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Graphics designer... interested in creating fonts
by Frederick Noronha 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

Please get in touch with Michael Steidley directly.Thanks, FN Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 08:21:47 -0500 Subject: GPL Fonts From: Michael Steidley <michael(a)ariesgraphics.net> Hello! I recently read your article in Linux Journal about Indian language solutions in linux. I'm a graphics designer and digital media specialist. I've been creating fonts for over ten years and I'm interested in helping create fonts for Indian languages which do not have any GPL fonts available. If you could put me in contact with someone concerning this matter I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you for your time. --Michael Steidley

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Halloween7 document
by Raju Mathur 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

Hope I'm not repeating, but I don't recollect seeing this on the lists earlier. For the purists, while the memo uses the term open source extensively, it can be replaced by free software over most of the document. 'Ware when replying and cross-posting. http://opensource.org/halloween/halloween7.php Executive Summary This mail provides a detailed summary of the results of the Attitudes Towards Shared Source & Open Source Research Project managed by Kathryn Marsman and directed by David Kaefer and Jason Matusow. The Shared Source project was developed to provide a greater understanding of how key audiences perceive Open Source, Linux, Shared Source, and the GPL and which messages will be effective with each audience. The survey was fielded in the U.S., Brazil, France, Germany, Sweden, & Japan with developers, IT and non-IT BDMs, IT Pros and Issue Elites. Please note that save for the U.S., the individual country and audience sample sizes are extremely small. The survey questionnaire and samples were developed collaboratively by Redmond, the subsidiaries and the survey vendor. All data collection utilized a telephone-based interviewing process. The study fielded between late-July and September 2001. The detailed summary below drills into OSS and Linux familiarity and favorability, those reasons people give for being supportive of OSS and Linux, Shared Source familiarity and favorability, and OSS, Linux and Shared Source messaging. Key takeaways follow. [snip] -- Raju -- Raju Mathur raju(a)kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ It is the mind that moves

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Richard Stallman in Delhi
by Frederick Noronha 06 Nov '02

06 Nov '02

------------------ History Society, Ramjas College + Sarai/ CSDS invite you to a talk " Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks" by RICHARD STALLMAN, Founder, Free Software Foundation on Friday, November 8, 2002 The talk will be followed by a discussion. Venue: Auditorium, Ramjas College Time: 11.30 AM "COPYRIGHT developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. � But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it. The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing public access to technology. �But if we seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright--to promote progress, for the benefit of the public--then what must be done is either to reduce copyright powers or effectively eliminate them, depending on the kind of work. �Governments must now protect the public's right to copy." RICHARD STALLMAN is "the founder of the GNU Project, launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for "GNU's Not Unix''), and thereby give computer users the freedom that most of them have lost. GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small." Stallman has also founded the related Free Software Foundation (FSF) and is outspoken about his belief that all software should be free. In his view � proprietary software, for which corporations charge a fee, is wrong from a moral or ethical standpoint. -------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: [LIG] Some assistance needed in Aramboly, Tamil Nadu]
by Sayamindu Dasgupta 06 Nov '02

06 Nov '02

-----Forwarded Message----- > From: Thommie Rother <t.rother(a)netzwissen.de> > To: linux-india Mailing Liste <linux-india-general(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: [LIG] Some assistance needed in Aramboly, Tamil Nadu > Date: 06 Nov 2002 13:10:57 +0100 > > Hi folks, > this message does't come from a Linuxer in India, but in Germany: > I am working with an NGO supporting a home for orphaned children in > Tamil Nadu, the Annai Seva Ashram. The home is located in Aramboly, > Kanyakumari Dist., a few kilometers from Nagercoil. The children are > from 7 to 15 yrs old, they get basic education in local public schools. > Our NGO here in Germany supports the projects since 18 years. For > details, see http://www.annai.de (sorry for the english pages not being > "up to date"). > > I have two questions: > > 1) On-site Linux/graphics/printing advice in Kanyakumari district > To make some (additional) money, the home had operated a little print > shop for some years. As the classic "mechanical printing" is out of date > now, the machinery has been sold. Instead of this, they want to invest > into computerized printing. They will not buy a complete "printer > factory" , but rather specialize in pre-press/pre-printing activities. > That means, they want to create the digital data, the actual printing is > done elsewhere. All necessary knowledge on printing is already there. > Our board has opened a budget for the purchase of a good (professional) > desktop PC and the chief officer of ASA (Mr Sukumaran) had already > received an offer from a computer shop in Nagercoil plus some detailed > recommendations from us, concerning the hardware. > > For the software side, we recommend strongly to NOT invest into > proprietary M$ Windows stuff but rather into the Linux OS and > free/Open-Source software. But the final decision is up to them! I am > looking for some person who is willing to give Mr Sukumaram some on-site > advice, in the case that he will decide to use Linux and Linux graphical > programs (that will be GIMP, I assume..). I already made some searches > on linux-india.org, but without successs concerning the Kanyakumari region. > > 2) Website creation in the tamil language > For the www.annai.de site, we want to have a three-language setup: > primarily in german, then tamil and english. I am looking for some > practical start-up hints on creating tamil web pages. Can anyone here > give me an overwiev on this? I have people who can translate from > english to Tamil (at ASA), but how is tamil supported in current > browsers/OS'es nowadays? > > Greetings & thanks for your help! > Thomas > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > THOMAS M. ROTHER * n e t z w i s s e n * D-73728 Esslingen > F.R. Germany, European Union * mailto:t.rother@netzwissen.de > http://www.netzwissen.de * GPG Key from http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net > Fingerprint B208 E204 4249 4635 19B9 B691 3E73 C8B9 1229 DE4C > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm > Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en > _______________________________________________ > Linux-india-general mailing list > Linux-india-general(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-general

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Just who is Richard M Stallman (a pen-potrait) / Long
by Frederick Noronha 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

* * * Please excuse this long post... today is an unusual day in the history of GNU/Linux in Goa. RMS speaks at the GEC at 4 pm on November 6, 2002 (This article was written c. 2001) * * * OpenNews: OpenSource newz from India! ... Free(tm) news for a free future!

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Chronology of Open Source / Free Software
by CK Raju 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

An interesting link of chronology. http://www.grulic.org.ar/proposicion/doc/noticias-web.html That's a fantastic work. CK Raju

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IT in IT
by Mahesh T Pai 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

Hi!! all!!! This is one is about Information Technology in Income Tax. The central government has sought comments on reforms in direct and indirect tax administration. It is there at http://finmin.nic.in/. But, IT (that is, information technology) is going to be more pervasive in tax administration. See:- http://finmin.nic.in/kelkar/report.pdf and http://finmin.nic.in/kelkar/Full_Report.pdf Most of you can ignore the reports themselves, there is nothing about choice of s/w in these reports, except a recommendation that use of Information Technology should be made more pervasive - and for business nosed amongst you, there is a recommendaiton that data entry should be farmed out. I believe that online presentation of tax returns and payment will become feasible. I think that this is the ripe time to put up a strong opinion that such procedures should be based on free s/w. However, in light of experiences in some countries, where IT (Income Tax) transactions were not accepted on line when the client / user system was non-proprietary, I think we should make a short submission on the issue. Already, the Income Tax department's web pages are based on ASP - active server pages, as I gather from the link addresses. Any body has more info and experiences to share with us about online transactions? I suggest that we put put up a short submission, - some 500 words will do, based on feed back from the community. Regards, Mahesh T Pai.

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Free Software support and service
by Arun M 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

Hi All, We need to make a database of Free Software support and services groups in the state of Kerala. This information is requested by various organisations which wants to take advantage of Free Software for its activity. If you provide Free Software service or know some one who provides the same please write to me or add to FSF Business directory. http://forum.gnu.org.in/bizdir Regards Arun.

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RE[fsug-calicut] Help (LISP) !
by Manjush G. Menon 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

------- Start of forwarded message ------- From: robin.c.smith(a)bt.com To: gllug(a)linux.co.uk Reply-To: gllug(a)linux.co.uk Subject: Fwd: RE: [Gllug] Fwd: [fsug-calicut] Help (LISP) ! Date: 11/1/2002 4:38:50 PM The Emacs editor is largely written in LISP - strange dialect I have heard - and you can run LISP there Robin -----Original Message----- From: Manjush "G." Menon [mailto:manjushmenon@rediffmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 10:23 To: gllug(a)linux.co.uk Subject: [Gllug] Fwd: [fsug-calicut] Help (LISP) ! ------- Start of forwarded message ------- From: "Sudheer K" <sudheerk_22(a)rediffmail.com> To: fsug-calicut(a)freelists.org Reply-To: fsug-calicut(a)freelists.org Subject: Fwd: [fsug-calicut] Help (LISP) ! Date: 11/1/2002 12:41:13 AM Hai everybody, This is the first time I am writing an email to this mailing list. I am a final year MCA student. As a part of the course i have a subject called Artificial Intelligence. In this subject we have a language LISP (LISt Processing) I am a newbie in Linux and I heard that Linux is a good platform for local area networks and programmers Can you please tell me about interpreters or compilers used for LISP programs under Linux platform? Thank you, Sudheer S __________________________________________________________ Give your Company an email address like ravi @ ravi-exports.com. Sign up for Rediffmail Pro today! Know more. http://www.rediffmailpro.com/signup/ --------------------------------------------- FSUG-Kozhikode Home Page : http://www.freelists.org/webpage/fsug-calicut --------------------------------------------- -------- End of forwarded message -------- -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug(a)linux.co.uk http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug(a)linux.co.uk http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug -------- End of forwarded message --------

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HappyDiwali thanx to BILL to bill in BusinessWorld
by Frederick Noronha 03 Nov '02

03 Nov '02

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