Linuxers January 2011

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] FOSS profit
by mitul＠enterux.com 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

It would have been a good incentive to pay Zimbra team and get their paid version rather the movin back to exchange, still it would have been cheaper. I personally think that moving back to exchange had a fundamental thought process problem then with features, if main product is free its expected to get everything possible free of cost. Regards, Mitul Limbani Enterux Solutions www.enterux.com Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon(a)thenilgiris.com> wrote: >On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 17:37 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: >> > Could you give a few examples? The ones I have used have >> full-featured >> > open-source editions. >> >> zimbra > >actually a pretty large industrial group in Coimbatore migrated to >zimbra 'community edition' - in one month they migrated back to >Microsoft exchange. Reason - 1. grindingly slow, and more important 2. >very rudimentary search features. These problems are not there in the >editions developed in the closet. There are hundreds of these bogus open >source apps around. Although there are quite a few where there is a >single edition - the paid for plans offer support and customisation, but >the code is the same. > >-- >regards >KG >http://lawgon.livejournal.com >Coimbatore LUG rox >http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ > >-- >http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Contribute to Chamba Swathanthra Cinema project
by Praveen A 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

"I will contribute 500 Indian Rupees (or 10 USD) to Chamba Swathanthra Cinema Project but only if 100 other people will do the same." — Praveen Arimbrathodiyil, Coordinator for Chamba Project Deadline to sign up by: 1st January 2011 22 people have signed up, 78 more needed More details Chamba project (http://www.chambaproject.in) is an ambitious effort to create a Swathanthra (Free/Libre) Animation Movie by pooling in contributions from people around the world and funding artists directly. It is an initiative to experiment and explore a more collaborative and open approach to film making, aiming to be appealing, easy to be a part of and easy to contribute for hobbyists, enthusiasts and professionals alike using FOSS tools, resources, and the power of social networking. A donation system will be setup at http://www.chambaproject.in/contribute/ when we are ready to accept money. You can add your name to the pledge at http://www.pledgebank.com/chambaproject There are other ways you can help as well. See http://www.chambaproject.in/contribute/ for different ways of helping out. This is not just a movie project, it is a whole different way of creating culture, some models of which we are already familiar like Free Software, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, this time we are onto film making. We need to reach out to maximum number of people and being a community initiative we depend on you to help us promote this project. Did you blog about this project? Did you share news about this project with your friends, colleagues, facebook/orkut/twitter/identi.ca contacts? Are you a good designer? Can you create good posters and banners for this project? Make some nice ones and post it in the forum. Think about more ideas to spread news about this project. The more people talk about this project, the higher its impact. Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution.

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Seeking: Scanners compatible with FOSS OCR , application for building Contacts database
by jitendra 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

I propose to purchase a scanner and also use the same , among other things, for reading Business cards of contacts to build a database. My query 1. Can I assume that using any scanner I can get pdf files and the same can be OCRed ( using pdfocr script which uses Cnueiform ) 2. Are there any scanners I should avoid 3. Any experience or Contra-indication against Canon LiDE 100 . 4. Any application that reads the business cards and intelligently (or interactively) give parsed data from business card 5. Any recommendation for FOSS application for building a database for contacts using scanner/OCR/manual effort jitendra

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Happy New Year 2011
by Shahid Farooqui 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

Hello.. I wish you all a very Happy and prosperous New Year. May this year brings hope, peace and happiness. With Best Wishes, Shahid

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