----- Amol Hatwar <amol(a)hatwar.org> wrote:
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> We have Free Software, what about Free Hardware (Simputer ishtyle) or
>
> even a Free Network. Now thats thinking too far isn't it :o)
No it is not, dont forget the community wireless networks
there are so many, just make a search for it on any search engine.
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Sincerely
Ajay Pal Singh Atwal
Dept of CSE & IT
BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib
Punjab, INDIA
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http://www.bbsbec.ac.inhttp://www.ajaypal.com
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ajaypal[at]bbsbec.org,
ajaypal[at]acm.org
----- CK Raju, Thrissur <ck.thrissur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anything now would only be an activity to pass time - if this is
> confirmed.
Was just going through eci.gov.in
See this URL http://eci.gov.in/DevForum/DevForum.asp
and read the para at the end of page
Posting from eci website here for your convenience:
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We encourage use of Free/Open Source solutions. Though at ECI and State level, databases are consolidated in Oracle, we encourage smaller databases at the levels of ERO/DEO to be in MySQL, Postgres etc. We are big supporters of OpenOffice.Org. Election Machinery across the country is also encouraged to use freeware like IrfanView for Imaging, GRASS, MapServer, Google Maps API etc. for GIS etc. Our databases are mostly XMLised now, and in this section also, we have released most of the databases in XML format rather than any proprietary format.
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>
> I lose interest and my heart.
But I wont. Bravo ECI and the people behind it. Keep the good work on.
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Sincerely
Ajay Pal Singh Atwal
Dept of CSE & IT
BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib
Punjab, INDIA
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http://www.bbsbec.ac.inhttp://www.ajaypal.com
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ajaypal[at]bbsbec.org,
ajaypal[at]acm.org
Even though Google is widely recognized as an organization which is showing
commitment to FOSS promotion (primarily for their business expansion), the
same time company act as an agency for applying US politics to the FOSS
which is open to all in this world regardless of the bounds of country,
language, and culture.
( http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60280&topic=10730 )
"""
* Who's not eligible to participate as a student in Google Summer of Code? *
Google employees, interns, contractors, family members, or citizens of
Iran, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea and Myanmar (Burma), with whom we are
prohibited by U.S. law from engaging in commerce, are ineligible to
participate. Mentoring organizations that are taking part in *Google Summer
of Code* may add additional stipulations regarding which students may
participate in the program under their auspices.
"""
We are fighting against the unhealthy policies put forwarded by
Organizations and Governments (eg: DRM) which are against freedom. At the
same pace, we have to protest against this anti social behaviour...
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Tinku Sampath
Synopsys is a program that is to be launched in GEC Calicut(Kerala).
They require people to talk on Free Software. The program is
on 11,12 and 13 of April. The one to be contacted is Anoop.
ANOOPKRISHNAN(a)v3mail.com
Sujith Haridasan
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സുജിത് ഹരിദാസ൯
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign
Bangalore
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Hi,
Students want to contribute to Free Software and earn some money
during this summer can apply for Google Summer or Code with
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing.
Students can apply for working on one of these ideas (Especially
adding more Indian languages to Dhvani text to speech engine).
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/SMC/SoC/2007
Regards
Praveen
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പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്
Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now!
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign
Students willing to join google's summer of code may want to consider
contributing to GNOWSYS or other GNU projects listed at
http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas.html.
Those students who are selected for the project will be compensated by
Google of which a small amount will also be contributed to FSF.
Those of you who wish to spend your holiday time for learning, earning
and contributing to free software, you can use this opportunity.
Nagarjuna
http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code 2007 is on! We are now accepting student
applications. We've also published some additional web app
documentation for mentors and organization administrators.
All the information for participants in Google Summer of Code 2007,
including student abstracts and other information provided by them, is
available by visiting the individual mentoring organization pages
below.
Mentoring Organizations Participating in Google Summer of Code 2007
AbiSource (ideas)
Adium (ideas)
Aqsis Team (ideas)
Ardour (ideas)
ArgoUML (ideas)
Audacious Media Player (ideas)
Bazaar (ideas)
BBC Research (ideas)
Beagle (ideas)
Blender Foundation (ideas)
Boost C++ (ideas)
BZFlag (ideas)
Casetta (ideas)
Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS), University of Michigan (ideas)
CLAM ( at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra) (ideas)
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (ideas)
Coppermine Photo Gallery (ideas)
coresystems GmbH (ideas)
Creative Commons (ideas)
Crystal Space (ideas)
Debian (ideas)
Detached Solutions (ideas)
Dojo Foundation (ideas)
Drupal (ideas)
DSpace (ideas)
Eclipse (ideas)
Etherboot Project (ideas)
eXist (ideas)
FANN - The Fast Artificial Neural Network Library (ideas)
FFmpeg (ideas)
Fityk (ideas)
FreeBSD (ideas)
Freenet Project Inc (ideas)
Freevo (ideas)
Gaim (ideas)
Gallery (ideas)
GCC (ideas)
Geeklog (ideas)
GenMAPP (ideas)
Gentoo Foundation (ideas)
Git Development Community (ideas)
GNOME (ideas)
GNU Project (ideas)
GnuCash (ideas)
GNUstep (ideas)
Google (ideas)
Haiku (ideas)
Handhelds.org (ideas)
Haskell.org (ideas)
hugin / panotools (ideas)
IEM - Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, Graz (ideas)
ikiwiki (ideas)
Inkscape (ideas)
Internet2 (ideas)
Jikes RVM (ideas)
Joomla! (ideas)
K-3D (ideas)
KDE (ideas)
Lanka Software Foundation (ideas)
Liblime (ideas)
LispNYC.org (ideas)
LLVM Compiler Infrastructure (ideas)
MacPorts (ideas)
maemo (ideas)
MetaBrainz Foundation (ideas)
Mixxx (ideas)
MoinMoin Wiki Project (ideas)
Mono Project (ideas)
Moodle (ideas)
Mozilla Foundation (ideas)
MySQL AB (ideas)
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), Phyloinformatics Group (ideas)
Nmap Security Scanner (ideas)
OGRE (ideas)
Open Security Foundation (OSVDB) (ideas)
Open Source Applications Foundation (ideas)
OpenICC (ideas)
OpenMoko (ideas)
OpenMRS (ideas)
OpenOffice.org (ideas)
OpenSolaris (ideas)
Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL) (ideas)
OSCAR (ideas)
OSGeo (ideas)
PHP (ideas)
Plan 9 from Bell Labs (ideas)
PlanetMath (ideas)
Plone Foundation (ideas)
Portland State University (ideas)
PostgreSQL project (ideas)
Python Software Foundation (ideas)
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University (ideas)
Rockbox (ideas)
Ruby Central, Inc. (ideas)
Samba (ideas)
SCons Foundation: Next-Generation Build Tool (ideas)
Scribus Development Team (ideas)
ScummVM (ideas)
SilverStripe Limited (ideas)
SIP Communicator (ideas)
Sparse (ideas)
Squeak (ideas)
SquirrelMail (ideas)
Subversion (ideas)
Swarm Development Group (ideas)
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (ideas)
Taste (ideas)
The Apache Software Foundation (ideas)
The Codehaus (ideas)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (ideas)
The Fedora Project (ideas)
The Free Software Initiative of Japan (ideas)
The gEDA Project (ideas)
The GGI Project (ideas)
The NetBSD Project (ideas)
The Space Telescope Science Institute (ideas)
Thousand Parsec (ideas)
Ubuntu (ideas)
Umit Project (ideas)
VideoLAN (ideas)
Vim (ideas)
Wikimedia Foundation (ideas)
WinLibre (ideas)
WordPress (ideas)
wxPython (ideas)
wxWidgets (ideas)
X.Org (ideas)
Xiph.org Foundation (ideas)
XMMS2 (ideas)
XMPP Standards Foundation (ideas)
XWiki (ideas)
Zope Foundation, Inc (ideas)
We are no longer accepting applications from open source organizations.
If you're feeling nostalgic, you can still access the Google Summer of
Code 2005 and Google Summer of Code 2006 pages. We've also created a
map (requires Google Earth) of all 2006 mentors and student
participants for your perusal.
Questions?
Please peruse our FAQ and Terms of Service for more information about
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