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TRIVANDRUM USERS' GROUP: Rajkumar S s_raj@flashmail.com announced the new url of Trivandrum Linux users group: http://triglug.sarovar.org/
GNU/LINUX DEMO DAY: ILUGC conducted a Linux Demo Day @ MIT Chennai on last month 27th and 28th. Nearly 1000 people are visited the event, according to Bharati S of the IndLinux team, DON Lab, TeNeT Group, IIT-Madras, Chennai. Read the report at http://www.chennailug.org/ldd.html
PROGRAMMERS WITHOUT FRONTIERS? This is from my friends Geert Lovink geert@xs4all.nl of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia and Seppo Koskela of the Applied Linux Institute in Helsinki, Finland and FN of BytesForAll from Goa, India who say: "We would to ask your opinion -- and possible involvement -- in the following idea. A few weeks ago, in Geneva, during difficult negotations about the Plan of Action for the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), an idea was launched--and then dropped -- to create 'Programmers without Frontiers'. Would you be interested to give this idea more shape and actually create such a network? The form of such a networked organization is open and it's aim lies in supporting the spreading of FL/OSS and consolidating the collaboration between users and programmers, especially in the South. If the UN is not able to create and launch it, should we do it? Looking forward to your response."
A LIVE-CD IN THE BANGLA LANGUAGE: Sayamindu Dasgupta sayamindu@clai.net, the young achiever of the Free Software network from Kolkata in eastern India, recently announced the Ankur Bangla LiveCD version 1.0-beta2 (codenamed DaanpiTe Chhele). He wrote: "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, The Ankur Bangla Project is proud announce version 1.0-beta2 (DaanpiTe Chhele) of its Morphix based LiveCD (or if you prefer it in that way -- demo CD)."
What is it? The Ankur Bangla LiveCD is a 'khichuri' created out of some of the finest GNU/Linux distributions out there. The bootup, hardware detection and shutdown is done by a combination of Debian GNU/Linux, Knoppix and Morphix. The non GUI system is based on Slackware Linux 9.0 while the GUI runs a version of GNOME 2.4, specifically patched and compiled for the Ankur Bangla group to show off its works. (Yep right! - "patched" means that there is extra functionality and eyecandy)
Requirements? The Ankur LiveCD requires 16 MB of RAM and a i486 compatible CPU to run in command line mode. However, to see anything in Bangla, you will have to run the CD in GUI mode, which requires a minimum of 128 MB RAM and a 400 Mhz or better processor to run. You can use it with lesser RAM and lots of swap space, but there's no guarantee this would work!
What does it do? With this LiveCD, we aim to provide everything that a stock Windows(TM) install provides. This means, you get a fully functional desktop, a plain-text editor (with beta level support for Bengali spellchecking), a web browser (to render UTF-8 encoded Bangla web-pages perfectly), an instant messaging client, a standalone FTP client, a VCD/DVD/videofile/audiofile/audio CD player, a CD burning software with basic functionality, an image viewer, numerous games, a PDF and PS file viewer, a terminal emulator, a program similar to Microsoft(TM) Netmeeting (TM), a sound recorder, a webcam management utility (being tested), a fancy calculator, a dictionary, an archiver and a "really fancy" character map utility, a system log watching tool, a nice little wizard-based network setup tool.
Just pop the CD into the drive, reboot, sit back and relax. In most cases all your hardware will be autodetected, and you will be inside the Desktop in no time. To see screenshots see www.bengalinux.org/screenshots/gnome/
Interested? Contact sayamindu@clai.net
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM IN MUMBAI (BOMBAY) AND FREE SOFTWARE: Warren Norrix is working with the World Social Forum (India) in Bombay. On behalf of the Free Software Foundation India, he will be coordinating activities of Free Software Movement in WSF which meets in this Indian city in early 2004. Says Arun arun@gnu.org: Warren should be able to update us soon on what he is doing and what are to be done etc. Can we have a list of organisation relating to free software who would be coming for the event? List of programs to be organised?...
MORE DETAILS on the above from : www.hipatia.info - info@hipatia.info - www.fsm.hipatia.info wiki.hipatia.info/wiki/1.3.4/index.php?pagename=Foro%20Social%20Mundial%202004 -------------------- Fsm2004 mailing list Fsm2004@hipatia.info http://listas.hipatia.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsm2004
SITEWATCH: http://sarovar.org ... check this site that's trying to build itself up as an Indian sourceforge. Can it work? Your help is vital!
MOZILLA THAT SUPPORTS INDIC LANGUAGES: raj@linuxense.com informs that he has uploaded a mozilla with experimental patches to support indic languages at http://www.linuxense.com/oss/render/mozilla/index.html Even though the seb pages indicate the Malayalam language, there is nothing Malayalam-sepcific in that and all Indian languages should be able to use that, he says. Please pass this note along and bugs and test cases should be reported at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215219
FINNISH CAMPAIGNER IN INDIA: Timo Mielonen timo.mielonen@maailma.net from Finland writes in to say that Marko Ulvila will be shortly visiting India. He was one of key persons when the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs decided to study the role of Free/Libre and Open Source Software in the Third World. Ulvila is a senior activist engaged with a number of movement groups and NGOs. One of his interest is the struggle for freedom of knowledge and information. For this reason, he is an active proponent of free software. In 2000-2002 he was a special advisor to minister for development cooperation, Ms. Satu Hassi (of the Greens Party) who initiated the study on FLOSS in the 'developing' countries. Now he is engaged with a Finnish NGO Coalition for Environment and Development, which is co-organising a number of worksops for Mumbai World Social Forum. Although free software is not on the agenda of CED, Marko is keen to get in touch with the Indian activists in this field. As a GNU/Linux user since 1998 he is keen to deepen his knowledge of and expand his contacts with the members of the community. He will be in India from beginning October to end of January. marko.ulvila@kaapeli.fi says himself that he's in Delhi from October 2, in Goa from around Dec 22 to Jan 2, and in Mumbai after that.
AT THE GOA ENGINEERING COLLEGE: http://ele.gec.ac.in/resources.html is the site of the Goa Engineering College, which allows students to download a number of distros, tutorials, documentation and other GNU/Linux related material for free and share it with freedom. Incidentally, GEC-Farmagudi was on the itinerary of Free Software Foundation founder Dr Richard M Stallman, when he visited Goa in November 2002. FLOSS champions there include the highly-skilled Prof MSR (Rayadu) and the untiring Prof (Dr) George Easay.
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LISTING PACKAGES WRITTEN BY INDIANS: Radhakrishnan CV cvr@tug.org says on behalf of TUGIndia -- the active and helpful TeX user group -- that TUGIndia contemplate to create a comprehensive page, listing all the packages written by Indians with links and pointers for download.
Says he: "I would therefore, earnestly request authors of TeX packages, fonts, utilities and documentation that are released under anyone of the free/open source licences with download links to me privately. A brief writeup about the package would also be helpful. Your cooperation in this matter would be highly appreciated. We would also mirror all the stuff at sarovar.org "
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FLOSS TODAY? Keep abrest with what's happening on the FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) front in India on a daily basis. Flosstoday mailing list Flosstoday@mail.sarai.net http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/flosstoday
FINDING FLOSS IN SOUTH ASIA: Partha Sarkar partha@bytesforall.org from Bangladesh offers some links to people working in the field of FLOSS, from his part of South Asia, when we recently asked him. Says he: "Anir Chowdhury" <anir@evastra.com is involved with developing Bangla Linux in Bangladesh. "Sayeedur Rahman" <bangla_ict@yahoo.com who runs a list on Bangladesh ICT development and is a UNIX specialist. Muhammad Muquit (http://www.muquit.com/muquit/whoami.html) Email: muquit@muquit.com. I think these would help. They would also be able to give you more contacts if you need that." If anyone could offer more links to GNU/Linux enthusiasts in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka, it would be very helpful.
FROM KOCHI, SOUTH INDIA: Vimal vimalekm@vsnl.net tell sus that there is a Free Software User Group in Kochi. Check http://puggy.symonds.net/~fsug-kochi Says Vimal: "There is also a very active mailing list." See http://www.symonds.net/mailman/listinfo/fsug-kochi-discuss
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