Fsf-friends August 2007

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[On topic]On Attack on Taslima Nasreen
by Vikram Vincent 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

On Attack on Taslima Nasreen August 10, 2007 We strongly condemn the physical attack on Taslima Nasreen, a Bangladeshi writer. This attack goes against the democratic and secular character of the Indian polity. One may have differences over the writings of Taslima Nasreen or anybody else, but this definitely is not the appropriate manner to express dissent. This very act militates against the freedom of expression. We demand that the Andhra Pradesh government take firm action against the culprits responsible for this attack.

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Online Petition Asking Apple to Support ODF
by Anivar Aravind 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

The ISO 26300 is the international standard XML format for office documents, also known as the Open Document Format or ODF. The newly released iWork '08 supports the Open Office XML (OOXML) document format, which is still not an ISO-approved standard. It would be beneficial to all if the iWork suite of applications, namely Pages, Keynote and Numbers, support Open Document Format. We appeal that you release an update to the latest version of iWork suite to support ISO 26300. In addition, we hope that you support the ISO 26300 standard in future Apple products that involves office documents. http://www.petitiononline.com/appleodf/petition.html BTW, what is the status of Campaign against OOXML at BIS? any updates? -- Anivar Aravind moving Republic Peringavu.P.O Thrissur-18 Kerala http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/about

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Article: Middle America, Meet The Hackers
by Praveen A 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

Hi, Good to see a mainstream magazine talking about hackers in its real meaning. Hope this will spread around. http://www.forbes.com/2007/08/06/security-hacking-challenge-tech-cx_ag_0806… Happy Hacking Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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OIN Licensees
by Mani A 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

>From Groklaw ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Google Becomes OIN's First End User Licensee "To Help Linux Thrive" Tuesday, August 07 2007 @ 03:12 AM EDT Google has become an Open Invention Network licensee. Here's the press release about it. "Linux plays a vital role at Google, and we're strongly committed to supporting the Linux developer community," said Chris DiBona, Google open source programs manager. "We believe that by becoming an Open Invention Network licensee, we can encourage Linux development and foster innovation in a way that benefits everyone. We're proud to participate in OIN's mission to help Linux thrive." This is huge. All previous licensees have been developers, sellers or resellers of Linux. Plus... let's be real. It's Google. OIN becomes increasingly important as a shield against patent attacks http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070807015043108 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc

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Little Wizard
by Mani A 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

This is a program that can help young learners with some programming constructs. As of now it is not very comprehensive, but it can be really developed. You can find a tutorial at http://people.debian.org/~kaol/lw/tutorial.html It can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=141417&package_id=155… Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc

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Interview: Monitor Your Systems With FreeIPMI
by Praveen A 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

Hi, Our own Anand Babu is also mentioned in this interview. "Developers at CDC, led by Anand Babu, had begun several IPMI related projects internally for their customer base. At LLNL, I had begun working on several IPMI related projects that would be needed for Thunder. While Thunder was being assembled, we worked on alot of these projects together, and eventually merged it together into FreeIPMI. Since that initial merger, developers from LLNL, CDC, and Zresearch (where some former CDC developers went to) have continued the primary maintenance and development of FreeIPMI." http://blue-gnu.biz/node/70 Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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M$ Vista Back Doors
by Mani A 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

This is from an article at http://english.people.com.cn/200706/25/text20070625_387364.html ------------------------------------------ "First, the program is "back door": in nature. The two programs, in particular the "lsasrv.dll,": are files for local security password verification. Norton reported the two as malicious software with the features of "backdoor.haxdoor.": The back door plays the same role as a "Trojan horse.": Both are secretly hidden within an opponent's home base." ------------------------------------------ The article is not well written and the author does not seem to understand the issues involved. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc

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Software Freedom Day - 15 september 2007
by Mohan R 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Hi, We all know that Software Freedom Day will be on September 2007. To make awarness of this day we have a site softwarefreedomday.org<http://www.softwarefreedomday.org>. please register your group in that site and take FOSS to each and every corner of our country.

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Fwd: [PRC] ICT a cottage industry - Can we do it by 15th August?
by Praveen A 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [PRC] ICT a cottage industry - Can we do it by 15th August? Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:02:42 +0530 (IST) From: Choudhary <choudhary(a)indicybers.net> Reply-To: Free/Libre and Open Source Software Project List <prc(a)sarai.net> To: prc(a)sarai.net Hi All, Many of us work by deadlines, many work for deadlines, while for many others deadlines work! I belong to this privileged third category - lazy down to my maleus, incus and stapes. Oh yes, the so called smallest bones in the human body, but then again I thought the smallest bones were calcified neurons! Again count me in! So for all those of us who have been experiencing increasing head-weight recently, I have a suggestion - let's set a real deadline: Let us achieve ICT Freedom this 15th August! India Inc. reaches super-annuation this autumn - she's turning 60! Well is this possible? Now for once I'm not announcing another impending release of Hindawi, although one is on the cards. I am talking about making it happen finally. Oh yes "finally" just as used in Java, literally, no puns! I am talking about a complete free system - end to end - hair to toe. We have been doing alpha and beta for long, and with a varying degree of success have produced almost all the components needed to make this revolution happen. Let the 2-week revolution happen now. The question is how? Well systematically - make a wish and have it granted! It probably needs to be a wish-list rather than a single wish. To begin with here's my wish list for 15th August 2007: 1. A computer so affordable that I could let my daughter bang it around - let's say Rs5000/-. Now wait, don't raise your eye-brows - I know others have been talking too - but _where_ are the results. 2. An OS so Indian that it could leave Munnabhai ashamed of his knowledge of Gandhigiri! Bollywood fans watchout -this one's should have no "locha" - chemical, licensing, usage or whatsoever. Holla Indlinux... Hello... Hi... oh ok so your're listening all right! 3. Tool-chains so open that you can use them to build Tajware. Well hardware, firmware, software, Tajware - we all know what that is, right? Ah! Come on, had Skinner quoted today he'd have said "the hands that built the Tajmahal, are the the hands that build the best software... err Tajware". Now, Hindawi's doing a good enough job ain't it? Besides, there are Kannada Logo, Marathi BASIC and many more. I will also mark a copy of this mail to myself! 4. Courseware for ICT in Indic - just having the tools will not suffice. We need to teach people how to use them. Video lectures, PDF's, ebooks of all sorts let's make it happen. 5. Silicon India - a open silicon platform (read IP), for lost cost systems design. Difficult but possible. let's say we at least do a small FPGA based simulation over the next two weeks. Let's call it Project Bharat - on the lines of Project America aka PPC. 6. HMI tools for Indic - speech recognition, text-to-speech, OCR and the whole battalion that's available for English. Other high-end tools like PVM, MPI, OpenMP, robotics etc. interfaced for Indic. 7. An IT company in every hut - Let's make ICT a cottage industry in India. Can we not, and, shall we not? Please spread this message around, yell, shout, post, re-post, modify it as you like (under the constraints of decency though) - This 15th August, of the year 2007 of the Christian era, as India turns 60 let us strive to make Information and Communication technologies a cottage industry. Regards and Jai Hind, Abhishek Mobile: 09860700184 Knowlege is power... share it equitably! _______________________________________________ prc mailing list prc(a)sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ് - എന്റെ കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറിന് എന്റെ ഭാഷ പിരിഞ്ഞു പോകാന്: smc-discuss-unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com സംരംഭം: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/smc -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Second Call for Paper - Bharatiya Vigyan Sammelan, BVS 2007, Bhopal MP
by Sanjeev Sharma 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Bharatiya Vigyan Sammelan, 23-25 November, 2007 [image: Bharatiya Vigyan Samellan] <http://www.bvsindia.org> The focal theme of the conference is - Integral Scientific Management of Natural Resources For Sustainable Development with special focus on Best Traditional and Current Practices in Agri-Forestry and Rural Technology in India and Abroad. In addition to individual delegates and representatives from institutions, the conference will also have associate delegates comprising of Post-graduates and Research Scholars as observers, selected from R&D institutions, Colleges and Universities. We invite all Scientists, Technocrats, Academicians, Policy Makers, Research Scholars, Students and common people who have an affinity towards Science and Technology to participate and contribute to this conference. Last date for : Abstract Submission :30th August, 2007 Notification for Acceptance : 30th September, 2007 Submission of Full Text of paper :15th October, 2007 Registration:15th October, 2007 The Registration fee, for the conference, which shall include the conference material and working lunch during the conference period, is as follows : Institutional Delegates : Rs. 5,000/- (upto 3 delegates) Individual Delegates : Rs. 1,000/- Research Scholars and Members of Organizing Institutions: Rs. 500/- Student Observers and Persons accompanying delegates : Rs. 500/- Organizing Committee Chairman Dr. G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman ISRO & Secretary, Departmet of Space, Govt of India Executive Chairman Dr. Mahesh Sharma, D.G., M.P.C.S.T. and Advisor to Govt. M.P. Technical Committee Chairman, Professor. P.B. Sharma,Vice Chancellor,Rajiv Gandhi Technological University, Bhopal Exhibition Committee Chairman Dr. S.P. Gautam, Chairman, MP Pollution Control Board Programme Committee Chairman Prof. D.P. Singh, VC, Sagar University Science and Technology, forms the thrust engine of development for any society. An overwhelmingly large number of over 6 lac villages still await infrastructure facilities and basic amenities. There is a growing disparity between the haves and the have-nots. It is becoming increasingly imperative that inclusive growth becomes a reality and not just a slogan. We have a gigantic task at hand. Effective intervention through appropriate technologies can play an important role in providing urban amenities in rural areas. These interventions will be able to control the ever-growing problems of urbanization, rural poverty, environmental degradation and unequal growth. Language plays a very significant role in the 'lab to land' concept. In our country, with 23 recognized official national languages including Hindi and English, language plays a key role in science and technology dissemination among the masses.India, a nation of a billion people, cradle of the oldest civilization of mankind, is marching ahead with indomitable power and incorrigible confidence. Home to the 2nd largest population of the world, we have to fulfill a billion dreams as well as our global responsibilities The conference shall comprise of invited talks from eminent personalities in the area of interest and contributed papers for oral/poster presentations. Scientists, Technologists, Research Scholars, Policy makers and Stake Holders in S & T are invited to send two page Extended Abstracts (in Hindi or English or both) of their papers before 15th August, 2007. The Abstracts should be accompanied with Registration form for attending the conference. The Abstracts and full paper may be sent as MS-Word files to : bvs(a)rgtu.net The Abstracts can also be sent as hard copies to * Executive Chairman, Bhartiya Vigyan Sammelan, Samanvay Karyalaya, B-44, 45 Banglow, Professors Colony, Opp Mulla Ramuzi Bhawan, Bhopal, MP* * Conference Theme:* 1. Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry Marine, Aquacultureand Veterinary Sciences 2. Forestry and Environmental Sciences 3. Water Management 4. Energy Management 5. Mineral Resources and Materials Science/Technology 6. Meteorology and Climate 7. Health and Medical Sciences including AYUSH and Nutraceuticals 8. Housing, Habitat and Architecture 9. Basic Sciences : Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Astronomy, Life Sciences. 10. Cutting Edge Technologies (BIO, IT, NANO - Status and Possibilities) 11. Science Communication through Regional Languages 12. Engineering and Technological Sciences email : bvs(a)rgtu.net, <bvs(a)rgtu.net>url: http://www.bvsindia.org Conference Dates : November 23-25, 2007, Venue: Ravindra Bhawan, Bhopal<http://www.bvsindia.org/> Our mailing address is: Samanvay Karyalaya, B-44, 45 Banglow Opposite Mulla Ramuzi Bhawan, Professors Colony, Bhopal, MP Our Contect: bvs(a)rgtu.net Copyright (C) 2007 VIGYAN BHARATI Madhya Pradesh All rights reserved.

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