Fsf-friends April 2010

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Sasi Kumar in Paraguay - Free Software Asuncion

by Juan Carlos Gentile Fagundez

Here you have Sasi having "terere" similar to "mate" but cold. This picture was taken in a 3 hours radio program http://gallery.hipatia.net/main.php?g2_itemId=11837 Here you can find a picture of the panelists (don't know if complete) People from Bolivia (very interesting country), Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, Italy (you may know Marco Ciurcina), India (Sasi of course). http://gallery.hipatia.net/main.php?g2_itemId=11844 Here you will find most of the persons that were working for the event, and some of them also panelists http://gallery.hipatia.net/main.php?g2_itemId=11846 Now we are organizing Sasi agenda. Probably Bolivia-Ecuador-Brazil?-Uruguay? Of course the key countries now are Ecuador-Bolivia . regards juan -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gutta cavat lapidem --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.hipatia.net - http://aty.hipatia.net - http://guri.c-o-d-e-x.net marroncito.hipatia.info Italia - tel: +39 3929657778 - India - +91 9633621956 - Uruguay +598 099 945009 jabber: jucar(a)hipatia.net email: jucar at hipatia.net , jucar at roar.music.columbia.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fingerprint: 7464 DDDE 9D5D 3B6C CBF9 7699 A021 CE74 EA7A D95A Public key 0xEA7AD95A at http://pgp.mit.edu

13 years, 7 months

Drupal Workshop at VNR VJIET, Bachupally, Hyderabad on May 1-2, 2010

by Siva Kumar Epari

Hi all This is an invitation to all Drupal enthusiasts and web developers for the Drupal Workshop, which is scheduled on May 1-2, 2010 at VNR VJIET, Bachupally, Hyderabad. Sessions have been planned for Beginners as well as developers. For more information: Sessions : http://drupalhyderabad.com/sessions Register at : http://drupalhyderabad.com/register Sponsors : http://drupalhyderabad.com/sponsors For more details contact us at http://drupalhyderabad.com/contact Regards Siva Kumar Epari Drupal Hyderabad Group

13 years, 7 months

Article on FSMK in Times of India

by Nidhin Sasi

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archiv…

13 years, 7 months

Freedom movement - an article in Frontline

by Roopesh P Raj

http://www.flonnet.com/stories/20100507270909400.htm http://www.flonnet.com/stories/20100507270909600.htm

13 years, 7 months

ICE FOSS'10 @ FISAT,Angamaly,Kerala

by jijo thomas

hi all, The Free Software Cell of FISAT Engineering College(Angamaly,Cochin,Kerala), FFSC is organizing a FOSS Conference on April 19th,20th and 21st. Following are the events which we are planning to conduct: Talks: * Why Free/Open Document Standards is Mandatory and not an Option By, Dr.Nagarjuna.G * FOSS,GNU & Ethics By, Mr.Amarnath Raja * git Version Control Systems By, Mr.Vimal Joseph * Open Source in education and Beyond By, Mr.V.K.Adarsh * High availability By, Mr.Unnikrishnan Workshops * Kernel Programming By, Mr.Ciju Rajan * Python By, Mr.Ignatius Kunjumon * SciPy By, Mr.Pramode.C.E * Qt workshop Mr.Unni Open Discussions * Language Localization and Malayalam Community Lead By, Mr.Hiran Venugopalan * Open Source for the differently-abled Lead By, Mr.Sathyaseelan for more info www.icefoss.in Jijo Thomas FFSC FISAT +919496826708

13 years, 7 months

Students and ICT

by V. Sasi Kumar

‘Although all the college teachers/principals we spoke to acknowledged that ICT (Information Communication Technologies)-enabled technologies have radically altered ways in which information is perceived and transmitted, they did not consider on-campus Internet facility a priority for students,” says the SPACE team. See full story at: http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/15/stories/2010041555270600.htm Best Sasi -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India http://swatantryam.blogspot.com

13 years, 7 months

Localisation (l10n) sprint of Free (as in Swatantra) software to Kannada - April 18th

by Vikram Vincent

Swatantra.Org and Linux Campus Club - Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (LCCSJCE) in association with Free Software Movement Karnataka (FSMK), Dept. of Kannada - Christ University, Bangalore, and Dept. of Kannada - SJCE, Mysore will be organising and coordinating a worldwide localisation (l10n) sprint to translate various Free (as in Swatantra) software to Kannada. Students, teachers, IT employees and others from institutions all over the world are expected to participate in this translation sprint via the online interface that has been set up at https://pootle.debian.net/kn/ Date: 18th April (Sunday) 2010 Time: Starts at 10:30AM IST Venue: SJCE campus, Mysore. Contacts: Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram(a)swatantra.org>, +919448810822 Shubhanga Acharya <mail(a)lccsjce.org>, +919480445321 Websites: http://swatantra.org ವಿಷಯ : ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶಗಳನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಭಾಷಾಂತರಿಸುವ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ.ಓರ್ಗ್ (swatantra.org) ಮತ್ತು ಶ್ರೀ ಜಯಚಾಮರಾಜೇಂದ್ರ ತಾಂತಿಕ ಕಾಲೇಜಿನ ಲೈನಕ್ಸ್ಸಂಘ (LCCSJCE), ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಆಂದೋಲನ - ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ(FSMK),ಕ್ರೈಸ್ತ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ(Christ University) ಹಾಗು SJCE ಕಾಲೇಜುಗಳ ಕನ್ನಡ ಇಲಾಖೆಗಳ ಜೊತೆ ಕೂಡಿ, ವಿಶ್ವ ಮಟ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿ , ಹಲವಾರು ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶಗಳನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಭಾಷಾಂತರಿಸುವ ಚಟುವಟಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ಆಯೋಜಿಸಿ ಹಮ್ಮಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದೇವೆ. ಜಾಗತಿಕ ಮಟ್ಟಲ್ಲಿ ನೂರಾರು ವಿಧ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳು, ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರು , ಮಾಹಿತಿ - ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನ ಉದ್ಯೋಗಿಗಳು ನಮ್ಮ ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯ ಮುಖಾಂತರ ಈ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಲಿದ್ದಾರೆ . ಈ ನಿಟ್ಟಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಹಾಗು ಮೈಸೂರಿನ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿ ಹಾಗು ಶಿಕ್ಷಕ ಸಮೂಹದವರು ಎಪ್ರಿಲ್ ೧೯ ,೨೦೧೦ರಂದು ಮೈಸೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಸೇರಿ ಹಲವಾರು ಚಟುವಟಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಹಮ್ಮಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದೇವೆ. ಈ ದಿನದ ಚಟುವಟಿಕೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ನೀವೂ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಬೇಕೆಂದು ನಾವು ವಿನಮ್ರವಾಗಿ ನಿಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಆಮಂತ್ರಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದೇವೆ .

13 years, 7 months

Report of the Workshop "FOSS for budding developers"

by Nidhin Sasi

Hi All, http://saketsrivastav.wordpress.com/ *http://www.nc2010.fsmk.org/LDW/index.html* Thanks & Regards Nidhin

13 years, 7 months

Free Technology Academy publishes three new books

by Nagarjuna G

Below a new announcement from the Free Technology Academy on the publication of 3 new books, information on the upcoming courses and some first impressions. read the full announcement here: The permanent URL: http://ftacademy.eu/announce/6 -- GN

13 years, 7 months

Re: [Fsf-friends] fsmk-discuss Digest, Vol 13, Issue 3

by naveen mudunuru

Dear All, *Free Software Movement-Karnataka (FSMK)* a member organisation*REE SOFTWARE MOVEMENT INDIA * in association with* IBM Software Labs* is organizing the encore workshop on *'FOSS for budding developers'* at *CMR Institute of Technology*, Bangalore, on 10th and 11th April 2010, targeted at students becoming code contributors - foss developers. Please visit http://nc2010.fsmk.org/LDW/. You can also contact myself or Mr.Prabodh lecturer CMRIT college over email or phone for more details of the conference. Contact Persons: Naveen Mudunuru(+919986403928), Prabodh (9844205442). Session Details Inaugral Address: *Prof. Gopinath, IISc, Vice President, FSMI* Day1 - *Eclipse *(Software Development Environment related) - *Linux Kernel workshop* - *OpenPegasus* (System Management Development related) Day2 - *Linux Test Project* (Test development/testing for Linux OS related) - *Linux Kernel workshop* - *Apache Geronimo* (Web Server/Web Applications development related) *Guest Talk:* L Subramani, Chief Technical Editor, Deccan Herald *Note*:* Each Day consists of 3 parallel sessions as mentioned above. Students are free to choose any one of these sessions on either day* Prerequisites *Its expected that all participants will have:* 1. Basic knowledge of Operating Systems 2. Good working knowledge of C 3. Hands-on experience desirable 4. Kernel programming experience is a bonus 5. Basic scripting knowledge (ex: shell scripts) 6. Working knowledge of GNU/Linux. 7. Booting a GNU/Linux system 8. Basic system administration (adding/removing users etc) 9. Basic commands (ls, ps, chmod, mkdir, vi, etc) *Event Details* *Date:* 10th and 11th April 2010. *Venue:* CMR Institute of Technology No. 132, AECS Layout, IT Park Road, Bengaluru - 560 037. -- regards naveen Be Free, Speak Free, Work Free. Advocate "FREE SOFTWARE", FREE as in FREE SPEECH, not as in FREE BEER

13 years, 8 months

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