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Report on Summer Camp at Angadippuram
by Pramode C.E. 03 May '07

03 May '07

Hello, Please find the report on the GNU/Linux/Phoenix/Python summer camp at: http://pramode-ce.livejournal.com/60542.html Pramode ----------- Send a FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger. Get it now at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/

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Broken pgms
by Mahesh M 03 May '07

03 May '07

Why is it that the required files and libraries are not distributed with the package? Can any arrangement be made for the same? Like... When s/w s are d/l ed one may not be able to install it (errors like ncurses are missing and all) User end people find it very very difficult... They hate searching net for every single thing jus to install one single package. I have been hearing this for a thousand times.. Is it just about the size consumption or is there any other concern?? -- Mahesh Its sure to be dark if you close your eyes. http://maheshmukundan.blogspot.com/

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Fwd: Bug#421892: Request for Kannada l10n mailing list
by Vikram Vincent 02 May '07

02 May '07

Hello All, We would like to set up a "debian-l10n-kannada(a)lists.debian.org" list to coordinate the Swatantra Kannada localisation. It would be very much appreciated if several people interested in the new list would send a mail to the bug, in order to record your interest. http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/HOWTO_start_list Please see the above link for more details. Thanks Regards Vincent ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel(a)ftbfs.de> Date: 02-May-2007 18:40 Subject: Re: Bug#421892: Request for Kannada l10n mailing list To: Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram(a)gmail.com>, 421892(a)bugs.debian.org Hi, On Wed May 02, 2007 at 14:52:21 +0530, Vikram Vincent wrote: > Package: > lists.debian.org< http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=lists.debian.org> > Severity: Wishlist > > Name: debian-l10n-kannada(a)lists.debian.org > > Rationale: *http://kannada.alioth.debian.org *We have just had our project > hosted on Alioth and a mailing list for User-Developers coordination of the > GNU/Linux Kannada localisation has become a necessity. > Please follow the guidelines for new lists at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/HOWTO_start_list //After filing the request, it would be very much appreciated if several //other people interested in the new list would send a mail to the bug, //in order to record their interest. Greetings Martin (Debian Listmaster of the Day) -- [root@debian /root]# man real-life No manual entry for real-life -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore_alive/ http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_karnataka

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Swatantra Kannada Localisation now on Alioth
by Vikram Vincent 02 May '07

02 May '07

Hello all, We are happy to announce that the Swatantra Kannada Localisation is now online on Alioth. http://kannada.alioth.debian.org/ We request all to jump in and further the Swatantra Kannada localisation initiative (of course, just give us a bit to get completely set up). Thanks. -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore_alive/ http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_karnataka

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Dell to use Ubuntu on Linux PCs
by Vikram Vincent 01 May '07

01 May '07

Great News. Dell to use Ubuntu on Linux PCs http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6610901.stm -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore_alive/ http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_karnataka

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Hindi Educational Games launched!!!
by Anand Kulkarni 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Hi, We are very glad to announce that SVS has successfully launched Gcompris Educational Games into Hindi language. The whole INDIA will be benefited by this software since Hindi is our national language. Kindly download the software from http://svs.org.in/Downloads.html Gcompris is a suite of educational software useful for the age group between 2 to 10. I request open source people to distribute this software in various schools. I may also add here that we are localizing Gcompris software into Urdu language as well. You will get Urdu Gcompris within next few weeks. For any problems, kindly revert me back. Thanks. regards, Anand Pune, INDIA http://svs.org.in __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: On Etv coverage on Free Software Movement in
by Anand Kulkarni 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Hi Vikram, We represent a social organization. We develop free softwares in Marathi, Hindi and Urdu languages for the educational purpose. Kindly visit us at http://svs.org.in Can somebody register our Name under this eTv free software article? Actually we want more people to know about our activity and hence we want to register our information wherever possible. Thanks. regards, Anand Pune, India > From: "Vikram Vincent" <vincentvikram(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Fsf-friends] On Etv coverage on Free > Software Movement in > Bangalore > > Hello All, > For those of you who missed out the News story on > the Free(Swatantra) > Software Movement in Karnataka/Bangalore here is a > small writeup. > http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_Karnataka/Et… > -- > Regards > Vikram Vincent > +919448810822 > http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore_alive/ > http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_karnataka > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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On Etv coverage on Free Software Movement in Bangalore
by Vikram Vincent 29 Apr '07

29 Apr '07

Hello All, For those of you who missed out the News story on the Free(Swatantra) Software Movement in Karnataka/Bangalore here is a small writeup. http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_Karnataka/Et… -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore_alive/ http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_karnataka

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TODAY News story on Free Software Movement in Bangalore.Etv Kannada
by Vikram Vincent 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Hello, News story on Free Software Movement in Bangalore. Today 8:30PM. E-TV Kannada Promos from the morning. -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore_alive/ http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_karnataka

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Fwd: [ssug-malappuram] Re: Broken pgms
by Mahesh M 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

On 4/28/07, Praveen A <pravi.a(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > 2007/4/27, Antony FM <antonyfm(a)gmail.com>: > > But cant we solve this problem by using apt-get or yum. > We have already solved the problem, but what we are missing is the > awareness. > Once people start realising that doing things differently necessarily that > bad. Apt-get and yum uses internet,rt... It all started when we argue on need to use Linux. This is one of the areas where i get stuck.. What will general public do if they do not have an access to internet. M$ has succeeded wonderfully in this part. Almost all installations come with all the required files. I am not talking about the installations from within the CD provided. But an outside package. Mahesh, can you tell us the exact issue you came across? like which > package you were installing and which all dependencies you had to > resolve manually ... I always use the net.. So didnt have much tough time yet... :) >shouldnt > > something like that rather be a step we should introduce people to > > instead of downloading whatever dependencies etc by themselves, which > > we think necessary. > > There is two issues here > 1) internet access > we could solve that by providing the whole dvds > 2) yum doesn't have a CD mode (I keep hearing that they are working on > it). Any Fedora users here? Can you verify if the latest version > support installing packages from a cdrom? If not we need to make it > work like the way apt works. Any volunteers? Mahesh? Sure.. i will check about this.. But, as mentioned above, that is not the exact problem. Why cant a separate installation like that of a modem driver, come with all the libraries and other dependency packages ready. If its already installed, ok,fine, forget it; but else, its a great asset. Atleast we wont have to go to net.. But i do see a big stupidity in my suggetion. At times the dependency tree may also point to the base packages.. well, we dont need to provide an entire Linux installation set, just tyo install a single package either!!!! :) Perhaps some work has to be done. And a standard be developed so that anyone developing a separate package, pack the installation in a particular style that the general public is not affected much... > > > Anyways thats my opinion. But then im a noob, so cant say much. > every one is a noob in something or the other, so don't mind. Thanks!!! :) Cheers > Praveen > > -- > പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് > Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! > http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign > -- Mahesh Its sure to be dark if you close your eyes. http://maheshmukundan.blogspot.com/ -- Mahesh Its sure to be dark if you close your eyes. http://maheshmukundan.blogspot.com/

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28-04-2007:News story on Free Software Movement in Bangalore.E-TV Kannada
by Vikram Vincent 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Hello, 90% chance... News story on Free Software Movement in Bangalore. 28-April-2007, 8:30PM. E-TV Kannada Promos from the morning. -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore_alive/ http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_karnataka

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FSF meet
by Mahesh M 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Hi all Yeaterday about 30 students met in the Computer Science block of the MES College of Engg. It was an introduction to FSF to the S4 students of the college. Surprisingly about 7 girls also turned up! Jinesh and Shyam did the keyroles. Jinesh gave the speech. They were given the basic idea of Free Software. We are planning to conduct a Debian Release party as soon as possible (suggetions are welcome!) -- Mahesh Its sure to be dark if you close your eyes. http://maheshmukundan.blogspot.com/

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Need Funds for Open Source Software development!!
by Anand Kulkarni 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Hi, SVS (Sarvangin Vikas Sanstha) is India based non-profit social trust. We have been developing open source softwares for the rural area school children from the last 2 years. You can download our softwares from http://svs.org.in/Downloads.html. In this financial year i.e. April 2007 to March 2008, we have decided to undertake total 13 open source projects. And naturally we require funds for such projects. You can see our project calendar at http://svs.org.in/donations.html. We request open minded people to provide us financial help. I am not aware about the various mailing lists in operating in different parts of the cities. So, I request you to please forward this email to many other mailing lists and the concerned people. The matter is bit urgent. SVS comes under 80G certificate, so that the donations get Tax benefits. For further details, feel free to revert back. Thanks. regards, Anand Kulkarni 9422515760(M) http://svs.org.in __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Shocking Stuff..
by Mahesh M 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Two days back it came to my notice that a program called Teminal Server Client uses an icon that contains the M$ Windows Logo.. I was running my EDUBUNTU. Well it could not have been done by mistake.. Hope the future releases will not show the same again. Its a shame.. -- Mahesh Its sure to be dark if you close your eyes.

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Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 48, Issue 19
by Mishi Choudhary 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Dear Editor, I'm happy to see that my photo of a building by Padamashree Laurie Baker being published in you esteemed new paper, that too in editorial page. Same time it is really saddening to see that I am not attributed for the work I've done. It is really disappointing for an budding photographer like me. Simple attribution from your side would have been a moral boost to people like me. The picture you have given in this editorial is taken by me here in Trivandrum. you can find this picture here in this link http://flickr.com/photos/kkseema/339827261/ . If you look into the copyright agreement section of the site you can see that I used Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 (Creative Commons) license for my work. I do want people to use my work with their creative work.I dont want to control my work. I request only attribution for work I've done. Unfortunately you did not comply with the licensing conditions I've placed over my work and hence violated my copyright. Flickr from you have downloaded the picture has an internal mechanism to contact the concerned person..at least you could have done that. Its my friends from goa and other parts called up to tell me that my picture has been published. I have written in my profile to please let me know before using any image. I think you owe me an explanation now. (so far I haven't received any reply to this mail..) Posted by Seema K K at 10:53 PM this letter was sent by this talented photographer who distributes her collection of photographs under the creative commons license.the picture Was used by Mr Amrith Lal, in his article on Laurie Baker titled Master Builder which appeared on Editorial Page of the Times Of India e- paper on 21st april2007.however the picture was not attributed to our young friend which is a clear violation of the creative commons license . But with our little efforts, Arun M and Seema, the photographer we managed to extract an apology as well as the assurance that an acknowledgement to Seema will appear on the website. I made sure he understood what creative commons and licensing under the same implies and its importance. Warm Regards Mishi Choudhary

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Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 48, Issue 19
by Mishi Choudhary 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Intellectual property" as a category (never mind whether it is "propaganda" or a legitimate taxonomy--those /are/ rules of property rather than liability) is a post-1945 conception. The US Congress names for /committees/, as opposed to subcommittees, is fixed by tradition and maintained by the territorialism of committee chairs; there are no committees called "intellectual property." Primary jurisdiction over such legislation is held in both Houses by the Committees on the Judiciary, with theoretically secondary jurisdiction in the Commerce Committees. Warm Regards Mishi Choudhary

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Shocking Stuff..
by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

----- Mahesh M <maheshmukundan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Two days back it came to my notice that a program called Teminal > Server > Client uses an icon that contains the M$ Windows Logo.. I was running > my > EDUBUNTU. Well it could not have been done by mistake.. :-) Well the TS Client is meant for Windows, and using an icon representing the same is not bad, I think it is fair use. And, going by your definition, Ubuntu is not even completely free. See: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7895189911.html -- Sincerely Ajay Pal Singh Atwal Dept of CSE & IT BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib Punjab, INDIA -------------------------------- http://www.bbsbec.ac.in http://www.ajaypal.com -------------------------------- ajaypal[at]bbsbec.org, ajaypal[at]acm.org

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MP3
by Mahesh M 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

I found the following in the MP3 Wiki.. In spite of the patent restrictions, the perpetuation of the MP3 format continues; the reasons for this appear to be the network effects<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect>caused by: - familiarity with the format, - the large quantity of music now available in the MP3 format, - the wide variety of existing software and hardware that takes advantage of the file format, - the lack of DRM<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management>restrictions, which makes MP3 files easy to edit, copy and distribute over networks, - the majority of home users not knowing or not caring about the patents controversy, who often do not consider such legal issues in choosing their music format for personal use. Well, i dont know how many of us know this.... -- Mahesh Its sure to be dark if you close your eyes.

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stallman.org needs volunteers
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

" I am looking for volunteers to give me information for two reseach projects. One project is to verify when various US law schools started using the propaganda term "intellectual property" in names of classes. If you are at a university which has a law school, you could probably easily find out when it did so. The other project is to find out when the US Congress started to have committees named "intellectual property". If you have information for me, please email it to rms at gnu dot orgy minus the y. I am looking for a couple of additional volunteers to help edit the pages on the site for me. If you'd like to help me in this way, please write to rms at gnu period org." That is Richard Stallman on http://stallman.org/ Interested candidates mail him directly. You would need to be able to do ssh to stallman.org for the second item. Cheers, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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(no subject)
by Mishi Choudhary 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

From: Eben Moglen <moglen(a)columbia.edu> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 20:16:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <15287.46535.662795.498768(a)moglen.law.columbia.edu> To: www-patentpolicy-comment(a)w3.org I write on behalf of the Free Software Foundation to oppose the the W3C's adoption of a patent-friendly standards policy. The World Wide Web cannot exist as a global and uniformly-available facility of human society without free software. Apache, Perl PHP--and literally hundreds of other immediately recognizable aspects of web technology--have been outgrowths of the free software production model. Without free software, the web would be a commercialized outgrowth of a few proprietary software producers, and it would be incapable of serving, as it now does, as a force for global egalitarianism. Because the Web employs no technology not based around completely open standards, software implementing every single facility of Web life can be produced in the free software model, and is therefore available for free modification and improvement all over the world, supplied at the marginal cost of distribution to any programmer--no matter how financially constrained--who wishes to produce new facilities and opportunities for users. "Reasonable and non-discriminatory" licensing of patented technology embodied in W3C standards will eliminate free software production from any area of Web facilities subject to those standards. Such standards will therefore provide a basis to "embrace and extend" the Web under proprietary control, excluding competition from free software, limiting technical innovation and risking the social utility of the Web. W3C standards should not incorporate any patented technology. If patented technology is, for whatever reason, absolutely necessary to the articulation of Web standards, only such patents should be considered for inclusion as are licensed under terms compatible with section 7 of the GNU General Public License (GPL), which is the worldwide standard in free software licensing. Patents licensed compatibly with GPL can be practiced without royalty or recordkeeping obligations, and are thus useful in software that any user can modify or redistribute. The W3C patent policy should not be RAND, it should be GPL. -- Eben Moglen voice: 212-854-8382 Professor of Law fax: 212-854-7946 moglen@ Columbia Law School, 435 West 116th Street, NYC 10027 columbia.edu General Counsel, Free Software Foundation http://moglen.law.columbia.edu Warm Regards Mishi Choudhary

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How many Debian Etch CDs you need?
by Praveen A 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hi, Interesting overview of the 331 discs of Debian 4.0 etch http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/tour_of_the_Debian_4.0_CDs/ Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 48, Issue 16
by Mishi Choudhary 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Dear All Prof moglen will be in india sometime in june this year, we can probably use this opportunity to hear from the hors'es mouth himself about GPLV3.....cann we organise something for the same Warm Regards Mishi Choudhary

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Understanding GPL version 3 - a discussion - 20th May 2007
by Praveen A 22 Apr '07

22 Apr '07

Hi, We are planning a discussion to understand GNU GPL version 3 and how it is going to affect the FOSS eco-system. We have not decided on a place yet. Suggestions welcome. Anyone coming for the discussions are expected to have read the third discussion draft of GPL version 3 and preferably looked into articles and discussions (slashdot, digg ...) on issues related to GPL v3 like version 2 incompatibility, anti-DRM provision, Novell-Microsoft patent deal and provisions in GPL to block such deals in future... You can sign up at http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Bangalore/Understanding_GPL_version_3 Also put in your thoughts on the talk page. Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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GPLv3, Linux and GPLv2 Compatibility
by Praveen A 21 Apr '07

21 Apr '07

Hi, Very interesting discussions on the effect of GPLv3 on Linux, the kernel and GNU/Linux distributions. http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/gplv3_linux_and.html It discusses many of the corner cases and analyses the effects of glibc going to LGPL and distribution copyrights. It helped me to understand many of the issues in a better way. Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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M$ trying to compete with GNU in terms of price
by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Please see this news item. http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/19/technology/19microsoft.php reminds me of how one Brazilian official once compared M$ with drug mafia: http://www.petitiononline.com/amadeuus/petition.html -- Sincerely Ajay Pal Singh Atwal Dept of CSE & IT BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib Punjab, INDIA -------------------------------- http://www.bbsbec.ac.in http://www.ajaypal.com -------------------------------- ajaypal[at]bbsbec.org, ajaypal[at]acm.org

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GPL based Icons for web application
by Manilal K M 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Hello all, I am in search of some icons(generic) for GPL based web applications which is under development. I would like to know whether there are any available icon themes for web applications similar to the tango project (http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project). The license for the icons should be compatible with GNU GPL, so that I can inlcude in my software and distribute without any license issues. TIA - Manilal K M. -- Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. Blog: http://gnubreeze.blogspot.com Blog: http://flossvalley.blogspot.com

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Fwd: [ILUG-BOM] GSoC/KDE-2007 and our lug member
by Praveen A 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anant Narayanan <anant(a)kix.in> Date: २००७ अप्रैल १६ ०९:५७ Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] GSoC/KDE-2007 and our lug member To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> > There are few other Indians into SoC '07 too (some of them are on > GLUG-BOM) -- Sayamindu Dasgupta (GNOME), Debarshi Ray (Fedora), Rakesh > Pandit (The GNU Project), Ria Das [aka Ms. Kushal Das] (Fedora), > Some-IRC-Junkie-From-A-Village (BBC Research), etc. Not just a few, I am proud to say that we have about 60 Indian students in GSoC this year; including 3 from my college. I sincerely hope that atleast 30 of these students will stick around to become permanent contributors to their respective projects. A non-comprehensive list (may have missed out the NRIs): Name, Mentor, Project. (Quite a few Indian mentors out there too): 1) Jasleen Singh, Arockiasamy Mohanraj, Design and implementation a better document inspector 2) Ravinder Reddy, Katherine Marsden, Convert Derby tests to JUnit and fix Derby bugs 3) Baishampayan Ghose, Michael Philip Sparks, Extending the web- server component in Kamaelia to make it useful as a general purpose web-server component 4) Anant Narayanan, Devon H. O'Dell, Alternative Implementations of 9P: PHP and JavaScript 5) Tara Gilliam, Michael Philip Sparks, Visual Editor for Creation & Composition of Shard Components 6) Arun Raghavan, Joe Shaw, A Xesam-based D-Bus interface for Beagle 7) Dawn Thomas, Rick Riolo , Urbance: An agent-based approach to Architectural Design 8) Nitin Gupta, Dr. Tarique Sani, AJAX Support in Coppermine with an API 9) Thejaswi Puthraya, Simon Blanchard, Implementing Check Constraints on Models 10) Neil Joshi, Eugene Lazutkin, Pseudo 3-D Charting 11) Amila Sampath, Theodore Serbinski, Designing a new core theme for Drupal 12) Prashant Deva, Philippe Ombredanne, New Eclipse update manager 13) Udayan Kumar, Martin Connor, Porting Etherboot drivers to gPXE 14) Akhil Kumar Meshram, Pierrick Brihaye, eXist eXtension to teXt Search 15) Debarshi Ray, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay, An offline package update/ installation facility for Pirut. 16) Ria Das, Jeff Sheltren, Publication of all man and info pages for each release through a web interface 17) Vivek B, Yutaka Niibe, Designing an educational microprocessor and led display using the same (in verilog). 18) Attilio Rao, Roberson, Rewriting lockmgr(9) 19) Swati Goyal, Matthew John Toseland, Improving Search in FreeNet 20) Srivatsan, Florent Daignière, DOS resistant link level encryption using JFKi key management protocol 21) Uday, Jack Bates, Web based Image Manipulation 22) Ramnath R Iyer, Dirk Haun, Web services API for Geeklog 23) Raghavendra Narasimhan V, Christoph Egger, OpenGL support for GGI 24) Vikram Kumar V B, Christoph Egger, Improve XGGI by implementing some X extensions. 25) Srijak Rijal, Sam Vilain, Gittorrent Server and Peer 26) Sayamindu Dasgupta, Federico Mena-Quintero, Extending the lockdown framework in GNOME and making it even more deployment friendly 27) Imran Patel, Xan López Saborido, Integrating Epiphany Bookmarks and Browsing History For GNOME-wide Access 28) Rakesh Pandit, Nagarjuna Gadiraju, Graphical navigation/ representation of knowledge base; and interfacing with other knowledge systems. 29) Chintan Agarwal, Derek Atkins, QIF Importer Rewrite 30) Krishna Kishore Annapureddy, François Revol, Implement a precache algorithm along with aging policy for the file system caches 31) Avi Mehta, Rastin Mehr, Implementation of mootools in Joomla! 1.5 framework 32) Shivasharan Rao, Jonathan Riddell, SQL Code Generation and Enhanced Entity Relationship Models for Umbrello 33) Piyush Verma, Andreas Pakulat, Python Support for KDevelop4 34) Anirudh Ramesh, Cornelius Schumacher, Bridge the gap between KitchenSync and OpenSync 35) Sharon Myrtle Paradesi, Robert Kaye, Using Collaborative Filtering to generate Relationships between artists for MusicBrainz 36) Nidhi Rawal, Sebastien Pouliot, Gendarme: The problem finder 37) Mayank Jain, David Jesús Horat Flotats, Moodle Voice 38) Udit Sajjanhar, Petr Skoda, Secure RSS Feeds 39) Srirang G Dooddihal, Dan Mosedale, Implementing cross-session download resume 40) Kunal Kumar D Jain, Dietrich Ayala, Places: Indexing Visited Pages 41) K.Harishankaran, Nagappan, Firefox automation & Tinderbox integration 42) Sumantra R. Kundu, William Studenmund, A Framework For Enforcing QoS Inside the NetBSD UVM 43) Deepank Gupta, Werner Almesberger, Ad hoc communication via Bluetooth 44) Sashikanth Raju S Damaraju, Paul Biondich, Clinical Data Visualization Tools 45) Rahul Murmuria, William Sommerfeld, Porting Racoon2 to OpenSolaris 46) Amit Vyas, DongInn Kim, Globus/Condor Package for OSCAR 47) Siddharth Angrish, Simon Lin, Learning a Context Free Grammar by reading Corpus in a given language 48) Swanand Janardan Deodhar, Shashank T. Date, Framework for ETL and Data mining operations in Ruby 49) Shobhit Jindal, Pavel Tankov, SSH Support in SIP Communicator using JCraft SSH2 Java Implementation 50) Hiran V, Hussain K.H, Unicode Standard Malayalam Font 51) Antony Francis Maliakal, Anivar A Aravind, Akshara OCR 52) Shyam K, Santhosh Thottingal, Basic Voice Recognition System for malayalam 53) Mobin M, Praveen A, MalluTux 54) Jinesh KJ, Suresh P, Comprehensive malayalam input system for GNU/ Linux 55) Sourav Pal, Jean-Paul Saman, RTSP Streaming Server in VLC 56) Nageswara Rao M, Abraham Moolenaar, Integrating vim editor with eclipse 57) Ishaan Dalal, Monty Montgomery, Sinusoidal coding for Ghost 58) Vandan Parikh, Ludovic Dubost, XWiki Offline 59) Nikhil N, Baiju Muthukadan, Run Zope 3 using Python 2.5 60) Gartheeban Ganeshapillai, Kaustubh Srikanth, Auto Completion of links Best Regards, -- Anant -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Istanbul Screencast Tutorial
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Here is a screencast on using Istanbul: http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/istanbul.ogg I have not added any audio to this, since I intend to get it translated into multiple languages. If you intend to lend your voice please let me know. During the tutorial we created this video: http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/foo.ogg Regards, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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Fwd: [smc-discuss] Re: Fwd: [LinuxPakistan] Opportunity to promote FOSS and Linux Knowledge Globally
by Praveen A 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh00(a)gmail.com> Date: २००७ अप्रैल १३ १४:०४ Subject: [smc-discuss] Re: Fwd: [LinuxPakistan] Opportunity to promote FOSS and Linux Knowledge Globally To: smc-discuss(a)googlegroups.com I guess all of you read this months Linux For You magazine. Its cover story is Iran's FOSS activities. Iran was using Windows and Other proprietary softwares. Since US banned all technology support to Iran from US citizens, they went in to a situation where literally they cannot use computers. They couldn't run licensed windows, could not download softwares from the US technology companies. Think how bad is such a scenario. Then the government decided to use FOSS. You can read the details in LFY April page 48-51. I think this is a warning to all governments in the world who are highly dependent on proprietary softwares. If a government wants to self dependent, it should use open technologies. In that article representative of Iran government says that they are in need of case studies of Asian countries in FOSS to convince the government officials. He points out the "Kerala model" also. Anivar is right. We need to collect and share the case studies. Examples can be IT@school, SMC and GSoc, GNULabs, Kerala gov. IT policy,NRC-FOSS etc. Usually each LFY issue is coming with a Case study. Let me know your thoughts -santhosh On 4/10/07, Anivar Aravind | അനിവര് അരവിന്ദ് <anivar(a)movingrepublic.org> wrote: > > We need to do the same as a part of of our activism > start a page in FCi wiki, General & SMC specific, my poor bandwidth not > allowing me to create a page now > > Anivar > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Subject: [LinuxPakistan] Opportunity to promote FOSS and Linux Knowledge > Globally > Date: मंगलवार 10 अप्रैल 2007 05:43 > From: "Fouad Riaz Bajwa" <fouadbajwa(a)gmail.com> > To: general(a)linuxpakistan.net, ubuntu-pk(a)lists.ubuntu.com, > ubuntu-l10n-urd(a)lists.ubuntu.com > > Dear Community Members, > > I have been receiving requests for Asian/South Asia/Asian Pacific/ASEAN case > studies, stories, white papers, solution information from foreign media > organizations and groups that promote FOSS and Linux in social development > as well as business. > > I am running a round of attempting to develop/write case studies and > articles for various individuals, groups, companies, organizations that > would like us to send out a regular stream of information and updates. > > The offer is open to anyone and everyone who would like to have their FOSS > usage, development, research and Linux case studies, organizational > information, project stories, success stories, product innovations, > offerings etc developed. Obviously it's a bit of a time consuming job but I > am willing to accommodate it. > > Simply drop in your information to: fouadbajwa | at | gmail.com > > Regards > - ----------------------- > Fouad Riaz Bajwa > FOSS Advocate > Independent Researcher & Writer > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General(a)linuxpakistan.net > http://mail.linuxpakistan.net/mailman/listinfo/general_linuxpakistan.net > - -- > Anivar Aravind > moving Republic > Global Alternate Information Applications(GAIA) > Peringavu.P.O > Thrissur-680018 > Kerala > Ph. +91 9446545336 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGG3zdF+jWtLmEaycRAs4XAJ0SMptKqPY0SJVWV6I01gLb2zgj2ACdGfTX > MDoSgLljxoiIgNYPnoaLeqE= > =56SY > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > "Swathanthra Malayalam Computing" > To unsubscribe: smc-discuss-unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com > Project: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/smc > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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[Fsf-friends] Debian Etch Release Party on the 21st:BMSCE, Bangalore
by Vikram Vincent 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hello All, Considering certain important factors the Debian Etch Release Party will be on the 21st, April,2007. http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Bangalore/BMSCE/Debian_Etch_Release_Party -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore_alive/ http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_karnataka

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Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 48, Issue 9
by Vihan Pandey 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

> I have made a screencasted tutorial on GCC. This tutorial, still in > the beta stage, is aimed at teaching absolute beginners (Turbo C/C++ > users?) how to use GCC. You can find the video at: > http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/gcc.ogg Cool :-) One question though what exactly did you use for the screencast? i tried a couple of things with Istanbul but it didn't really work out :P Regards, - vihan

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BMSCE:Swatantra Tech Fest
by Vikram Vincent 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Hello All, Here's announcing the BMSCE Swatantra Tech Fest. If you are a college student or just interested in free software then do come over and support us. The fest is supported by the Free Software Users Group, Bangalore. http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Bangalore/BMSCE/Swatantra_Tech_Fest -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore_alive/ http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_karnataka

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GCC Screencast Tutorial
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

I have made a screencasted tutorial on GCC. This tutorial, still in the beta stage, is aimed at teaching absolute beginners (Turbo C/C++ users?) how to use GCC. You can find the video at: http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/gcc.ogg Right now it does not contain any audio. I plan to keep the audio separate from the video to make it easy to add voice to the tutorial. In this regard, I invite people who would be eager to lend their voice to this screencast. Speakers of English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, Kannada, Tamil, Oriya, Telegu, and any other Indian language are specially welcome. If you intend to lend your voice please let me know. I am planning to write a script to ensure uniformity in translations done by different people. If you would like to have all the files used to make the screencast here they are: http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/gcc-screencast.tar.bz2 http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/gcc-screencast.tar.gz I have not yet decided about the license so for the time-being this is in the public domain. Once I make the final version I will add whatever license (or none at all) as I deem fit. Regards, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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FWD: Desi DRM by YashRaj Films
by Praveen A 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Riyaz Usman <riyazusman at gmail.com> Date: २००७ अप्रैल १२ १२:०९ Subject: [+PLUS] Desi DRM by YashRaj Films (This is a copy of a blog entry be me. For reading the my blog, please visit http://riyaz.bitinc.co.in) So, if you think Apple is nasty in it's DRM implementation on iTunes, here come the Desi Apple - YashRaj Films. After reading a post in ThinkDigit Forums, I visited DRM FAQ page in Yashraj Films website. Here are some interesting FAQs. 1. What is DRM? Digital Rights management (DRM) is a set of technologies that enables you to own copyrighted material in a digital format, and use them based on the rights given to you. 3. What computer should I use to download my music? You should download your music to the ONE computer where you keep your digital music. The music can only be played from the computer through which the license purchase is done, which will provide unlimited playback of the track on this computer. 5. What is the format of downloaded files? All tracks are downloaded in Microsoft Windows Media 9 (wma) format. These files are protected by the Microsoft Windows DRM software. 6. What can I do with the downloaded music files? By purchasing music from Yash Raj Films, you can play the files on the computer where you purchased the license from. The license purchased will provide unlimited playback of a song only on the computer used to purchase the license.You can only play the downloaded music files on Windows Media Player 9.0 and above Windows Media Player. You can also make upto a maximum of 2 Audio CDs for the downloaded media files. 11. Can I transfer a downloaded song track to an external music device or another computer? No, currently you cannot transfer a downloaded song. The license purchased will provide unlimited playback of a song only on the computer used to purchase the license. Licenses will not be transferable to any other computer or other portable music devices. However you can create upto 2 Audio CDs which can be played on any compatible Audio device. 12. Why is my downloaded music not playing? You need Microsoft Windows Media player 9 or above to listen to music or burn it to a CD. 14. Why am I getting a "License Error" or "License Must Be Purchased" screen? It seems like a license was not issued for the file. This can happen due to using a browser other than Microsoft Internet Explorer, which is required and the only supported browser for license downloads or because of a network issue while license delivery was taking place. 15. Can I copy my downloaded song / file on to another computer? The music can only be played from the computer through which the purchase is done and the license delivered to. However, you can copy the file to another computer, but you need to buy a new license to play this track. On playback, the Windows Media Player will request for a license. You need to purchase a new license for this new machine. 16. Can I download music on my MAC? Not at the moment. Complete FAQ on DRM at Yashraj Website No other browser than Internet Explorer can be used, No other Media player than Windows Media Player can be used, No other Operating System than Windows can be used to download or play these files. These downloaded music will be licensed to play only on a computer. You cannot copy this to your portable device or another computer, you need a new license for that. If you're a GNU or any other non-Windows user, WHAT THE HELL? If you think this is even nastier, please stop buying DRM implemented music or movies. If you don't know what DRM is and what it means to you, or if you want to know more and be part of Anti-DRM campaigns, please do visit the following sites. Join the DRM Elimination Crew Defective by Design DRM.info BadVista Campaign EFF's Frequently Awkward Questions Stop DRM Now Digital Freedom GPLv3 Freeme.in -- Riyaz Usman http://riyaz.bitinc.co.in 1d:c5:fb:59:df:ec:79:88:ec:81:d9:3a:87:28:10:25 _______________________________________________ Palakkad Libre software Users Society Main Mailing List "Adding freedom to common minds" PLUS-discuss(a)lists.sarovar.org http://lists.sarovar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plus-discuss -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Demystifying Interoperability - Express Computer
by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Imagine a hypothetical scenario of a business transferring funds from an overseas bank account to their supplier in India. The transfer takes place without the appropriate conversion between the foreign currency and Indian Rupees. Or a landlord, dealing with two different municipal departments, suddenly finding his property tax rates shooting through the roof because one department’s system recorded the extent of his property in square meters whilst the other ‘sent’ the value in square feet! Though these examples are hypothetical, they illustrate the consequences of IT systems failing to ‘communicate’ or ‘interoperate’ with each other. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20070402/technology03.shtml - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGHcQIXQZpNTcrCzMRAkGyAJ9Bw7kQ0AlqhMPPaGASwL1ypDYVwQCgymLc 7MVGaUDl7pm5Vew1wXNjU20= =EP6N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Free network infrastructure for free knowledge and free software in Mumbai
by Nagarjuna G. 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

We did it finally, and we will take it forward and expand the free spectrum. Thanks to WSFII for motivating me to take interest in free network, particularly Saul, Fred, and Julian, who donated the routers for this initial setup, and of course more important transfered the technology, The entire freifunk team deserves a special thanks. Thanks to all the volunteers from the GNU/Linux user's group who helped in setting this up. We will document the progress at http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/WirelessMesh. Nagarjuna

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Report of workshop on Font Encoding Converters
by Harshita 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Hi all, A workshop on Font Encoding Converters was held on 6th April, 2007. Outline of the workshop proceedings: * Introduction to font encoding problem * Introduction on Padma Firefox extension (http://padma.mozdev.org) * Status of converters available in Padma (about 40 font families covered) * Unicode Convertion Gateway (http://uni.medhas.org and http://sf.net/projects/unigateway) * Discussion on the reverse engineering techniques applied to design a new converter * Introduction to Punjabi font converters developed by Gurpreet Lehal (about 40 font families covering 120 fonts) A discussion on future course of action lead to the following TODO list: * Setup central place for hosting software, documentation and collaborating effort * Documentation for existing font encoding converters * Documenting the list of font families and unsupported * Create a database of font to font family mappings * Create standard forms that can be filled by a typical user to help create font converter easily (possibly with a gui tool) * Create a C/C++ api * Create test documents to verify each converter * Explore OpenOffice integration * Develop more converters: ** Bengali: Bangsee Alpona, SolaimanLipi, Prothoma Adarshlipiexp, likhan ** Tamil: amudham, shree-tam-0802, tmnews, lt-tm-barani, webtamil, bamini ** Gujarati: Govinda, Surya, Divya ** Oriya: OR-TTSarala ** Malayalam: Shree-mal-0502, ** Devanagari: webdunia, yogeshweb, shree704, sushreeMJ, Boisakhi, Rupali, Satyajit, Shree-dev-0714, Shree-pudhari, MilleniumVarunWeb, Manjusha, ITRDeshdut ** Others: guruLipi, AnmolLipi TCS team working on Telugu GNU/Linux localisation and IIIT Hydearabad have decided to contribute efforts to fulfil the tasks at hand. Regards, Harshita

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Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 48, Issue 6
by Mishi Choudhary 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

i hope we can replicate the success of awareness in delhi too please come forward to put our efforts together to spread more awareness Warm Regards Mishi Choudhary

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Job opening on the FSF campaign team
by Anivar Aravind 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FSF Campaigns Manager Job Description The Campaigns Manager implements the FSF communications strategy and works as part of a team to develop and implement issue campaigns and community resources, acting as a spokesperson on matters of software freedom. The Campaigns Manager handles writing, editing, speaking, and research related to these activist and program efforts; coordinates the GNU Chief Webmaster and the other webmaster volunteers to develop FSF and GNU web sites; plans and implements proposals to increase fundraising; and serves as a main point of contact between the Foundation and the free software community. Background This is an opportunity to work for the organization that started the GNU project, authored the GPL, and launched the free software movement. Working as part of a team of two, you will help direct FSF campaigns and communications strategy. Requirements * You must be a free software activist with a commitment to computer user freedom. * Excellent written communication skills, able to demonstrate that you can work in a precise way whilst handling multiple tasks. * A good public speaker with experience of handling press relations. * Experience of organizing events and handling community relations in a diplomatic way. * Possess the technical skills of a Webmaster. * Candidates must support the principles of Software Freedom and demonstrate their knowledge of the policies and work of the Foundation. Other Details The job must be worked on-site at FSF's downtown Boston offices. An on-site interview will be required with both the Executive Director and FSF President. This job is a union position. The salary is fixed at $50,057/year and is non-negotiable. Other benefits include the following: * full family health coverage through Blue Cross/Blue Shield's HMO Blue program, and subsidized dental plan. * four weeks of paid vacation annually, * seventeen paid holidays annually, * public transit commuting cost reimbursement, * 403(b) program through TIAA-CREF, * somewhat flexible work hours, Resumes and cover letters must be submitted via email to <hiring(a)fsf.org>. The email must contain the subject line, "Campaigns Manager". Resumes should be attached in ASCII text or PDF. Cover letters must be in ASCII directly in the body of the email message. Resumes not sent via email or email submissions that do not follow these instructions will be ignored. Initial interviews will be held in the week commencing April 22. - -- John Sullivan Campaigns Manager | Phone: (617)542-5942 x23 51 Franklin Street, 5th Fl. | Fax: (617)542-2652 Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA | GPG: AE8600B6 _______________________________________________ GetReady mailing list GetReady(a)badvista.org http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/getready - -- Anivar Aravind Global Alternate Information Applications(GAIA) Peringavu.P.O Thrissur-680018 India Ph. +91 9446545336 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGGuisF+jWtLmEaycRAkRyAJ0Y9FgHhQ3re3XWqKIrEMEbr1U15wCeJ3AQ uTpVYETgwt+5gzc7vpnnf5I= =/tz1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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FSD: campaign to spread Free software awareness in Karnataka
by Vikram Vincent 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Dear Sujith, On 08/04/07, sujith h <sujith.h(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear friends, > <snip> > ...meeting was very high even though they have slight misconceptions > about some terminologies. I hope our Friends like Vijoo, Vikram etc > on FSD can correct it soon . </snip> Just a clarification, while the FSD is trying out certain endeavours, I am *not* a member of FSD nor am I a part of their planning committee. -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore_alive/ http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=19591248

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FSD: campaign to spread Free software awareness in Karnataka
by sujith h 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Dear friends, Today I attended a meeting of Forum for Science and Development(FSD), Banglore. They are planning 2 start a campaign to increase the spread the awareness & usage of free software in colleges, schools and among NGOs in Karnataka. The energy, motivation & the spirit in the FSD meeting was very high even though they have slight misconceptions about some terminologies. I hope our Friends like Vijoo, Vickram etc on FSD can correct it soon . But I feel that this campaign needs a lot of volunteers to achieve the goals. I think Free software Community in Bangalore must support & help FSD to make this dream into reality. We can make use of our experiences in Spreading free software awareness in Bangalore Colleges for this purpose. Even the students become active through our recent campaigns on colleges like BMS can also contribute a lot to this campaign. waiting for your suggessions. -- സുജിത് ഹരിദാസ൯ http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign Bangalore -- സുജിത് ഹരിദാസ൯ http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign Bangalore

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Fwd: Etch in the hands of the Stable Release Managers
by Praveen A 08 Apr '07

08 Apr '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andreas Barth <aba(a)not.so.argh.org> Date: २००७ अप्रैल ८ १८:२४ Subject: Etch in the hands of the Stable Release Managers To: debian-devel-announce(a)lists.debian.org Hi, You might read about now in debian-announce [1] that we have just released. Please don't upload all your new software instantly, but wait a few days until the archive is set up properly for Lenny. At this point, we would like to thank all people who have helped to release Debian 4.0 (Etch). Only through the work of the community we were able to get to this point. It's hard to write "thank you"s for a project as big as etch because there are *so many* people involved in pulling this off, but they deserve recognition for etch as much as we do -- people like the ftp team, the installer team, the CD team, the mirror team, the porters, the release notes editors, the translators, and an amazing group of "release minions" who just worked wherever it was necessary like Steinar Gunderson, all of whose contributions were essential for getting us to this point. Special thanks to all those who have worked through the weekend for those finishing touches that brought the release together, including Ryan, Anthony, Frans, Steve McIntyre, Frank Lichtenheld, Mattias Wadenstein, Alexander Schmehl, and many others. And of course, thanks to the Debian Project as a whole, including the innumerable mass of people who have provided patches, reported bugs against testing or contributed in some other way. This is your release, friends. We also want to apologize to the translations teams and thank them for their work on the localisation of the release notes, our provided deadlines were quite tough. Thanks for handling this so well. Preparing the first point-release ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are already some packages known that will need an update in stable soon. Best known is the kernel, which has some annoying bugs with pending fixes. If you are aware of any important bug that is waiting in unstable and didn't make the release because of time constraints, send a mail to debian-release(a)lists.debian.org. The usual rules that were in place for freeze exceptions are also mainly valid for the first point release of the Etch life cycle. It will be possible to accept packages directly from unstable to stable-proposed-updates. If you want the stable release team to do that, wait with new uploads until you got a confirmation that the package was accepted. Also we might accept bug fixes to meet our release goal of LSB 3.1 compliance. Continuing with Lenny ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After the release is before the release. We don't have too specific plans for the Lenny release cycle yet, but there are a couple of things that are already known: * Lenny should be kept in a releaseable state most of the time (with the exception of breakages caused by one of the big transitions; but we should try to keep even these as small as possible). This means that there are no excuses for not fixing an RC bug. The problems that were uncovered by piuparts runs in the past two weeks have been mostly ignored for Etch, but they need to be fixed for Lenny. These are trivial fixes, please apply them and upload soon. * Please coordinate your uploads a bit, so that the testing transition of packages stays possible. Everybody uploading new software usually makes britney cry and hinders the transition of new versions. * We will work with release blockers and release goals again for the Lenny release cycle. If you have anything that you feel belongs in one of these two categories, send a mail to -release, so that we can include it in our plans. However, we want you to remember that -release is not a discussion list. * We want to restrict the release cycle for Lenny to less than 2 years, we want to discuss experiences of Etch first though to get a more accurate time planning. We'll soon send a more in-detail information about what we think we learned from Etch, and a few more things for Lenny. We'll also try to have an Lenny-kick-off-meeting soon - we'll announce that in time as well, so that anybody can feed us with ideas. Now, we'll party and let the SRMs do the rest until Etch is out. Thanks again to all of you for the great support Debian got. Yours Debian Release Team Andi, Steve, Luk, Marc -- http://release.debian.org/ [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGGOX0mdOZoew2oYURAj9lAJ0cKv1NTX7qsFSlqWeAeD4dTu9f3gCgtEAC akW/tZk2WQARKq+AcoJbBAc= =DMRL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Workshop on Font Encoding Converters
by Harshita 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

Dear all, This is to inform you that there is a workshop on Font Encoding Converters which is going to be held on 6th April, from 7pm to 10pm in IIIT, Gachibowli, Hyderabad. This might be the late invitation, but we will be glad if you attend the workshop and make it a successful event. We are looking for your valuable suggestions. A brief introduction about the workshop is given below. Harshita, Swecha Telugu Localistation Team Phone: 9440849626 P.S: Dinner and transportation shall be arranged by IIIT. Please contact us for further details. Introduction about the workshop: Duration: 3 hours Time: 7pm to 10pm Date: 6th April, 2007 Location: International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad For quite some time now, non-standard encodings introduced by proprietary fonts developers have caused hurdles to information processing both for end users and researches alike. Vast amounts of data is locked up in these non-standard encodings. Lack of wide-spread usage of fonts, applications and tools that are based on Unicode technologies has lead to continued production of the content in these "font encodings". Numerous efforts have been made in the past and continue to be made to address this problem. Community based approaches like Padma Firefox Extension have made great strides in solving this issue. Time has come to standardise the converters. There are also many gaps to be filled in before the converters can be put to use universally. Agenda: * Review the current status of various font encoding converters * Discuss various techniques for reverse engineering font encodings * Attempt to bring all efforts on font encoding converters under one umbrella * Understand requirements of various groups for font encoding converters: ** What encodings are to be handled? ** Need a programming API? ** Need command line/GUI tools? ** What are the operating environments? * Chalk out future activity * Gather help from the involved teams in the following areas: ** Language expertise, reverse engineering and verification ** Programming, documentation and packaging

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DRM-free Music from EMI through Apple iTunes
by Praveen A 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

Hi, April 3, 2007: EMI, the world's third largest music company, said today that it was making its music available online without a key anti-piracy measure in a deal with Apple Inc. to boost sales of digital music. Read the full story http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/technology/03music.web.html Great news for the DRM elimination crew!! Lets continue educating the consumers about the evils of DRM. Join the DRM Elimination Crew today !! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign "If consumers even know there's a DRM, what it is, and how it works, we've already failed," Peter Lee, an executive at Disney http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4342418 Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Sony Memory Stick Pro slot on Ubuntu
by Javed Rahman 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

Hi, Is it possible to get the sony memory stick pro slot of a vaio to work under linux? I tried googling a lot about this but it looks like people have just ignored this piece of hardware. Javed.

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Airtel Data Card on Ubuntu
by Javed Rahman 31 Mar '07

31 Mar '07

Hi, Has anyone used an AirTel Data Card on Ubuntu to access the internet? Any tips on how to do this? I haven't bought the card yet. I just wanna make sure it works before i buy it. Just in case this is helpful : I am using ubuntu edgy on a sony vaio vgn-fe48g. Thanks in advance, Javed.

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Torvalds 'pretty pleased' with new draft.
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

>From the ILUG-Cochin mailing list: Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:24:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Binny V Abraham Subject: [Mailinglist] Torvalds 'pretty pleased' about new GPL 3 draft To: ILug Cochin Mailing List <mailinglist_AT_ilug-cochin_DOT_org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 According to CNet, Linus Torvalds is 'pretty pleased' with the current GPL v3 draft. He said, 'Unlike the earlier drafts, it at least seems to not sully the good name of the GPL any more.' After his earlier criticism, some had questioned whether such controversies would lead to rifts in the community, especially if the kernel ended up under a different license than the GNU tools. But with the latest revisions, Linus will entertain moving the kernel over to the GPL v3. Read more here... http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6171300.html That's good news! Binny V A http://binnyva.blogspot.com/ -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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Re: [Fsf-friends] With Vista, Microsoft could effectively hasten the obsolescence of half the world’s PCs ...
by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

A little addition. ----- Frederick Noronha <fred(a)bytesforall.org> wrote: > http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=8226 > > > That's because, according to a report by the Department of Government > Commerce about Open Source Software Trials in Government, open source > software has lower hardware requirements and needs less frequent > hardware refreshes. Not a unique feature of GNU/ Linux but because we have the freedom to tailor **our** OS as per our hardware. Maybe it is a feature we get with GNU GPL. ---- snip -------- > The report continued: "Open Source operating systems such as Linux do > not usually have the regular major upgrades that are a feature of > Windows, and thus do not have the requirement that goes with these > upgrades for a new or upgraded computer to run them." It is pure economics. If MS aint selling software from where the money will come. Anyway MS need to **force** the users to upgrade (read as to force them to shell out money) somehow; and also create a monopoly. -- snip -- > > Greenpeace went on to argue that Microsoft should have considered > this > when producing its new OS. > So what do you want a poor bill? -- Sincerely Ajay Pal Singh Atwal Dept of CSE & IT BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib Punjab, INDIA -------------------------------- http://www.bbsbec.ac.in http://www.ajaypal.com -------------------------------- ajaypal[at]bbsbec.org, ajaypal[at]acm.org

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posting from news << >> mail gateway
by Mahesh T. Pai 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

For the list admin(s) - what prevents opening up posts to this list via gmane news <> Mail gateway? You can enable this from here ``list administrative interface'' > ``Mail << >> News geteway'' -- Mahesh T. Pai <<>> http://paivakil.blogspot.com/

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With Vista, Microsoft could effectively hasten the obsolescence of half the world’s PCs ...
by Frederick Noronha 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=8226 [GNU] Linux makes for greener computing By Manek Dubash, Techworld The UK Government reckons that servers with Linux installed are greener than those running Windows. That's because, according to a report by the Department of Government Commerce about Open Source Software Trials in Government, open source software has lower hardware requirements and needs less frequent hardware refreshes. In particular, it said that: "for equivalent open source and Microsoft Windows systems, the open source system will require less memory and a slower processor speed for the same functionality." It points out that Windows needs a hardware refresh every three to four years, while a Linux box might need a new platform as infrequently as every six to eight years - half as often. The report continued: "Open Source operating systems such as Linux do not usually have the regular major upgrades that are a feature of Windows, and thus do not have the requirement that goes with these upgrades for a new or upgraded computer to run them." The report then concludes that the reduction in hardware demands brings environmental benefits, because it translates into lower energy requirements and less waste, "reducing landfill requirements and costs arising from disposal of redundant equipment." The report also coincides with Tory shadow chancellor George Osbourne's call for the use of more open source software in government. He said that the UK government could save in excess of £600 million a year if more open source software was deployed across various departments. But if the timing of the report is good news for the open source community, it's possibly less welcome for others. Microsoft Windows Vista has just been released to a flurry of criticism from environmental groups such as Greenpeace who slammed Microsoft for the hardware-hungriness of Vista, saying that upgraders will "will trigger a deluge of e-waste in developing countries." Beau Baconguis, Greenpeace's southeast Asia toxics campaigner, argued that: "With Vista, Microsoft could effectively hasten the obsolescence of half the world's PCs, especially in the absence of fully-functioning global take back systems for PCs. Companies will feel the need to upgrade more computers sooner - and when they do, the world is unfortunately not prepared for the massive e-waste the upgrades will generate." Greenpeace went on to argue that Microsoft should have considered this when producing its new OS. It's a problem for which a solution will need to be found eventually. While most enterprises have few if any plans right now to move their desktops onto the new OS, most will eventually be forced to migrate as Microsoft starts to implement its phased withdrawal of support for Windows XP under its public life-cycle policy. This is some way off, although the company has announced that the availability of licences for Windows XP Professional would be withdrawn for OEMs after 28 January 2008, and for system builders a year later. Mainstream support for XP Pro ends on 14 April 2009 while extended support - in other words, paid-for support - ends five years later. Before that happens, Vista - or maybe even its more hardware-hungry successor - will have become the only commercial OS choice. SEE: http://www.arb.ca.gov/oss/articles/Report-v8d.pdf -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com What bloggers are saying about Goa: http://planet.goa-india.org/

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