FSUG-Bangalore May 2008

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India appealed ISO OOXML Decision?
by Anivar Aravind 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

It seems india also appealed ISO process. But I didn't get the confirmation yet see this news <http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146468/india_and_brazil_file_…> thanks for PJ of Groklaw for pointing this If anyone have more details please send to me

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Brazil appeals OOXML ISO Decision
by Anivar Aravind 30 May '08

30 May '08

Following South africa, Brazil also appeals OOXML ISO Decision Bravo Brazil Read More at http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080529202924937

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Fwd: Announcing Hackathon event this Saturday (05/31/08)
by S h i v 30 May '08

30 May '08

FYI. If you like the combination of opensolaris kernel and a ubuntu userland and are a open source developer, this might be of interest to you. NexentaOS is a registered project on launchpad.net (ubuntu's collaboration platform). NCP 1.0 is based on Ubuntu Dapper sources. NCP will move to 2.0 and be based on Ubuntu Hardy. There is a hackathon planned around this effort. Expect the below announcement on suitable Debian & Ubuntu developer shortly. See DPL's note about Nexenta after last year's DebConf [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/257265 [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/11/msg00060.html -Shiv ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erast Benson <erast(a)gnusolaris.org> Date: Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:07 AM Subject: Announcing Hackathon event this Saturday (05/31/08) To: gnusol-devel <gnusol-devel(a)gnusolaris.org> Cc: gnusol-users <gnusol-users(a)lists.sonic.net> Dear NexentaOS Developers and Users! Starting this Saturday, we are inviting all Debian/Nexenta and OpenSolaris developers and users to participate in our first Hackathon event. Hackathon starts on this Saturday 05/31/2008 and continues during first week of June. Development coordinated at #nexenta on freenode IRC. We are migrating from Ubuntu Dapper to Ubuntu Hardy user land and will be hacking on very initial version of NCP 2.0. You don't need to install Nexenta, (ZFS-powered) build environment and SSH access to the dedicated Zone will be automatically (see devzone package) provided to interested developers by request on #nexenta freenode IRC. The work coordinated at #nexenta freenode IRC and this static web page: http://www.nexenta.org/Hackathon ZFS-powered Nexenta Zones managed on specially prepared NexentaOS build servers connected to the public Internet. Servers and Internet collocation kindly provided by Stanford University, CA. Join now and make a difference! It is going to be fun! --- The Nexenta Team

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IIT - Nehru - Prison - Freedom - Hijli Detention Camp
by Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) 29 May '08

29 May '08

hi, the links between techonolgy and freedom - of course for those who want to see the interconnections. -S http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/institute/history.php Pandit Nehru in his first convocation address in 1956 said "Here in the place of that Hijli Detention Camp stands the fine monument of India, representing India's urges,India's future in the making. this picture seems to me symbolical of the changes that are coming to India." In Sept. 15, 1956, the Parliament of India passed an act known as the Indian Institute of Technology(Kharagpur) Act declaring this Institute as an Institute of national importance. The Institute was also given the status of an autonomous University. From this modest start in 1950, IIT Kharagpur has been engaged in a steady process of development with about 18 academic departments, five centres of excellence. the vast tree-laden campus, spreading over 2100 acres has a self contained township of over 15,000 inhabitants. Currently we have about 450 faculty, 2200 employees and 2700 students on the campus.

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FW: [Ilugc] [OT] IIT offers video lectures on youtube
by Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) 29 May '08

29 May '08

-----Original Message----- From: ilugc-bounces(a)ae.iitm.ac.in [mailto:ilugc-bounces@ae.iitm.ac.in] On Behalf Of Balu manyam Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 2:52 PM To: ILUG-C Subject: Re: [Ilugc] [OT] IIT offers video lectures on youtube > > Several IIT lectures are available for free on YouTube. > > http://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=nptelhrd > > Topics range over a wide variety of engineering disciplines. > > Personally, I'm very happy to see our Indian institutions also doing > this. > > - Raja > > I didn't know this. Thanks for sending this. IITs are a product of Nehru's vision. Thinking about this I had jumped from techonology to economics. Did see a networking course and was impressive. Though lot of people have criticism on Nehru's socialist vision : The fact is that the IIT's (and all the recognition they and their alumnus get) are an outcome of just those policies, "ensuring highest-quality education regardless of economic status" This kind of high quality education - regardless of economic status is a very important need to today ...especially primary education - there are attempts to privatise and derail this - this will not do us good - this is also an important example of what is possible when government can work keenly on community initiatives.

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South Africa stands up to ISO sell out
by Praveen A 24 May '08

24 May '08

"The national body of South Africa (SABS), as a P member of JTC 1, hereby submits an appeal against the outcome of the fast track processing of DIS 29500 Office open XML. This is based on the procedures followed before and during the ballot resolution meeting (BRM) held from 25 to 29 February 2008 to discuss the comments submitted on the fast-tracked DIS 29500 and the proposed responses from Ecma." Read the full letter from http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-61468/south-africa-appeals-against-ooxml-cal… Can we get BIS to back this appeal, considering it has voted no and raised concerns about the process? Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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OOXML backwards compatibility led Microsoft to ODF
by Amit Surana 23 May '08

23 May '08

Hi all, I came across some interesting links. Have a look at it. http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsoft-and-odf-has-hades-gone-sub-ze… http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62041638,00.htm?scid=rss_… I dunno what exactly happens behind walls of M$. %^$^#%@$! -- Regards, Amit M Surana http://suranaamit.blogspot.com/ OPEN SOURCE: No Bill, No Gates, No Windows, Its open

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File transfer between GTalk and Pidgin
by Arun Thomas 22 May '08

22 May '08

Hi I have an Windoze using relative who's experiencing all the symptoms his OS is famous for; mysterious hangings, spyware, viruses etc. I tried to sell him the idea of Linux, showed him my laptop running Sabayon. With Firefox, KOffice and VLC he was more than convinced, until we took a look at Pidgin. He has a daughter who lives in the UK, whom he chats with daily via Gtalk, so this is a very vital application. He uses audio conferencing. She also shares photos with via Gtalk's file transfer. My question is - how can I do audio conferencing on Pidgin? - how can I transfer files between Gtalk and Pidgin, since most people use Gtalk? - is there any other client i can use to over come this problem?

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Open Letter to Mammooty
by Praveen A 22 May '08

22 May '08

Microsoft will be signing up Malayalam movie star Mammootty as one of the brand ambassadors for the Computer Literacy programme that is to be organized soon in Kerala, a Southern Indian State well known for its pro-free software policies. Read, Sign and Share the letter at http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty Also digg the story http://digg.com/microsoft/Mammooty_don_t_join_hands_with_Microsoft Vote the story http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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moodle vs SELF
by Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) 21 May '08

21 May '08

hi, was trying to checkout moodle and SELF. thought it will be good to share the info.. correct me if i am wrong.. -S from : http://foss.in/2007/register/slides/SELF_Platform_350.pdf SELF : These materials are organised in a complex hierarchical way: where one course module can be used by another course. this might not be possible with moodle. COURSE Orgn has : object orientation , ● agent orientation , ● distributed, ● standard complaint ( FOL based ), representation, ● version control system for data as well as metadata - this might not be possible with moodle again nurture freedom : each resource is a software agent specially crafted to nurture and propagate the virtues of freedom - basically it will shout !@@#@ if .doc is used i guess to summarise i think this is the main difference in SELF: - collection, harvesting, atomizing of resources - organization and networking to create courses distribution of courses in open standards

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