years, 6 months

Fwd: Linux thrives in left-leaning Kerala

by Manilal K M

Kerala, a tiny coastal state in south India, is a site of significant popularity of free software and GNU/Linux. What lessons can Kerala teach other areas about using free and open source software? Read More: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/08/19/1912207&tid=150 regards Manilal

17 years, 6 months

Please send in your nominations for the Free Software Award, 2005

by Frederick Noronha (FN)

http://www.gnu.org/award/ To date, we have given out these FSF Awards for the Advancement of Free Software, recognizing a person who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software: 2005 Send nominations for the 2005 award by 31 October 2005. http://www.fsf.org/news/fs-award-2005.html -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick 'FN' Noronha | fred(a)bytesforall.org | Goa, India Independent Journalist | http://fn.swiki.net | +91(832)2409490 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Indian documentary film blog: http://indiadocu.blogspot.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------

17 years, 6 months

FSUG in Thrissur?

by Tinku Sampath

Hello everybody, I have been here, in this mailing list, for a month. I am Tinku Sampath from Kerala. I am doing 4th semester of MCA at Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur, Kerala. As some of you know, we MCA students were behind the Renaissance 2005, the well appreciated, but at the same time unpopular national seminar on Free and Open Source Software which was held on last February at the college. We organized the event as the first little contribution to the Free Software community from our part. Hope that Renaissance 2006 will be realized in a more passionate way and will fulfill everyones expectation. Let me come to the purpose of this mail. We are planning to build a Free Software Users Group (FSUG) for our college. At this occasion, we would like to know is there are any other FSUGs or LUGs or GLUGs or any kind of that working now concentrating Thrissur. If there, we can together form an active one. I think, this will be a great opportunity for our college students to contribute their technical abilities in promoting the FLOSS. If there is any existing group, please mail me with details as soon as possible. I would like to invite each member of this group to contribute their ideas or dream about an FSUG. I am sure that your experience and expertise will help us in various matters. - Tinku Sampath

17 years, 6 months

Sri Lanka Declares a National Free and Open Source Week

by Frederick Noronha (FN)

http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/08/28/1553234.shtml?tid=218&tid=106 Sri Lanka Declares an Open Source Week Posted by Zonk on Sunday August 28, @11:43AM from the tux-for-all dept. AnuradhaRatnaweera writes "Sri Lankan Government has declared (google cache) the week starting from the 5th of September as the National Free and Open Source Software Week. The FOSS Community, Government's ICTA and the industry are working together to organize the week's events including the FOSSSL Conference and Asia Open Source Symposium. The week has been selected to end (well, almost) with the Software Freedom Day."

17 years, 6 months

Need Free software in 11th Class

by Sarath Lakshman

Hello Friends, I am here to inform you about an issue in 11th Class. Now I am studying in 11th class - Computer Science. Our text book is following the proprietary C++ compiler (Turbo C++ Compiler) and there is nothing about Software freedom and importance of free software. We are forced to follow the proprietary environment. Even a few students don't know what the free software is? But some of them heard about 'Linux' but they don't know what is GNU. Last year, there were topics about GNU/Linux and M$ Windows in our 10th class IT@School text books. As a result of struggles done by FSF India, GNU/Linux gained prominence in IT syllabus from this year. LAst year, I Also Noticed the news which had come in newspapers - "Govt promised to give importance to free software in 10th class syllabus and Govt had announced that the coming 11th class Computer Sc syllabus will give importance to free software and GNU/Linux" Now Govt didn't follow their announcement. We are following same and old Com Sc syllabus with proprietary environment! we are the Ist batch who followed GNU/Linux and M$ Windows last year. Now we are forced to use proprietary software. g++, gcc is the best compiler and is a freesoftware, then why should we follow Turbo? which is a proprietary? There should be some topics to describe the importance of Free Software, and something should be done to make GNU/Linux as the default platform. I'm waiting for your comments. Thanking you, Sarath Lakshman __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

17 years, 6 months

The Linux [TM] fracas

by Ramanraj K

"Linux fracas not the main game: RMS" By Sam Varghese August 25, 2005 - 3:05PM at http://www.theage.com.au/news/breaking/linux-fracas-not-the-main-game-rms/2… <quote> The fuss over the Linux trademark has diverted attention from the real issue - the freedom to change and redistribute software, the founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, Richard M. Stallman, says. ..... "In this particular case, though, the naming issue seems rather to distract attention from freedom, so I'd rather focus the attention back where it belongs," he said. Stallman said he would not seek payment to allow people to use the GNU name. "Anyone who makes a GNU/Linux distribution ought to call it such, but most of them don't. We won't ask people to pay to give us credit for our work," he said. ... </quote>

17 years, 6 months

Abatement of Vendor Nuisance

by Ramanraj K

The poor school teachers and students in TN are scheduled to get "help" from Microsoft: http://newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IE320050822083241&Page=3&Title=Feat… Education ought to be vendor neutral, focused on general principles and in any event, it should never become a marketing program for private entities. Governments and school authorities should avoid the traps and offers laid by private vendors whose main aim is merely to earn profits. Similar exercises are afoot at other places too: http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20050815/market04.shtml http://www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies/casestudy.asp?CaseStudyID=17… We need to send in our concerns to the authorities involved here, and so please post any useful information/opinions connected with these issues. The vendor nuisance should abate for good. -Ramanraj

17 years, 7 months

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