Hi,
If you see any education institutions forcing usage of proprietary software for online education, you can share these letters and also let us know so we can support you in challenging it.
FSF India: Open letter to KITE: On the use of proprietary apps and services for online classes in schools https://fsf.org.in/news/proprietary-apps-in-schools/
FSCI: https://fsci.in/statements/open-letter-to-kerala-kite-ceo-on-forcing-teache…
Also recently University of Calicut made Adobe Premier mandatory for setting up recording studios in all colleges, we challenged it and they promised to remove the requirement for proprietary software.
Thanks
Praveen
for invitees. If you're interested, get in touch with Shruti and check
the possibility of participating. FN
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Dear all,
We are pleased to inform you that after the successful First Working
Group Consultation on the Use of ICTs for Development in Bangalore, we
are now organizing the SECOND WORKING GROUP CONSULTATION in NEW DELHI
on the 27-28 MAY, 2003.
The Delhi meeting will carry forward the agenda set in Bangalore, and
focus on the theme of FREE & OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; AND THE ROLE OF THE
MEDIA IN WIDENING THE DEBATE ON DEVELOPMENT.
Our lead project partner is the Centre for Public Policy, Indian
Institute of Management, Bangalore. The Delhi meeting is being
organised in co-operation with the Indian Institute of Mass
Communication, New Delhi.
We hope that you will participate in the Delhi meeting and make it as
fruitful and productive as the Bangalore Consultation.
This is just an advance intimation for you to block your dates for the
Consultation. We will soon be sending you the detailed agenda.
We look forward to seeing you all in Delhi.
Warm regards,
Shruti Gupta
Junior co-ordinator
Project on ICTs for Development
files, using pdfTeX, also free software.
"So powerful is TeX that it was able to process nearly 1,200 pages in just
four minutes", says Radhakrishnan. "Not only that, since it is also a
programming language, it is able to do several things automatically, like
the generation of header markers, for example", he adds.
To incorporate corrections and editorial changes to the proof sheets, RVT
designed a graphical spreadsheet interface for SJP. This also helped to save
time in updating the almost 10,000 entries that had changed since the last
directory was printed four years ago.
Recent reports in India's enterprise-based Network Magazine also noted the
small but growing number of other industrial ventures starting to try out
GNU/Linux in their "mission critical space".
Asian Paints, India's largest paint company, has implemented SAP modules on
GNU/Linux. IDBI Bank, with over 91 branches, runs its core banking
applications on it. Rolta India runs its database containing thousands of
users, while ICICI Infotech runs its knowledge management applications, and
C-DAC runs e-governance solutions on GNU/Linux.
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the debate elsewhere. FN
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Dear Isa,
> Thanks Sunil,
>
> Systems should be up within a week or so...
Thanks for that. And sorry for my rudeness in my original post. Let me
offer you a deal to try and make up.
Please consider changing the name 'International Open Source Network' to
'International Free Software Network'. Here 'Free' as in 'Freedom'.
The term 'Open source' only pays homage to the first freedom in the GPL.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
* The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs
The term 'Free software' encompasses all 4 freedoms
* The freedom to run the program, for any purpose
* The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs
* The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
* The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to
the public
...notice how these freedoms affect ownership and control of
technologies. This paradigm shift is critical in overcoming the Digital
Divide.
If the name of your organization is changed. We [MAHITI] will build a
high quality portal cum collaboration platform for you just like
Plone.org for 'Free'. Here 'Free' as in 'Free Lunch'. Details of
Zope/Plone below.
Hope you will forgive my audacity :-)
Thanks,
Sunil
Notable users of Plone include Government of Hawaii, Lufthansa, NATO,
AARP, CBS New York, Austrian Government, Activestate.com and University
College London
We will be using Plone / Zope content management system.
1. Short Profile: http://www.zope.org/Members/limi/plone-1.0-release
2. Movie: http://www2.state.hi.us/dags/icsd/content/video/higovdemo.avi
3. Book: http://plone.org/documentation/book
4. Other Zope Clients: http://www.zope.com/ZopeClientList
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MAHITI Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
'Reducing the cost and complexity of ICTs'
314/1, 7th Cross, Domlur
Bangalore - 560 071 Karnataka, INDIA
Ph/Fax: +91 80 4150580. Mobile: 98441 01150
sunil(a)mahiti.org http://www.mahiti.org
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Free Software rated high
source: The Hindu , 9 Feb'2003
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM FEB. 9. Companies at the Technopark, near here, rate Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) highly, a survey conducted by the Trivandrum Chapter of Computer Society of India in association with the Group of Technopark Companies shows.
Many companies use both Windows and Linux operating systems. The most commonly used operating system was Windows NT family (90 per cent), followed by Windows 95 family (85 per cent) and the GNU/Linux family (80 per cent).
read full story at :
http://www.hinduonnet.com/stories/2003021003620400.htm
Message: 2
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 08:31:02 -0000
From: "H.R. Mohan" <hrmohan123(a)yahoo.com>
Subject: Chennai meet: Open Access of Information
TOPIC : Open Access of information using Open Source Systems
SPEAKER : Prof. John Willinsky
Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology
University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada.
DATE : Saturday, 8th February 2003
TIME : 4.30 p.m.
Hi-Tea : After the talk
VENUE : HOTEL TAJ CONNEMARA, Chennai
About the Speaker & Talk:
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Prof. John Willinsky is currently the Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology in the Department of Language and Literacy
Education at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He holds prestigious Mac
Arthur Fellowship. He directs the Public Knowledge Project, which is dedicated to developing online conferences, journals, and indexing
systems that improve the scholarly and public quality of academic research. He is also an expert in using technology in literacy
efforts.
Prof. John Willinsky will address on the current situation around electronic access to research and its potential for the future under
different models. He will also demonstrate the potential of new open source systems, some of which have been developed by him, in
assisting the existing and new Indian journals in moving into an online environment in ways that improve both the scholarly and public
quality of the research.
It may be noted that the open access project is making the information available to researchers using open systems which are
free. It is more towards information handling and sharing and bridge the digital divide. It will also deal with knowledge creation, PR
issues, copyright, self archiving and digital libraries.
K.Jayaramakrishnan Dr. R. Samyuktha
Hon. Secretary Secretary
Computer Society of India Madras Library Association
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in Pune. It is a very good idea. FSUG Chennai is the first affiliate of
FSF India and working on a specific project.
It may be a good idea if you can work on networking with colleges.
Abhas is already doing some work, may be he can provide more input on
same.
If you are interested in doing some other specific task. Please let me
know.
Regards,
Arun.
Kuzima, site needs to be updated with Demo@school note and a section on
help wanted.
'intellectual property' should have been treated with inverted-quotes or
more skepticism throughout... FN
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THE DAILY LIFE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
(20 - 21st December, 2002)
A workshop organised by Sarai/ CSDS, Delhi and ALF, Bangalore
Venue : Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi - 110054
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Day One : 20th Friday, 2002
10 AM : Session 1
Introduction - Jeebesh Bagchi, Sarai/CSDS
Ravi Sundaram, Sarai/CSDS,
Introduction to the Public and Practices in the History of the Present
(PPHP) research work within the grey economy.
Prof. NS Gopalkrishnan, CUSAT,
Criminalization of intellectual property law
Discussion
11.30 AM : Tea
11.45 AM : Sessions 2
Lawrence Liang, ALF
Emergence of IPR in daily life and language
Discussant - Shamnad Basheer, Oxford
1.30 PM Lunch
2.15 PM
Discussion Session
Presentations -
Anup and Naditha - MHRD, Govt. of India report on copyright piracy in India
Neha Mahyavanshi - The vendors manual on IPR
Sudhir and Lawrence - IPR cases and materials CD
Comments and discussion
4.30 PM - The Code - a film by Hannu Puttonen on free software movement
6.00 PM - A terrible beauty is born - a reading/ performance by Arjun Raina
(@ Sarai Interface Zone)
======================
Day Two - 21st Saturday, 2002
10 AM : Session1
A summary of day one - Sudhir Krishnaswamy
Ravi Vasudevan, Sarai/CSDS
IPL and rethinking of cultural studies
Sudhir Krishnaswamy, ALF,
The constitutional dimensions of the public domain
Tea break - 12
12.15 PM : Session 2
Arun Mehta, Moderator, India GII list
Software Patents: An illustration of the absurdity of IPR in the Information
Age
Tripta Chandola, Sarai,
Open Source Licensing - some comments
Lunch - 1.30 PM
2.15 PM : Session 3
Jeebesh Bagchi, Sarai
>From `free software` to OPUS (www.opuscommons.net)
Nitin Sawhney, MIT-Media Lab
ThinkCycle: Cooperative Innovation in the Commons
Discussion Session:
OpenRegistry by Sunil Abraham, Mahiti
The challenges of formulating a license: ThinkCycle
Closing remarks by Sarai and ALF
4.30 PM - Tea
4.45 PM - A short planning session with student stipends
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Now, how can you help me get this project thru asap.
It will take me another 15 days to get the analysis thru, I will be using
UML as a standard. I will post the analysis as soon as it is completed.
Suraj, i need another help. Can anyone guide me on how to convert this
project to be official GNU project ?
Regards,
Tarun Gaur
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:03:50 -0000
From: "kwang_poon" <kwang_poon(a)yahoo.com>
Subject: Linux in China
NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: 11/11/02
Today's focus: China developers embrace Linux, study finds
By Phil Hochmuth
A recent survey by research group Evans Data shows that Linux
is running away with the nascent Chinese IT market.
The survey was completed this month and asked 1,000
applications developers based in China questions on trends in
programming and technology being used there. It was found that
44% of the developers said they had written code for the Linux
operating system, while 65% said they expected to write a Linux
application in the next year.
Linux is a hit in China because of its open-source licensing
structure, which allows the software to be reused and installed
on limitless machines without recrimination or copyright
enforcement laws. This helps keep costs down for the hundreds
of thousands of machines the various government agencies must
deploy in order to support the government, which runs a country
of 1.2 billion citizens.
Another driver of Linux in China is that the country has its
own homegrown brand - Red Flag Linux - which was created by the
Chinese Academy of Sciences. The PC Linux flavor is a staple on
the desktops in many Chinese government agencies, observers
say. Last year, the government of Beijing awarded IT contracts
to six local IT providers, but rejected a seventh IT proposal,
which came from Microsoft.
Linux is also making inroads into servers in China. According
to Evans Data, 11% of Chinese developers said they will use
Linux servers next year, as opposed to only 4% who use Linux
servers now.
_______________________________________________________________
To contact Phil Hochmuth:
Phil Hochmuth is a Senior Writer for Network World, and
a former systems integrator. You can reach him at
mailto:phochmut@nww.com.
Related links
http://www.evansdata.com/http://www.redflag-linux.com/
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