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Re :Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 49, Issue 17
by Mishi Choudhary 22 May '07

22 May '07

Dear AllSometime back i had seen a proposal about a meeting in bangalore in continuation to the lase session on GPLV3 , as Prof moglen shall be inindia in the first half of june this year , Mr Praveen A. however there has not been a follow up of the same.kindly direct me the person in charge of organising the same since time is running out.On fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in wrote Send Fsf-friends mailing list submissions to fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends or, via email, send a message with subject or body \'help\' to fsf-friends-request(a)mm.gnu.org.in You can reach the person managing the list at fsf-friends-owner(a)mm.gnu.org.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than \"Re: Contents of Fsf-friends digest...\" Today\'s Topics: 1. free software for film editing/subtitling, animation etc (Kussh Singh) 2. free software for better and cheaper diagnostics (Kussh Singh) 3. Re: free software for film editing/subtitling, animation etc (Ramanraj K) 4. Re: free software for film editing/subtitling, animation etc (Kussh Singh) 5. Re: free software for better and cheaper diagnostics (Raman.P) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 02:11:54 +0530 From: \"Kussh Singh\" Subject: [Fsf-friends] free software for film editing/subtitling, animation etc To: \"Principal Support List of FSF-India\" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Is there anybody in India working on free software for film editing/ film subtitling etc etc? There are a lot of ngos wanting to convey messages thru the medium of small documentary films but the studio costs are beyond their meagre capacities since all studios use imported/propreitary hardware/software which is very costly . Does anybody know of ways to reduce costs of film production --specially post production costs (studio, ad films, clips etc) Thanks and regards, Kussh ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 02:15:46 +0530 From: \"Kussh Singh\" Subject: [Fsf-friends] free software for better and cheaper diagnostics To: \"Principal Support List of FSF-India\" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Does anybody know of free software solutions in the field of MRI/cat/radiology scanning/diagnostics? Most of India\'s hospitals use imported hardware/software to do this medical diagnostic work and most of the time the machines and technologies used are really outdated and unnecessarily monopolised due to the licence raj of the govt which pushes up costs to the consumer. Thanks Kussh ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 06:10:20 +0530 From: \"Ramanraj K\" Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] free software for film editing/subtitling, animation etc To: \"Principal Support List of FSF-India\" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 5/21/07, Kussh Singh wrote: > Is there anybody in India working on free software for film editing/ film > subtitling etc etc? There are a lot of ngos wanting to convey messages thru > the medium of small documentary films but the studio costs are beyond their > meagre capacities since all studios use imported/propreitary > hardware/software which is very costly . Does anybody know of ways to reduce > costs of film production --specially post production costs (studio, ad > films, clips etc) http://ubuntustudio.org/ - I have not tried it though - do write if you give it a try. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/PackageList gives the packages that go into it. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 07:17:18 +0530 From: \"Kussh Singh\" Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] free software for film editing/subtitling, animation etc To: \"Principal Support List of FSF-India\" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Thanks for the info. Much obliged. Kussh On 5/21/07, Ramanraj K wrote: > > On 5/21/07, Kussh Singh wrote: > > > Is there anybody in India working on free software for film editing/ > film > > subtitling etc etc? There are a lot of ngos wanting to convey messages > thru > > the medium of small documentary films but the studio costs are beyond > their > > meagre capacities since all studios use imported/propreitary > > hardware/software which is very costly . Does anybody know of ways to > reduce > > costs of film production --specially post production costs (studio, ad > > films, clips etc) > > http://ubuntustudio.org/ - I have not tried it though - do write if > you give it a try. > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/PackageList gives the packages > that go into it. > > _______________________________________________ > Fsf-friends mailing list > Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends > -- Kussh 2639-9119 ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 05:22:48 +0100 (BST) From: \"Raman.P\" Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] free software for better and cheaper diagnostics To: Principal Support List of FSF-India Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 --- Kussh Singh wrote: > Does anybody know of free software solutions in the field of > MRI/cat/radiology scanning/diagnostics? Most of India\'s hospitals > use > imported hardware/software to do this medical diagnostic work and > most of > the time the machines and technologies used are really outdated and > unnecessarily monopolised due to the licence raj of the govt which > pushes up Free Software requires a special thrust on medical informatics. We need lot of catching up todo. Surprisingly the most of the medical informatics revolves round two well documented standards dicom and hl7. Still free software presence is not much. Following links may through some light a.For dicom image viewers and related http://www.sph.sc.edu/comd/rorden/dicom.html#links b.debian med project at debian.org c.general link to medical related projects http://www.minoru-development.com/en/healthlinks.html There is huge potential in developing software which interface the medical equipments like auto-analysers used in clinical testing. On a related note one of the member of ILUG, Chennai has started a project called gmedcon at sourceforege(http://gmedcon.sf.net). This aims to improve existing dicom viewer xmedcon to gtk2 with features a cardiologist will require.He needs help in coding. Raman.P __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fsf-friends mailing list Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends End of Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 49, Issue 17 ******************************************* Warm Regards Mishi Choudhary

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Crushed by the Wheels of Industry
by Praveen A 21 May '07

21 May '07

Crushed by the Wheels of Industry By Jeremy Allison, Special to ZDNet Being the geek in the family can get you in trouble. I was sat at a social function with my wife's friends, all happily chattering away in Mandarin. I can barely count to ten in the language so meaningful conversation is a little difficult unless it's about arithmetic. I got bored, which is always a dangerous thing. "My daughter has a new computer, would you help set it up ?" asked one of my wife's friends. "I'd love to," I replied. Finally, something to do that I would enjoy! Full Story http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6183476.html Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Fwd: [bms-lug] Minutes of the discussion on "Understanding GPL version 3"
by Praveen A 21 May '07

21 May '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shashank Bharadwaj Date: २००७ मई २० १४:०४ Subject: [bms-lug] Minutes of the discussion on "Understanding GPL version 3" The minutes are posted on the wiki: http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Bangalore/BMSCE/Understanding_GPL_version_3#Minut… If you are lazy to click the link I'll give the information here: First up, of the 18 members registered on the wiki , only 9 turned up!! Well these were some of the things that were discussed, if I have missed something please feel free to add it. Why a third version of GPL is needed. How the GPLv3 will enable us (The Free Software Community) to stop deals like the Novell-Microsoft ones. Saw a video of Eben Moglen speaking on the Microsoft-Novell deal. The importance of GPLv3 in Embedded Systems and in stoping DRM. Briefly talked about the Campaign to promote free software in Karnataka , going to our schools and persuading them to switch to Free Software. Decided that the BMSLUG has done enough of talking and that we'll do some projects on GNU in our holidays in mid-July. -- Regards Shashank --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bms-lug" group. To post to this group, send email to bms-lug(a)googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bms-lug-unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bms-lug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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free software for better and cheaper diagnostics
by Kussh Singh 21 May '07

21 May '07

Does anybody know of free software solutions in the field of MRI/cat/radiology scanning/diagnostics? Most of India's hospitals use imported hardware/software to do this medical diagnostic work and most of the time the machines and technologies used are really outdated and unnecessarily monopolised due to the licence raj of the govt which pushes up costs to the consumer. Thanks Kussh

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free software for film editing/subtitling, animation etc
by Kussh Singh 21 May '07

21 May '07

Is there anybody in India working on free software for film editing/ film subtitling etc etc? There are a lot of ngos wanting to convey messages thru the medium of small documentary films but the studio costs are beyond their meagre capacities since all studios use imported/propreitary hardware/software which is very costly . Does anybody know of ways to reduce costs of film production --specially post production costs (studio, ad films, clips etc) Thanks and regards, Kussh

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Free Software portal on the Wikipedia
by Frederick Noronha 19 May '07

19 May '07

Free Software portal on the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_software -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST) Skype: fredericknoronha Yahoochat: fredericknoronha http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Email fred at bytesforall.org Res: 784 Saligao 403511 Goa India

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Civilised world does not have "software patents"
by Ramanraj K 18 May '07

18 May '07

http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1527 has reported the views of free software developers in Africa: It reports: <quote> "This is a local American issue - a storm in an American tea cup," according to De Wet who believes that there will be growing pressure to end software patents there. "The civilised world, that is Europe, Africa and most of Asia, does not have software patents," he added snidely. </quote> That apart, they said "software patents" are stifling innovation in the US. Richard Stallman recently did a song on the guantanamero injustice at: http://www.stallman.org/guantanamero.html that has the following lines; When they injure my body They say they are not torturing me. They cause me grave wounds Such as never heal. (recording at: http://www.stallman.org/guantanamero.ogg ) "Software patents" are a device used by the empire to inflict injury on its own best citizens - the software developers who work to make life a little easier for everyone elxe. Ramanraj K

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[Fwd: [BadVista Advocate] Help PlayOgg.org]
by Anivar Aravind 18 May '07

18 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BadVista Advocate] Help PlayOgg.org Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 18:03:10 -0400 From: John Sullivan <johns(a)fsf.org> Reply-To: BadVista.org Advocacy <advocate(a)badvista.org> To: advocate(a)badvista.org Now that the record labels are starting to drop DRM, major retailers like Amazon are announcing their plans to start distributing music unencumbered by DRM. This is a huge victory against Microsoft's efforts, and it shows that Vista-like restrictions are not what people want. MP3 and AACS are currently the favored formats for music distribution. Microsoft is also pushing its own proprietary formats. But in the USA they are all encumbered by software patents. Since it is the music fan who ends up paying the costs of these patents---now is the time to encourage retailers to switch to the Ogg format. Ogg is ethically, legally and technically superior to MP3 and AACS. PlayOgg.org is a campaign just launched by the FSF to encourage users and retailers to switch to the Ogg format. Help raise the profile of music file formats unencumbered by software patents - Digg this! http://digg.com/tech_news/PlayOgg_Now_that_the_music_is_being_set_free_from… -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGTWdGF+jWtLmEaycRAkxmAJ4zRrj9YptxPY5fP664VJ0C0z/y5gCgilab SrlYbdYc7tg9DlGF4OmigVo= =tK6N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Campaign to promote free software in Karnataka - planning meeting
by Praveen A 17 May '07

17 May '07

Hi, We are meeting this Saturday to finalise some short term plans for the campaign. Sign up here http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_Karnataka/Me… If you would like to join the meeting. Date: 19th May 2007 Time: 3pm Venue: Cubbon park (Enter through the Victoria Statue at St Marks Cathedral circle on MG Road, Walk straight in) - some one who came for our earlier meetings please give a clearer picture. Agenda * Which schools to contact (take up/assign coordinators for schools) * Time line for coming up with content - possibility leveraging from earlier experiences (IT@School in Kerala and Summer Camp 07) * Forming of small follow up teams for each school (add here anything you like to discuss) - please add it in the wiki itself Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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News: CNN: Microsoft takes on the free world
by Praveen A 17 May '07

17 May '07

Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fortune's Roger Parloff reports. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/ Great to see CNN talking about Free Software and not Open Source. Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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