Fsf-friends June 2007

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Election news....
by Frederick Noronha [फ्र ेडरिक नोरो न्या] 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Very interesting! Look what I ran into: http://www.eci.gov.in/DevForum/DevForum.asp FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open-Source Software) 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. -- 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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Colloquium on FREE SOFTWARE AND SCIENCE
by Nagarjuna G. 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Colloquium on FREE SOFTWARE AND SCIENCE by Georg Greve, President, Free Software Foundation Europe On Thursday June 7, 2007 at 3:30 pm Venue: V G Kulkarni Auditorium, HBCSE ABOUT THE TALK FREE SOFTWARE AND SCIENCE Free Software and science share common roots, and benefit society in several similar ways. In his talk, Mr Greve will explain the concept of Free Software and how it relates to maintaining our scientific basis as a society. As a practical example of this collaboration, the talk will give a brief introduction of the Science, Education and Learning in Freedom project, in which the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research plays a crucial role. The talk will close with an overview of how all of this relates to the global political trends of knowledge monopolisation, and the Access to Knowledge initiative. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Georg C.F. Greve President, Free Software Foundation Europe In early 2001, Georg Greve initiated the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE, FSF Europe), the first Free Software Foundation outside the United States of America and the largest transnational Free Software Foundation so far. Construction and coordination of FSFE as European non-governmental organisation, as well as its integration and coordination in global context was the focus of his work in the past years. Georg writes in the "Brave GNU World," a monthly column on free software published on the Internet in as many as 10 languages, and in international magazines including the German Linux-Magazin. The range of Georg's activities spanned areas like technology, politics, society, and economy as well as classical management. Among other things, Georg Greve was invited as an expert to the "Commission on Intellectual Property Rights" of the UK government or represented the coordination circle of German Civil Society during the first phase of the United Nations (UN) World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) as part of the German governmental delegation; he also furthered networking the Civil Society working groups on European level as well as for the thematic working group on Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks (PCT) and Free Software. All are welcome. How to reach the venue and contact details are available from: http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/Data/ObjectType/c/contact/viewObjectType Nagarjuna G. -- Nagarjuna G. http://www.gnowledge.org/ http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/Data/Objects/n/nagarjun/viewObject

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Eben Moglen @ Technopark, Trivandrum.
by james mathew 03 Jun '07

03 Jun '07

Eben Moglen, Founding Director of the Software Freedom Law Center, is ranked among the Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, according to a study recently conducted by eWeek. Ranked #92, Moglen is cited as an "expert in open source law and one of the guiding lights of GPL 3." In his talk Moglen will touch up on Software patents, copyrights and free software movement. Talk will be particularly for software companies interested in Free and Open Source Software. Venue: Travencore Hall, Technopark Time : 3:00 pm Date : 05/06/07 About Prof Eben Moglen: ------------------------------- Eben Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center, whose client list includes numerous pro bono clients, such as the Free Software Foundation. Moglen is closely involved with the Free Software Foundation, serving as general counsel since 1994 and board member from 2000 to 2007. As counsel, Moglen was charged with enforcing the GNU General Public License on behalf of the FSF, and later became heavily involved with drafting version 3 of the GPL. -- HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE!

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[News]: Prof. Eben Moglen
by Roshan 03 Jun '07

03 Jun '07

This is an interesting video of 1 min 13 seconds where Prof. Eben Moglen speaks about "How to change the world". I guess, we can look it from a perspective of how to change, how we use / develop software. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/15/2259258 -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC- http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc ubunturos @ freenode Did you know? You can CHAT without downloading messenger. Click here http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php

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Georg Greve in Kolkata?
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 03 Jun '07

03 Jun '07

Since it seems that we may not be able to have Eben Moglen in the eastern part of the country from the itenary Mishi Chaudhury mentioned, is there any possibility of having Georg Greve in Kolkata? Regards, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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Eben's travel details
by Kushal Das 03 Jun '07

03 Jun '07

Hi, Can anyone please mail me the complete travel details (including all dates and where ) of Eben ? Kushal -- Fedora Ambassador, India http://kushaldas.in

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Eben Moglen talks in India
by Krishna Pagadala 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

All, Please record Eben's talks. Even audio is good enough. But please record them all and post the talks on the web in ogg format. Regards Krishna ===================================== Misinterpreting Copyright by Richard Stallman http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html "Die Gedanken Sind Frei": Free Software and the Struggle for Free Thought by Eben Moglen http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/berlin-keynote.html . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Eben schedule
by Krishna Pagadala 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

Mishi/All, Who is coordinating the events at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh? I have not seen a final confirmation of data/time/place. Regards Krishna --- Krishna Pagadala <krishnaact(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > All, > Please put up Eben's schedule in up in some wiki. > And please add all the relevant details. > Date/time/place topic, directions etc... > > Regards, > Krishna > > --- Mishi Choudhary <mishi_c(a)rediffmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Eben Moglen, Professor of Law in Columbia Law > School > > and Founding > > Director, Software Freedom Law Center is in india > > foe two weeks starting from 02-06-2007- 15-06-2007 > > to meet policy makers, Software professionals and > > all others who are interested/ associated with > FOSS. > > His Schedule is as follows > > > > 03-06-2007 > > A talk at St Joseph's college, bangalore- Software > > Patents > > > > 06-06-2007 > > A discussion and talk in Trivandrum- Free > Software: > > The Death oF proprietary Culture > > > > 09-06-2007 > > He will be speaking on Software Patents at the IIC > > Annexe Conference Room 3, New Delhi on 9th June > 2007 > > at 10:30 am. Eben was recently chosen as one of > the > > 100 most influential personalities in the world by > > eWeek magazine. > > > > > > Eben's talk is organised by the Delhi Science > Forum, > > Software Freedom > > Law Center, India, Free Software Foundation India, > > Sarai (CSDS), Indian > > Linux Users Group, Delhi, and others. > > > > > > 11-06-2007 > > Eben will be addressing the legal fraternity at > > the High court of Andhra Pradesh at Hyderabad > > > > 12-06-2007 > > A talk At NALSAR > > > > These meetings/Talks are open to all so feel free > to > > forward this invite to yourfriends who may be > > interested in this subject. > > > > More info about Eben is at: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen > > > > Warm Regards > > Mishi Choudhary > > _______________________________________________ > > Fsf-friends mailing list > > Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in > > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends > > > > > ===================================== > Misinterpreting Copyright by Richard Stallman > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html > "Die Gedanken Sind Frei": Free Software and the > Struggle for Free Thought by Eben Moglen > http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/berlin-keynote.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > . > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers > from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it > out. > http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469 > ===================================== Misinterpreting Copyright by Richard Stallman http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html "Die Gedanken Sind Frei": Free Software and the Struggle for Free Thought by Eben Moglen http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/berlin-keynote.html . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121

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Eben Moglen's visit schedule at Bangalore
by Praveen A 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

1 Jun 2007 06:09:01 -0000, Mishi Choudhary <mishi_c(a)rediffmail.com>: > 03-06-2007 > A talk at St Joseph's college, bangalore- Software Patents 11am "Free and Open Source Software: GPLv3 and beyond" at Indian Institute of Science 3.30pm "Freeing the mind: Free Software and End of Proprietary culture" at Post graduate research center, St Joseph College Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Eben Moglen @ Hotel Mascot, Trivandrum
by james mathew 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

Symposium on "Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Commons" organised by Kerala State Planning Board, Kerala State IT Mission and Free Software Foundation of India. Venue: Mascot Hotel, Trivandrum Time: 5:30 PM Date: 6 June 07 Meeting will be open to public. Programme: 1. "Innovativeness in Property Relations" - Prof Prabhat Patnaik, Vice Chairman, Kerala State Planning Board. 2. "Freeing the Mind : Free Software and the Death of Proprietary Culture" - Prof Eben Moglen, Columbia University. 3. Q & A About Speakers: Prof Eben Moglen -------------------------- Eben Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center, whose client list includes numerous pro bono clients, such as the Free Software Foundation. Moglen says that free software is a fundamental requirement for a democratic and free society in which we are surrounded by and dependent upon technical devices. Only if controlling these devices is open to all via free software, can we balance power equally. Prof Prabhat Patnaik ------------------------------ Prof Prabhat Patnaik is a professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He has written for several journals, such as Monthly Review and Political Affairs. He is the author of several books on economics, imperialism, Marxism and India. He is currently Vice-chairman of the Kerala State Planning Board. -- HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE!

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