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IOSN COMES OUT WITH A PRIMER ON OPEN STANDARDS
IOSN's open standards primer. * Download the primer: Open Document format (111KB) http://www.iosn.net/open-standards/foss-open-standards-primer/foss-openstds-... * PDF format (485KB) http://www.iosn.net/open-standards/foss-open-standards-primer/foss-openstds-...
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MORE USEFUL URLs AND SOME CORRECTIONS TOO
Thanks to Komal agencies_ad1@sancharnet.in for pointing out that the correct link for xfree86 is www.x.org and for the Linux documentation project is www.tldp.org (and not as rendered earlier).
And thank you Prachee Agarwal agarwal_prachee@yahoo.co.in of the Lucknow LUG lucknow-lug@yahoogroups.com for responding with *your* favourite links: www.indlinux.org www.gentoo.org www.linuxiso.org www.linuxquestions.org ftp://ftp.funet.fi
Just shows how *everyone* benefits when something (information, code) is shared!
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HOW-TO, ON TALKING THIS TIME... COURTESY PUNE
Kanti Jadia j_kanti@rediffmail.com sent across this useful tip from PLUG, the Pune GNU/Linux Users Group, which explains *how to talk* http://plug.org.in/articles/articles.php?howtotalk
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NOVELL COMES OUT WITH SOLUTIONS FOR INDIAN TONGUES
AD (Andi) Marshall, out there in Vietnam, admarshall@gmail.com draws attention to this link, which says: "Novell is introducing Indian language versions of its Suse Linux distribution, according to an executive of the company..." COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,1ur7,1,dvc6,kevq,9a65,aayy
IndLinux guru Guntupalli Karunakar karunakar@freedomink.org responds, to say: "Surprisingly, it doesnt mention Punjabi as supported, when Punjabi is most well supported language on any distribution, while Malayalam where l10n effort is slow pending resolution of Malayalam Unicode issues finds place. Maybe they were trying to be different ;)"
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DELHI PLANS AN AMBITIOUS FREEDEL MEET, WITH LOCAL CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE
Raj "Raju" Mathur raju@linux-delhi.org of ILUG-Delhi announces Freedel to be held on September 17/18 2005, 10:00AM to 6:00PM at PHD House, Hauz Khas, New Delhi. Two full days of demystifying [GNU]Linux. PHDCCI and India Linux Users Group - Delhi (ILUG-D) are behind the event.
Says Mathur: "ILUG-D in the past has conducted very successful events where over 450 participants attended. This year we are expecting much greater numbers. People from all walks of life are expected to attend; students, professionals, corporates, all will be there. What's more, ILUG-D will have something to show for everyone. Technical talks covering issues from installation, to desktop usage to wireless [GNU]Linux, it will all be there. We will even have young school kids showing how they use [GNU]Linux. Its an event you don't want to miss!"
Several stalls showcasing various aspects of Linux from gaming, to audio/video editing to development, servers, databases and applications.
The event is organised by ILUG-D and co-hosted by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It is completely volunteer-driven and supported by several organisations. The event is primarily driven by volunteers of ILUG-D and a committed group of computer professionals from PHDCCI.
Apart from all the technical stuff happening, there will also be T-shirts, Linux distributions on CDs, tea, snacks and all the elements of fun available at low or no cost. Be there, be counted!
Contact: Raj Mathur raju@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/
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THOSE FREE CDs IN YOUR HAND, THEY'RE ACTUALLY WORTH MILLIONS
Value of Debian GNU/Linux. The paper Measuring Libre Software studying the size of the source packages in Debian 3.1 calculates the size of sarge (close to 230 million lines of source code), the use of the various programming languages in which the software has been written, and the size of the packages included in the distribution. It also estimates cost to create something on the scale of Debian from scratch with a classical and well-known cost method (COCOMO) to be over 8 billion US dollar. http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/issues/2005/3/up6-3Amor.pdf Source: Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2005/37/
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IT'S NEW: A WIKI FOR THE FLOSS COMMUNITY IN INDIA
Praveen A pravi.a@gmail.com has launched a new wiki for the Free/Libre and Open Source Software community in India. See http://fci.wikicities.com
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AN EXPAT WHO CAN, AND PLANS TO, BUILD BRIDGES
Adi Alurkar adi@sf.net is an Indian expat who could be one of those to build useful bridges. He announced on ILUG-Goa -- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa -- recently that he manages all the database related responsibilities for SourceForge.net and will be visiting India shortly.
Aditya (Adi) is India between Oct 21 and Dec 9 and says that "during this visit I'd like to meet and chat with like minded folks and see how SF.net could help the F[L]OSS community in india better".
He will be visiting family in South Maharashtra and South Gujarat, looks forward to getting feedback on how FLOSS is "taking hold in the Indian subcontinent" and wants an "excuse" to come to Goa, the place where he was raised and graduated (from Chowgule College). You're welcome mate!
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FOSS.TV, WHAT'S THAT? JUST TAKE A PEEP
Navin Dhanuka dhanukanavin@gmail.com has meanwhile gone ahead with FOSS.tv Says Navin, "Feedback about FOSS.tv is good as of now. Let's see if I can set it rolling soon." If you want to help him, just go for it. Hint: you need software of the video kind. To find out more about Navin, go to http://www.navin.ind.in
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