[ilugd] orkut - Gaurav Mishra -- has sent you a friend request
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Re: [ilugd] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto
On Sunday 15 March 2009 09:35:54 Raj Mathur wrote: Great work, everyone who contributed and specially Venky for taking the initiative. Everything else being equal, a clearly-articulated FOSS policy would definitely sway my vote towards the BJP. Nothing specific against BJP, but do you really think that a policy intention has in the past ever worked against market forces in a government/economics setup which is market-driven? Our past friends CPIM talked about FOSS on one hand and proudly announced strategic partnership with M$ for state education on the other hand. We cannot rejoice/rely on support by political parties for pushing for FOSS. I however do acknowledge that the Indian contingent in the recent ISO OpenXML saga did a very commendable job against very heavy odds. Of course the people involved weren't government officials, but at least it had the blessing in some way of the Indian government. - Sandip ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] PM Office switches to Open Source Mailing Solution
On Monday 16 March 2009 09:29:01 Dhiraj Gaur wrote: most of the emails addressed to it were not received. The problem was detected only in late April after which the Microsoft Outlook Express email software was discontinued and replaced by — Squirrel mail. I am more puzzled by this bit than anything else. How much of the problem does replacing Outlook Express by Squirrelmail solve? - Is the IMAP server behind Squirrelmail an open source one? Or is it Exchange? - Is the machine on which Squirrelmail is accessed Windows or not? - Would downloading/executing attachments, which is the most likely cause of the virus attack, cause a similar attack on the host computer or not? -- Sandip ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] orkut - Gaurav Mishra -- has sent you a friend request
Ack, What's this ?, Someone used ilugd mailing list email id as the orkut email registered id ! Apologies for this guys, It was supposed to be a friend finder script for orkut !, Testing went wrong. Thanks and Regards Gaurav Mishra Linux User #348873 http://gmishra.com When i can run , i will run , When i can walk , i will walk, When i can crawl , i will crawl. But i will not stop moving forward On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Gaurav Mishra -- Blog changed 9970048187134638...@mail.orkut.com wrote: Hi Bharat, Gaurav Mishra -- Blog changed (gauravtec...@gmail.com) has requested to be your friend on orkut. To confirm or reject this request click http://www.orkut.co.in/FriendAdd.aspx?accept=trueuid=9970048187134638412mt=11 To see Gaurav Mishra --'s profile click: http://www.orkut.co.in/Profile.aspx?uid=9970048187134638412amp;mt=11 * * * To control notification emails, access your Account Settings: http://www.orkut.co.in/NotificationSettings.aspx?mt=11 If you would like to ignore Gaurav Mishra --, visit Gaurav Mishra --'s profile and click ignore: http://www.orkut.co.in/Profile.aspx?uid=9970048187134638412mt=11 If you are not an orkut user, you can block all orkut users from sending you email by visiting: http://www.orkut.co.in/Block.aspx?mt=11 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] PM Office switches to Open Source Mailing Solution
Well I was equally intrigued when I read the news piece. Moreover the article never talks of mail server and rather talks of the mail client. In my views this is what might have happened 1. Virus problems might be common at PMO and they might have asked to switch to a virus free mail solution, especially in view to save their face in the RTI query. 2. The vendor/operator/administrator might have suggested switching to some linux based solution. 3. They might have migrated the mail server to sendmail/postfix/qmail or any other linux based mailing solution with Squirrel mail as the web access tool. 4. I am not sure about the protocols or the mail clients now being used, but the environment is surely on Windows based on the desktop PCs accesing Squirrel Mail. People in touch with NIC or PMO may kindly throw more light on these dobuts. But I am happy that at least they started off something which is someway connected to open source. Regards Dhiraj Gaur On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya li...@sandipb.netwrote: On Monday 16 March 2009 09:29:01 Dhiraj Gaur wrote: most of the emails addressed to it were not received. The problem was detected only in late April after which the Microsoft Outlook Express email software was discontinued and replaced by — Squirrel mail. I am more puzzled by this bit than anything else. How much of the problem does replacing Outlook Express by Squirrelmail solve? - Is the IMAP server behind Squirrelmail an open source one? Or is it Exchange? - Is the machine on which Squirrelmail is accessed Windows or not? - Would downloading/executing attachments, which is the most likely cause of the virus attack, cause a similar attack on the host computer or not? -- Sandip ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] Microsoft Fights back with FIRE
Many people has admired on L.K Advani's IT vision. It seems like Gujarat is making an U-Turn .http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/project-on-it-upgradation-in-schools-makes-no-headway-in-gujarat/434979/ http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/project-on-it-upgradation-in-schools-makes-no-headway-in-gujarat/434979/ Conflicts of opinion between education department and IT department. LOL MOU with Microsoft to aid teachers in teaching FOSS. (this shows politicians dont know a heck about foss, or M$ might have bribed them (if u sign MOU with software gaint you get publicity for sure ) ) ZD-net covers it extensively http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3718 Find out who are the enimies to BJP if they promote http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/MS-top-telcos-may-be-hit/articleshow/4266133.cms Seems like microsoft is on FIRE BizSparkhttp://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/incubator/archive/2008/12/17/microsoft-india-launches-bizspark-for-startups.aspx ,DreamSpark http://www.dreamsparkindia.com And Lot of Sparks to burn competition !! :( Just FYI Regards Arun SAG -- A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows. -Fighting 4 Freedom- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Personal invitation from pratipal singh
2009/3/18 pratipal singh pratipalthesar...@gmail.com: Personal invitation from pratipal singh ___ Sure we will all be there. Food is free, right? ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Microsoft Fights back with FIRE
On Wednesday 18 March 2009 01:44:20 Arun SAG wrote: Seems like microsoft is on FIRE BizSparkhttp://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/incubator/archive/2008/12/17 /microsoft-india-launches-bizspark-for-startups.aspx ,DreamSpark I saw a pitch for Bizmark in a blog meet sponsored my Microsoft recently. In all the gushing about the help they are providing to startups, they neglect talking too much about the strings attached. The article you quote however mentions some: For signing up for the program, a start up needs to be engaged in the development of software-based product or service, that is core to their business model. It needs to be privately held, with lees than three years in business. Also, the firm should have less than $1 million in annual revenue. Microsoft Corp (India) will take $100 from the startup when it (the startup) exits the program after three years. In short, it is prisonerware. - Sandip ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] IBM 847872X with Centos
Hi, Did anyone install Centos 5.0 in IBM 847872X server? Before start it,I expect your valuable suggestions.It will be act as a apache tomcat application server for our internal users.Do I need to add any more details to explain? Regards, M.Satheesh. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya li...@sandipb.net wrote: On Sunday 15 March 2009 09:35:54 Raj Mathur wrote: Great work, everyone who contributed and specially Venky for taking the initiative. Everything else being equal, a clearly-articulated FOSS policy would definitely sway my vote towards the BJP. Nothing specific against BJP, but do you really think that a policy intention has in the past ever worked against market forces in a government/economics setup which is market-driven? As one of the many people from the FOSS community who worked on localization and other issues that help bridge the digital divide, I am happy that political parties are looking at FOSS more seriously now. We need this support because proprietary software is so deeply entrenched. For example, we have been trying to make the syllabus remove the endorsement of proprietary software for so many years. I guess most of us in the FOSS community believe that FOSS and open/free content like Wikipedia can be powerful forces for development. The fact that the top leaders of BJP and CPIM have acknowledged this in their political manifesto/vision is a powerful coming of age for FOSS in India, This is a very important milestone for all of us. We must congratulate ourselves, but also realize that the real work of taking FOSS to the grassroots level begins now. Our past friends CPIM talked about FOSS on one hand and proudly announced strategic partnership with M$ for state education on the other hand. The CPIM's stand on software patents, open standards and FOSS is driven by an anti-monopoly approach and also a respect for the growing paradigm of the knowledge commons which benefits everybody. I may have missed the news but I cannot recall reading any, strategic partnership with M$ for state education. Would be interested in knowing more. We cannot rejoice/rely on support by political parties for pushing for FOSS. We should rejoice that they are publicly supporting FOSS. A few years ago, many of the policy makers I met would privately criticize proprietary software vendors and pay lip sympathy to open source. However, in the presence of the proprietary software vendor, they would turn into meek lambs. Some policy makers used to treat the worlds open source like bad word. The fact that FOSS is now being talked about in the highest political circles will definitely change these mindsets and that is a powerful change in itself. On the statement that, we should not rely on support by political parties for pushing for FOSS, I would heartily agree and add that we should build such a vibrant FOSS community that no political party can ignore. We must now focus on areas like FOSS open source in education, for the visually handicapped etc where there are clear benefits to the country and prove once and for all that FOSS is the best bet for India in the long term. I however do acknowledge that the Indian contingent in the recent ISO OpenXML saga did a very commendable job against very heavy odds. Of course the people involved weren't government officials, but at least it had the blessing in some way of the Indian government. There were six government organizations that voted against OOXML (I don't think OpenXML is a good name for 6,000 pages of XML dump of a legacy file format :-). All of them spent a lot of time reviewing one of the most voluminous standards ever created. Also, way before the OOXML saga, some key officials in the government have always said that India will mandate open standards. The OOXML issue forced them to finally come put with a clear policy on open standards and tame the beast of proprietary standards. To give credit where it is due, some of the bureaucrats within Department of IT and the Bureau of Indian Standards did a tremendous job despite the immense pressure from all sides, -- proprietary vendors, the media coverage of the issue, the uncompromising stance taken by open standards supporters, the issue being escalated to the Prime Minister's Office... See: http://osindia.blogspot.com/2007/10/media-replies-on-ooxml-issue.html Many of my friends have said that the OOXML saga was one of the most brilliant lobbying efforts and also a great example of how the checks and balances of a democratic country like India work. In our neighboring countries, the negative vote against OOXML by technical committees was overturned due to the pressure exerted on the ministries that the standards bodies report to. Some of the committees were plain rigged, as happened in Pakistan: http://osindia.blogspot.com/2007/09/microsoft-certified-ballot-box.html The heavy odds comment is spot on. When the whole issue started, Gora, myself and others had attended a BIS meeting (see below) and we never thought that we would be able to get India to vote against OOXML. http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/msg16585.html Miracles do happen! Venky
[ilugd] CPI(M) manifesto calls for promotion of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
Dear All, The political support for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) continues to increase. The CPI(M) manifesto released on the 16th of March calls for the promotion of FOSS. The manifesto can be accessed at http://www.cpim.org/manifesto.pdf Following are some of the highlights of the policy - - Promoting FOSS and other such new technologies, which are free from monopoly ownership through copyrights or patents; - Revamping the functioning of the Patent offices to ensure strict adherence to the Indian Patent Act; Stop training and orientation of Indian Patent office personnel by the US and European Patent offices These above measures are critical to support the public education system, local economy and the knowledge commons and counter neo-liberal pressures that aim to privatize the public information/knowledge domain. The CPI(M) has been a traditional supporter of free software, the comprehensive IT programs in Kerala, including in the public school system (http://itschool.gov.in/otherprograms.php#6) is based on FOSS. With key parties from both the left and the right end of the political spectrum endorsing FOSS, the Congress is left as the only major national party which is yet to formally take a position on FOSS. One hopes that the Congress too will soon extend its support for free software when it releases its own manifesto next week, and explicitly acknowledge the significant political, socio-cultural and economic advantages of FOSS over proprietary software platforms (see http://public-software.in/FOSS-manifesto for a call from the Network of the FOSS Community in India to the political parties, to recognise the advantages of FOSS in their election manifestos). Thanks, Vinay. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 200903181253.24166.li...@sandipb.net wrote: Nothing specific against BJP, but do you really think that a policy intention has in the past ever worked against market forces in a government/economics setup which is market-driven? Not just that. Entire right-wing political politics is market driven and their political parties are made up of people 'essentially representing business houses'. M$ has plenty of people in many of these parties and ...fraudulence of BJP's election promises is well known. The recession has pauperised many and has been an excuse for trimming down 'many excessively wealthy people '. I think the 'lip-service for FOSS' is intended to play a buffer role for the strategies for increasing rich-middle-class -poor divides. Our past friends CPIM talked about FOSS on one hand and proudly announced strategic partnership with M$ for state education on the other hand. That is factually incorrect. No left-ruled state has a strategic partnership with M$ for state education. Or was the recent free h/w with M$ offer accepted? The companies involved include some major IT companies excluding M$. FOSS penetration is severe in Kerala with most departments and almost all Left organisations have adopted FOSS. FOSS penetration in education can be expected to be total within a few years. In WB it is work in progress. You should be also clear about differences between the IT policies of the different Left ruled states. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknBJsAACgkQunMISzvdfU5dWwCfXdmsaWRN5N4hGG3l7dKydu5i amIAn3yiUXq98e7WuG6R0pMYPvlNv6kG =jCbL -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] PM Office switches to Open Source Mailing Solution
Hi, On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Dhiraj Gaur dhiraj.g...@gmail.com wrote: Well I was equally intrigued when I read the news piece. Moreover the article never talks of mail server and rather talks of the mail client. In my views this is what might have happened 1. Virus problems might be common at PMO and they might have asked to switch to a virus free mail solution, especially in view to save their face in the RTI query. 2. The vendor/operator/administrator might have suggested switching to some linux based solution. 3. They might have migrated the mail server to sendmail/postfix/qmail or any other linux based mailing solution with Squirrel mail as the web access tool. 4. I am not sure about the protocols or the mail clients now being used, but the environment is surely on Windows based on the desktop PCs accesing Squirrel Mail. People in touch with NIC or PMO may kindly throw more light on these dobuts. But I am happy that at least they started off something which is someway connected to open source. Getting info from NIC or PMO office contacts is a good idea but may be difficult one. RTI application to get the answers could be a workable solution to get the official answers. -Sudhanwa ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] IBM: I Believe in Mornings with the Sun
the web is suddenly ablaze with IBM's talks for acquiring Sun. no one seems to be talking about the impact on openoffice.org, odf, and sun's newer push into extending java further, especially with stuff like javafx. the good news everyone's missing: it's not microsoft in talks to buy sun. whew! they're too busy waiting to pick up yahoo for a shammikapoor song in a meltdown? regards niyam -- niyam bhushan ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] IBM: I Believe in Mornings with the Sun
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.comwrote: the web is suddenly ablaze with IBM's talks for acquiring Sun. no one seems to be talking about the impact on openoffice.org, odf, and sun's newer push into extending java further, especially with stuff like javafx. I think it's just Wall Street rumor... -- Smruti ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Personal invitation from pratipal singh
2009/3/18 Tanveer Singh w...@tanveer.in 2009/3/18 pratipal singh pratipalthesar...@gmail.com: Personal invitation from pratipal singh ___ Sure we will all be there. Food is free, right? And just to let you know I am a Non-Vegetarian... -- Smruti ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Personal invitation from pratipal singh
Invitation for wat ? Is it for 22nd meeting or else ? ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] CPI(M) manifesto calls for promotion of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
On Wednesday 18 Mar 2009, vinay ವಿನಯ್ wrote: The CPI(M) manifesto released on the 16th of March calls for the promotion of FOSS. The manifesto can be accessed at http://www.cpim.org/manifesto.pdf Following are some of the highlights of the policy - - Promoting FOSS and other such new technologies, which are free from monopoly ownership through copyrights or patents; - Revamping the functioning of the Patent offices to ensure strict adherence to the Indian Patent Act; Stop training and orientation of Indian Patent office personnel by the US and European Patent offices I wish they'd also explicitly mentioned revamping the school IT syllabus. OTOH, it's great we have at least one more party with a stated vision that encompasses FOSS -- now everything else being equal I'd toss a coin and vote for either BJP or CP/M ;) Digression... I don't recall the BJP stating a position on patents in agriculture and pharmaceuticals yet. However, at the risk of being forever banned from this list, I believe that openness and transparency in those sectors is orders of magnitude more critical than some piddly little software patent and FOSS vs proprietary software debate that only affects a few of us elite types. People dying because of lack of food, farmers unable to use the seeds of their crop for their next sowing, patients not receiving treatment since they cannot afford patent-encumbered medicines -- these are issues that make intellectual debates about software seem as relevant as a dispute in a kids games of marbles during all-out nuclear conflict. From that point of view, thank you CP/M for at least mentioning patents in agriculture on page 16. OldMonk's Thought of the Day: No one died because of proprietary software. /digression Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto
On Wednesday 18 Mar 2009, Mani A wrote: Not just that. Entire right-wing political politics is market driven and their political parties are made up of people 'essentially representing business houses'. M$ has plenty of people in many of these parties and ...fraudulence of BJP's election promises is well known. I vote we take this discussion of politics to some other forum, preferably the one locate at file:///dev/null. Once again, this is /not/ a list for discussing politics except as far as it applies to Linux or FOSS. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] PM Office switches to Open Source Mailing Solution
RTI surley seems to be a good bet. Well in that case why just PMO, lets shoot and RTI query to major government establishments in our respective regions, this would surely be an eye opener to the LUGs accross the country. This way we ll have a decent idea about the actual adoption of open source by the goverment enterprises and it would be an eye opener for most of the goverment office. Any suggestions and feedback are welcome. Regards Dhiraj Gaur On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Dhiraj Gaur dhiraj.g...@gmail.com wrote: Well I was equally intrigued when I read the news piece. Moreover the article never talks of mail server and rather talks of the mail client. In my views this is what might have happened 1. Virus problems might be common at PMO and they might have asked to switch to a virus free mail solution, especially in view to save their face in the RTI query. 2. The vendor/operator/administrator might have suggested switching to some linux based solution. 3. They might have migrated the mail server to sendmail/postfix/qmail or any other linux based mailing solution with Squirrel mail as the web access tool. 4. I am not sure about the protocols or the mail clients now being used, but the environment is surely on Windows based on the desktop PCs accesing Squirrel Mail. People in touch with NIC or PMO may kindly throw more light on these dobuts. But I am happy that at least they started off something which is someway connected to open source. Getting info from NIC or PMO office contacts is a good idea but may be difficult one. RTI application to get the answers could be a workable solution to get the official answers. -Sudhanwa ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] FOSS GIS
To Gora sir I did my M.Sc. in Geography from Kerala University and GIS course from Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala. Since Feb 2008 iam working in the GIS Sphere with proprietary softwares like ArcGIS and ArcView in various Research Organisations. Now I want migrate to FOSSGIS. I need breif Introduction regarding basic operations and Multiple Analaysis (Like Network,3D). Can I know FOSSGIS activity in community. Thanking in Advance Sarath Babu.M.G ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] CPI(M) manifesto calls for promotion of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
Hai friends, If we are speaking in the platform of free software movement. *Inclusion of FOSS in the Election manifesto is Important. * ** ** To all of you dont use this platform for your political ideology.* This is my sincere appeal..!* ** ** Sarath Babu Junior Research Fellow, CSRD,SSS-I JNU ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] IBM: I Believe in Mornings with the Sun
On Thursday 19 Mar 2009, Linux Lingam wrote: the web is suddenly ablaze with IBM's talks for acquiring Sun. no one seems to be talking about the impact on openoffice.org, odf, If the MA goes through, I think IBM will continue the support for whatever products Sun has open sourced. Rescinding on the support will be much bad publicity, at least from the FOSS community. IIRC, IBM was a strong supporter of ODF in the ODF v/s OOXML at the standards body. Perhaps under one management, IBM's Symphony suite (based on OOo) will be current with the OOo versions. and sun's newer push into extending java further, especially with stuff like javafx. Don't know much about javafx but my guess is that they will not change the set direction. I am wondering about Sun's DB portfolio - MySQL; they will have DB2, Informix, and MySQL. the good news everyone's missing: it's not microsoft in talks to buy sun. whew! they're too busy waiting to pick up yahoo for a shammikapoor song in a meltdown? Aamen :) -- Arun Khan ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] IBM: I Believe in Mornings with the Sun
On Thursday 19 Mar 2009, Smruti wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.comwrote: the web is suddenly ablaze with IBM's talks for acquiring Sun. no one seems to be talking about the impact on openoffice.org, odf, and sun's newer push into extending java further, especially with stuff like javafx. I think it's just Wall Street rumor... Sun's stock price is another indicator and they are struggling ... -- Arun Khan ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Microsoft Fights back with FIRE
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya sand...@foss-community.com wrote: On Wednesday 18 March 2009 01:44:20 Arun SAG wrote: Seems like microsoft is on FIRE BizSparkhttp://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/incubator/archive/2008/12/17 /microsoft-india-launches-bizspark-for-startups.aspx ,DreamSpark I saw a pitch for Bizmark in a blog meet sponsored my Microsoft recently. In all the gushing about the help they are providing to startups, they neglect talking too much about the strings attached. thats true, our college also got an offer from MS regarding dreamspark, but didn't tell the students that the tools would be trial versions. LOL! -- Sahil MCA(SE) USIT GGSIPU, Kashmere Gate Delhi ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] FOSS GIS
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:32:59 +0530 sarath babu.mg sarathbabu...@gmail.com wrote: I did my M.Sc. in Geography from Kerala University and GIS course from Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala. Since Feb 2008 iam working in the GIS Sphere with proprietary softwares like ArcGIS and ArcView in various Research Organisations. Where are you based? If you are in Delhi, we can arrange to meet up. Now I want migrate to FOSSGIS. I need breif Introduction regarding basic operations and Multiple Analaysis (Like Network,3D). Can I know FOSSGIS activity in community. [...] As far as I know, the current interest in the community is more focused on GPS, and projects like OpenStreetMap. However, FOSS GIS is also of interest, and I believe that it has great potential. My guess is that you are already ahead of me on the score of using GRASS, but we can certainly discuss what work can fruitfully be done together. Regards, Gora ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] FOSS GIS
Thanks sir When we can meet ? ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] PM Office switches to Open Source Mailing Solution
2009/3/19 Dhiraj Gaur dhiraj.g...@gmail.com: RTI surley seems to be a good bet. Well in that case why just PMO, lets shoot and RTI query to major government establishments in our respective regions, this would surely be an eye opener to the LUGs accross the country. This way we ll have a decent idea about the actual adoption of open source by the goverment enterprises and it would be an eye opener for most of the goverment office. Can we have a format made online? Something like: == To Principal Information officer Ministry of XYZ New Delhi. Subject: Application under RTI Act for information on mailing solution being used. Dear Sir, In view of recent news article (need cite here) about PMO loosing vital information due to mailing software being beset with virus and subsequent adoption of Open Source solution. I would like to request the following information: 1. The software for emailing solution in use under your ministry is proprietary or open source 2. No data/information has been lost in the ministry due to any virus or similar malware attacks. 3. If there is loss of information then period for which records are lost. Yours etc etc = Can other comment on this draft? All it takes is to attache a Rs10 postal order and send it away. -- Regards, Sudev Barar Read http://blog.sudev.in for topics ranging from here to there. PS: I know most of people do not follow email niceties (mostly they are not aware) but if you follow bottom post/in-line post style of email conversations it becomes a whole lot easier to carry on meaningful dialogue and you can snip out what is not meaningful too. Most people just hit reply button and top post leaving prior message appended uselessly at bottom. See if you can adopt this style and persuade others. In case you are already doing this . great, spread the message. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
