FSUG-Bangalore September 2010

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Events planned to celebrate Software Freedom Day in Bangalore from 15th to 17th Sept
by VIGNESH PRABHU 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Hi friends, Software Freedom Law Centre, New Delhi(SFLC-ND) and Free Software Movement-Karnataka (FSMK) are celebrating Software Freedom Day, by organizing Talks and events by one of the mavericks of the Knowledge Freedom campaigns and an affiliate of SFLC-ND - Prof.Eben Moglen,Founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center. In this visit to Bangalore, Prof.Eben Moglen will be participating in three separate events organized by FSMK. *1. Inaugural Lecture of Free Software certificate course at St.Joseph's College,Bangalore on the 15th September 4 p.m.* St.Joseph's College, Bangalore has incorporated 120 hours of free software sessions to be handled by FSMK and other like-minded Free Software Enthusiasts. The course syllabus will be put up on website of FSMK very soon. The idea is to to empower students to become productive self-supporting citizens of the free software community. Its an honour to have professor Eben deliver the first lecture of the course. *2. Prof.Eben at Ambedkar Community Computing Center (AC3) on the 16th September., evening* Before two years, RMS and Prof.Eben visited AC3 with only a few students who were being taught computers using Free Software. Today, these handful of young free software activists from the community are running three other Community Computing Centers completely on their own. Prof.Eben will visit AC3 for a community discussion, where the members of these centers will initiate a discussion on the activities so far, the ups and downs and the way forward. There will also be a small cultural event organized by AC3 students. *3. Interaction with Prof.Eben Moglen on the Freedom in the Cloud at Indian Institute of Science, on 17th September , 3p.m – 5 p.m, faculty hall IISc. * Speaker: Prof. Eben Moglen Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Founder, Director-Counsel & Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center Time: Fri. Sep 17 2010 3pm-5pm Venue: Faculty Hall, IISc Title of Talk: "Freedom in the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing" Abstract: Everyone wants a piece of you these days: Google, Facebook, Flickr, Apple, AT&T, Bing. They'll give you free e-mail, free photo storage, free web hosting, even a free date. They just want to listen in. And you can't wait to let them. They'll store your stuff, they'll organize your photos, they'll keep track of your appointments, as long as they can watch. It all goes into the "Cloud." How we got here is quite a scary story. But nowhere near as scary as getting out again. This talk will discuss how much worse things have become since the pre-cloud era and explain what you can do to reclaim your freedom in the era of Web 2.0. I cordially invite you all to come and celebrate software freedom day along with us during these events. -- Regards, Vignesh B. Tech in Computer Science National Institute Of Technology-Durgapur

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spoken tutorials , lets collaborate , contribute - appeal to earn while learn
by renuka prasad 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Hi all Prof Kannan.M , IIT-B was here in Bangalore for three days from sept 13th to sept 15th 2010 for conducting workshop on scilab http://scilab.in/node/322 Apart from this workshop he shared few of the projects going on like The Spoken Tutorial project is the initiative of the *"Talk to a Teacher* " project of the *National Mission on Education* through *ICT*, launched by *MHRD, Govt of India.* Here are the details of the project which he was talking about , many might already know http://spoken-tutorial.org/ There are many tutorials developed like http://spoken-tutorial.org/node/169 Project has a wiki http://spoken-tutorial.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Prof kannan suggested and also appealed to participate actively in the project and also gave the details about he incentives for creating such tutorials. those who are interested can go through the links here http://spoken-tutorial.org/wiki/index.php/Spoken_Tutorial_Processes http://spoken-tutorial.org/node/169/index.php/Creators_Checklist http://spoken-tutorial.org/wiki/index.php/Dubbers_Checklist There are some issues about the softwares being used for creating tutorials and the format of the files currently that are done, which will be sorted out soon ( this mail is not about that ) I personally feel that this is a great opportunity not to be missed I am writing to all my known contact , kindly forward to all of your known contacts ( in and around bangalore ) and we shall meet face to face and discuss and collaborate to help in making the project very successful. People from other places outside Bangalore can also join if they wish, but for now the meeting is in Bangalore. Also suggest a date for meeting , meanwhile we can also keep discussing about the project on the list I wish you all to give your comments / suggestions after looking into the details of the project once in detail with regards Renuka Prasad 9901945674

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Re: [FSUG-Bangalore] Software freedom day celebration along with Eben Moglen at IISc, Bangalore on 17th at 3p.m.
by Krishna Pagadala 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Hi Vignesh, Dhanada from Orissa is a keen supporter of Free Software and would like to speak with Eben, he wants to arrange a call with the higher education minister of Orissa and Eben. Can you please call him at Ph. 9437513080 also please send out Eben's contact information to him. Thanks Krishna --- On Thu, 9/16/10, VIGNESH PRABHU <stove311987(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: VIGNESH PRABHU <stove311987(a)gmail.com> Subject: [FSUG-Bangalore] Software freedom day celebration along with Eben Moglen at IISc, Bangalore on 17th at 3p.m. To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in>, "Indian FOSS Community Network list" <network(a)lists.fosscom.in>, "Free Software Users Group - Bangalore" <fsug-bangalore(a)mm.gnu.org.in> Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010, 8:31 AM Hi friends, This is a gentle reminder about the Software Freedom Day celebration event that FSMK is organizing along with SFLC-ND at IISc tomorrow, 17th of Sept at 3 p.m. I hope all the free software enthusiasts can come and celebrate with us Software Freedom Day and also interact with Prof. Eben Moglen. Details of the event are as follows: Interaction with Prof.Eben Moglen on the Freedom in the Cloud at Indian Institute of Science, on 17th September , 3p.m – 5 p.m, faculty hall IISc. Speaker: Prof. Eben Moglen Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Founder, Director-Counsel & Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center Time: Fri. Sep 17 2010 3pm-5pm Venue: Faculty Hall, IISc Title of Talk: "Freedom in the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing" Abstract: Everyone wants a piece of you these days: Google, Facebook, Flickr, Apple, AT&T, Bing. They'll give you free e-mail, free photo storage, free web hosting, even a free date. They just want to listen in. And you can't wait to let them. They'll store your stuff, they'll organize your photos, they'll keep track of your appointments, as long as they can watch. It all goes into the "Cloud." How we got here is quite a scary story. But nowhere near as scary as getting out again. This talk will discuss how much worse things have become since the pre-cloud era and explain what you can do to reclaim your freedom in the era of Web 2.0. -- Regards, Vignesh B. Tech in Computer Science National Institute Of Technology-Durgapur -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ FSUG-Bangalore mailing list FSUG-Bangalore(a)mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsug-bangalore

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Software freedom day celebration along with Eben Moglen at IISc, Bangalore on 17th at 3p.m.
by VIGNESH PRABHU 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Hi friends, This is a gentle reminder about the Software Freedom Day celebration event that FSMK is organizing along with SFLC-ND at IISc tomorrow, 17th of Sept at 3 p.m. I hope all the free software enthusiasts can come and celebrate with us Software Freedom Day and also interact with Prof. Eben Moglen. Details of the event are as follows: * Interaction with Prof.Eben Moglen on the Freedom in the Cloud at Indian Institute of Science, on 17th September , 3p.m – 5 p.m, faculty hall IISc. * Speaker: Prof. Eben Moglen Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Founder, Director-Counsel & Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center Time: Fri. Sep 17 2010 3pm-5pm Venue: Faculty Hall, IISc Title of Talk: "Freedom in the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing" Abstract: Everyone wants a piece of you these days: Google, Facebook, Flickr, Apple, AT&T, Bing. They'll give you free e-mail, free photo storage, free web hosting, even a free date. They just want to listen in. And you can't wait to let them. They'll store your stuff, they'll organize your photos, they'll keep track of your appointments, as long as they can watch. It all goes into the "Cloud." How we got here is quite a scary story. But nowhere near as scary as getting out again. This talk will discuss how much worse things have become since the pre-cloud era and explain what you can do to reclaim your freedom in the era of Web 2.0. -- Regards, Vignesh B. Tech in Computer Science National Institute Of Technology-Durgapur

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International Conference on Enabling Access to Education Through ICT
by Krithika 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Dear All, The International Conference on Enabling Access to Education through ICT may be a great platform for increasing awareness on the use of free software in education through ICT. The details are given below: *International Conference on Enabling Access to Education Through ICT* When: 27th-29th October, 2010 Where: Magnolia Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi Organisers: Centre for Internet and Society The Global Initiative for Inclusive ICT (G3Ict) UNESCO ITU WIPO Daisy Consortium Digital Empowerment Foundation Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment The Deaf Way Foundation Event sponsor: The Hans Foundation Target audience: Educators, mainstream and special schools, colleges, universities, disability organisations, policy makers, libraries, *technology developers*and other persons and organisations working in this area. Background: Children with disabilities in India are often left out of mainstream schools due to a variety of reasons, primarily the lack of awareness amongst educational organizations and teachers, near absence of infrastructural resources and lack of training in this regard. It is believed that barely two per cent of the 70 million disabled persons have access to education in India. Unless we take special efforts to remedy this situation by equipping teachers, educational institutions and the entire social infrastructure to adopt innovative, cost effective and technology based resources such as assistive technologies, ubiquitous Web, multiple platforms, social networks, online libraries and digital resources etc to enable access to education for disabled children, they will continue to remain excluded from social participation. *Join the Discussion!* The conference will focus on highlighting existing policy and practical barriers for students and educational institutions in developing countries, showcase ICT based solutions which are presently being adopted in different countries, point to existing knowledge resources and emerging trends in education. The conference will look at the various technologies, tools and practices that are necessary to bring education within the reach of all persons with disabilities as a step towards achieving inclusive education in India. This includes education at all levels- primary, secondary and higher education as well as distance and online education. The format of the conference is highly engaging and is designed to enable the attendees to explore the challenges and opportunities while equipping them with the tools needed to implement ICT solutions within their organizations. The expected outcomes from this conference are: • Create awareness amongst educators, policy makers and disability organizations • Understand challenges and explore solutions • Evolve a set of recommendations for educators on best practices • Publish a White Paper which will provide a set of recommendations for policy makers on inclusive education. • Create a case study database of best practices on the use of ICTs in education for persons with disabilities. For more details, visit: www.edict2010.in Please register immediately on line at http:// <http://goog_994282269> edict2010.in/register-online/, or download and complete the registration form and mail it to Nirmita(a)cis-india.org Thank you Regards Krithika

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Cairo cross compile
by Giriprasad Deviprasad 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Hi All, I am trying to cross compile GTK+ in hawkboard (www.hawkboard.org). I have already cross compiled the following successfully for hawkboard: atk fontconfig freetype glib libxml2 pixman Now when I try to cross compile cairo, configure gives the following error: configure: error: Cairo requires at least one font backend. Please install freetype and fontconfig, then try again: But, I have already installed both freetype and fontconfig for this architecture. ls -l /opt/asdlab/freetype/lib total 2640 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2688158 2010-09-03 20:08 libfreetype.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 764 2010-09-03 20:08 libfreetype.la drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-09-03 20:08 pkgconfig [root@localhost cairo-1.6.4]# ls -l /opt/asdlab/freetype/include total 8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-09-03 20:08 freetype2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3890 2010-09-03 20:08 ft2build.h ls -l /opt/asdlab/fontconfig/lib/ total 776 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 778546 2010-09-04 19:28 libfontconfig.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 922 2010-09-04 19:28 libfontconfig.la drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-09-04 19:28 pkgconfig Any ideas why cairo is not cross compiling? Thanks & Regards, D.Giriprasad

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3 day workshop on SCILAB at RVCE from 13th to 15th sept 2010
by renuka prasad 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

please go though the link below for more details about the workshop that is being organized http://scilab.in/node/322 with regards Renuka Prasad 9901945674

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RMS@RV
by Hemanth H.M 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Hello all, Meet RMS@RV today :), but sad that i missed REVA :( Here <http://www.h3manth.com/content/meet-rms> i share my experience and few of the many snaps i clicked. -- *'I am what I am because of who we all are'* h3manth.com <http://www.h3manth.com> *-- Hemanth HM *

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3 day workshop on SCILAB at RVCE from 13th to 15th sept 2010
by renuka prasad 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

Hi all reminding you about the workshop Prof Kannan and his team from IIT-Bombay is conducting a 3 day hands-on workshop on SCILAB ((alternate for MATLAB ) it would be great if your could forward to all of your contacts and try to make the best use of this opportunity. currently the workshop is done for Bangalore University and VTU faculties but not restricted Registration Fee: Rs 300 , cheqe / DD in favor of "Principal RVCE" ( includes Lunch + tea + coffee + certificates + course material ) First Come First Serve ( only 30 - 35 seats available ) contact persons for registration are Mr Chandrashekar B H : 9845750887 , "chandra shekar" < chandrashekarbh(a)gmail.com>, Mr Chandrashekar B : 9886477502, <bchandra72(a)gmail.com>, Mr Renuka Prasad B : 9901945674 with regards

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Re: [FSUG-Bangalore] About booking the seat for RMS's talk
by Hemanth H.M 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Tried contacting the concern person for booking the seats but the delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: sunirmanvi(a)revainstitution.org On Thu, Sep 2, 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. Richard M Stallman Talk on 8th Sept 2010 in Bangalore > (renuka prasad) > 2. 3 day workshop on SCILAB at RVCE from 13th to 15th sept 2010 > (renuka prasad) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 02:31:27 +0530 > From: renuka prasad <renukaprasadb(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [FSUG-Bangalore] Richard M Stallman Talk on 8th Sept 2010 in > Bangalore > To: fsug-bangalore(a)gnu.org.in > Message-ID: > <AANLkTimWNanG4wb-8H6sG-1yS+m7ut0wRaZiTzxbD-P-(a)mail.gmail.com<AANLkTimWNanG4wb-8H6sG-1yS%2Bm7ut0wRaZiTzxbD-P-(a)mail.gmail.com> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi all > > Reminding you all about Richard M Stallman visit to Bangalore and his > schedule. > > RMS is arriving in Bangalore on 7th evening and will attend a meeting at > ABB > , Bangalore > > RMS is giving a public talk at Reva Institution of Technology , > http://www.revainstitution.org/ > about " Free Software Movement and GNU /Linux Operating System " > Time : 11.30 to 13.30 Hours > > Contact person : Dr. Sunil Kumar S. Manvi, Head of the Department, ECE , > sunirmanvi(a)revainstitution.org , 9449436754 > ( Block your seat asap, only 500 seats available ) > > There is no registration fee , > > I hope to see you all there > > with regards > Renuka Prasad >

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