Fsf-friends July 2007

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An award...
by Frederick Noronha [फ्र ेडरिक नोर ोंया] 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

I think FSF-India has done a lot of useful work, and someone on this network should consider proposing its name for the http://www.manthanaward.org/ FN -- FN: Frederick Noronha http://wikiwikiweb.de/MyContacts Phone 0091-832-2409490 Cell: 091-9822122436 or 9970157402 (after 1 pm) A film on copyright! GOOD COPY BAD COPY: a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture. http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/

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Re: [InteRider] Job opportunities on Mifos Open Source Project
by Frederick Noronha [फ्र ेडरिक नोर ोंया] 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Given the growing tech skills in Bangalore and Kenya, wouldn't it make sense to look for suitable candidates in the region itself? BTW, even Bangladesh has an impressively-sized GNU/Linux movement. FN On 03/07/07, Emily Tucker <emily(a)emilytucker.com> wrote: > Hi e-Riders, > > I've been lurking on this list for many years now and have enjoyed > watching the community grow. After almost 4 years, now, I suppose I > should probably introduce myself. :-) > > I'm a technical program manager at Grameen Foundation-- we support > microfinance organizations (MFIs) around the world by providing funding, > training, and technical support. I work specifically on the Mifos > project (http://mifos.sourceforge.net) which is an Open Source MIS > system Microfinance organizations can use to manage their operations. > > We have several positions open on the Mifos team. Two are full-time > positions based in Seattle (although there's the option of working > remotely from the Bay Area): > http://www.grameenfoundation.org/jobs/mifos_program_mgr_prod_dev/ > http://www.grameenfoundation.org/jobs/tpm_mifos/ > > But the two opportunities I think would might be of particular interest > to this group are 6 month in-country consulting gigs-- one in Bangalore, > India and the other in Nairobi, Kenya-- providing technical support to > our MFI clients that are deploying Mifos and documenting lessons learned > and posting them back to the community: > http://www.grameenfoundation.org/get_involved/career_opportunities/consu > lting_opportunities/mifos_tech_consult_india/ > > http://www.grameenfoundation.org/jobs/consulting_opportunities/mifos_tec > h_consult_kenya/ > > These are all dream opportunities for the right person. Please feel > free to pass along these positions to those in your network. If you > have any questions, you can contact me directly. > > Cheers, > > Emily. > > _________________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > interider(a)npogroups.org > To be removed from the list, send any message to: > interider-unsubscribe(a)npogroups.org > > For all list information and functions, including changing > your subscription mode and options, visit the Web page: > http://npogroups.org/lists/info/interider > -- FN: Frederick Noronha http://wikiwikiweb.de/MyContacts Phone 0091-832-2409490 Cell: 091-9822122436 or 9970157402 (after 1 pm) A film on copyright! GOOD COPY BAD COPY: a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture. http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/

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Fwd: Launch of GNU GPLv3
by Frederick Noronha [फर ॆडरीक नोर ोनया] 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Brown <peterb(a)fsf.org> Date: 28-Jun-2007 00:42 Subject: Launch of GNU GPLv3 To: info-gnu(a)gnu.org, info-fsf(a)gnu.org, info-member(a)gnu.org On Friday, June 29, at 12 noon (EDT), the Free Software Foundation will officially release the GNU GPL version 3. Please join us in celebration as we bring to a close eighteen months of public outreach and comment, in revision of the world's most popular free software license. Beyond the creation of an improved license, the process of drafting version 3 has helped highlight vital issues for the community of free software users. This is a moment to thank the thousands who participated by commenting on the license, and those that represented stakeholders through the GPLv3 committee process. Now with the release of GPLv3, we will see new defenses extended to free software. These defenses will continue the long history of fighting all efforts to make free software proprietary. Please join us as we stream live footage of Richard Stallman announcing GPLv3 from Noon (EDT) at www.fsf.org. If you are in the Boston area you can also join us at the FSF offices from 11:30am. Please let us know at <info(a)fsf.org> if you would like to attend. -- Peter T. Brown Executive Director Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St. 5th Floor Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Media contact for this event: Brett Smith 617-542-5942 brett(a)fsf.org About the FSF The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software--particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants--and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software. Their Web site, located at www.fsf.org, is an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support their work can be made at http://donate.fsf.org. Their headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu(a)gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu -- FN: Frederick Noronha http://wikiwikiweb.de/MyContacts Phone 0091-832-2409490 Cell: 091-9822122436 or 9970157402 (after 1 pm) Copying a film on copyright! GOOD COPY BAD COPY: a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture. http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/

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Eben Moglen on the GPLv3 process
by Praveen A 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

....... Capital wasn't what the system required to operate. What it required to operate was proof of concept, and it could be scratched. Running code - something that began scratching the itch, however badly, and a community of people who wanted to see it through. So what GPL3 meant was, proof of concept + running code + presence of community. The concept had been proven already, by GPL2. That is, the substantive concept - we could make a set of rules for sharing that would make it possible to produce software all around the world that would be of ultimately high value, but could be offered to anyone free of charge - and provided with immense freedom to study, modify, and share. There was running code - we worked very hard for almost 2 years to produce a first discussion draft of GPL3, which we unveiled on January 18th of 2006 at MIT - and there was a community; many communities, in fact. But their convocation for the purpose of legislation was a unique event. Every other week for the past 18 months, we've convened a conference call of 21 of the largest IT Vendors in the world. Those companies, whose names are household familiar in every household and business familiar in every business. Working in teams that varied from one person from some of the companies, to five or six in others. Carefully studying every single word, commenting as though their lives depended upon it - as in some of the businesses they did. On every detail of the license's functioning in the global IT economy. We also convened, every other week, a conversation among 24 of the largest users of software in the world. Banks and brokerages, government agencies, and the lawyers who acquire software on their behalf. We consulted every single week with the leadership of large free software projects around the world, some of whom use GPL and some of whom only interact with GPLd code. We spoke to hackers of enormous influence in the community, influence they have gained by their skill in programming and by their willingness to share. By their selflessness in helping others learn, and by the extraordinary wit and intellect whereby they have produced miracles out of thin air for all of us to use for years. We conducted public meetings on every continent, save Antarctica. We negotiated ceaselessly with people over what they needed, what they wanted, what they doubted, what they feared, what their concerns were, and in the end - that's now I'm speaking of, this week, between now and Friday, the license gets itself finished and comes out the door as a final product - in the end, we got agreement. We got consensus. Those who predicted at the beginning of this process that it would dissolve into flame wars, or bad netiquette, or some screeching meltdown benefiting only the monopolists were wrong. I admit that there were days when I feared that they might be right - it was no cakewalk - but everyone who engages in legislation knows that it's never a cakewalk, and almost never pretty. What is interesting about the legislative experience we've just gone through is how little of it, however, had the ultimate ugliness of legislation as we know it in the public sphere. ............ This is only the gist of the talk, read the full transcript http://jeremiad.org/moglentext.shtml Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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FOSS projects with NRCFOSS
by Vikram Vincent 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

Hi all, I know this is the off-season for college projects but I think that an early start is always good. My mail is intended to motivate students in the 3rd-4th year Engineering or any IT related course, who are considering Free/Open Source Software(FOSS) as an option, to sign up with the NRCFOSS project at Anna University-K.B.Chandrashekar(AU-KBC) Research Centre. For more details please check out http://www.au-kbc.org/nrcf/index.htm A small FAQ on the Students' fellowship scheme: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/faq/2/ The NRCFOSS helpline: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ If you have project ideas you would like to share then please do sign up on the wiki and jot down your project proposal or if you want to join up with an ongoing project then do let us know that too here: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/ProjectIdeas If you have any queries please feel free to mail me at: Vikram Vincent < vincentvikram(a)au-kbc.org> It will be great if you can circulate this mail on other mailing lists and among your college mates and friends so that they too may be able to benefit from it. Thanks. -- 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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lug info needed for northern india
by Kussh Singh 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

are there any lugs in chandigarh, haryana, punjab etc? kussh -- -- www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook.

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