Fsf-friends June 2006

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mailing lists
by Kush 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

Hi, Can anybody tell me some good and reasonable mailman or phplist based mailing list hosting companies? We use yahoogroups now but would like a different and free or reasonably cheap system. Thanks for any help. Kush

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Elephants Dream : Worlds First Open Movie released
by Tinku Sampath 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

' ELEPHANTS DREAM ' ' Elephants Dream ', worlds first Open Movie which was finally realized using powerful graphic rendering engine such as Blender is released to public under Creative Commons license. The short film was created by the Orange Open Movie Project studio in Amsterdam during 2005/2006, bringing together a diverse team of artists and developers from all over the world. You can download the movie in different formats. Sound tracks and images are also available. A video documentary is also ready for download. I am including the official press release. ______________________________________________________________________ Press Release May 18, 2006 For Immediate Release Elephants Dream, internet release of the first 3D 'Open Movie' (Blender Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - The 3D animated short 'Elephants Dream' will today be released as a free and public download. This is the final stage of a successfully completed Open Movie project which has been community-financed, using only Open Source tools, and opening up the movie itself as well as the entire studio database for everyone to re-use and learn from. The movie and production files are licensed as âEURCreative Commons Attribution 2.5", which only requires a proper crediting for public screening, re-using and distribution. In the past weeks, the donating sponsors have received the dual DVD set of this project in their mailbox. This DVD set remains for sale via the blender.org e-shop as support product for future Open Movie projects. The Blender Foundation is committed to start working on similar projects soon. The movie files and download mirrors can be accessed here: [1]http://www.elephantsdream.org/download Elephants Dream is the culmination of the Orange Open Movie Project, produced by the Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Media Art Institute. The project was conceived to help develop and establish the capabilities of the Blender 3D open source tool for the creation of cinema quality animation. The film tells the story of Emo and Proog, two people with different visions of the surreal world in which they live. Viewers are taken on a journey through that world, full of strange mechanical birds, stunning technological vistas and machinery that seems to have a life of its own. 'Elephants Dream' features the voice talents of renowned Dutch movie actors Tygo Gernandt and Cas Jansen, as well as an original score by German composer Jan Morgenstern. The short brought together the talents of a team of artists from countries as diverse as Syria, Germany, Australia, Finland, and the Netherlands. In addition to the performances of the cast and creative efforts of the lead artists, Elephants Dream has had the assistance of hundreds of individuals across the world who contributed a variety of work such as programming additional functionality for Blender, creating textures used in some of the scenes, and providing international translations for the DVD release. The files have been released on two DVDs with the movie in PAL, NTSC and HD formats, a making-of documentary, and all of the studio files. The DVDs were shipped in early May 2006. As promised, shortly after, the movie and database of source material is now available for public download as well. Studio Orange team: Director: Bassam Kurdali (Syria /USA), Art Director: Andreas Goralczyk (Germany) Lead Artists: Matt Ebb (Australia), Bastian Salmela (Finland), Lee Salvemini (Australia) Technical Director: Toni Alatalo (Finland) For more information: [2] http://www.elephantsdream.org [3]http://www.blender.org Contact: Ton Roosendaal Chairman, Blender Foundation Email: ton(at)blender.org ______________________________________________________________________ - Tinku Sampath References 1. http://www.elephantsdream.org/download 2. http://www.elephantsdream.org/ 3. http://www.blender.org/

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Re: [Fsf-friends] IT@School
by Bharathi Subramanian 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

> Thanks much for your quick response. Is it possible for you to > post it to Chennai? Can someone from Chennai volunteer to help > AID Chennai with IT@School installation. Kindly attend the next ILUGC Meet (mostly on 10th Jun). I hope, you can find some guys with your freq. FYI: NRC-FOSS is successfully included one(!) FOSS Intro "elective" course in Anna Univ, TN. Hoping to convert some of the lab class to use FOSS Tools. Bye :) -- Bharathi S

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