FSUG-Bangalore July 2009

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PHP presentation ... August 01, Saturday 3 PM ... FSMK Office Thursday, 30 July, 2009 12:10 PM
by Karthikeyan Shanmugam 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Hi Everybody, PHP presentation Date : August 01, Saturday Time : 3 PM Venue : FSMK Office. By Shajid, FSMK http://fsmk.org -- regards sk

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Microsoft, Yahoo agree on ad partnership
by justin joseph 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Microsoft-Yahoo-agree-on-ad-rb-909225241.html… "SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc have agreed to an online search and advertising partnership, in an attempt to rival Google Inc, that will be announced within 24 hours, a source familiar with the situation said on Thursday."

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Last Date for comments - National Policy on ICT in School Education
by vinay ವಿನಯ್ 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Dear All, The Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) has released a draft 'National Policy on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) In School Education' (see http://education.nic.in/secedu/ict.pdf ). While the earlier policy draft did not have even a single mention of FOSS, the current draft states in para 5.3.2 "Free ware, free and open source software applications will be preferred". Certain other sections which are appreciable are - "4.1.2 The ICT literacy programme will endeavour to provide a broad set of generic skills and conceptual knowledge and not focus on mastering the use of specific software applications." It will be great if you can send in your feedback to MHRD, appreciating/welcoming the preference accorded to FOSS and also requesting if FOSS can be made mandatory instead of just preferred. (The FOSSCOMM letter is present here - http://fosscomm.in/LetterForEducationPolicy . If required you can use the text from there in the feedback you send to the ministry. ) The feedback needs to be mailed to : ictpolicy.edu(a)nic.in The last date for receiving comments is 29 July (today) hence request you to please send in your comments at the earliest. Please mail me /call me for any queries : vinay(a)itforchange.net ; 91-98805 95032 Thanks, Vinay. -- Vinay Sreenivasa IT for Change 91-98805-95032 vinay(a)itforchange.net http://itforchange.net http://public-software.in

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FSMK-News Letter2
by naveen mudunuru 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Dear all, We welcome all the members, sympathizers and critics of FSMK to the second edition of our News Letter. This edition discusses different topics that ranges from technical, philosophical, free software politics and activism in depth and breadth. Please find the News Letter at the Below Link. http://fsmk.org/sites/default/files/FSMK%20Newsletter%20Volume%202.pdf http://fsmk.org/node/39 With warm regards, Naveen Mudunuru FSMK Editorial Board -- regards naveen Be Free, Speak Free, Work Free. Advocate "FREE SOFTWARE", FREE as in FREE SPEECH, not as in FREE BEER

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Fwd: Free Software Proving to be Great Success in Indian Schools
by Harish Singh 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Savings is only one aspect of the advantages of using free software in education. It should be made clear that schools need an environment that fosters better individuals by way of exploration and experimentation. - Harish ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...(a)schestowitz.com> Date: Jul 26, 2:40 am Subject: Free Software Proving to be Great Success in Indian Schools To: comp.os.linux.advocacy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Open Source Software saves Indian IT@schools program $2 million ,----[ Quote ] | Government authorities in the Indian State of Kerala will save more $US2.27 | million by using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) on computers to be | installed in schools throughout the state as part of an $US11.7 million | (Rs.57 Crore) expansion to its IT@School project. `---- http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/tech-news/open-source-software-bo... Society - maybe there is such a thing after all ,----[ Quote ] | We have examples of endeavours such as Wikipedia, that are only able to be | created by a community, working together to create something they could not | create individually. The Open Source Software community is another example. | Such community efforts deliver efficiency, but the primary driver is an | ethical one; as Glyn Moody comments when discussing the General Public | License "It is not trying to be “efficient”, it is trying to be ethical; | ideally you want both – and in many respects, the culture that the GNU GPL | fosters is extremely efficient. But if efficiency and ethics clash, ethics | win every time." `---- http://globalvillagegovernance.blogspot.com/2009/07/society-maybe-the... Related: Indian Schools Adopt Virtual Desktops From NComputing ,----[ Quote ] | NComputing is working with the state governments of Assam and Tamil Nadu on | pilots for the deployment of its virtual desktop technology on Linux PCs, | according to Dukker. `---- http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/152183/indian_schools_a... CII-Shiksha Integrates Open Source In Curriculum ,----[ Quote ] | As part of its Special Series on Integrating Open Source in Curriculum, | CII-Shiksha undertook a 6-months pilot project with six schools of Delhi. Ten | mathematics teachers from these six schools participated in the pilot and | worked on GeoGebra -- an open source/free software for mathematics. The | teachers created dynamic applets in geometry and algebra. `---- http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/26276/news.htm What Policy Should India Adopt for ICT in School Education? ,----[ Quote ] | Considering that computer science is a strange mix of deep theory as well as | sophisticated technology, it is very vital for any society to use this | transparently. Else, we will let some agencies become monopolies. This is a | serious danger to digital society because, the data that is digitized belongs | to you and me, and not to the company. But, in reality today, our data has | been handed over to the proprietary companies, since they alone have the | license to decode our own documents. This will create a possibility for | computer crime, which is happening all around our eyes. We should we let this | happen? `---- http://gnowgi.org/2008/04/27/what-policy-should-india-adopt-for-ict-i... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpre9gACgkQU4xAY3RXLo7QbgCdE9jK2fEqoQQcY18PjQM+P8mA 6fIAn3halUgNxUh5qsyWezn2/qhhD/81 =ybCA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fwd: [Fsmk-discuss] FSMK Newsletter Volume 2
by Vikram Vincent 25 Jul '09

25 Jul '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rameez Thonnakkal <ssrameez(a)gmail.com> Date: 2009/7/25 Subject: [Fsmk-discuss] FSMK Newsletter Volume 2 Hi All, Presenting the second edition of FSMK News Letter. FSMK News Letter Volume 2 <http://fsmk.org/node/39> Thanks a lot for accepting the first news letter and letting us know your valuables suggestions and criticisms. We have tried our best to improve based on those inputs. Improvement is a continuous process and we assure you the same with our current News Letter. We discuss everything related to free software. It includes technology, news, free-software politics, philosophy,etc.. We are sure that this is a stepping stone to get well equipped on free software movement. Through this News letter, Know about the Free Software Movement Karnataka and Join the Movement... We are expecting your valuable comments.. Write to us editor(a)fsmk.org. Regards, FSMK Editorial Board _______________________________________________ fsmk-discuss mailing list fsmk-discuss(a)lists.fsmk.in http://lists.fsmk.in/listinfo.cgi/fsmk-discuss-fsmk.in -- Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://swatantra.org/ http://fsmk.org/

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Free Software and Unique Identification Card
by Sanchith K. 25 Jul '09

25 Jul '09

Dear All, This mail comes in light of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' address to the NASSCOM CEO's Forum in New Delhi on 24th July, 2009 (source: The Hindu). Gates expressed Microsoft's interest in being involved with the National Unique Identification Project (UID). There is no surprise here that Microsoft wants to gain from the huge amount of funding. Also it is not unlikely that Microsoft will do everything in its power to be involved in the project. Such involvement by a propreitary vendor will only increase India's reliance on propreitary software and is bound to be a huge gain for such software. At a broader level, India's reliance on propreitary software will also put the vast amounts of our nationa's vital information in other's hands. There are several other shortcomings of using propreitary software and several advantages of using free-software, too long a list to be mentioned here. Thus it become an onus on the part of the Free Software community in advising the Unique Identification Authority of favouring free-software technologies. I am not aware of any such campaign by the free-software community in this regard. If so I believe that we must start immediately at supporting such campaign and put up a united front against use of propreitary softare in the UID project and am releived that my concerns are not just isolated. It would also help to popularize free-software in India. I would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on this topic. Thanks, Sanchith K.

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Microsoft wants to be part of UID proj : Bill Gates
by renuka prasad 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Microsoft wants to be part of UID proj: Bill Gates"Microsoft wants to be part of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) project," he said on Friday, Jul 24 at a joint event with Nasscom. Bill Gates is expected to meet the chairman of the UIDAI, Nandan Nilekani to discuss a partnership. Nandan Nilekani, the former co chairman of Infosys took over the UID project on Thursday, Jul 23. The project will create and maintain a national database containing the identity details of all the citizens of the country. Bill Gates to meet Nandan Nilekani, pitch for UID<http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3115101>

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Report on ICT@Schools training
by Suhas Vishwanath 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

HI all, I volunteered for the ICT@KaranatakaSchools program's high school teachers training program for two days that is 23rd , 24th and 25th of July 2009. It was a very different experience for me to help the teachers to get used to GNU/Linux and do the hand holding job There were around 21 participants from different schools in and around Bangalore The following people volunteered for the training program on day 1 as facilitators / trainers / volunteers Oam Shiv Prakash ( sampada ), Harish Singh ( fsug-bangalore ) , Renuka Prasad ( fsug-bangalore ) , Anivar ( moving republic ) Ravi Jaya ( ilug, chennai) , Around 8.30 am Anivar, Renuka Prasad and Ravi Jaya had come to the venue and started to install customized edition of debian edu on the existing systems , I helped a bit in installing. Around 9.45 there was a small meeting for the volunteers /trainers /facilitators , Mr Vinay from itfc gave an introduction about the program and following were present at that time including those mentioned above Anupama (itfc), Shantharam Nayak , Raghavan, Sreenivas, Sharath, Dharani - lecturers from different engineering colleges ) and Arjuna , Sudhanva, Harshith, Indumathi, were also present By 11 the session started with Oam Shiv Prakash giving an introduction to fundamentals of computers and a glimpse into the free software philosophy . Then there was a tea break , soon after which the more practical utility of free software Philosophy was introduced to the participants with the help of Stephen Fry's video which had kannada done by Oam Shiv Prakash. Meanwhile few more people joined the training team and i am unable to recall those names. Soon after that there was an introduction to the mouse and keyboard events , we used GCompris Educational suite to make the participants comfortable with mouse and keyboard and enjoy as well , then there was an introduction to TuxPaint A post lunch session on file management which included creating document using gedit followed, after which there was a tea break. At the end of the day 1, participants were given exercises on Tux Paint and gedit Day 2 started at around 10.50 am with an introduction to open office by Sudha. Today, there were new volunteers/trainers -- Sharvani, Sudha, Raghavendra Prasad, Sharath Shashidhar, Adithya ( all from R.V. College of engineering) Sudha and Renuka Prasad gave an introduction to open office , the the session went on till the lunch Then Harish Singh gave a small introduction to the Openoffice Impress followed by a tea break. Then there was an introduction to Openoffice Calc by Anupama ( itfc ) and the hands-on training sessions were closed. Next, Renuka Prasad played the "big buck bunny" animated video ( created free softwares ... blender,gimp,python and others ) and another video about trusted computing , participants enjoyed the movie and at the same time they were told about the importance of using free softwares in schools Finally Renuka Prasad gave a small introduction to Inkscape, Gimp and Scribus ( just a demonstration to make the participants aware of Free Softwares that are available for DTP ) for about 10 -15 mins after which everyone dispersed. It has been an interesting expericene for me so far. As it is a weekend tomorow I request the list members to join for the final day session when an introduction to the internet will be given followed by creation of email id's and making then comfortable with communicating using email's . We plan to enlist them in various mailing lists ( karnatakaschools at osscomm). There is also a plan to introduce some of the advanced topics on openoffice writer, impress, followed finally by a session on wikipedia I hope more will join us on the last day of training program. -- Regards, Suhas

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ICT@Schools Training Program - Phase 1, Round 2 , 23rd to 25th July 2009 details
by renuka prasad 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

Hi all Happy to give you the following information FSUG-Bangalore is part of the ICT@Schools Training program ( Pilot project ) for the Teachers of Government High schools in karnataka ( rest of the information is know by the list ) Venue : SSA ( sarva sikshana abhiyana ) building , 4th floor Beside Century Club, Nrupatunga Road, K.R. Circle Bangalore List of Trainers / Volunteers for the Program who have confirmed orally/mail/officially over list/personal mails Trainers : Oam Shiv Prakash ( Sampada ) Harish Singh ( FSUG-Bangalore ) Renuka Prasad ( FSUG-Bangalore ) Sudha ( FSUG-Bangalore ) Anivar ( moving republic ) Anupama ( Itfc ) Volunteers ( Lecturers from different Colleges from Bangalore): Shantharam Nayak ( RVCE + CSI) Sreenivas ( PESInstitue of Technology ) Raghavan ( M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology ) Sharath ( Bangalore Institute of Technology ) Dharani ( Dr Ambedkar Institute of Technology ) Kiran ( Sri Siddaganga Institute of Technology ) Sharvani ( RVCE ) Vinay Hegde ( RVCE ) Raghavendra Prasad ( RVCE ) Ravi ( FSUG) Students Who are Volunteering from R.V.College of Engineering : Sharath Shashidhar Suhas.V Indumathi Arjun Harshith Sudhanva Since already many have volunteered , if still any one wants to volunteer to help , please mention the day and duration you would like to volunteer so that we can request others to take a gap during that time regards renuka prasad

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