Fsf-friends April 2007

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Workshop on Font Encoding Converters
by Harshita 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

Dear all, This is to inform you that there is a workshop on Font Encoding Converters which is going to be held on 6th April, from 7pm to 10pm in IIIT, Gachibowli, Hyderabad. This might be the late invitation, but we will be glad if you attend the workshop and make it a successful event. We are looking for your valuable suggestions. A brief introduction about the workshop is given below. Harshita, Swecha Telugu Localistation Team Phone: 9440849626 P.S: Dinner and transportation shall be arranged by IIIT. Please contact us for further details. Introduction about the workshop: Duration: 3 hours Time: 7pm to 10pm Date: 6th April, 2007 Location: International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad For quite some time now, non-standard encodings introduced by proprietary fonts developers have caused hurdles to information processing both for end users and researches alike. Vast amounts of data is locked up in these non-standard encodings. Lack of wide-spread usage of fonts, applications and tools that are based on Unicode technologies has lead to continued production of the content in these "font encodings". Numerous efforts have been made in the past and continue to be made to address this problem. Community based approaches like Padma Firefox Extension have made great strides in solving this issue. Time has come to standardise the converters. There are also many gaps to be filled in before the converters can be put to use universally. Agenda: * Review the current status of various font encoding converters * Discuss various techniques for reverse engineering font encodings * Attempt to bring all efforts on font encoding converters under one umbrella * Understand requirements of various groups for font encoding converters: ** What encodings are to be handled? ** Need a programming API? ** Need command line/GUI tools? ** What are the operating environments? * Chalk out future activity * Gather help from the involved teams in the following areas: ** Language expertise, reverse engineering and verification ** Programming, documentation and packaging

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DRM-free Music from EMI through Apple iTunes
by Praveen A 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

Hi, April 3, 2007: EMI, the world's third largest music company, said today that it was making its music available online without a key anti-piracy measure in a deal with Apple Inc. to boost sales of digital music. Read the full story http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/technology/03music.web.html Great news for the DRM elimination crew!! Lets continue educating the consumers about the evils of DRM. Join the DRM Elimination Crew today !! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign "If consumers even know there's a DRM, what it is, and how it works, we've already failed," Peter Lee, an executive at Disney http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4342418 Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Sony Memory Stick Pro slot on Ubuntu
by Javed Rahman 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

Hi, Is it possible to get the sony memory stick pro slot of a vaio to work under linux? I tried googling a lot about this but it looks like people have just ignored this piece of hardware. Javed.

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