Fsf-friends July 2009

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Fwd: Blog about the Teachers workshop
by Vikram Vincent 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Raghavendra S Date: 2009/7/17 Subject:Blog about the Teachers workshop Dear all, read thru the post on my blog abt the first 2 days of the workshop.... http://ideasareimmortal.blogspot.com/2009/07/free-software-workshop-for.html -- Raghavendra S http://ideasareimmortal.blogspot.com/ http://fsmk.org/

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Two day Python workshop at CDEEP
by Puneeth Chaganti 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

Hello, As part of the MHRD funded open source mission at IITB, Asokan and I are planning a 2 day Python workshop: Topic: Programming with Python Date: 25, 26th July 2009 (weekend) Time: 1400 hrs to 1800 hrs Venue: CDEEP seminar hall Instructors: Asokan P and Prabhu Ramachandran This is targeted at students of engineering who will be able to use Python as their core language for scientific and engineering computing. The course will be done at CDEEP and will be broadcast live via EDUSAT and also webcast (http://www.cdeep.iitb.ac.in/). Attendees are strongly encouraged to bring along laptops since the instruction is entirely hands on. We will be able to provide some extra laptops for use but the numbers will be limited. Please send: Kadambari Devarajan <kadambari.devarajan(a)gmail.com> a confirmation email regarding your participation and she will get back to you on what you need to install, prerequisites etc. Please forward this to any others who may be interested. regards, -- Prabhu Ramachandran http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/~prabhu

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Nginx for heavily loaded web-servers
by ck raju 16 Jul '09

16 Jul '09

.."nginx continues to grow strongly, increasing its market share by 1 percentage point. It gains around 2.5 million sites this month, mostly due to more activity seen by the survey on blogging provider NetEase. nginx is also used by Wordpress.com, where Netcraft saw 180,000 more active blogs this month..." Story at http://news.netcraft.com/ "What is nginx? Nginx [engine x] — it’s HTTP-server and IMAP/POP3-proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft in May 2009 nginx served or proxied 3.25% busiest sites. Nginx has been running for more than four years on many heavily loaded Russian sites like vkontakte.ru or rambler.ru. I think it’s enough. You can find a lot of theoretical information below in useful links. .." http://www.linuxspace.org/archives/1576 Released under http://www.nginx.org/LICENSE CK Raju

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Income tax e-filing is all about editing in MS-Excel?
by mail＠swathanthran.in 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

Hi, May be this is a bit old issue, but I just saw it now, that the e-filing of income tax returns is all about filling things in MS-Excel. The site offers .xls files[1] with macros and all that, which has the specified forms of filing the data in MS-Excel. and uploading it. The ideal way to respond would be with the .ods files with all those things as in .xls . Now the .xls files are opening correctly on openoffice and hopefully it should be ok to convert it to .ods. But it would be great if some one familiar with the tax forms can check and make sure .ods too works fine. The site offers the schema too[2]. Even if we could convert those to .ods successfully, the government should be ready to accept the .ods files too. I haven't yet checked the whole process of efiling. Has this been on discussion before? the site is offering "Excel Utility" and "Pdf Utility" even for the Assessment year 2007-2008. Also i heard the last date for this year 09-10 is july end or so.. pretty late it seems. Moreover i see the "Pdf Utility" given there(for eg:[3]) is even un-viewable on all the pdf viewers i have. As i open it says to use a later version of adobe pdf viewer. Hope to know more about anything that can be done. Regards Shyam K [1]-- https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/portal/individual_huf.do [2]-- https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/portal/advanced_users.do [3]-- https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/portal/downloads07-08/itr/ITR2_Version…

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Re: [Fsf-friends] [fosscomm] Redmond Codelifter all set to enter FOSSCOMM?
by ck raju 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Mohit Singh<gmohitsingh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I have said it earlier and this is my second reminder that the Redmond > Codelifter has started 'open source' and can very well be on this > mailing list with full right to be here! PLEASE draft a policy to keep > it out or stop bashing it! "Over the years, Microsoft statements toward open-source software have ranged from derision and threats to mollification and even cautious praise. Microsoft's Thursday announcement of a significantly more accommodating approach to open-source programmers is just the latest refinement of the company's ambivalence. At the same time that Microsoft's new arrangement opens up previously secret specifications and protocols for use in open-source software, it also insists that companies planning on distributing or using that software need a patent license." Story at http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-9876187-39.html So long as it promotes or reproduces proprietary, non-free licenses, many of us should refresh our pledge to fight against the corporate. If Open Source/Free Software champions have succeeded in impressing upon the corporate to work in favour of Free Software or Open Source, we would be doing them a disservice by preferring to keep quiet !! CK Raju

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Hall of Shame
by ck raju 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

Praveen, http://fosscomm.in/HallOfShame needs to enlarge its scope. For instance, http://nrega.nic.in/ is the portal designed and developed by NIC for Ministry of Rural Development. http://nrega.nic.in/user_manual_nrega.pdf is its user manual, where, even MoRD tries to explain what is meant by "Microsoft technologies and open technologies". Examples like these not only expose the linkages that Microsoft have with NIC and MoRD, but also intimates us the ineffectiveness of Ministry of Information Technology in endorsing open standards, even for public utilities that have a national presence. I am afraid whether appeals before MIT would remain appeals only, as these kind of stealth-actions go undisturbed with the help of national public agencies. How do we counter these kind of subversive activities in the most effective manner ? Whom are we going to approach ? Most importantly, how are we going to document these subversive activities in our Hall of Shame ? CK Raju

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Fwd: [FSUG-Bangalore] Material from West Bengal's FOSS Training initiative
by Arun M 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Debayan Banerjee <debayanin(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:24 AM Subject: [FSUG-Bangalore] Material from West Bengal's FOSS Training initiative To: karnatakaschools(a)lists.fosscomm.in, Free Software Users Group - Bangalore <fsug-bangalore(a)mm.gnu.org.in> Hi, As discussed in the meeting held at IT4change last week, here are the links to the materials used in West Bengal's FOSS Teacher's Training program I tried to add them to the FSUG wiki but had some problems with the table at http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/index.php/Karanataka_Schools . Here are the links: http://debayanin.googlepages.com/foss-workshop-outline.pdf (Syllabus) http://debayanin.googlepages.com/finished.pdf (Training Manual / 5 MB) http://debayanin.googlepages.com/Certificate-of-participation.odt http://debayanin.googlepages.com/feedbackform.odt http://debayanin.googlepages.com/FOSSResources.odt http://debayanin.googlepages.com/ILUG-CAL-List-of-apps-for-IOTA-train.pdf http://debayanin.googlepages.com/Regform.pdf http://debayan.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/first-iota-teachers-training-progra… (A blog post about the program) http://picasaweb.google.com/debayanin/IOTATTP1 (Pictures from the program) The Government agency which is behind this effort is IOTA <http://www.iotawb.org/> -- Regards, Debayan Banerjee Support Free Software http://deeproot.in _______________________________________________ FSUG-Bangalore mailing list FSUG-Bangalore(a)mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsug-bangalore

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