Microsoft will be signing up Malayalam movie star Mammootty as one of
the brand ambassadors for the Computer Literacy programme that is to
be organized soon in Kerala, a Southern Indian State well known for
its pro-free software policies.
Read, Sign and Share the letter at
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty
Also digg the story
http://digg.com/microsoft/Mammooty_don_t_join_hands_with_Microsoft
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Hi,
We know about 7 students from India who got selected for SoC this
time. http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/SoC/2008
If you know of any student from India not listed there please update.
Regards
Praveen
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Which project do you currently contribute to?
I am a Debian Developer and I am currently maintaining about 135
packages in Debian. This is my Debian QA page where you will find the
list of packages I am currently maintaining in Debian:
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=Varun+Hiremath
Apart from Debian I have been contributing to many open source projects:
1) I am author of open source project python-gastables: python modules
for compressible gas flow calculations: Homepage:
code.google.com/p/python-gastables
2) I am also author of Krickscore - KDE applet for cricket scores.
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Environment/KDE/krickscore-25612.sht…
Homepage: http://varun.travisbsd.org/krickscore.php
3) I have been contributing to Jajuk - Advanced Juke box project,
where I am working as a Developer and Debian package maintainer.
Homepage: http://jajuk.info/index.php/Main_Page
4) I am also currently maintaing pidgin-festival ( formerly knows as
festival-gaim). I rewrote festival-gaim to make it work with the new
pidgin API. Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin-festival/
How does it feels to have two DDs from neighbouring rooms?
(Kumar Appaiah stays next to my room)
It is a big advantage having him next door because we get to learn a
lot from each other. Usually there is a lot of activity going on in
Debian, and it becomes very difficult to keep track of things; having
another DD next door really helps a lot to catch up with action.
Read More about Varun at
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Varun_Hiremath
Cheers
Praveen
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On Saturday 19 Apr 2008, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
> Those of you who would like to take active role in shaping the ICT
> policy of India, please join this group and voice your opinions.
> This group has members from various organizations, and not
> necessarily from free software community.
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/ict-education-india
Why Google? It won't let me join the group unless I have a Google
account, and it won't let non-Google-members view archives, etc.
I presume increasing Google's market worth isn't one of the objectives
of this discussion forum.
Regards,
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PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves
Schools are being prevented from enjoying a revolution in software
provision, and self-sufficiency is being halted by the promotion of
dependency, said Ian Lynch, spokesman for the Open Schools Alliance.
"Innovation starts with teachers and pupils, but under BSF the
school's IT strategy is taken out of its hands," he said.
see more news at how Microsoft is trying to lock students at an early
stage http://boycottnovell.com/2008/04/19/school-odf-koffice-nlnet/
We (those us us from Kerala) can be proud that we did not let our
children to suffer, but be watchful, they are trying hard. See how
Microsoft's playmate Infosys is selling our children and our countries
future.
http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm/browse_thread/thread/5187fd263da0e0…
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"I love the knowledge that I'm working on a complete operating system
which covers my needs. If it breaks, I have a chance of fixing it, or
I can find a friend who will be able to do it for me. If I want to do
something new with the system, I'm confident that it will support me.
The fact that millions of other people appreciate what I'm doing as
well is icing on the cake!"
Read the full interview at http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17716/1090/1/0/
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On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Nagarjuna G. <nagarjun(a)gnowledge.org> wrote:
> free software supporters , hackers community and several industries do
> support free/open standards. This community is not small. ISO
> demonstrated its inability already. We have to therefore make an attempt to
> create an alternate body. May be an initiative to create an alternate body
> may trigger ISO from restructuring itself and may become better than it is
> now.
ISO may have become too big and too large which may be preventing it
to adapt effectively. But, as you rightly point out, it caters only to
a section of society, for purposes that favours their businesses, with
least concern for the marginalised - it can never be a
government-sort-of-mechanism that way which takes into account the
welfare of its poorest citizens.
"ISO only launches the development of new standards for which there
is clearly a market requirement..."
[http://www.iso.org/iso/support/faqs/faqs_standards.htm]. It should be
clear to us now, that as an organisation, ISO possesses a deep-rooted
cognitive disorder, where negotiations or such efforts would induce
little meaning. Its an apolitical organisation worthy enough to be
disowned by our community which is a political one, having firm goals.
> Of late, free software movement is mostly on the defensive. It will be a
> good way to take up proactive steps rather than spend our limited energies
> in defending the moves of MS and others.
True, ROS team these days says "For every OS, there is an equal and
opposite ReactOS."
> Meanwhile, we should point out to the community that ISO standard does not
> imply free/open standard. Their criteria are purely technical, and clearly
> favors the interests of a section of the Industry. We should create a
> portal that shows how many of the ISO standards do not clear as free/open
> standards to make our point. We may even demand ISO and appeal to remove
> 'open' from the OOXML, for that does mislead the users in a big way.
Looking at the increasing interest and participation from premier
research and educational organisations towards free-software
activities, what is needed, could just be a "GPL" clone for standards,
which can put the whole domain of standards into an evolutionary
process.
Please take the lead and do it, Nagarjuna. All the best.
CK Raju
Dear RMS,
I think its futile to chase ISO anymore. We would only land up
spending our own creative energy which we can't afford to at this
pace.
" * Market-driven
ISO only develops standards for which there is a market requirement.
The work is mainly carried out by experts from the industrial,
technical and business sectors which have asked for the standards, and
which subsequently put them to use." .. in their own words at
http://www.iso.org/iso/about/discover-iso_the-iso-brand.htm
Why should Free Software Foundation and other like minded
organisations allow ISO to take over software standards and make it -
only *market-driven* one ?
Its not difficult to realise that the *very conditions* that
necessitated a Standards Organisation to be promoted, are now
prevalent and omnipresent.
Why not create another organisation that develops standards for the
common world citizens to communicate with freedom ?
Shouldn't we ask ourselves now about this, and try to define the
*framework* that would set in motion a new organisation which would be
able to come out with Free/Open Standards after *defining* them in as
unambigous terms as possible ?
CK Raju,
MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram
Kerala,
India
Kumar Appaiah (ILUGC Member and Final year Dual degree student, EEE
Dept, IIT-Madras) is the 5th Debian Developer from India.
Other 4 from India are
Ganesan Rajagopal, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan in Bangalore.
Kapil Hari Paranjape in Institute of Mathematical Sciences Taramani.
Varun Hiremath, student of Aerospace Engg. at IIT Madras.
Congratulations Kumar. It is a great boost for the Debian community in India.
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