FSUG-Bangalore May 2006

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Re: [FSUG-Bangalore] Virtual Ban on exhibiting Fanna
by Anurag 31 May '06

31 May '06

Sometime on Sat, May 27, 2006 at 03:22:43PM +0530, Vikram Vincent said: > > > > > >How does screening of a movie relate to free software users group? > > > >Anurag > > > Well the GNU GPLv3 covers many new areas apart from just software... > And the main aspect is about the "freedom". Please send your reply to the mailing list, not privately to me. Besides, GPLv3 is still a draft and not enforcable. Freedom obtained from GPL doesnt allow you to discuss about movies/reservation politics on a FreeSoftware Mailing list. Anurag -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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Virtual Ban on exhibiting Fanna
by Vikram Vincent 26 May '06

26 May '06

1. Virtual Ban on exhibiting Fanna 25 May 2006 Press Statement The virtual ban on the showing of the film Fanna in Gujarat is an indication of the extreme intolerance displayed by the ruling party and its organisations in Gujarat to any dissenting opinion. The reported assurance of police protection to any film theatre showing the film by the Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, is an eye-wash since it is under his leadership that the front organisations of the sangh combine are threatening film theatre owners against showing the film. The ire of the protesters is against the solidarity expressed by actor Aamir Khan for the demand for rehabilitation of the thousands of adivasi and peasant families displaced by the Narmada project. The state government is behaving as if it is above the Constitution of India which grants the freedom of expression to every individual. Such actions of the sangh combine in Gujarat under the patronage of the government has serious implications for democratic rights of the people of Gujarat and indeed for all Indian citizens. We demands that the Modi government and the party he leads uphold the law of the country.

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On Reservation in Educational Institutions
by Vikram Vincent 26 May '06

26 May '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram(a)gmail.com> Date: 17-May-2006 21:32 Subject: On Reservation in Educational Institutions To: bangalore_alive <bangalore_alive(a)googlegroups.com> *On Reservation in Educational Institutions* *1. The Constitutional provision of reservation for socially and economically backward classes is meant to provide access to education and jobs for the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes. * *This provision for reservation is a partial acknowledgement of the inequities of the caste system and the discrimination and deprivation that it entailed for centuries in Indian society. * *It is viewed that such reservation is a limited step to provide opportunities for the dalits, adivasis and other backward classes to acquire education and jobs. At the same time, it has to be stressed that there can be no emancipation without basic land reforms and changes in the socio-economic system which breed exploitation and inequality. * *2. Extension for OBC reservation to education is based on the same principle as its application to jobs. We have to support reservation in higher educational institutions for SC, ST and OBC. The state governments are to decide the quantum of reservation in the institutions run by them. In higher education, since there is a scarcity of seats, especially in professional institutions, reservation should be accompanied by a commensurate increase in the number of seats in the institutions run or aided by the Central government. * *According to the UGC Chairman, there was provision for an increase of 10 per cent annually in the seats in colleges for which financial allocations have been made in the tenth five year plan. * *3. While we should be for reservation, it is maintained that distinct from the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, there is differentiation among the other backward classes. Reservation should benefit the poorer and needy sections among these communities. For this, there has to be a socio-economic criteria which excludes the affluent and those already having access to jobs and higher education. This came to be known as exclusion of the "Creamy Layer" based on the Supreme Court judgement on the implementation of the Mandal Commission report. * *4. While expanding the seats in educational institutions, students coming from weak and poorer background and who do not come in the reservation categories should also be provided for through a separate allocation of seats. * *5. The government of India should prepare a proposal which should be put for a public debate, so that the widest agreement is reached before it is taken up for implementation. * *6. Alongwith this, the government should immediately prepare a legislation for regulating all private higher educational institutions. The legislation should enable state governments to regulate admission and fees in all private higher educational institutions which are aided or unaided. The crass commercialisation of higher education has closed the doors for a large number of deserving students irrespective of their background and even when they have the necessary qualifications and merit. Social control of the burgeoning "educational industry" is an urgent necessity. *

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[Fwd: Invitation: 27th May (Saturday) 11AM-4PM Pantoto release; FLOSS for local needs; Food and Music]
by Raghavan Kandala 26 May '06

26 May '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Invitation: 27th May (Saturday) 11AM-4PM Pantoto release; FLOSS for local needs; Food and Music Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 01:01:18 +0530 From: dinesh <dinesh(a)servelots.com> To: pantoto(a)servelots.com CC: cryinfo.blr(a)crymail.org Servelots/Janastu invite you to a fun day of Code Release, Sharing, and Party on Saturday, 27th of May between 11AM to 4PM at 3354, K.R.Road (Directions on http://servelots.com) 11:00 Release of new version of Pantoto Communities --------------------------------------------------- Pantoto Communities software is designed for communities to manage community knowledge and is developed based on the needs of some of the communities, small enterprises and NGOs who have been using Pantoto. (See http://servelots.com and http://janastu.org). This release includes: significant internal redesign, user interface and usability improvements (customizability of skins, new default skin, easy content editing, simplification of building custom forms for user input), protection against spam bots, RSS feeds and feed aggregation. 11.30 FLOSS development of products/services for local needs ------------------------------------------------------------ DISCUSSION: If you are interested in or if you are working on developing FLOSS products/services to meet primarily local needs (not necessarily for global market, but more for local communities, NGOs, researchers, etc), please come and share your interests, ideas and work. We are hoping that the discussions would lead to a better appreciation of the importance and the need to cater to local issues, spark new ideas and encourage greater participation and collaboration. People who work on Pantoto, NewsRack, Mapunity.org, and integration of Indic and VoIP tools have confirmed their attendance. 1:00 Lunch ---------- 2:00 Music and games -------------------- Music by Dyuthi and friends Open space for participatory games, music, .. (bring game ideas, songs, friends)

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sip the SICP
by harsha reddy 19 May '06

19 May '06

Hi All, (if (= gyanoday (#t read http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-1.html)) (display "Enjoy Hacking")) Cheers!! Harsha -- _______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Karnataka MLC Elections-2006
by Vikram Vincent 18 May '06

18 May '06

SAY NO TO JOB KILLER POLICIES!!! DOWN-SIZING RIGHT-SIZING OUTSOURCING ASSERT YOURSELVES INDIA NEEDS YOU Dear Graduates of Bangalore, The last several years have witnessed an onslaught on employment opportunities by the cutting of jobs in the name of administrative reforms. In the 2004 elections, 51% of the voting population were youth. The people, quite rightly, rejected the parties like BJP led NDA, Chandrababu led TDP, SM Krishna led Congress, Jayalalitha led AIADMK pursuing such policies. The only exception being the Left parties as they were against these policies. Reason: First there was 'downsizing' then 'rightsizing' and now 'outsourcing'. All these terms mean the same ie., the government does not want to create new jobs for the growing population while drastically cutting down on the existing jobs. This leads to involuntary job loss and creates temporary and contractual jobs which is unhealthy for the economy on the whole. Even with the changing governments there has been no change in policies. The reason being the LPG (Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation) policies vigorously pursued by the successive governments. Result: The educated unemployed were not given secure jobs but rather temporary and contractual jobs and due to this a vast section of under-employeds are emerging. While being squeezed as the sugarcane is squeezed there is no minimum wages, lack of job security, NOTHING. Since the last two decades, around 80,000 jobs have beenlying vacant in Karnataka. Due to this increased workload on the meagre staff, public works have been disrupted hampering the growth of the Nation. Mahiti sindhu teachers, gramaviduth pratinidhis, licensed surveyors, contract workers, employees, engineers, doctors, part-time lecturers and teachers-all working on a meagre honorarium and their numbers are ever mushrooming. As per government records, there are around 3.5 lakh vacant jobs in the various central govt. depts.. In the various depts. of all state govts. there are around 30 lakh vacant jobs and 6 lakh vacant jobs in the railways. A grand total of around 40 lakh jobs. Instead of filling these jobs, the Congress led UPA govt. came out with a circular dated 23rd Nov., 2003 with the same content as the 16th May, 2001 circular of the BJP led NDA govt. which directs all the state govts. to list all the vacant jobs so as to enable them to abolish them. The present JD(S)-BJP combine in Karnataka promised that 80,000 vacant jobs would be filled but did say anything about it in the first budget. Instead, the day after the budget, the Finance Dept. proposal to abolish 7000 vacant jobs was taken up. In this situation, it is for us to decide whether the under-employed and unemployed should get decent jobs or allow the policies of down-sizing, right-sizing and outsourcing, which encourage a "jobloss growth" to prevail. In this regard, the students, youth, employees, workers and other movements in the State and Nation are striving to build a movement to reverse these anti-people trends. We, the graduates of Bangalore now have an opportunity to assert ourselves and defeat the anti-people policies and ensure ourselves and future generations decent jobs. We appeal to all the graduate vaters of the Bangalore Graduate Constituency to utilize the forth-coming June 17th bueniel elections to choose a firm voice against these policies. In this regard, on behalf of Bangalore Alive we appeal to yourself to cast your first preferential vote to Mrs. K. S. Lakshmi, M.A., and make her victorious. Vikram Vincent

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Welcome to the FSUG Bangalore mailing list!
by Abhas Abhinav 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hi Everyone... This is just a test message to the new mailing list. Anurag has migrated the archives as well. So all of us should be able to look up old messages at: http://gnowledge.org/pipermail/fsug-bangalore/ Please do update your addressbooks. I'll disable the existing mailinglist by Saturday. Hope that's fine. Cheers, Abhas. -- i-take-charge at DeepRoot Linux http://www.deeproot.co.in / +91 (80) 4112 4784 / 85 Getting GNU/Linux to work for you. Faster. Better. Today. Every way.

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hello
by Vikram Vincent 15 May '06

15 May '06

Hi just wanted to say Hi to all on this new list. Regards Vincent

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Shifing of this list to gnu.org.in
by Abhas Abhinav 15 May '06

15 May '06

Hi Everyone! Good Afternoon! Anurag <anurag(a)gnuer.org> has setup a FSUG Bangalore mailing list at gnu.org.in. You can check it out at the following URL: http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsug-bangalore I've sent him the subcriber list. And so all of us should get automatically added to the new mailing list. So I guess its really time to close this list. I'm working with Anurag to also migrate the list archives to the new server. I think we should be able to do that soon. Till then you can continue to access the list archives on the current URL. What should be keep as a cut-off date for disabling this mailing list? Also - Anurag - can we start testing out the new list now? Cheers, Abhas. -- i-take-charge at DeepRoot Linux http://www.deeproot.co.in / +91 (80) 4112 4784 / 85 Getting GNU/Linux to work for you. Faster. Better. Today. Every way.

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Universal Package Manager for GNU
by प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A) 15 May '06

15 May '06

Hi, I have this idea of a universal package manager which combines the advanced features of Hurd with the good features of all the existing package managers and provide an interface for using existing packages. Share your ideas on the wiki http://hurd.in/bin/view/Main/UniversalPackageManager I'm very much excited and it is an amazing idea !!! Happy Hacking Praveen -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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