FSUG-Bangalore

fsug-bangalore@mm.gnu.org.in

2 participants
1437 discussions

Event in Bangalore on July 21st...
by Abhas Abhinav 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Have setup a wiki page for this: http://fsug-bangalore.deeproot.org.in/?Plans_And_Ideas [Click: Event in Bangalore on the occasion of FSF Annual Day July 21st] Please add your comments and inputs as well. This could build up towards a firm agenda for our meeting on June 20th when we could come up with specific points-of-action. The following thread from the FSF-Kerela mailing list could also be useful: http://cc4.tifr.res.in/pipermail/fsf-kerala/2004-June/000003.html FSF Kerela is: http://gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsf-kerala -abhas.

3 2

About FSUG-blr Wiki
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Morning Friends, I found that out wiki is __still__ empty.Don't you fancy seeing your name here. http://fsug-bangalore.deeproot.org.in/?action=rc;days=30;all=0;showedit=0 Deprive Abhas the pride of having his name all over that page. cheers --arky __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

2 3

Re: [fsug-bangalore] Knock knock.
by Suraj Kumar 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

sorry, resending again because I screwed up with my dyndns password last time and thats probably why my mail didn't get delivered ;/ --s Suraj Kumar wrote: Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote: ,---- | It was indeed your "lessons" that helped FSUG-blr till now. Abhas | and me had met suraj on a sunday as he was always bunking Gnu(s) | Grazing. | | Going too fast and aiming to high will get faster to nadir.(that's | something I learnt) `---- Aiming too high isn't wrong... but its just that *some* people might get bogged down with the idea of having to work too hard. ,---- | I think that July 21'st event would be great success, now that we | have some great chap'a around here.Wish Ramanraj was in | bangalore,though I'll try to get him shipped here for the event. `---- true. I'm looking forward to 21st July as well. ,---- | PS: Either you teach me tamil or change you sig qoute to a lanugage I | understand.They are interesting but its greek to me. `---- Well, they aren't entirely tamil. I found quite a good collection of Carnatic music related trivia on the net somewhere, so thats my sig ;) cheers, -Suraj -- ,-----------------[http://www.symonds.net/~suraj/]---o | Mysore T. Chowdiah is also a composer with the mudra trimakoota (after his | birth place tirumakoodlu or T.narasipura) `------------------------------[suraj(a)symonds.net]---o ---end quoted text--- -- ,-----------------[http://www.symonds.net/~suraj/]---o | Aahiri is the equivalent of the ancient Tamil pancamam. `------------------------------[suraj(a)symonds.net]---o

3 3

Re: [fsug-bangalore] Knock knock.
by Sreekiran 13 Jun '04

13 Jun '04

[ Most of my mails are not making it to the group, therefore I'm sending a copy to the list owner as well, please see what the problem is and inform me if the problem is on my side. I hope this mail makes it to the list ] "Abhas Abhinav" <abhas(a)deeproot.co.in> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 21:02, Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote: > > Yes, that a good idea. I can get someone to lend us a > > place after 20 th of this month. Where is it ? Do you have a specific place in mind ? > Any specific topics in mind? > We can meet this Saturday / Sunday and finalise the details. Lets make > some suggestions and agree upon some probable first. > Yes. Speakers can be arranged if we have a specific topic. The problem is in choosing the topic for the meet, cause, come on, we have only 16 members here. > Permit me to share the subscriber list (hope its fine with everyone): > abhas at deeproot.co.in > abhilash_gpillai at hotmail.com > arun at gnu.org.in > avinashss at tatanova.com > dwija at phreaker.net Thats ME :-D > gnu at vsnl.net > listmail at pixelconsulting.net > nishant at deeproot.co.in > prasun at softhome.net > rakesh_ambati at yahoo.com > ramanraj at md4.vsnl.net.in -------------------------- > sajith at symonds.net > sajithts at softhome.net -------------------------- Is this the same guy, if it is, we have only 15 members. > senthil_or at dell.com > suraj at symonds.net > vimalekm at vsnl.net > > [had to remove all the '@' manually here!!!] You probably did a find all '@' and replace with '_at_'. (where _ is a <space> ) > It would be nice if all of us could post a small introduction about > ourselves here - that will ensure that we can have more meaningful > discussion! And can depend on each others' respective strengths and > resources to grow Free Software usage around here. OK, here it goes, I am Sreekiran and I am an engineering student (4th sem, C.S). Studying at Acharya Institute of Technology, Hesarghatta road, and not Acharya Paatha Shala (APS) to which people often confuse it to. I joined B.E after a 3 Year Diploma in Computer Science. If you want more info about me my homepage is at : http://www.geocities.com/sreekirankr. My resume is the index page. and its the only page. > > Btw, friends.Abhas is not well. Send him get well > > cards and wishes. > > Abhas get well soooon !!!! > Well - I'm back in action now! As hungry to 'graze' as ever! Thanks a > lot for your good wishes! :) Those were some really effective wishes in that case. > Abhas Abhinav <abhas(a)deeproot.co.in> > CEO, DeepRoot Linux DeepRoot ? Are you the same guys developing Mandrake. Bye for now. -------------------------------------------------------------- Sreekiran.K.R - http://whitehats.cjb.net/ - dwija(a)phreaker.net Registered Linux User # 335122 at http://counter.li.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------

2 2

Lets go to God's own country
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

Hi Fellows, I know that most of folks are too busy, but a one day trip to kerala should be a great idea. What do you think guys? What else you can do in kerala? (Apart from news below) Am going to hire a boat to go round the back-waters and call it India's first Gnu/Linux curise. cheers --arky PS: top posting, please excuse --- "V. Sasi Kumar" <vsasi(a)hotpop.com> wrote: > From: "V. Sasi Kumar" <vsasi(a)hotpop.com> > To: fsf-friends(a)gnu.org.in > Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:01:41 +0530 > Subject: [Fsf-friends] Celebrating annual day of FSF > India > > Some of us in Thiruvananthapuram met on 6th evening > and decided that we > should celebrate the annual day of FSF India on July > 21st. The group > included Sathish Babu, M. Arun, V.K. Sajith and a > few others. We are > thinking of a one day programme that will include a > public meeting, > discussions and an exhibition. The exhibition will > have posters on > philosophy, posters on software and computers > demonstrating different > kinds of software. We hope that the function will > draw some media > attention and help in popularising Free Software. > Applications like > Blender, Gimp, OpenOffice and Scribus could attract > both the public and > media. > > An email discussion group, > fsf-kerala(a)cc4.tifr.res.in, was also formed > to discuss our activities, so that we could think of > other activities in > the future at Thiruvananthapuram, and also > co-ordinate with people in > other places who may be interested in conducting > such programmes > elsewhere. > > Any suggestions from members are welcome. > -- > V. Sasi Kumar <vsasi(a)hotpop.com> > > > _______________________________________________ > Fsf-friends mailing list > Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

3 10

Software Freedom Day, Aug 28, 2004
by Abhas Abhinav 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ Someone has registered an event in Bangalore as well. We should tie-up and see how we can use this occasion to create a further difference. -abhas.

2 2

Fwd: [blore-linux] Software Freedom Day (Do join! Aug 28, 2004)
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

FYI --arky --- Frederick Noronha <fred(a)sancharnet.in> wrote: > To: blore-linux(a)yahoogroups.co.in > From: "Frederick Noronha" <fred(a)sancharnet.in> > Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:21:44 -0000 > Subject: [blore-linux] Software Freedom Day (Do > join! Aug 28, 2004) > > SFD Team Invites Other FOSS Orgs To Join Forces > Author: Admin > Dated: Tuesday, February 24 2004 @ 10:11 PM MST > Viewed: 196 times > The SFD team has invited several prominent > non-profit Free/Open > Source Software organizations and personalities to > join with us in > our project. > > The following open letter has been sent to the FSF, > OSI, the Mozilla > Foundation, OSAF, OSDL, the Berkman Center, Knoppix, > GNUWin, and > others. > ----------------------------------------------------- > > SoftwareFreedomDay.org > > August 28, 2004 > > Dear Sir or Madam, > > I am writing to ask you to join us in celebrating > Software Freedom > Day in 2004 and beyond. > > In an effort to step up the marketing effort for > Free and Open Source > Software (FOSS), a small group of volunteers [1] > have formed > softwarefreedomday.org with the aim of organizing a > global > celebration of FOSS on August 28th this year [2]. We > hope to involve > a large number of teams, comprised of LUG members > and other > enthusiasts, all around the world. Our role will be > to help > coordinate the event and provide the required > infrastructure, > including a web portal, posters and fliers, and most > importantly, > high quality (pressed) CDs with FOSS that the teams > can give out to > the general public on Software Freedom Day. > > Before we launch this concept to the community at > large, we would > like to reach out to a few key groups and > individuals in the FOSS > world, like yourself, to ask you to join us in this > endevour. Though > we do hope to form a working relationship with you > over time, for now > we can simply recognize our mutual goals. Thus we > respectfully ask > for your endorsement of our effort; this project > will enjoy even > greater success if the FOSS community unites around > it. > > For further information and to observe our project's > progress, please > visit our newly assembled web portal, which will > serve as the hub for > our collaboration in the months to come. We hope > that creative souls > around the world will find varied and interesting > ways of celebrating > FOSS, and that ultimately the public will join us in > that celebration > too. > > Sincerely yours, > > Henrik Omma and Matt Oquist > > ---------------------------------------- > > 1 Software Freedom Day is currently a joint venture > of TheOpenCD.org > (http://theopencd.org) project and Greater Nashua > Sustainable > Software (http://gnss.majen.net). > 2 This will become an annual event to be held on the > last Saturday of > each August. > Software Freedom Day: August 28th 2004 > www.softwarefreedomday.org > contact(a)softwarefreedomday.org > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

1 0

Q: What would you find on the highest motorable pass in the world?
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

Talking Gnu/Linux to next level ? A: http://vsharma.net/ljpics/linux-khardungla.jpg courtesy: Raj Mathur --arky __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

1 0

Knock knock.
by Sajith T S 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Hello, Was the list really silent or was it my mailbox bouncing? We've to overcome the silence and inaction somehow if that is the case. Well, there was a plan for launching a website and wiki/CMS. What about a workshop or something similar one of these weekends? That could serve as a socialising/PR occasion as well. By the way, any idea how many people are on board as of now? Sajith. -- Your friends will know you better in the first moment you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a lifetime. -- Richard Bach, "Illusions"

7 14

FSF Europe newsletter
by Abhas Abhinav 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

We can have something on these lines for Bangalore! -abhas. ---------- 1. Introducing the FSFE newsletter 2. EU Council decision on software patents directive 3. AGNULA 4. Welcoming FSFE press speaker Joachim Jakobs 5. Georg Greve in South America 6. Protecting Free Software from over regulation 7. Other important public appearances 1. Introducing the FSFE newsletter Around the official general assembly of the Free Software Foundation Europe on May 15, the core members took the chance to discuss several ideas on how to improve public information about the activities of the FSFE. One of the results was the decision to periodically publish a newsletter, and this is the first one. 2. EU Council decision on software patents directive The most widely regarded event in May was probably the decision of the Council of the European Union about the Software Patent Directive. After the European Parliament made its clear vote against unlimited patentability of software algorithms, the Irish Presidency proposed a version of the directive that undoes virtually all of the Parliament's changes. Even though some countries did not approve it, this version got the necessary qualified majority in the Council. The fact that the Council's opposition against software patent was still stronger than expected can well be regarded as a result of the successful cooperation of FSFE, FFII and many other organizations in informing citizens and politicians about the danger of the Presidency's proposal. As the decision process is still not finished, the FSFE will continue to work on the software patent issue together with these organizations. 3. AGNULA While AGNULA (A GNU/Linux Audio Distribution) is already regarded a big success by all participants (and also by the European Union, who funded the project), work is not over with the final release. The FSFE still supports the project by helping with things like the AGNULA trademark license. 4. Welcoming FSFE press speaker Joachim Jakobs To relieve the core members from the increasingly time-consuming press work, the FSFE hired Joachim Jakobs on a part-time basis as a press speaker. 5. Georg Greve in South America Georg Greve is currently visiting several locations in South America, getting in contact with local Free Software Activists there and supporting them in building up a Free Software network there like the FSFE is here. His public activities in South America included an interview for Argentinas most important newspaper, a speech at the University of Cordoba about Free Software in Education, an interview for TV as well as for the largest national radio station in Uruguay and the keynote at USUARIA, a South American congress on Free Software topics. We expect these activities to help building up a global network of Free Software organizations, of which the FSFE will be an essential part. 6. Protecting Free Software from over regulation The Italian Chapter has been very busy trying to amend a new Italian law that could harm Free Software. To limit the supposed damages that the Italian motion picture and record industry claims to come from peer-to-peer file sharing, the government proposed a law that makes it illegal to publish any digital content on the web without "declaring to the SIAE that the publisher has a license to do so". The law also introduces more restrictions, making a criminal offense punishable with up to four years of jail sharing without consent of the author any file on the web, even if it is not "for profit". The law is so absurd that FSF Europe has been asked by BSA (Business Software Alliance) to cooperate to prevent its approval. Unfortunately, though, the law passed despite the fact that in the end both the government and the opposition agreed that "it is a very bad law". The government promised to correct it soon and already announced a revision: FSFE will continue its strong pressure on the whole Parliament. 7. Other important public appearances Stefano Maffulli participated at a forum about "Intellectual property" at the Istituto Bruno Leoni (IBL) in Italy to point out some problems regarding software patents. At the end of the month he participated to a "summit of Italian free software organizations" in Avellino where there was the chance to discuss a better coordination between them.

2 1

Jump to page:

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

FSUG-Bangalore