Linuxers September 2014

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[cross post] Colombian grad student faces jail for sharing a thesis online

by Pirate Praveen

Diego Gomez, a Colombian graduate student, currently faces up to eight years in prison for doing something thousands of researchers do every day: posting research results online for those who would not otherwise have a way to access them. http://news.sciencemag.org/latin-america/2014/07/colombian-grad-student-fac… Please sign this petition https://act.eff.org/action/let-s-stand-together-to-promote-open-access-worl… Also we need to have a continuous campaign to make people realize how we are still denied access to knowledge. Indian Pirates are starting a campaign called "Ekalavya to Aaron Swartz - access (to knowledge) denied" https://www.loomio.org/d/igPz5ORr/ekalavya-to-aaron-swartz-access-to-knowle… Hoping to get all your support. As one concrete step, we should translate Aaron Swartz Guerilla Open Access Manifesto to all Indian languages. http://openaccessmanifesto.org/ Please let me know if you can help with the translation in any language.

9 years, 2 months

The Challenge - Clean India

by Siji Sunny

Seems like nice initiative and we should support this. "Inspired by The Ugly Indian <https://github.com/indiarising/hackathon/blob/master/theuglyindian.com> and the community <https://www.facebook.com/theugl.yindian> who have been transforming public spaces in the country over the past few years, create a software application that empowers people to take charge and solve problems in their neighborhood." Read more - https://github.com/indiarising/hackathon/blob/master/README.md -- Siji Sunny

9 years, 2 months

September Mumbai Linux Users Group Meetup

by Rigved Rakshit

Hello, Date: 28th September, 2014 (Sunday) Time: 11:00 to 17:00 IST Venue: Directiplex, near Andheri Subway, Andheri (E), Mumbai, India RSVP: http://meetu.ps/2ycLsq Entry is free of charge and anyone can attend. We are celebrating Software Freedom Day at this month's meetup. Hope to see some of you there! Best Regards, Rigved

9 years, 2 months

'i18nWidgets' project for developing multi-lingual Android widgets

by Rahul Bhalerao

The i18nWidgets is a project for developing extended Android widgets that would support multi-lingual text without being dependent on the underlying support for the languages. The widgets would be integrated with native support for HarfBuzz and Freetype for rendering of the multi-lingual text. More details on the project can be found here: http://bit.ly/1mqaVBz If you would like to contribute, please join the project on github: https://github.com/GnowTantra/i18nWidgets The project currently support individual Indic languages and Gujarati widget is given as an example. The immediate task is to make generic implementation where languages can be detected and selected automatically to make it truly multi-lingual. Regards, Rahul.

9 years, 2 months

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9 years, 2 months

[x-post] Free Software roots are growing deeper in Maharashtra

by Pirate Praveen

See my notes https://poddery.com/posts/1349028 (I prefer comments on diaspora as it is a cross post). I want to take all those colleges with good free software adoption to the next step of contributing to free software. If you'd like to mentor any student from these colleges in contributing to a project you work or care about please post your ideas at https://www.loomio.org/g/ryhOsTnV/fosscommunity-in-mentors If are a student looking for mentors, you can also join the above group and post your interest there.

9 years, 2 months

EOIs invited for designing User Interface for Tata Institute of Social Sciences main website

by smita patil

Details: Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is a Deemed University U/S-3 of the University Grants Commission Act 1956. It is located at V.N. Purav Marg, Opposite Deonar Bus Depot, Mumbai. TISS invites an *Expression of Interest* from interested web developers/web designers/freelancers for designing User Interface of the Institute website as per the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG2.0) *Scope of Work:* 1. Study the current website and propose a new design/structure. 2. Design templates using HTML, CSS, Javascript for academic and administrative sections of the Institute and also for showcasing Institute's work in terrms of Projects, activities etc. as per the proposed design/structure. 3. *Server side scripting will be done by the internal development team*, however the party will have to work in co-ordination with the team. 4. Checking WCAG2.0 compliance and certifying the website accordingly. *Qualification criteria*: 1. Should have atleast 2 years experience in developing websites with free and open source softwares. 2. Should have extensive experience in designing user-interface of websites and web portals. 3. Should have experience in developing websites which are accessible to people with visual impairment and should be aware of WCAG2.0 4. Experience in developing websites which can be viewed on web browsers as well as mobile phones 5. Experience in developing similar Intsitute websites with WCAG2.0 compliance is desirable. *Documents to be attached along with the EOI are:* 1. *Contact details with **Address and Email* 2. Core technical competencies and skill sets available. 3. Details of major work website development undertaken with urls. 4. Details about quality processes and standards followed in developing websites. Interested parties are requested to mail the above mentioned details to *eoi at tiss.edu <http://tiss.edu>* on or before 30th September, 2014. Shortlisted parties will have to give a presentation precisely on similar work undertaken and proposed template designs for TISS website. Current website Url is http://www.tiss.edu Above details are also available at: http://www.tiss.edu/lefttop/jobs-tenders/tenders-1 and http://download.tiss.edu/tenders/website_tenders_revised_sept9_1.pdf

9 years, 2 months

Qubes: The Open Source OS Built for Security

by Siji Sunny

Qubes is an open-source operating system designed to provide strong security for desktop computing. Qubes is based on Xen, the X Window System, and Linux, and can run most Linux applications and utilize most of the Linux drivers. Ref : https://qubes-os.org/ http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/788085-qubes-the-o… -- Siji Sunny

9 years, 2 months

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9 years, 2 months

unused Windows 8.1 license : refund available?

by Mayuresh Kathe

I intend to purchase a Lenovo ThinkPad which comes pre-installed with Windows 8.1. Since I will be installing Ubuntu from the moment the machine is first switch on, is there any possibility of getting a refund on the unused Windows 8.1 license? If yes, may I know the general procedure? Thanks, ~Mayuresh

9 years, 2 months

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Linuxers September 2014