FSUG-Bangalore August 2007

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Gnu.org is now available in Kannada
by Omshiva prakash 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರೊತ್ಸವದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು, ಮುಕ್ತ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಪ್ರತಿಷ್ಠಾನ <http://www.fsf.org/> (ಎಪ್ಸೆಪ್) ದ ಜಿ ಎನ್ ಯು (ಗ್ನೂ) ವೆಬ್ ಸೈಟನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಅನುವಾದಿಸುವ ಕೆಲಸವನ್ನ ಶುರು ಮಾಡಿದ್ದೇನೆ. ಗ್ನೂ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ತಿಳಿಯಲಿಚ್ಚಿಸುವ ಎಲ್ಲ ಕನ್ನಡಗರು ಇದರ ಉಪಯೊಗ ಪಡೆದು ಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದು. ಮುಕ್ತ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶವನ್ನು ಬಹುದಿನಗಳಿಂದ ಉಪಯೊಗಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ನಾವು ನಮ್ಮ ಭಾಷೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಗ್ನೂನ ವೆಬ್ ಸೈಟ್ ಏಕೆ ಅನುವಾದಿಸಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂಬ ಚಿಂತೆ ನನಗೆ ಈ ಕಾರ್ಯವನ್ನ ಶುರು ಮಾಡಲು ಪ್ರೇರೇಪಿಸಿದ ಅಂಶ. ಮೂಲ ವೆಬ್ ಸೈಟ್ : http://www.gnu.org ಅನುವಾದಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿಯಲ್ಲಿ "ಕನ್ನಡ" ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ಕಿಸಿ : ಕನ್ನಡ ಪುಟ http://www.gnu.org/home.kn.html ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕೆಲ ತಪ್ಪುಗಳಿವೆ, ಹೊಸ ಪುಟವನ್ನು ಬಹು ಬೇಗ ಅಪ್ ಲೋಡ್ ಮಾಡಿ ತಿದ್ದುತ್ತೇನೆ, ತಪ್ಪುಗಳಿಗೆ ಕ್ಷಮಯಿರಲಿ. ನಿಮಗೆ ಈ ಅನುವಾದದಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಮ್ಮನ್ನ ತೊಡಗಿಸಿ ಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ಇದ್ದರೆ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಸಂಪರ್ಕಿಸಿ ಈ-ಮೈಲ್ : omshivaprakash(a)sampada.net<../mail?view=cm&tf=0&to=omshivaprakash(a)sampada.net> ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳೊಂದಿಗೆ, ಓಂ ಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ -- -- "A well-directed imagination is the source of great deeds" -- With Best Regards, Omshivaprakash.H.L WebPage : http://shiv.techfiz.info Phone: 91- 9343726518 / 91 - 9343866368

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FOSS in Schools
by Vikram Vincent 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

Hello all, Those of you on the FOSS.IN mailing list will know about the discussions that took place recently with regard to promoting FOSS in schools. We know that moving schools to free software is that fundamental task which will strengthen the free software movement and the movement in Kerala is a good example. In order for us to learn from such examples a documentation page has been created at http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/FOSS_in_Schools Please feel free to fill up the pages and hope that we can all coordinate in our own way in building the free software movement at schools. -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 Project Engineer, NRCFOSS, AU-KBC Research Centre

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KERALA: Students develop new GNU installer
by Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया] 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IER20070730024044&Page=R&Title=… Students develop new GNU installer Monday July 30 2007 13:02 IST KOZHIKODE: The final-year Information Technology students at Kuttippuram MES College of Engineering have developed a new installer for GNU operating system. The GNU is the operating system envisaged by Free Software Foundation and is composed entirely of free software. The new installer 'LX installer' was developed based on a microkernel architecture. The 15-member group, comprising four girls and 11 boys, had taken nearly an year to develop the new installer. "The installer was developed as part of their one-year academic project," said Prof. C K Raju, head, department of IT, MES College. The new series was developed on the background that the preceding K-series installer which was developed and maintained by Philip Charles in New Zealand was very difficult to handle even for a professional. "The idea of developing sophisticated installer emerged during the frequent dialogues we had with Philip Charles," said Raju. The new installer has all features which will meet the requirements of education and research activities. With the development of new installer, resources of more than one machine can be shared including the memory and micro process computing resources. It also enhances the system's efficiency and it can be installed very easily. "The developed installer LX series of advanced Debian GNU Hurd is available in the CD format. It makes the installation task much simple and easy to boot," said Raju. The students were assisted by two lecturers P Badarudeen and A.Ragesh of the IT department, besides the guidance by Philip Charles. -- Frederick Noronha Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org E: fred(a)bytesforall.org or fredericknoronha(a)gmail.com P: +91-832-2409490 M: +91-9970157402 Yahoo: fredericknoronha Skype: fredericknoronha GTalk: fredericknoronha 784, Sonarbhat, Near Lourdes Convent, Saligao 403511 Goa India

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Prajña : Cognizant FLOSS Corps
by Prem 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

Hi all, I just joined the group. So let me introduce myself first :) I am A. Prem Kumar, asst. mgr. with Cognizant at Bangalore. Been in Cognizant for the past 7 years now. I have been involved with FLOSS since 1998, when I did my first Linux installation :) I maintain a blog on FLOSS in Cognizant's internal blog to spread its awareness & have been successful in getting many people interested in it. Some of my posts there have been sanitised & put in my external blog. [1] I have started a new group (so far unofficial) in Cognizant which endeavours to help in the upliftment of the rural & urban poor of India by giving them a digital edge achieved by implementing & teaching FLOSS based solutions in academic institutions & self help communities. We are Prajña : Cognizant FLOSS Corps. [2] Prajna, as you all might know, stands for wisdom, intelligence which we try to impart & also comes closest to the translation of Cognizant. I plan to use swan as a mascot. Swan is closest to Hamsa, Saraswati's vahan & represents wisdom & knowledge too :) It is still in its infancy (only two days old) and not much has been setup, except for securing the help of some people who have promised help in their personal capacities. I am sending across a mind map on my plans for this group & solicit your feedback & suggestions. The idea for starting such a group got seeded in my mind while I was researching for a blog post of mine called "Satyagrah for Swatantra Software in India"[3]. The blog has also been posted in Cognizant's internal blogs (ch1blogs, short for Channel One Blogs) where I maintain a blog called FLOSS Bites. I was very much impressed & driven by the recent efforts of ilug-cal to implement LTSP in rural schools & teaching the MLAs (I have mentioned it in my post too). My idea got watered further during my various discussions on these internal blogs wrt Charity in Hinduism & Cognizant's Corporate Social Responsibility. My driving force to start this group is my belief that the greatest charity we can do in this day & age is to give somebody a job or teach a job, so that they are self sufficient as well as strive to provide employment to others too. And this self sufficiency is what will provide actual freedom to all our poor. No wonder then that I choose only Swatantra software (FLOSS). Also, I will not consider using proprietary solutions even if given away for free. This might seem extremist but that's my belief. Teaching people proprietary solutions for free is a sure fire way to get the people hooked onto a solution which they will not be able to afford once they get addicted. This is pretty much like getting people addicted to drugs for free & then making them pay heavily. You can also join in the conversations I am having in Orkut with the youngsters from college. [4] I would like to ask for whatever help you all can provide us, monetary or with knowledge or with contacts or in any other way you think it will be helpful for us. And finally, seeking all your blessings & well wishes too. -- [1] http://scorpfromhell.blogspot.com/ [2] http://scorpfromhell.blogspot.com/2007/08/praja-cognizant-floss-corps.html [3] http://scorpfromhell.blogspot.com/2007/07/satyagrah-for-swatantra-software-… [4] http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=55950&tid=2548591294461293376 -- - Prem I spent a minute looking at my own code by accident. I was thinking "What the hell is this guy doing?" ---------------------------------------------------- Prem Kumar Aparanji M: 00919845226618 [Bangalore, KA, INDIA] http://scorpfromhell.blogspot.com

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Fwd: [Indlinux-group] SCIM keymap for Hindi Baraha system
by Praveen A 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gora Mohanty <gora(a)sarai.net> Date: २००७ अगस्त ११ १३:३० Subject: Re: [Indlinux-group] SCIM keymap for Hindi Baraha system To: indlinux-group <indlinux-group(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Indlinux-hindi <Indlinux-hindi(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, deewan <deewan(a)sarai.net> On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 21:10 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: [...] > This fixes the earlier map, which was completely wrong, and I believe > that it should be what is required, barring any bugs, and a few > shortcomings noted at the top of the file. I will consider extending > this to other Indian languages. Please follow up here if there are > any issues with the keymap. [...] I have made up preliminary Baraha keymaps for the following scripts: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu. A zip file containing all these maps is available at http://oriya.sarovar.org/download/baraha-maps.zip Download this, unzip it (this will create the file INSTALL, and several .mim files in the current directory). Follow the instructions in the file INSTALL to install the desired maps. Essentially, what you have to do is to copy the maps to /usr/share/m17n, and restart SCIM. These maps were made by a simple transliteration of Unicode codepoints, and will probably need some work. Regards, Gora ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ IndLinux-group mailing list IndLinux-group(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-group -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Universal sells songs without DRM
by Vikram Vincent 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

Wondering about the outcome of this experiment. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6939807.stm -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 Project Engineer, NRCFOSS, AU-KBC Research Centre

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[On topic]On Attack on Taslima Nasreen
by Vikram Vincent 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

On Attack on Taslima Nasreen August 10, 2007 We strongly condemn the physical attack on Taslima Nasreen, a Bangladeshi writer. This attack goes against the democratic and secular character of the Indian polity. One may have differences over the writings of Taslima Nasreen or anybody else, but this definitely is not the appropriate manner to express dissent. This very act militates against the freedom of expression. We demand that the Andhra Pradesh government take firm action against the culprits responsible for this attack.

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Re: [Fsf-friends] [On topic]On Attack on Taslima Nasreen
by Aanjhan R 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

Hi, On 8/10/07, Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/08/07, Anurag <anurag(a)gnuer.org> wrote: > > > > Quoting Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram(a)gmail.com>: > > > > > This very act militates against the freedom of expression. > > > > This is something similar to the Fanaa episode. We are here to protect the > freedom of knowledge. Definitely off topic. And marking it On-Topic is heights!!! -- Aanjhan ---------------------------------- a.k.a Tuxmaniac Locations: #ubuntu-in, #linux-india, #gnu-india @irc.freenode.net CyberHome: http://www.tuxmaniac.com ----------------------------------

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TN Schools adopt gnu/linux
by Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hi, After the left in Kerala. TN also adopts gnu/linux in schools. Will the outsourcing capital - bangalore also do so cheers senthil Tamil Nadu schools go for SUSE Linux The exodus is to eliminate numerous proprietary software licenses and reduce hardware costs MUMBAI, INDIA: The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) is rolling out SUSE Linux <http://www.ciol.com/content/developer/Linux/2006/106071801.asp> Enterprise across 30,000 desktops and 1,880 servers in Tamil Nadu's schools. Earlier, ELCOT had migrated its entire IT infrastructure from Microsoft Windows to the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell. "The open source software in SUSE Linux Enterprise is superb," said C. Umashankar, managing director of ELCOT. "In addition, we estimate that moving to Linux has reduced our general hardware costs by nearly 25 percent. In case of high-end servers <http://www.ciol.com/content/860797344.aspx> , the savings could be as much as 80 percent. What's more important is the benefits that the Tamil Nadu's students will get from this. There is a growing trend towards the corporate adoption of Linux, both in India and elsewhere. So it will be a real advantage in the job market to have experience working with open source software. It gives us tremendous freedom and choice," he added. ELCOT has been procuring hardware and software for the various departments of the Government of Tamil Nadu, which serves a population of more than 70 million, since 1977. ELCOT's main objective is to offer the best possible IT solutions at the lowest price, thus maximizing the return on investment of public money, says a release from the company. ELCOT is also involved in consulting, implementation, support and training to help meet the state's ambitious e-governance objectives. Before the rollout of SUSE Linux Enterprise to the schools and government offices across Tamil Nadu, ELCOT first migrated its own in-house IT systems to Linux for its user-friendly, cost-effective and security reasons, says the release. The organization then worked with teachers to design a pre-loaded set of applications which could be delivered to the 30,000 new PCs along with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. ELCOT also rolled out SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to the schools' 1,880 servers, which are now 100 percent Linux-based. Roger Levy, senior vice president and general manager of Open Platform Solutions, Novell, said, "ELCOT was able to eliminate tens of thousands of proprietary software licenses by moving to open source software <http://www.ciol.com/content/developer/Linux/2007/107041801.asp> , in addition to their tremendous savings from making better use of hardware resources. The decision to move to a new platform rests not only on immediate pricing considerations, but also on the potential long-term hardware, software and infrastructure costs. Based on these criteria, SUSE Linux Enterprise is proving its value to customers around the world." The next-generation platform for the open enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise is the best-engineered, lowest-cost and most interoperable platform for enterprise computing, from the desktop to the data center, according to the release.

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Fwd: [PRC] ICT a cottage industry - Can we do it by 15th August?
by Praveen A 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [PRC] ICT a cottage industry - Can we do it by 15th August? Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:02:42 +0530 (IST) From: Choudhary <choudhary(a)indicybers.net> Reply-To: Free/Libre and Open Source Software Project List <prc(a)sarai.net> To: prc(a)sarai.net Hi All, Many of us work by deadlines, many work for deadlines, while for many others deadlines work! I belong to this privileged third category - lazy down to my maleus, incus and stapes. Oh yes, the so called smallest bones in the human body, but then again I thought the smallest bones were calcified neurons! Again count me in! So for all those of us who have been experiencing increasing head-weight recently, I have a suggestion - let's set a real deadline: Let us achieve ICT Freedom this 15th August! India Inc. reaches super-annuation this autumn - she's turning 60! Well is this possible? Now for once I'm not announcing another impending release of Hindawi, although one is on the cards. I am talking about making it happen finally. Oh yes "finally" just as used in Java, literally, no puns! I am talking about a complete free system - end to end - hair to toe. We have been doing alpha and beta for long, and with a varying degree of success have produced almost all the components needed to make this revolution happen. Let the 2-week revolution happen now. The question is how? Well systematically - make a wish and have it granted! It probably needs to be a wish-list rather than a single wish. To begin with here's my wish list for 15th August 2007: 1. A computer so affordable that I could let my daughter bang it around - let's say Rs5000/-. Now wait, don't raise your eye-brows - I know others have been talking too - but _where_ are the results. 2. An OS so Indian that it could leave Munnabhai ashamed of his knowledge of Gandhigiri! Bollywood fans watchout -this one's should have no "locha" - chemical, licensing, usage or whatsoever. Holla Indlinux... Hello... Hi... oh ok so your're listening all right! 3. Tool-chains so open that you can use them to build Tajware. Well hardware, firmware, software, Tajware - we all know what that is, right? Ah! Come on, had Skinner quoted today he'd have said "the hands that built the Tajmahal, are the the hands that build the best software... err Tajware". Now, Hindawi's doing a good enough job ain't it? Besides, there are Kannada Logo, Marathi BASIC and many more. I will also mark a copy of this mail to myself! 4. Courseware for ICT in Indic - just having the tools will not suffice. We need to teach people how to use them. Video lectures, PDF's, ebooks of all sorts let's make it happen. 5. Silicon India - a open silicon platform (read IP), for lost cost systems design. Difficult but possible. let's say we at least do a small FPGA based simulation over the next two weeks. Let's call it Project Bharat - on the lines of Project America aka PPC. 6. HMI tools for Indic - speech recognition, text-to-speech, OCR and the whole battalion that's available for English. Other high-end tools like PVM, MPI, OpenMP, robotics etc. interfaced for Indic. 7. An IT company in every hut - Let's make ICT a cottage industry in India. Can we not, and, shall we not? Please spread this message around, yell, shout, post, re-post, modify it as you like (under the constraints of decency though) - This 15th August, of the year 2007 of the Christian era, as India turns 60 let us strive to make Information and Communication technologies a cottage industry. Regards and Jai Hind, Abhishek Mobile: 09860700184 Knowlege is power... share it equitably! _______________________________________________ prc mailing list prc(a)sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ് - എന്റെ കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറിന് എന്റെ ഭാഷ പിരിഞ്ഞു പോകാന്: smc-discuss-unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com സംരംഭം: 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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