Fsf-friends July 2007

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Moglen and Web-2.0
by Mani A 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

"Moglen : And, in fact, it's data that stands as O'Reilly's second "open source doesn't matter" Web 2.0 pitch. We should care more about controlling our information than code. You want to move away from Google? Fine. Google should let you take your information with you." http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/07/26/oreilly_moglen_oscon/ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc

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Beryl can improve usability and work-flow
by Mani A 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

Beryl is not just eye candy... "If you have Beryl installed, you can select windows for grouping by pressing [super]+s (the [super] key is usually the "windows" key) or by holding down the [super] key and using the left mouse button to draw a box around the window(s) you want to select. Once selected, you group them press [super]+g to group them. Once you've got your group, press [super]+t to tab them together. You've then got a handy group of windows that are tidy, and easily selectable. To change windows, just hover your mouse over the title bar, or use [super]+left or [super]+right to cycle through the windows. scale plugin and the four desktop corners Because the four corners of the desktop are the easiest parts to hit with your mouse, it makes sense to try and put some form of useful action in each of the four corners. The scale plugin has a number of options as to which windows get included in the when activated. You can activate all windows on all sides of the cube, or just the windows on the current cube face, or just the windows associated with the current application. It is this last option that can be useful for tasks that involve a whole bunch of windows from one application - like the gimp, or kopete. You can set the actions for each corner of the desktop in Beryl settings manager. Under the general page, you'll find an icon for shortcuts in the left panel, and under that, a tab for screen edges." Read more at http://liquidweather.net/howto/index.php?id=92 Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc

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why, still proprietary software @ higher secondary syllabus.
by Sarath Lakshman 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

Hi friends, I have been here with the issue of using non-free and non-standards compilers in higher secondary computer science syllabus. It was really appreciative to introduce purely free softwares at high schools and the feedbacks from students are awesome. Only problem I heard about it was about driver supports and low monitor frequency problems. I found a nice FAQ for solving that at space-kerala's support website. During the time Govt decided to implement free sofware at high schools, i read in the news item that they would be implementing FS at higher secondary on the following year. But I'm sad to see nothing pleasing in progress. By last march I passed out from +2 and I really couldn't see FS supporting syllabus till now. Being a free software enthusiast, I had been using GCC and MYSQL myself at school at a desktop installed with SLYNUX Gnu/Linux distro at my own risk saying my teacher that I won't use non-free software. I used the same box installed with gcc and mysql for my practical examination too. I had tried my best to spread the need of freedom at computing to my companions and teacher. I could only hear a yess boss reply from most of them and they weren't ready to use gnu tools or gnu/linux since they weren't in syllabus. My teacher smiled reading http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html and nothing more positive. <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html> By now, students passing out from 10th standard are trained on free software platform. The students who choose Com SC at higher secondary will be taken into the worst environment of proprietary software at plus one and plus two. I feel its bad for a transition from free software to Proprietary software. This is the condition prevails now. What Iam still repeating here is : HSS CS syllabus is so easy to migrate to GNU/Linux platform The tools they currently use are: 1) M$ Windows platform 2) Turbo C++ IDE 3) Oracle SQL What we really require for migration is: 1) GNU/Linux 2) VI editor 3) MySQL or other GPLed ones <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html> You can see some posts about this issue two yeas back here at fsf-friends [ http://gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2005-August/ ] Hope we could do some practical move on this issue. With regards, Sarath. http://sarathlakshman.info

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OpenOffice 2.x Marathi User Guide Launched!!!
by Anand Kulkarni 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

Dear All, We are very glad to publish the OpenOffice 2.x Marathi User Guide. There are 3 PDF files you can download: 1) Word_Processor_2_x_Marathi_Guide_2_0.pdf (For OpenOffice Writer) 2) Spreadsheet_2_x_Marathi_Guide_2_0.pdf (For OpenOffice Calc) 3) Presentation_2_x_Marathi_Guide_2_0.pdf (For OpenOffice Impress) We had released OpenOffice 1.x Marathi User Guide around 1 year back. Now we have upgraded to OpenOffice 2.x. You can download the guides from http://svs.org.in/Downloads.html The credit goes to: 1) Mr. Amit Kadu 2) Mrs. Anagha Bapat 3) Mr. Anand Kulkarni 4) Mrs. Dhanashri Kulkarni 5) Mrs. Jyoti Bochgire 6) Mr. Pankaj Thakre 7) Mrs. Yashaswini Godse For any query, feel free to revert back. Thanks. Warm Regards, Anand Kulkarni Sarvangin Vikas Sanstha Pune http://svs.org.in ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC

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Software Freedom Day -- register your teams now
by Praveen A 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

Hi, If you have not yet registered for Software Freedom Day you can register here http://softwarefreedomday.org/cgi/register.html To see the teams already registered from India see http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asiaandmiddleeast/india If you register before July 31 you will be getting T-shirts and CDs. Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Switching to GNU/Linux -- for newbies
by Praveen A 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

Switch to Linux! GNU/Linux, or simply Linux, is an alternative to Microsoft Windows. It is easy to use and gives more freedom to users. Anyone can install it: Linux is free as in freedom, and often available free of charge. http://www.getgnulinux.org/ Can point to newbies to GNU/Linux. Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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A Patent Is Worth Having, Right? Well, Maybe Not
by Praveen A 26 Jul '07

26 Jul '07

A Patent Is Worth Having, Right? Well, Maybe Not PATENTS are supposed to give inventors an incentive to create things that spur economic growth. For some companies, especially in the pharmaceutical business, patents do just that by allowing them to pull in billions in profits from brand-name, blockbuster drugs. But for most public companies, patents don't pay off, say a couple of researchers who have crunched the numbers. Read full story http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/business/yourmoney/15proto.html?ex=134215… -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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SugarCRM goes GPLv3
by Praveen A 26 Jul '07

26 Jul '07

"We are proud to adopt the GPL V3 with our next major Sugar Community Edition release," said John Roberts, CEO and co-founder of SugarCRM Open Source Project. "We would like to thank the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for leading such an important effort to deliver the most modern FOSS license. The FSF undertook a very difficult process and incorporated many diverse developer and user needs and combined them into a fair and just representation of what FOSS means to our communities." http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/about/press-releases/20070725-GPLv3-FOSS.html -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Release of LX installer for Debian GNU/Hurd & Seminar on "Political Ethics in Information Society"
by Praveen A 26 Jul '07

26 Jul '07

A student team in MES Engineering College Kuttippuram, Kerala Successfully finished the New Installer for Debian GNU/Hurd, The complete GNU Operating System. This Installer is named as LX since it is a sucesser of Debian Hurd K series installer & it directly boot into X. The Team members of the Installer Project are available at http://www.projecthurd.tk The Release Function & its demonstration is planned at Hotel Renaissance, Kozhikode on 27th July 10.AM Onwards. It will be followeb by a Seminar on "Political Ethics in Information Society" at 1.00PM onwards Speakers (incomplete): 1) Jaiprakash Raghaviah, Centre for Excellence, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode 2) P Madhu, Department of MBA, MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram 3) Civic Chandran, Activist 4) Anivar Aravind, Moving Republic, Thrissur All are welcome. About Debian GNU/Hurd: The Hurd is a set of servers running on top of the GNU Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). Together they build the base for the GNU operating system.Debian GNU/Hurd is a distribution of GNU Operating system Under Development for developer, server and desktop platforms. -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Linux Disktool License
by Mani A 24 Jul '07

24 Jul '07

This is an application (http://freshmeat.net/projects/disktool/) whose source code is freely available only on request by email. It is not available for public download. It is described as 'freeware'. Which is the most suitable License for the application ? Note that there are some 'open source packages' that require a compulsory registration before download. This does not really differ from those. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc

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