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Huge New Study On Free/Open Software
by Frederick Noronha 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/huge_new_study_.html Wednesday, 17 January 2007 Huge New Study On Free/Open Software Topic: software There's an interesting, albeit rather long, new study available from an international, interdisciplinary team of researchers that documents Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and its economic influences on the EU. The full text of the 287 page report, entitled "Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU," is available online (PDF). The report provides the most thorough and comprehensive look at the contributions of the FLOSS community that I've ever seen. While most of the statics and numbers are geared toward the EU and European nations in general (the lead contractor of the study was UNU-MERIT from the Netherlands), the study nevertheless provides a fascinating look at free software and its impact on the world at large. Particularly stunning is the estimated time to reproduce this software in proprietary format (131,000 person years) and the estimated amount of donated programming effort in monetary terms (800 million Euros per year). Here's some more highlights pulled straight from the text (emphasis mine): * Almost two-thirds of FLOSS software is still written by individuals; firms contribute about 15% and other institutions another 20%. * Europe is the leading region in terms of globally collaborating FLOSS software developers, and leads in terms of global project leaders, followed closely by North America (interestingly, more in the East Coast than the West). Asia and Latin America. * The existing base of quality FLOSS applications with reasonable quality control and distribution would cost firms almost Euro 12 billion to reproduce internally. This code base has been doubling every 18-24 months over the past eight years, and this growth is projected to continue for several more years. * This existing base of FLOSS software represents a lower bound of about 131 000 real person-years of effort that has been devoted exclusively by programmers. As this is mostly by individuals not directly paid for development, it represents a significant gap in national accounts of productivity. Annualised and adjusted for growth this represents at least Euro 800 million in voluntary contribution from programmers alone each year, of which nearly half are based in Europe. * Firms have invested an estimated Euro 1.2 billion in developing FLOSS software that is made freely available. Such firms represent in total at least 565 000 jobs and Euro 263 billion in annual revenue. Contributing firms are from several non-IT (but often ICT intensive) sectors, and tend to have much higher revenues than non-contributing firms. * Defined broadly, FLOSS-related services could reach a 32% share of all IT services by 2010, and the FLOSS-related share of the economy could reach 4% of European GDP by 2010. * Proprietary packaged software firms account for well below 10% of employment of software developers in the U.S., and "IT user" firm -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com

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India moves to launch Creative Commons at Mumbai function in coming week
by Frederick Noronha 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

India moves to launch Creative Commons at Mumbai function in coming week FN Premier technological institute IIT Bombay is to launch the Indian chapter of Creative Commons during its annual Technology Festival of India, shortly. The Creative Commons (CC) is a global non-profit working to expand the range of creative work available for others "legally to build upon and share." It allows people to issue creative works under a license that allows more flexibility than the default "all rights reserved" of copyright law. >From its modest cyberhome at cc-india.org, the Indian branch of the global movement is spreading the ideas that there are options to copyright, when it comes to building creativity and sharing knowledge widely. Creative Commons enables copyright holders to grant some or all of their rights to the public, while retaining others, through a variety of licensing and contract schemes. The intention is to avoid the problems current copyright laws create for the sharing of information. In a world where digital-content rules, sharing of knowledge and creative products has become far easier. Some globally successful volunteer projects -- like the Wikipedia, among the top 20 most visited sites -- have scaled up phenomenally by basing themselves on parallel easier-to-share licenses. Creative Commons-India project lead Shishir K. Jha, assistant professor at the IIT's Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, said that the project planned to focus on three specific areas in India. These are, centres of higher education like the seven IITs, regional IITs, managements and other institutions. He said: "These are increasingly taking recourse to creating video and web-based courses such as the NPTEL (National Programme for Technology Enhanced Learning) and distance education courses such as C-DEEP (www.cdeep.iitb.ac.in) and eGURU (ekalavya.it.iitb.ac.in/eguruHome.do) (and all would benefit from keeping content sharable)." Creative Commons-India also plans to focus on non-profit and non-governmental organizations and corporates keen on adopting easier-to-share licenses for the dissemination of their documents. Lastly, he said, there are many independent creative artists working with film, documentary, music and text who would like to explore the possibilities of reaching out to a wider audience with the use of creative commons licenses. This festival is being held on January 26-27 and some big names are visiting India for the Creative Commons launch. Creative Commons chairman Joichi Ito and its global coordinator Dr. Catharina Maracke will join in. Two will be held on the topics 'Do We Need Remix?' and 'Sharing Is Creating'. Joichi Ito is a Japanese-born and American-educated businessman who runs the World of Warcraft guild of venture capitalists, and is general manager of international operations for such prominent web-based ventures like Technorati, chairman of Six Apart Japan, and board-member of ICANN Mozilla Foundation, the Open Source Initiative and others. This two-day event will see a mini-panel on "Creative Commons: Is India ready for flexible approach to copyrighting". In particular, this session will look at how Creative Commons can be used to increase knowledge and information sharing among sectors like higher education, telecommunications, music, films and publishing. Creative Commons licenses came after the Open Publication License and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). The GFDL is seen as being responsible for the phenomenal success of the Free Software movement globally, it is also used by non-software projects such as influential, citizen-crafted Wikipedia. -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com

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broadband problems
by Dilip Khanolkar 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

is there any customer of pacenet from goregaon on this list there are heavy problems faced in this area from pacenet for the last 15 days & mr saiyad from pacenet says that 7 days have been credited to every user as compensation while TRAI regulations say that "Faults Pending for > 7 working days and < 15 working days: rebate equivalent to 15 days of minimum monthly charge or equivalent usage allowance" well the customers dont get perfect speeds the network is congested while DNS pings are normally above 130 ms on 64 bytes. I have a 72kbps line the speeds are mostly below 56.2 kbps on an average not more than 64 kbps

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Sun Ultra SPARC T1
by Debarshi Ray 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

>> So OpenSolaris is dead and useless. JTD and Vihan do not bother >> proving otherwise, because certain class of people will never >> listen. The Sun UltraSPARC T1 certainly is not. So check out the >> above link. > It was almost dead. But gpl anything and they rise from the ashes. > there are more brains in the rest of the world than in the place u > happen to be. Yes. This is the more important fact, than arguing whether it was dead or alive. > KG is not completely wrong. As I said, this dead or alive discussion is useless. What is important is we get to look at more code, and learn from it. Regards, Debarshi -- After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box. -- Italian proverb

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would luv to work on Linux
by rohan k 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hi felas, this is Rohan Kaluskar (yet to meet Krishnakant Mane...well km m busy hunting a linux development job).felas m currently a BE fresher n would luv to work on my fav operating sys as a programmer.m also quite proficient with C,Java.would prefer to work in mumbai,also pursuing an embedded sys course from idemi,sion.if u do have an interesting job opportunity,do contact me at 32406312

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[OT] Root partition mouting read-only frequently
by Rohit V Bhute 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

My partitioning is as follows: /dev/hda1 / /dev/hda5 /home /dev/hda6 swap /dev/hda7 /data All are ext3. The / partition is mounting read-only very frequently, in spite of clean shutdowns. As a result, the only apps I can use are Firefox and Thunderbird. Anything else (even those two if have to download something) requiring access to / (specially /tmp) doesn't work. For e.g., running "man" on any command gives "man: can't create a temporary filename: Read-only file system". I looked through the output of dmesg and found the following piece interesting. <cut> [17180032.820000] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [17180032.820000] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=23677870, sector=23677863 [17180032.820000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown [17180032.820000] end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 23677863 [17180032.820000] Buffer I/O error on device hda1, logical block 2959725 [17180032.824000] EXT3-fs error (device hda1): ext3_readdir: directory #1470023 contains a hole at offset 0 [17180032.824000] Remounting filesystem read-only <cut> The full dmesg output is here <http://rvbhute.org/full_dmesg_error.txt> Is my disk failing or is it case of partitioning/formatting gone wrong? Regards. -- Rohit V. Bhute http://blog.rvbhute.org

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[Commercial] Openings @ TechnoInfotech
by sanjay＠technoinfosys.com 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

########################################### Sr. Customer Support Engrs -TechnoInfotech ########################################### Key Skills : Linux tcp/ip networking php/perl mysql qmail sendmail Job Description: * SBS LINUX mail server installation, configuration, administration * Customzied qmail, vpopmail, squirrelmail & other products addon. * Knowledge of MTA`s and mail routing process * Network, SMTP, POP, IMAP protocols Understanding is must. * Usage, maintenance and upgradation of ClamAV * Virus scanning & controlling and Managingwith Mail-Scanner * SPAM control and researching, implementing and managing a SPAM filtering system on online-server. * Installation, usage, maintenance and upgradation of SPAMassasin * Maintenance of web server(Apache/Tomcat) * Maintenance of mail server(sendmail/Qmail) * Maintenance of DNS server * Maintenance of MYSQL DB server. * Backup / recovery technologies and methodologies like Rsync & NFS & backuppc known would be goof. * Installing, maintaining, and administering mail statistics collection processes * Uptime monitoring / Patch management / Server security for update for customer. · Learn and apply new technologies / languages as required · Understand integration of companys products with other products. * Deployment work at Customer sites - requires one to communicate with the customer, understand requirements and implement customizations Additional Information: --------------------------- This is position is specially for Mumbai candidates, who can join immediate. If the above profile interests you then kindly send us your resume at timesjobs(a)technoinfotech.com. Kindly mention few details in your mail: Current CTC, Expected CTC, and Notice period. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ########################################### Jr/Sr. Web Developer - TechnoInfotech ########################################### Key Skills : PHP MySQL Perl linux HTML DHTML AJAX Job Description: Candidate with 1-4 yrs exp. in development, programming of web-based projects in HTML/DHTML, Javascript, with excellence in PHP, MySQL, Perl on Linux OS platform, with capability to Independently manage & co-ordinate successful execution of projects. * Target Oriented good Interpersonal skill. * Should be an engineer (Computer Science is preferred) or if graduate in other discipline then should have exceptionally good experience in previous jobs in these technologies . * Design and develop/code technical customizations independently * Learn and apply new technologies / languages as required Additional Information: --------------------------- This is position is specially for Mumbai candidates, who can join immediate. If the above profile interests you then kindly send us your resume at timesjobs(a)technoinfotech.com. Kindly mention few details in your mail: Current CTC, Expected CTC, and Notice period. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ########################################### Jr/Sr JAVA-Web Developer - TechnoInfotech ########################################### Key Skills : JAVA AJAX JSP MySQL linux website User-interface Job Description: Responsibilities ------------------------ * You will be required to do user interface development from page level HTML to client-side DHTML/JavaScript to the Struts-based framework of action classes and JSPs/ java Servlet with MS-SQL/MY-SQL Database. · Study and understand the product specifications and design · Independently lead complete technical customizations ·Do Document requirements, design and go live plan. * You will build and ensure cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility for our application. * You will pioneer cutting edge interface development using Web 2.0 principles Ajax methodologies like Google Webtoolkit /Yahoo UI. * You will own and master the usability and first-class interaction design, * you will put user experience as priority one in everything you do. * Should have min 3 years of prior experience working on these technologies and has been part of 1-2 live projects/product development cycles. * Should be an engineer (Computer Science is preferred) or if graduate in other discipline then should have exceptionally good experience in previous jobs in these technologies * Design and develop/code technical customizations independently · Learn and apply new technologies / languages as required · Understand integration of companys products with other products. * Deployment work at Customer sites - requires one to communicate with the customer, understand requirements and implement customizations Additional Information: --------------------------- This is position is specially for Mumbai candidates, who can join immediate. If the above profile interests you then kindly send us your resume at timesjobs(a)technoinfotech.com. Kindly mention few details in your mail: Current CTC, Expected CTC, and Notice period. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ########################################### Technical Writer - TechnoInfotech ########################################### Key Skills : Technical writing, good English writing & IT understanding Job Description: * Development of Product documentation, Training documentation and Marketing documentation. Writing of end user manuals, installation guides, online help etc. Editing and quality checking of documents in accordance with company standards. Planning, scheduling and outlining documentation. Min. Exp. 6 month. *Knowledge of Linux & other IT basic is must. Additional Information: --------------------------- This is position is specially for Mumbai candidates, who can join immediate. If the above profile interests you then kindly send us your resume at timesjobs(a)technoinfotech.com. Kindly mention few details in your mail: Current CTC, Expected CTC, and Notice period. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards TechnoInfotech (Mumbai,India) jobs(a)technoinfotech.com timesjobs(a)technoinfotech.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.

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BangPycon 2007 - Call for Participation
by Anush Shetty 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hi, The BangPypers invite you to submit a proposal to present a technical paper or tutorial, or to host a meeting or BOF session at the conference. There are no fixed guidelines except for the below. 1) The talk has to be on a Pythonic Topic 2) It will be restricted to 45 mts with buffer for Q& A -10 mts 3) Though not mandatory, preference will be given to relevance of the topic with the agenda of the conference being "to promote Python" Though currently the plans of having a separate tutorial section is not on, we still want to hear from you, and we can see whether something can be fitted in... There might be just 10 talks split into 2 tracks. So please hurry up and send in your proposals. Your Proposal should be mailed conference AT bangpypers.org. -- Cheers. Anush Shetty BangPycon First Indian Python Conference, March 3rd 2007, St Josephs PG College, Bangalore, India. Email: conference(a)bangpypers.org http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangpypers http://bangpypers.org

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Free Software for NGOs
by Siddhesh Poyarekar 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hi, I was just wondering; do NGOs in India look at FOSS as an alternative for cost-cutting at all? Has anyone on-list succeeded in introducing FOSS in any NGO-aided school or vocational training centre? Regards, -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.tk

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Seek advice to quit Windows
by Varadarajan V 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hi, Let me first introduce myself. I have been a silent observer of this list for the past 1-2 years. Though I havent contributed anything to this list, I very much like the concept of Linux and Free Software. Unfortunately, for me I learnt about this long after I went for the microsoft certification which helped me to get a job. I work as a windows system admin (3 years) for living. After observing and readin a lot in this community and a little bit of personal experience with linux I wish to move into linux administration and personally I hate microsoft's way of working. To work in windows I need to keep myself trained in windows and for that i have to use windows. That goes into a vicious circle. I find myself locked I am sure I would be considered as a newbie (I am one) in the linux world and I see jobs are mostly for the experienced in the linux administration. What should I do to make the switch? I need your suggestions. I wish to quit windows..now -- True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. -Socrates Regards, Raj

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