FSUG-Bangalore March 2010

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Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Academy - Malayalam - Bangalore 21st March 2010
by Anoop 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Academy - Malayalam - Bangalore 21st March 2010 To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Typo in the subject line ! Read the date as *21st March 2010 * -TC On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:20 PM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Wikipedians, > Wikipedia Academies are public outreach events aimed at engaging academics, > other subject-matter experts and anyone else who are not familiar with > Wikpedia/ wiki culture or online communities. In presentations and > workshops, experienced Wikipedia authors teach the participants how to > contribute to Wikipedia and orient the audience to Wikipedia’s structures > and community policies. > You can know more about WP Academies @ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academy > > Academies have been happening in India since some time, unofficially, > thanks to the humble efforts of many wikipedians. > > Under the aegis of Bangalore Wikipedians, we recently had Sanskrit > Wikipedia Academy > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academy/India/2010/Bangalore1 > > The next academy session is on Malayalam Wikipedia > Date: 21 March 2010, 4 PM > Venue: Centre for Internet and Society, Cunningham Rd, Bangalore. > > You can find more details at > http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore_Wikipedia_Academy1 > http://shijualex.blogspot.com/2010/03/blog-post_17.html > > The sessions will be lead by Shiju Alex, Anoopan and Ramesh NG from > Malayalam Wikipedia. > > You are cordially invited! Please spread the word ! > > Regards, > Tinu Cherian > > > > > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Regards, Anoop P www.anoopp.in

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Teacher Training on Sugar for Primary Education
by renuka prasad 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

R V Educational Consortium and R.V.College of Engineering in association with FSF-India, HBCSE, FSUG-Bangalore, ITForChange, DeeprootLinux and other individuals and organization is hosting a two day workshop for teachers on sugar keeping in mind the primary education Venue : R.V.College of Engineering, Bangalore Participants : 40 teachers already registered from private and government schools ( maximum : 50) Fee : Rs 500 per participant ( including lunch + tea /coffee + CD/DVD ) Resource Persons : Dr Nagarjuna and Dr Amit ( HBCSE ) Volunteers : FSUG-Bangalore, DeeprootLinux, ITForChange, other individuals also if any body on the list has already worked on sugar desktop and related activities, please let us know whether you are willing to volunteer for the program -------------------------------------------A brief note about the workshop ---------------------------------------------------- The use of ICT is increasingly becoming necessary for universal access to education for all. While several agencies are trying to develop the infrastructure, not much effort is being made in providing guidance, content creation, and empowering the teachers. We (at gnowledge.org lab of HBCSE) have been giving workshops to teachers in proper use of ICT without neglecting the traditional modes of class room practices, and also train the teachers in use and abuse of computers and communication technology. We also link it to the general objectives and philosophy set in NCF 2005 in the context of ICT use in the class room and empowering teachers. As a part of the workshop we will be also arranging a CD for all participants at a cost of Rs.100/-, which contains all the software used for the workshop. All the software is licensed for use in any number of installations within the state and can be distributed free of charge or for a nominal amount to all teachers, students, schools and colleges provided they are distributed with the same set of conditions. The workshop will introduce the main activities in the Sugar Platform ( http://sugarlabs.org), as well as the special suit of applications present in the Gcompris (the latter is part of the Gnome desktop environment of GNU/Linux). The philosophy of constructivism and constructionism in the context of studio based learning will be introduced. The activities address language learning, mathematics, music, animation, turtle graphics (basic computing), presentation, recording (audio, video), art (painting and sketching), talking, mind/concept mapping etc. All the activities support collaboration. The computer records all transactions helping the teacher to know the achievements of children. Some of the topics in the workshop pertain to capacity building among teachers, collaborative construction of teaching/learning sequences, lesson planning etc. for more details write to nagarjun(a)gnowledge.org ------------------------- with regards renuka prasad

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Location of National Conference
by Safwan 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Hi, What is this venue 1 and venue 2? where will the program be on saturday, 20th?

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AC3 and Low-Vision
by Arky 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Hi, The article about AC3 mentions about Vidya a low-vision user http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Bangalore/article245413.ece "Shedding light on another issue, Vidya, who suffers from partial visual impairment, spoke on the issues that the visually impaired face while using computers. Demonstrating various technical issues with the proprietary tools she uses, she also spoke about the fact that accessibility tools (such as screen readers and related software, all in the proprietary domain) are extremely expensive. " Magnification is problem with gnu/Linux. Some of members of accessibility team are working on this, but we have a long way to go. Given the giving the state of some of assistive gnome-mag, perhaps someone would like to work on this. Until then we have to rely on using Compiz eZoom [1]. If you are a low-vision gnu/Linux or know some of problems please drop me a line. Cheers --arky [1] Better Gnome Desktop Magnification with eZoom - http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com/2009/07/better-gnome-desktop-magnificati… Rakesh 'arky' Ambati| IT Consultant| http://www.braillewithoutborders.org | Blog: http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/

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Hindu report on AC3 run up activity of the conference
by Nidhin Sasi 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Bangalore/article245413.ece

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Please verify the list...
by Safwan 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Hi, Please see the link, it is the link to the bulletin we published in the college. In second side of it I have a comparison of gnu/linux and win7. Please see this and see if it can be used in the stall on the conference day! Please verify this: http://cid-6dbdfde6a995397b.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/uniqx/bullet…

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Help your friend Arjun Gowda win RC merchandise
by Royal Challengers 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

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help need to add biometric finger print reader into my project
by rajkumar vbalakrishnasamy 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hi all, I am doing my project in GoboLinux and i need to provide biometric authentication for my project.So how add the finger print reader into the linux.And whether it supports dell studio 15 laptops built finger print reader functionalities.And what are the ways we could add the device.And what are the bio api's that can be used in the project. -- राजकुमार follow me http://twitter.com/krisrajkumar

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Re: [FSUG-Bangalore] an open source success story at brindavan
by Safwan 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Now we are giving them support. We have also given them links to many forums. And three phone numbers. The Branding- here<http://cid-6dbdfde6a995397b.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/uniqx/uniqx-…> The CD sticker- here<http://cid-6dbdfde6a995397b.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/uniqx/cdnahn…> The Launch- here<http://cid-6dbdfde6a995397b.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/uniqx/040220…> The Bulletin - here<http://cid-6dbdfde6a995397b.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/uniqx/bullet…> The Ads - here<http://cid-6dbdfde6a995397b.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/uniqx/hoardi…> The Poster Ad- here<http://cid-6dbdfde6a995397b.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/uniqx/poster…> Competition Ad- here<http://cid-6dbdfde6a995397b.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/uniqx/compet…> Presenting in the Final Round here<http://cid-6dbdfde6a995397b.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/uniqx/060320…> The only problem we had was with sound. Around 30% of the laptops sound was not detected. We had to edit modprob config. It was really a big issue. Took time to troubleshoot. Please let me know if there is a solution for this. Thank you! On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:00 PM, <fsug-bangalore-request(a)mm.gnu.org.in>wrote: > Send FSUG-Bangalore mailing list submissions to > fsug-bangalore(a)mm.gnu.org.in > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mm.gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsug-bangalore > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > fsug-bangalore-request(a)mm.gnu.org.in > > You can reach the person managing the list at > fsug-bangalore-owner(a)mm.gnu.org.in > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of FSUG-Bangalore digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Run up event to the National Conference on Free Software:Of > the people, by the people, for the people. (Raghavendra S) > 2. Help your friend Avakash Chand win RC merchandise > (Royal Challengers) > 3. an open source success story at brindavan (Safwan) > 4. Re: an open source success story at brindavan (renuka prasad) > 5. Re: an open source success story at brindavan (VIGNESH PRABHU) > 6. Re: an open source success story at brindavan (haynes davis) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:00:36 +0530 > From: Raghavendra S <raghuarr(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [FSUG-Bangalore] Run up event to the National Conference on > Free Software:Of the people, by the people, for the people. > To: fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in, fsug-bangalore(a)mm.gnu.org.in, > indlinux-group(a)lists.sourceforge.net, > ilug-bengaluru(a)googlegroups.com > Message-ID: > <6a53c80d1003092230o25be90c9q79eef89feb6c63ff(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear Friends, > > > > *Of the people, by the people, for the people.* > ------------------------------ > ---------------- > > A run up event for the National Conference on Free Software 2010 > > Date : Sunday 14th from 6 - 8pm > > Venue: AC3, Sudarshan Layout, New Gurupanpalya, Behind IBM > office(opposite > to Jalbhavan ) , a living place called slum. > > Organised by : FSMK , Ambedkar Community Computing Center(AC3) > > Agenda : > ********* > > Community Informatics : > ----------------------- > > Talks > ------- > > G Ramakrishna, Editor Hosatu : The question of Access in Informatics, > language : Kannada > > Demos > -------- > > L Subramani, Deccan Herald : True Vision. > > > Release > -------- > > MAM Ismail , Prajavani > > will release Ubuntu Kannada DVD followed by a demo. > > He will talk on :: Community Computing Centers as cultural centers of > change, language : Kannada > > Anchoring : The program is entirely organised by the Kids and youth from > the > local community , there will also be songs and talks by local youth. > > -- > Raghavendra S > http://ideasareimmortal.blogspot.com/ > http://www.nc2010.fsmk.org/ >

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an open source success story at brindavan
by Safwan 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hi every body.... I am doing my bbm final at Brindavan College, Bangalore. We had a business plan competition happening here... I took this opportunity and sold a remasterd gnu/linux distro after adding all software that a normal user would need. We where charging for the Dvd and Installation support (Rs.100) Compiz, Gnome Do etc was pre Installed. We successfully helped around 60 Students and Lecturers to change from windows to Gnu/Linux. In fact each time we gave a demo, 2 or 3 bought a copy. Only reason students are not using this is because they don't know about this. They have a feeling that this things are not user friendly. We where also promoting the free software philosophy. We wrote on the DVD that it was freely redistrubutable. We where selling it in the name uniQx, everything from icons to theme where rebranded. In the End we won the business plan and students came to know the power of Gnu/Linux. We also published a bulletin comparing features of linux with windows 7. Wrote this so that this serves as an inspiration to plan similar campaigns in campuses etc Thanking You Safwan Erooth

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