Dear Friend,
FSMK releasing its third consecutive news letter.
We are proud to say this because of the responses and encouragement you gave
us.
This time also there are enough and more reasons to read the complete news
letter in single attempt.
We are raising some serious issues in the Indian context through the
Editorial.
Dr. Sabyasachi Chatterjee is talking about patent issues.
Ranjan an FSMK activist is talking about the free-software Philosophy.
Mayank, Rahul and Praveen have come up with some Technical articles.
Many items on News section from the free-software world.
Still we are expecting the critical comments from you to make this venture a
success.
Regards,
FSMK EB Team.
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regards
naveen
Be Free, Speak Free, Work Free.
Advocate "FREE SOFTWARE",
FREE as in FREE SPEECH, not as in FREE BEER
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From: Matt Lee <mattl(a)gnu.org>
Date: Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Subject: [gnu-prog-discuss] GNU Generation
To: gnu-prog-discuss(a)gnu.org
GNU Generation is a program by the FSF to involve young people (approx.
aged 13-18) in free software. It is provided as a service to projects
to find new young contributors, and to students to get interested in
free software and start contributing to projects. Developers can create
tasks, or projects, for students to complete on the GNU Generation page
(http://fsf.org/gnugeneration). These projects can be incredibly
specific, giving instruction on exactly what is to be completed, or more
broad, offering only some general information about the task and how to
get started. The goal for GNU Generation is for these students to
become regular contributors to your project.
There are a wide range of talents in the GNU Generation program already.
Projects can include coding of any difficulty, from simple scripting to
advanced C. They can include art, documentation, translation or other
areas as well. Projects can even be solely advocacy; it is completely
up to whoever creates them.
If you do not have any specific ideas for projects, but would prefer to
have students think of their own projects related to your application,
you can leave your contact information and an overview of your free
software application under the "Project specific" section of the
brainstorming page on the site
(http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Group:GNU_Generation/Project_brainstorming).
Chances are few participants will take the time to look into your
project more deeply, but this will at least provide them with a place to
start if they already use and love your application. If you have any
ideas unrelated to a specific free software application, you can feel
free to add them to the top part of this page as well.
There is no guarantee that any particular project will be taken, though
either way, projects represented here will definitely gain more exposure
to participants. If you are interested, please see the website
(http://www.fsf.org/gnugeneration) for more information on how GNU
Generation can help students while helping your free software project.
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Nagarjuna G.
http://www.gnowledge.org/
Helo
I think this is better to go public, since i'm answering to you and forwarding
some the persons that also were in the original mail.
On Friday 07 August 2009 07:27:13 am you wrote:
>Hi
>
>My name is Senthil and I volunteer for fsmk.org. This is just a question
> out of curiosity.
Nice to meet you and to try to satisfy your curiosity (I'll add at the bottom
the original mail i answered to Nagarjuna, since that is also an important
topic.
Also I have a curiosity , do you work for cisco?
hmm.
>
>I was interested in the tensions between Marxist groups in Venzuela and
> free software.
here i have a second curiosity. Is that what you think in India?
Can you give me some information? This is the first time i hear something like
that. And in my personal experience working as adviser in pdvsa for the
migration, I have the oposite experience. Are normally the right wing persons
that are going against the movement.
Do you know president Chavez? He is left. He did the decree 3390. Did you know
that? Maybe you are lacking of information.
Do you know president Rafael Correa from Ecuador? Well that is also the left
wing and he is absolutely commited with free software.
Do you know also Fernando Lugo from Paraguay? He is also from the left wing,
and also commited with free software.
In my personal experience the groups stopping the real thing are the right
wing groups. Let me explain something. Who knows about free software in
Venezuela is mainly a rich person, to know something about fs you need to
have networking and so on specially in this countries. Then before Chavez who
had network was what today is 'opposition'. In fact this right wing persons
don't like too much that was Chavez from left wing that really took care of
Free Software. Then this kind of community don't want to spread knowledge to
the poors (the poors normally are left wing - at least in this countries :)
In fact they try to keep the important positions also in the government being
deeply inside oposition, then doing nasty things.
Many ministeries bought oracle, cisco and so on. That is very bad.
>
>Do the Marxist groups really contribute to free software and have they
> adopted strong positions. Do they really help the free software movement.
Lets say the right wing groups had damage a lot and continue doing this.
Read my answer to nagarjuna asking him a very important thing for us. TO PUT
ATTENTION TO WHAT HE IS DOING SPEAKING.
>
>We see a lot of tension in India between these groups and was wondering if
> there is a pattern in the way these things work worldwide.
Maybe the patern is the one of fight for freedom and equality between humans.
At least that is are the left groups from the south.
I hope to have answered to you, because this is the first time i've seen a
question like that -> l " was interested in the tensions between Marxist
groups in Venzuela and free software".
Please send me information since if this is what arrives to India as new, many
things are wrong. There will be some part some cracking to the information.
warm regards
juan
>
>Thanks
>senthil
---------------- my answer to nagarjuna before ---------------------
Dear Nagarjuna,
you are missing the point forwarding this 'noisy declaration'
This declaration was signed where? by 5 6 man?
what is that?, the comunities in south-america are only this ammount of
persons?
hmmm
Remember, South-America where you've been once or twice, is far from
India, they dont speak english.
You remember me when I try to understand malayalam. I can not.
Will be better to be very informed how are things in the south.
I put in cc some man that i think you should meet, or not depending if
you want or not to understand how things are.
Martin Olivera -> president of solar.org.ar Free Software Association of
Argentina
Diego Saravia -> author of ututo, the most important project on free
software in South- America. He also gave to rms a honoris causa by the
salta university.
Also Diego has been one of the creators of solar itself, and more, also
helped create ASLE , the ecuatorian Free Software Asociation, and also
SOLVE in venezuela. AS you see, he was one of the creators of the 80 per
cent of the Free Software Associations and also the important ones (of
course Brasil is not there).
Rafael Bonifaz -> worked for the Ecuatorian Government very commited
with free software, one of the creators of ASLE.
Then I think will be interesting to talk to the communities
thanks very much
regards
juan
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I'll really like to say thanks to Sasi Kumar, who inspired us to do a website
to start collectivelly writing the history of free software free knowledge in
south-america (to start). There is also the translation of Sasi's article to
spanish. We started it 2 days ago.
http://marroncito.hipatia.net
marroncito means brown. In this site we aim to put all the things we remember
from history, the good ones and the bad ones.
thanks Sasi again
juan
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