Fsf-friends March 2007

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Re: [Fsf-friends] The game may well be over...

by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal

----- Amol Hatwar <amol(a)hatwar.org> wrote: -- snip snip --- > 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. -- Sincerely Ajay Pal Singh Atwal Dept of CSE & IT BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib Punjab, INDIA -------------------------------- http://www.bbsbec.ac.in http://www.ajaypal.com -------------------------------- ajaypal[at]bbsbec.org, ajaypal[at]acm.org

16 years, 8 months

Re: [Fsf-friends] The game may well be over...

by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal

----- 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: --------------quote------------ 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. --------------quote------------ > > I lose interest and my heart. But I wont. Bravo ECI and the people behind it. Keep the good work on. -- Sincerely Ajay Pal Singh Atwal Dept of CSE & IT BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib Punjab, INDIA -------------------------------- http://www.bbsbec.ac.in http://www.ajaypal.com -------------------------------- ajaypal[at]bbsbec.org, ajaypal[at]acm.org

16 years, 8 months

US politics to FOSS!!

by Tinku Sampath

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... --- Tinku Sampath

16 years, 8 months

MS Offering Kickbacks for using Live Search and IE7

by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal

Microsoft is offering big co's incentives for using IE7 and Windows live search in terms of monetary discounts on MS software and services. Lets see who falls for the kickbacks. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=329 http://battellemedia.com/archives/003447.php -- Sincerely Ajay Pal Singh Atwal Dept of CSE & IT BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib Punjab, INDIA -------------------------------- http://www.bbsbec.ac.in http://www.ajaypal.com -------------------------------- ajaypal[at]bbsbec.org, ajaypal[at]acm.org

16 years, 8 months

Synopsys 07

by sujith h

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 -- സുജിത് ഹരിദാസ൯ http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign Bangalore

16 years, 8 months

root file system out of memory

by ANOOP KRISHNAN

<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;">My root file system is out of memory although there is memory but when i give # df then i get 100% use Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1               255912    204623         0 100%    / tmpfs                   110948         0    110948   0%    /dev/shm /dev/hda9             29467056  24383080   3587124   88%  /home /dev/hda8               369000      8267    341073   3% /tmp /dev/hda5              4807056   4012516    550356  88% /usr /dev/hda6              2885780    328016   2411176  12% /var tmpfs                   110948       112    110836   1% /dev   <HR>Slidestory, audio slideshows http://www.Slidestory.com </DIV>

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whylinuxisbetter.net

by Kussh

http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/items/other_countries/index.php looks really good. Perhaps there should be mirrors of the site in case it goes down. Advocacy becomes so much faster and easier. Kussh

16 years, 8 months

Swathanthra Malayalam Computing in Google Summer of Code

by Praveen A

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 -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

16 years, 8 months

GNOWSYS project in google summer of code

by Nagarjuna G.

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

16 years, 8 months

Google Summer of Code http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html

by Frederick Noronha

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 the program. If you still have questions, email us for support -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com What bloggers are saying about Goa: http://planet.goa-india.org/

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