Fsf-friends April 2007

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M$ trying to compete with GNU in terms of price
by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Please see this news item. http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/19/technology/19microsoft.php reminds me of how one Brazilian official once compared M$ with drug mafia: http://www.petitiononline.com/amadeuus/petition.html -- 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

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GPL based Icons for web application
by Manilal K M 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Hello all, I am in search of some icons(generic) for GPL based web applications which is under development. I would like to know whether there are any available icon themes for web applications similar to the tango project (http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project). The license for the icons should be compatible with GNU GPL, so that I can inlcude in my software and distribute without any license issues. TIA - Manilal K M. -- Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. Blog: http://gnubreeze.blogspot.com Blog: http://flossvalley.blogspot.com

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Fwd: [ILUG-BOM] GSoC/KDE-2007 and our lug member
by Praveen A 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anant Narayanan <anant(a)kix.in> Date: २००७ अप्रैल १६ ०९:५७ Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] GSoC/KDE-2007 and our lug member To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> > There are few other Indians into SoC '07 too (some of them are on > GLUG-BOM) -- Sayamindu Dasgupta (GNOME), Debarshi Ray (Fedora), Rakesh > Pandit (The GNU Project), Ria Das [aka Ms. Kushal Das] (Fedora), > Some-IRC-Junkie-From-A-Village (BBC Research), etc. Not just a few, I am proud to say that we have about 60 Indian students in GSoC this year; including 3 from my college. I sincerely hope that atleast 30 of these students will stick around to become permanent contributors to their respective projects. A non-comprehensive list (may have missed out the NRIs): Name, Mentor, Project. (Quite a few Indian mentors out there too): 1) Jasleen Singh, Arockiasamy Mohanraj, Design and implementation a better document inspector 2) Ravinder Reddy, Katherine Marsden, Convert Derby tests to JUnit and fix Derby bugs 3) Baishampayan Ghose, Michael Philip Sparks, Extending the web- server component in Kamaelia to make it useful as a general purpose web-server component 4) Anant Narayanan, Devon H. O'Dell, Alternative Implementations of 9P: PHP and JavaScript 5) Tara Gilliam, Michael Philip Sparks, Visual Editor for Creation & Composition of Shard Components 6) Arun Raghavan, Joe Shaw, A Xesam-based D-Bus interface for Beagle 7) Dawn Thomas, Rick Riolo , Urbance: An agent-based approach to Architectural Design 8) Nitin Gupta, Dr. Tarique Sani, AJAX Support in Coppermine with an API 9) Thejaswi Puthraya, Simon Blanchard, Implementing Check Constraints on Models 10) Neil Joshi, Eugene Lazutkin, Pseudo 3-D Charting 11) Amila Sampath, Theodore Serbinski, Designing a new core theme for Drupal 12) Prashant Deva, Philippe Ombredanne, New Eclipse update manager 13) Udayan Kumar, Martin Connor, Porting Etherboot drivers to gPXE 14) Akhil Kumar Meshram, Pierrick Brihaye, eXist eXtension to teXt Search 15) Debarshi Ray, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay, An offline package update/ installation facility for Pirut. 16) Ria Das, Jeff Sheltren, Publication of all man and info pages for each release through a web interface 17) Vivek B, Yutaka Niibe, Designing an educational microprocessor and led display using the same (in verilog). 18) Attilio Rao, Roberson, Rewriting lockmgr(9) 19) Swati Goyal, Matthew John Toseland, Improving Search in FreeNet 20) Srivatsan, Florent Daignière, DOS resistant link level encryption using JFKi key management protocol 21) Uday, Jack Bates, Web based Image Manipulation 22) Ramnath R Iyer, Dirk Haun, Web services API for Geeklog 23) Raghavendra Narasimhan V, Christoph Egger, OpenGL support for GGI 24) Vikram Kumar V B, Christoph Egger, Improve XGGI by implementing some X extensions. 25) Srijak Rijal, Sam Vilain, Gittorrent Server and Peer 26) Sayamindu Dasgupta, Federico Mena-Quintero, Extending the lockdown framework in GNOME and making it even more deployment friendly 27) Imran Patel, Xan López Saborido, Integrating Epiphany Bookmarks and Browsing History For GNOME-wide Access 28) Rakesh Pandit, Nagarjuna Gadiraju, Graphical navigation/ representation of knowledge base; and interfacing with other knowledge systems. 29) Chintan Agarwal, Derek Atkins, QIF Importer Rewrite 30) Krishna Kishore Annapureddy, François Revol, Implement a precache algorithm along with aging policy for the file system caches 31) Avi Mehta, Rastin Mehr, Implementation of mootools in Joomla! 1.5 framework 32) Shivasharan Rao, Jonathan Riddell, SQL Code Generation and Enhanced Entity Relationship Models for Umbrello 33) Piyush Verma, Andreas Pakulat, Python Support for KDevelop4 34) Anirudh Ramesh, Cornelius Schumacher, Bridge the gap between KitchenSync and OpenSync 35) Sharon Myrtle Paradesi, Robert Kaye, Using Collaborative Filtering to generate Relationships between artists for MusicBrainz 36) Nidhi Rawal, Sebastien Pouliot, Gendarme: The problem finder 37) Mayank Jain, David Jesús Horat Flotats, Moodle Voice 38) Udit Sajjanhar, Petr Skoda, Secure RSS Feeds 39) Srirang G Dooddihal, Dan Mosedale, Implementing cross-session download resume 40) Kunal Kumar D Jain, Dietrich Ayala, Places: Indexing Visited Pages 41) K.Harishankaran, Nagappan, Firefox automation & Tinderbox integration 42) Sumantra R. Kundu, William Studenmund, A Framework For Enforcing QoS Inside the NetBSD UVM 43) Deepank Gupta, Werner Almesberger, Ad hoc communication via Bluetooth 44) Sashikanth Raju S Damaraju, Paul Biondich, Clinical Data Visualization Tools 45) Rahul Murmuria, William Sommerfeld, Porting Racoon2 to OpenSolaris 46) Amit Vyas, DongInn Kim, Globus/Condor Package for OSCAR 47) Siddharth Angrish, Simon Lin, Learning a Context Free Grammar by reading Corpus in a given language 48) Swanand Janardan Deodhar, Shashank T. Date, Framework for ETL and Data mining operations in Ruby 49) Shobhit Jindal, Pavel Tankov, SSH Support in SIP Communicator using JCraft SSH2 Java Implementation 50) Hiran V, Hussain K.H, Unicode Standard Malayalam Font 51) Antony Francis Maliakal, Anivar A Aravind, Akshara OCR 52) Shyam K, Santhosh Thottingal, Basic Voice Recognition System for malayalam 53) Mobin M, Praveen A, MalluTux 54) Jinesh KJ, Suresh P, Comprehensive malayalam input system for GNU/ Linux 55) Sourav Pal, Jean-Paul Saman, RTSP Streaming Server in VLC 56) Nageswara Rao M, Abraham Moolenaar, Integrating vim editor with eclipse 57) Ishaan Dalal, Monty Montgomery, Sinusoidal coding for Ghost 58) Vandan Parikh, Ludovic Dubost, XWiki Offline 59) Nikhil N, Baiju Muthukadan, Run Zope 3 using Python 2.5 60) Gartheeban Ganeshapillai, Kaustubh Srikanth, Auto Completion of links Best Regards, -- Anant -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Istanbul Screencast Tutorial
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Here is a screencast on using Istanbul: http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/istanbul.ogg I have not added any audio to this, since I intend to get it translated into multiple languages. If you intend to lend your voice please let me know. During the tutorial we created this video: http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/foo.ogg Regards, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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Fwd: [smc-discuss] Re: Fwd: [LinuxPakistan] Opportunity to promote FOSS and Linux Knowledge Globally
by Praveen A 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh00(a)gmail.com> Date: २००७ अप्रैल १३ १४:०४ Subject: [smc-discuss] Re: Fwd: [LinuxPakistan] Opportunity to promote FOSS and Linux Knowledge Globally To: smc-discuss(a)googlegroups.com I guess all of you read this months Linux For You magazine. Its cover story is Iran's FOSS activities. Iran was using Windows and Other proprietary softwares. Since US banned all technology support to Iran from US citizens, they went in to a situation where literally they cannot use computers. They couldn't run licensed windows, could not download softwares from the US technology companies. Think how bad is such a scenario. Then the government decided to use FOSS. You can read the details in LFY April page 48-51. I think this is a warning to all governments in the world who are highly dependent on proprietary softwares. If a government wants to self dependent, it should use open technologies. In that article representative of Iran government says that they are in need of case studies of Asian countries in FOSS to convince the government officials. He points out the "Kerala model" also. Anivar is right. We need to collect and share the case studies. Examples can be IT@school, SMC and GSoc, GNULabs, Kerala gov. IT policy,NRC-FOSS etc. Usually each LFY issue is coming with a Case study. Let me know your thoughts -santhosh On 4/10/07, Anivar Aravind | അനിവര് അരവിന്ദ് <anivar(a)movingrepublic.org> wrote: > > We need to do the same as a part of of our activism > start a page in FCi wiki, General & SMC specific, my poor bandwidth not > allowing me to create a page now > > Anivar > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Subject: [LinuxPakistan] Opportunity to promote FOSS and Linux Knowledge > Globally > Date: मंगलवार 10 अप्रैल 2007 05:43 > From: "Fouad Riaz Bajwa" <fouadbajwa(a)gmail.com> > To: general(a)linuxpakistan.net, ubuntu-pk(a)lists.ubuntu.com, > ubuntu-l10n-urd(a)lists.ubuntu.com > > Dear Community Members, > > I have been receiving requests for Asian/South Asia/Asian Pacific/ASEAN case > studies, stories, white papers, solution information from foreign media > organizations and groups that promote FOSS and Linux in social development > as well as business. > > I am running a round of attempting to develop/write case studies and > articles for various individuals, groups, companies, organizations that > would like us to send out a regular stream of information and updates. > > The offer is open to anyone and everyone who would like to have their FOSS > usage, development, research and Linux case studies, organizational > information, project stories, success stories, product innovations, > offerings etc developed. Obviously it's a bit of a time consuming job but I > am willing to accommodate it. > > Simply drop in your information to: fouadbajwa | at | gmail.com > > Regards > - ----------------------- > Fouad Riaz Bajwa > FOSS Advocate > Independent Researcher & Writer > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General(a)linuxpakistan.net > http://mail.linuxpakistan.net/mailman/listinfo/general_linuxpakistan.net > - -- > Anivar Aravind > moving Republic > Global Alternate Information Applications(GAIA) > Peringavu.P.O > Thrissur-680018 > Kerala > Ph. +91 9446545336 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGG3zdF+jWtLmEaycRAs4XAJ0SMptKqPY0SJVWV6I01gLb2zgj2ACdGfTX > MDoSgLljxoiIgNYPnoaLeqE= > =56SY > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > "Swathanthra Malayalam Computing" > To unsubscribe: smc-discuss-unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com > Project: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/smc > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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[Fsf-friends] Debian Etch Release Party on the 21st:BMSCE, Bangalore
by Vikram Vincent 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hello All, Considering certain important factors the Debian Etch Release Party will be on the 21st, April,2007. http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Bangalore/BMSCE/Debian_Etch_Release_Party -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore_alive/ http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_karnataka

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Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 48, Issue 9
by Vihan Pandey 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

> I have made a screencasted tutorial on GCC. This tutorial, still in > the beta stage, is aimed at teaching absolute beginners (Turbo C/C++ > users?) how to use GCC. You can find the video at: > http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/gcc.ogg Cool :-) One question though what exactly did you use for the screencast? i tried a couple of things with Istanbul but it didn't really work out :P Regards, - vihan

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BMSCE:Swatantra Tech Fest
by Vikram Vincent 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Hello All, Here's announcing the BMSCE Swatantra Tech Fest. If you are a college student or just interested in free software then do come over and support us. The fest is supported by the Free Software Users Group, Bangalore. http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Bangalore/BMSCE/Swatantra_Tech_Fest -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore_alive/ http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_karnataka

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GCC Screencast Tutorial
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

I have made a screencasted tutorial on GCC. This tutorial, still in the beta stage, is aimed at teaching absolute beginners (Turbo C/C++ users?) how to use GCC. You can find the video at: http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/gcc.ogg Right now it does not contain any audio. I plan to keep the audio separate from the video to make it easy to add voice to the tutorial. In this regard, I invite people who would be eager to lend their voice to this screencast. Speakers of English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, Kannada, Tamil, Oriya, Telegu, and any other Indian language are specially welcome. If you intend to lend your voice please let me know. I am planning to write a script to ensure uniformity in translations done by different people. If you would like to have all the files used to make the screencast here they are: http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/gcc-screencast.tar.bz2 http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/gcc-screencast.tar.gz I have not yet decided about the license so for the time-being this is in the public domain. Once I make the final version I will add whatever license (or none at all) as I deem fit. Regards, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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FWD: Desi DRM by YashRaj Films
by Praveen A 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Riyaz Usman <riyazusman at gmail.com> Date: २००७ अप्रैल १२ १२:०९ Subject: [+PLUS] Desi DRM by YashRaj Films (This is a copy of a blog entry be me. For reading the my blog, please visit http://riyaz.bitinc.co.in) So, if you think Apple is nasty in it's DRM implementation on iTunes, here come the Desi Apple - YashRaj Films. After reading a post in ThinkDigit Forums, I visited DRM FAQ page in Yashraj Films website. Here are some interesting FAQs. 1. What is DRM? Digital Rights management (DRM) is a set of technologies that enables you to own copyrighted material in a digital format, and use them based on the rights given to you. 3. What computer should I use to download my music? You should download your music to the ONE computer where you keep your digital music. The music can only be played from the computer through which the license purchase is done, which will provide unlimited playback of the track on this computer. 5. What is the format of downloaded files? All tracks are downloaded in Microsoft Windows Media 9 (wma) format. These files are protected by the Microsoft Windows DRM software. 6. What can I do with the downloaded music files? By purchasing music from Yash Raj Films, you can play the files on the computer where you purchased the license from. The license purchased will provide unlimited playback of a song only on the computer used to purchase the license.You can only play the downloaded music files on Windows Media Player 9.0 and above Windows Media Player. You can also make upto a maximum of 2 Audio CDs for the downloaded media files. 11. Can I transfer a downloaded song track to an external music device or another computer? No, currently you cannot transfer a downloaded song. The license purchased will provide unlimited playback of a song only on the computer used to purchase the license. Licenses will not be transferable to any other computer or other portable music devices. However you can create upto 2 Audio CDs which can be played on any compatible Audio device. 12. Why is my downloaded music not playing? You need Microsoft Windows Media player 9 or above to listen to music or burn it to a CD. 14. Why am I getting a "License Error" or "License Must Be Purchased" screen? It seems like a license was not issued for the file. This can happen due to using a browser other than Microsoft Internet Explorer, which is required and the only supported browser for license downloads or because of a network issue while license delivery was taking place. 15. Can I copy my downloaded song / file on to another computer? The music can only be played from the computer through which the purchase is done and the license delivered to. However, you can copy the file to another computer, but you need to buy a new license to play this track. On playback, the Windows Media Player will request for a license. You need to purchase a new license for this new machine. 16. Can I download music on my MAC? Not at the moment. Complete FAQ on DRM at Yashraj Website No other browser than Internet Explorer can be used, No other Media player than Windows Media Player can be used, No other Operating System than Windows can be used to download or play these files. These downloaded music will be licensed to play only on a computer. You cannot copy this to your portable device or another computer, you need a new license for that. If you're a GNU or any other non-Windows user, WHAT THE HELL? If you think this is even nastier, please stop buying DRM implemented music or movies. If you don't know what DRM is and what it means to you, or if you want to know more and be part of Anti-DRM campaigns, please do visit the following sites. Join the DRM Elimination Crew Defective by Design DRM.info BadVista Campaign EFF's Frequently Awkward Questions Stop DRM Now Digital Freedom GPLv3 Freeme.in -- Riyaz Usman http://riyaz.bitinc.co.in 1d:c5:fb:59:df:ec:79:88:ec:81:d9:3a:87:28:10:25 _______________________________________________ Palakkad Libre software Users Society Main Mailing List "Adding freedom to common minds" PLUS-discuss(a)lists.sarovar.org http://lists.sarovar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plus-discuss -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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