FSUG-Bangalore April 2007

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8 participants
20 discussions

On Etv coverage on Free Software Movement in Bangalore
by Vikram Vincent 05 May '07

05 May '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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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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FSUG-Bangalore needs to be added on NRCFOSS page
by Vikram Vincent 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Dear Sir, http://nrcfoss.org.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=77 The page on the following link does not contain any mention of the Free Software Users Group-Bangalore http://bangalore.gnu.org.in We request you to please do the needful. Thank you. -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_karnataka

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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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Re: On bangalore.gnu.org.in
by Vikram Vincent 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

Hello, On 19/04/07, Rakesh 'arky' Ambati <rakesh_ambati(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi Vikram, > --- Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hey Arky > > How are you doing? Was wondering if you are still in > > Bangalore??? > > > Nice to hear from you, I am not in bangalore right now > would be returning to the city in few weeks. > > Ok. Since at present you are maintaining the bangalore.gnu.org.in can you please create another account for me so that I can update the pages on a regular basis. 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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On bangalore.gnu.org.in
by Vikram Vincent 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hey Arky How are you doing? Was wondering if you are still in Bangalore??? I would like to offer my help in maintaining the bangalore.gnu.org.in page to reflect some of the latest developments in the Free Software Community here in Bangalore. Due to the inability to modify the bangalore.gnu.org.in pages we have had to make alternate arrangements such as http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_karnataka Can we move the page to a more collaborative platform to enable more active participation or atleast enable a few of the more active members to modify it? I personally feel that we could do with a new platform such as the one we used with the GPLv3 conference or mediawiki based. 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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Calling for lady speakers for BMSCE Swtantra Tech Fest
by Vikram Vincent 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

Hello All, I know that we have just another week to the BMSCE Swatantra Tech Fest(April 21st, 2007) but we need a lady speaker for 'FOSS and Women'. I know that men have to take the responsibility to get more women involved in FOSS so if we do not have any lady speaker it will end up with me having to shoulder this responsibility. Thanks in advance. -- 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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Istanbul Screencast Tutorial
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 13 Apr '07

13 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: [Localisation] Report on Jumpstart Localisation
by Vikram Vincent 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tushar Abraham Mathew <nrcfoss(a)cdac.in> Date: 13-Apr-2007 18:38 Subject: [Localisation] Report on Jumpstart Localisation To: localisation(a)iosn.net Jumpstart Localisation goes smooth Mid of March to the first week of April was a busy time for the IOSN South Asia Node. The node organized its second event "Jumpstart Localisation", a training of trainers on Localisation at CDAC, Electronics City, Bangalore from April 6th-8th. Taking into account some last minute bailouts, in all, there were 16 people who attended the training. Mrs. Kendra Derousseau flew 6540 miles from Vanuatu in the Pacific Islands to attend it. Most of the trainees arrived on the 5th and were put up at Samrudhii Suites, very close to Electronics City. The next morning they were taken by bus to the venue. Mr. R.K.V.S Raman, Senior Staff Scientist, CDAC, Electronics City was to be their trainer for the next three days. Mr. Raman has been involved with Localisation and Language Computing for the past five years. He has also been involved with Speech Synthesis & Recognition and his allied interests extend to Human Computer Interaction and Semantic Web. The trainees were handed out kits along with the IOSN Localisation Primer (http://www.iosn.net/l10n/foss-localization-primer/). The trainer started with the terminologies and resources required for anyone wanting to take up Localisation (l10n). He then cited the evolution of some Indian languages, history of different encoding schemes, the Unicode Standard and well known Localisation efforts. Another important aspect that was touched upon was Cultural Localisation. Mr. Raman mentioned an example in Tamil where in a word, the same letter could have different pronunciations hence conveying a totally different meaning. Kendra who spoke French gave a similar example and on both occasions, the laughter was uncontrollable. Her knowledge of French came as a boon as we took up its peculiarities like accents which wouldn't have been covered otherwise. On the second day, we moved on to Fonts, types and differences. The Sri Lankan, Mr. Anura, had lots of questions during this session as he came from a paper industry background. The session that followed was on various Text Flows, Input Methods, Keyboard Layouts, Rendering Engines, tools used in Translation, importing translations from other applications and migrating translated applications to newer versions of software. During all this time, Mr. Safal from Nepal was the quite one. What saw keen interest from the trainees was probably the third day session on Internationalizing applications and approaches followed. The various functions used for internationalization (i18n) in Java and C were also covered. The final session took us through CLDR charts and overview of Font Designing. Bangladeshi Mr. Khandakar Mujihidul Islam took particular interest in that one. He also spent a considerable amount of his time testing the limits of his camera's memory. Inputs provided from members of Swatantra Malayalam Computing and Debian Kannada Localisation who were present were also helpful. Malayalam and Kannada are languages spoken in the Indian states of Kerala and Karnataka respectively. After the training, the trainees were taken on a one day sightseeing trip to Mysore. In store were palaces and temples and even a zoo. A tired group bid their goodbyes the next day. In order to ensure that the group stays in touch and continue localisation efforts as well as solve each other's problems, a mailing list localisation(a)iosn.net was created. It was deliberately given a generic name so as to include more people from the Asia Pacific hence bringing with them wider expertise and a broader spectrum of languages. The list can be accessed at http://lists.iosn.net/mailman/listinfo/localisation. _______________________________________________ Localisation mailing list Localisation(a)iosn.net http://lists.iosn.net/mailman/listinfo/localisation -- 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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