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Report on Python workshop at St.Joseph's college
by Pramode C.E. 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

http://pramode.net/2009/11/12/report-on-python-workshop-at-irinjalakkuda-st… Regards, Pramode ----------- The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/

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[ANN][X-Post] SciPy India 2009 - Call for Papers
by Kadambari Devarajan 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

Call for Presentations ====================== The SciPy India 2009 Program Committee is currently developing the conference program. We are seeking presentations from industry as well as the academic world. We look forward to hearing your recent breakthroughs using Python! Please read the full 'call for papers' <http://scipy.in/talks-cfp/>. SciPy India 2009 Conference --------------------------- The first 'SciPy India Conference' <http://scipy.in> will be held from December 12th to 17th, 2009 at the 'Technopark in Trivandrum'<http://www.technopark.org/>, Kerala, India. The theme of the conference will be "Scientific Python in Action" with respect to application and teaching. We are pleased to have Travis Oliphant, the creator and lead developer of 'numpy' <http://numpy.scipy.org>as the keynote speaker. Please register here <http://scipy.in>. Important Dates --------------- * Friday, Nov. 20: Abstracts Due * Friday, Nov. 27: Announce accepted talks, post schedule * Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 12-13: Conference * Monday-Tuesday, Dec. 14-15: Tutorials * Wednesday-Thursday, Dec. 16-17: Sprints Organizers ---------- * Jarrod Millman, Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley, USA (Conference Co-Chair) * Prabhu Ramachandran, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay, India (Conference Co-Chair) * FOSSEE Team Sponsors -------- * National Mission On Education through ICT - Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India * SPACE-Kerala (India) * Kerala State IT Mission(KSITM) * SIG-FOSS Of CSIy -- Check out my blog at http://kadambarid.livejournal.com

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White House embraces Free software
by ck raju 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

"..The White House launched a new version of its website on Saturday. While little has changed on the surface, the underlying technology is now powered by the open source Drupal content management system..." http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/10/27/white_house_goes_open_source.h… -- CK Raju

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interesting declaration
by Nagarjuna G. 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

check this declaration http://co-ment.freeknowledge.eu/text/7/ -- Nagarjuna G. http://www.gnowledge.org/

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[x-post]Free Technology Academy website & course descriptions published!
by Anivar Aravind 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hinde ten Berge FTA Announcement #2: Website and course descriptions published --------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Free Technology Academy website launched! The Free Technology Academy (FTA) is proud to announce the official launch of its website. It's available at http://www.ftacademy.org. There you will find all the information related with the project, including news, next activities, press resources and many more. All the contents are released under a free Copyleft license, so feel free to share and reuse all the FTA materials. 2. FTA course programme published The Free Technology Academy aims to establish a full educational programme on Free Software and Open Standards. This programme can be followed as a whole or only partially, and these studies can be expanded at one or more of the partner universities. The first set of courses is finally available. At http://www.ftacademy.org/courses/modules you will find the description of each module included in the FTA master level programme. The current modules are: 1) The concepts of Free Software and Open Standards 2) The GNU/Linux Operating System 3) Network Technologies 4) Web applications development 5) Economical aspects of Free Software 6) Legal aspects of the Information Society 7) Software development 8) Case Studies Each educational module in the FTA programme stands on its own and can be followed independently, provided that the learner has the required previous knowledge. Introductory courses require almost no previous knowledge, besides the basics necessary to access the FTA campus itself, while more advanced modules are meant for IT professionals seeking to acquire specific skills. The materials of each course will be published in the next few months under a free content license. The registration for the first courses will be announced soon, so stay tuned! 3. Contact information To know more about the FTA, visit the official site at http://www.ftacademy.org. To receive information on when registration will open exactly, keep an eye on the website or subscribe to the Announce list at http://mail.freeknowledge.eu/mailman/listinfo/fta-announce. If you have questions, or you are interested to become a partner organisation in the FTA network, write us at contact (at) ftacademy.org 4. About the Free Technology Academy A Consortium formed by three universities and led by the Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) has received the support from the EC's Lifelong Learning Programme to offer an international educational programme on Free Software. Following the Open Educational Resources movement, all learning materials will be freely available through the Internet. The use of Free Software (also referred to as Open Source software or Libre Software) is expanding rapidly in governmental and private organisations. However, still only a limited number of IT professionals, teachers and decision makers have sufficient knowledge and expertise in these new fields. The Free Technology Academy aims to address this gap by providing high level courses that fit into larger Master Programmes at the participating universities.

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[X-post] FSMK Newsletter Volume 5
by Vikram Vincent 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Dear Friends, FSMK releasing its fifth consecutive news letter. URL:- http://fsmk.org/Newsletter_October_2009 We are glad to receive your comments whether it is a criticism or praise.. Write to us and distribute this edition to as much of your contacts as possible. We welcome you to have your name on one of the articles in the forthcoming editions. Thanks and Regards, FSMK EB Team.

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wifi restrictions
by Nagarjuna G. 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

http://dot.gov.in/miscellaneous/publicnotice.pdf and also see this http://www.medianama.com/2009/10/223-indian-government-wants-telcos-to-regi… -- Nagarjuna G. http://www.gnowledge.org/

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Letter to the European Commission opposing Oracle's acquisition of MySQL
by Anivar Aravind 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

The following is a letter that KEI, Richard Stallman ORG have sent to the European Commission, asking the European Commission to prevent Oracle from acquiring MySQL as part of its acquisition of Sun. The European Commission has the authority to require a divestiture of MySQL, so that it would not be part of the merger, in order to ensure that MySQL would operate independently, or be sold to a different company that would not face the same conflicts as Oracle does. http://www.keionline.org/ec-mysql <snip> KEI sees the MySQL acquisition as an important precedent for the application of competition laws to free software. Traditional market analysis looks at revenue based market shares, which are meaningless for software distributed gratis or licensed under prices that reflect fees for services. Many important free software services are supported by some type of commercial business model, and can be fragile, if acquired by a firm that has an interest in diluting or destroying the longer run viability of the free software project. </snip> <snip> We recognize the support Sun provides to increase competition in numerous markets through its support of FLOSS and open standards. We also recognize that Oracle's acquisition of Sun may be essential for Sun's survival. However, Oracle should not be allowed to harm consumer interests in the database market by weakening the competition provided by MySQL. For the reasons elucidated above, we ask that you block Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. </snip> http://www.keionline.org/ec-mysql -- "[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth

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Fwd: [FSF] Why is free software important to you? Submit your response to our new video campaign!
by Nagarjuna G. 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Holmes Wilson <campaigns(a)fsf.org> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:20 AM Subject: [FSF] Why is free software important to you? Submit your response to our new video campaign! To: info-fsf(a)gnu.org, info-member(a)gnu.org The FSF is launching a new advocacy campaign, and we'd love to have you involved. One of the most important tasks for us at FSF is to help foster the understanding that free software is crucial to a free society, and that citizens should switch to free software at home and in their own work, for freedom's sake. But in many ways, most of this work has always been done by the millions of free software users around the world, telling others why they care about free software and what they use it for. So, why not make all that energy, specificity, and persuasion part of our message to the world on FSF.org? And what better way to do it than with videos from free software supporters, published using free formats and an exciting new free standard for online video? In 2-5 minutes, using a camcorder, digital camera, or webcam, you can create a video about why you or a friend love free software. Then submit your video and invite friends to do the same! Submission guidelines: * <http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/video_testimonial_guidelines/> At the Women in Free Software Summit and the Boston celebration of Software Freedom Day 2009, FSF volunteer Dana Moser roved the event asking participants the following questions, and making videos of the responses: * "What do you do with free software?" * "Why do you like free software?" * "Why is software freedom important to you?" Blog post with Dana's videos: * <http://www.fsf.org/news/video_testimonials_campaign/> Direct links to the video files: * <http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/what_like_sm.ogv> * <http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/important_sm.ogv> More about Dana: * <http://curiousart.org/resume.html> We look forward to watching your contributions! Thanks, Holmes Wilson Free Software Foundation P.S. We've been collecting written testimonials for a while -- check out the link below. If you'd like to submit a written testimonial, email testimonials(a)fsf.org. * <http://www.fsf.org/resources/testimonials> If you'd also like to put up a short video to be part of our end of year fundraising campaign, instructions are here: * <http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/year-end-fundraising-videos/> info-fsf mailing list info-fsf(a)gnu.org Unsubscribe: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-fsf -- Nagarjuna G. http://www.gnowledge.org/

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Fwd: fsmk and the current school program
by Vikram Vincent 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Combining FSMK's opinion from two mails and forwarding FYI. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Senthil Sundaram Date: 2009/10/14 Subject: fsmk and the current school program Dear All, Had a discussion with Guru . Writing to the group stating what we believe in . We might have got something wrong and open to correcting the same. This also gives us a chance to explain what a movement means . -s 1) We always make group decisions, I am communicating to him on behalf of the group. 2) We dream to be a movement. 3) We cannot loose the right of being critical of the government - especially when its having such a confused policy on implementation of FOSS. It for Change has done so and put up a paper. 4) FSMK, our current focus is colleges and a movement from there [ and skills as well] 5) We would like to continue dialogue and are very thankful for Guru and others talking to us - however as and when there is scope for a teachers movement in FOSS - that would be close to our hearts - Guru explained that the current situation is a starting point . 6) dreaming to be a movement we cannot be a implementing agency of a confused policy [ guru said look at this as influencing the government]. We understand the tricky ground IT for Change others are working and are thankful for the same. 8) i also explained FSMK is a part time group and volunteer based and the limitations thereof. --------------- next steps: 1) FSMK will be out of the MoU with the government - as we don't want to take money - and work in the spirit of a movement - as a group trying to be a movement we don't want to take money and let that drive us - A MOVEMENT is about certain IDEAS - OUR IDEAS WILL DRIVE US - We will reserve the right to CRITICIZE the GOVT - FOR not implementing the RIGHT IDEAS. Money small or big is important as we are accountable. Many a time it corrupts good activists and movements. There are many paper orgns which exist for their own interests or individual interests - for example many created out of the Tsunami money in TN . Dreaming to be a budding movement( don't know if we really are!)that's not good for us. Whenever we take money we need to have the infrastructure to make sure its accountable - I am sure all NGOs engaging in the current space will be doing so. However fsmk doesn't have the resoruces to do so and hence chooses to be voluntary.Lets hack. As soon as we are ready we will join. 2) Guru explained about nice and open officers in the government - I said we don't see such officers immediately - though we are open to working with anybody who is open - REQUESTED FSMK folks to be part of discussions with SUCH OPEN OFFICERS - so that we can have a change of PERCEPTION - if reality is so. 3) Guru said he would like to interact with us on the role of government and put forth his points - on the positive aspects of GOVT OFFICERS - and the chances for building a FOSS movement in that space. I said we can arrange a discussion - for FSMK - or for everybody in Bangalore. 4) In spirit we will be part of the program on a best effort basis and this will not be our main focus given our current skills and focus area, which is building GLUGS in colleges . We will not be part of the MoU. We will be volunteers. We would like to be part of the current group ( not part of an official consoritum/mou given our skills, prioritites). We like movements and we can partner more effectively in a movement space. We understand that in the current scenario that's evolving. Hence the core or support distinction can only be made as we evolve and depending on what we evolve into. Its suits us best to be voluntary and we will eat all the food that's given in the trainings and not spend from our pockets;), don't worry. 5) We understand the importance of NGOs/civil society working/lobbying with government to implement Foss and educate the officers. However we are clearly aware of the 50:50 policy position of the current government and the resulting lack lustre implementation of Foss in schools [BOOT] and we strongly believe in the role movements can play in changing as they did world over, even in FOSS. 6) However we don't mind joining our friends in Foss and nothing gives us more happiness than such solidarity - without compromising on what is close to our heart. Once again thanks for all the support and patience and lets continue the discussion if any of you feel we missed something.

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