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Fwd: [Fsmk-discuss] FSMK Newsletter Volume3
by Vikram Vincent 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rameez Thonnakkal <ssrameez(a)gmail.com> Date: 2009/8/19 Subject: [Fsmk-discuss] FSMK Newsletter Volume3 To: Dear Friend, FSMK Newsletter Volume3 <http://fsmk.org/node/41> 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. _______________________________________________ fsmk-discuss mailing list fsmk-discuss(a)lists.fsmk.in http://lists.fsmk.in/listinfo.cgi/fsmk-discuss-fsmk.in -- Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://swatantra.org/ http://fsmk.org/

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Maharastra signs MoU with M$
by Nagarjuna G. 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

Alert! let us send a strong letter to the ministers, education dept. as soon as possible. Check out several stories that appeared in all news papers. I have read on page3 in DNA. http://ur1.ca/9n8q -- Nagarjuna G.

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FSMK- news letter 3
by naveen mudunuru 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

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. -- 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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Fwd: [gnu-prog-discuss] GNU Generation
by Nagarjuna G. 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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. -- Nagarjuna G. http://www.gnowledge.org/

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Fwd: [en] Caracas Declaration
by Juan Carlos Gentile Fagundez 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

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 -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gutta cavat lapidem --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.hipatia.net - http://aty.hipatia.net - http://guri.c-o-d-e-x.net Italia - tel: +39 3929657778 +39 3384192487 - India - +91 9633621956 jabber: jucar(a)hipatia.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fingerprint: 7464 DDDE 9D5D 3B6C CBF9 7699 A021 CE74 EA7A D95A Public key 0xEA7AD95A at http://pgp.mit.edu

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site inspired on Sasi's article
by Juan Carlos Gentile Fagundez 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

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 -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gutta cavat lapidem --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.hipatia.net - http://aty.hipatia.net - http://guri.c-o-d-e-x.net Italia - tel: +39 3929657778 +39 3384192487 - India - +91 9633621956 jabber: jucar(a)hipatia.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fingerprint: 7464 DDDE 9D5D 3B6C CBF9 7699 A021 CE74 EA7A D95A Public key 0xEA7AD95A at http://pgp.mit.edu

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Fwd: [en] Caracas Declaration
by Nagarjuna G. 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

-- Nagarjuna G. gnowledge lab, HBCSE, TIFR. India.

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