[ilugd] Five Super Simple Photo Fixes with the GIMP ... and a GNU/Linux baby
Five Super Simple Photo Fixes with the GIMP Dmitri Popov: While the GIMP offers a plethora of advanced and powerful photo editing tools, it also sports a few easy-to-use features that can help you to instantly improve your photos with a minimum of effort. http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-sour\ ce-blend-of-productive-computing/Five-Super-Simple-Photo-Fixes-with-the-GIMP Linux-based home NAS boasts 5-18 Watt power consumption http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2009100902835NWHW The Social Desktop Winners http://www.kdenews.org/2009/10/09/social-desktop-winners Google Lashes Out at Android Dev http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/products/68237.html Simple gui backup tool backerupper http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/09/simple-gui-backup-tool-backerupper/ Motorola no longer on LiMo Foundation board http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/321514/motorola_no_longer_limo_foundatio\ n_board The Kernel Newbie Corner: initrd and initramfs--Some Unfinished Business http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/article/the-kernel-newbie-corner-initrd-and-initr\ amfs-some-unfinished-business Does Microsoft complicate its licensing on purpose? http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139171/Does_Microsoft_complicate_its_lic\ ensing_on_purpose_ Ripping Audio CDs in Linux http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/114879-ripping-audio-cds-in-linu\ x TODAY'S PICK--- Geeky Way of Putting Your Baby To Sleep http://www.junauza.com/2009/10/geeky-way-to-put-your-baby-to-sleep.html \ - Book Excerpt: Chapter 6: Functions and Functional Programming http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/book-excerpt-chapter-6-functions-and-functio\ nal-programming Ballmer Criticizes I.B.M.’s High-Profit Diet http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/ballmer-criticizes-ibms-high-profit-die\ t/ Why Cloud Storage Use Could Be Limited in Enterprises http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/technology/features/article.php/3843151 Richard Stallman Speaks http://www.daniweb.com/news/story228904.html# Ubuntu Linux 9.04 - Technical Details http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2009/10/09/ubuntu-linux-9\ 04-technical-details.aspx Who really has the most Linux users? http://blogs.computerworld.com/14884/who_really_has_the_most_linux_users Open source green energy gets Gates Foundation blessing http://www.cio.com.au/article/320811/open_source_green_energy_gets_gates_foundat\ ion_blessing Open Core: The worst of both worlds http://www.jejik.com/articles/2009/10/open_core_the_worst_of_both_worlds/ Suse Studio Review http://www.brighthub.com/hubfolio/matthew-casperson/articles/51849.aspx MS and Novell: Relationship 'exceeding expectations' http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,100567,10014117o-2000331761b,00.htm -- Frederick Noronha :: +91-832-2409490 Writing, editing, alt.publishing, photography, journalism ___ 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] Invitation to join FSUG-Goa mailgroup
Hi, We are writing to you as you are interested in Free Software issues. Some of the issues mentioned below have been discussed informally by some of us, including Frederick Noronha, Vidyadhar Gadgil and Animesh Nerurkar, after there were moderation and ownership changes in ilug-...@yahoogroups.com over the past year or so, which completely reversed the nature of the mailgroup we had become used to and fond of in the period 2000-2008. To get to the point, the only mailgroup in Goa dedicated to free software issues (ilug-...@yahoogroups.com) is de facto oriented towards technical issues only, and discussion on philosophical and political issues is blocked, under one pretext or another. This overly restrictive moderation policy and practice run counter to the principles of Free Software because technical issues are only half the story. The other, more important, part is the philosophy and politics which have guided Free Software. If these are ignored, then Free Software will inevitably become unfree. Also, such an approach creates serious blocks in the process of Free Software popularisation, and restricts all discussion to existing users who have some understanding and experience of technical issues. We increasingly see this approach not only in ilug-goa but in FLOSS groups and meets all over the country, and find it exceedingly disturbing. Whereas we have certain issues with the way ilug-goa is run, there is no inherent conflict between the two groups – in fact, our differences would be similar to those between the Free Software movement and proponents of Open Source software. But we feel the need to create another space where the discussion will not be restricted, and philosophical and political issues will get the importance they deserve. We are therefore setting up a group: fsug-...@yahoogroups.com. This group is an attempt to recover lost space, which has been lost due to an overly restrictive moderation and ownership policy which has been implemented over the past year or so on ilug-...@yahoogroups.com . We (the moderators of FSUG-Goa) will continue to be members of ilug-goa -- if the owners and moderators of that groups permit this, of course. We would like to invite all members of ilug-goa (including its owner and moderators) and other lovers of free software in Goa to join this group too. The moderation policy of this group will be as follows: 1. Abusive posts will not be allowed. 2. Posts should be restricted to Free Software issues, broadly defined. 3. Members' posts will be unmoderated. Only if a poster offends against these rules despite three warnings, (s)he will be placed on moderation. Moderators' decisions on this matter will be taken by a majority decision of the moderators (currently three, as below). 4. We believe in free speech. Other rules, if any, will be evolved only as and when there is an overwhelming opinion that they are needed. Posts will not be blocked, except under exceptional circumstances, as we see this as an attempt to block dissent and discussion. If you would like to join this group, please send a blank mail to fsug-goa-subscr...@yahoogroups.com. And do pass the message on to other people you feel may be interested. Looking forward to having you as a member of this online community. Regards, Vidyadhar Gadgil, Frederick Noronha, Animesh Nerurkar ___ 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] MADHYA PRADESH: Free Software Camp for Ngo's and Civil Society Groups
Free Software Camp for Ngo's and Civil Society Groups NGO In a Box 5 day residential workshop on free software tools and methodologies March 24 - 28 ,2009,Madhya Pradesh,India Call for Participation What is Ngo in a Box? NGO-in-a-box is a collection of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) tools selected for use by non-profit organizations,along with workshops conducted to help users effectively deploy the software in their organizations.The software is distributed in down-loadable form and as a physical box set of cd's. Several customized editions of NGO-in-a-box exist to provide organizations with the software they need in relation to different topics and requirements. This is a Call for participants for our 7th workshop.Make use of this free software camp to enrich your knowledge and help your organization effectively leverage free software without the licensing hassles.Learn about free software components and methodologies and how to enable it in your everyday work. Limited number of scholarships are available for select participants based on past work,area of expertise and ability to spread the concept to other voluntary organizations.These participants will receive free training,food and accomodation.Travel expenses will be reimbursed at the end of the workshop. For details of our previous workshops, visit http://ngoinabox.mahiti.org Organizers: The workshops are being organized by Mahiti, Bangalore with the support of HIVOS, Netherlands and in collaboration with Tactical Technology Collective. Participant profile: This event is geared towards the technology professionals working in Ngo's and similar voluntary organizations; consultants and tech support groups providing IT service and support to such non governmental bodies. The workshop will cover the following broad domains: 1. Free Software: What to consider when migrating to free and open source software(FOSS), installation of a Linux operating system, commonly used office and internet packages. 2. Open Publishing: Desktop publishing, image editing, web publishing and collaboration, content management. 3. Audio Visual: Audio-Video editing and distribution, media capture, audio visual playing tools. 4. Security: Internet security, passwords, data storage and backup, communication and encryption. 5. Techniques and methodologies:To help you effectively communicate with your audience in india and across the world. Date and Place: This event will be held in the state of Madhya Pradesh from March 24 - 28, 2009. Participants are required to attend the entire event, which means arriving at the venue on or before 24 March and leaving on 28 March evening. The exact venue will be communicated to successful applicants. Last date for submitting application forms: March 5, 2009 Intimation of final list of participants by : March 10, 2009 Interested? Visit http://ngoinabox.mahiti.org and fill up the online application form . For any questions or clarifications contact : Rajeev Nair Project Coordinator Ngo in a Box Mahiti Infotech Pvt. Ltd. # 33-34, Hennur Cross Hennur Main Road Bangalore, India - 560043 Phone: +91 80 4148 5080/1 41150580/1 Mobile: 096113 44374 E mail: ngoina...@mahiti.org 0/1 41150580/1 Mobile: +91 96113 44374 http://www.mahiti.org -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://twitter.com/fn On Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/people/Frederick-Noronha/502514643 Press the button Max. - The Great Race ___ 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] Free Software camp for NGOs and voluntary organizations, March 24-28, Madhya Pradesh India
-- Forwarded message -- From: Rajeev Nair rajeev.n...@mahiti.org Date: 2009/3/2 Subject: Re- Free Software camp for Ngo's and voluntary organizations,March 24-28,Madhya Pradesh India Ref:Sreekanth Rameshiah - Mahiti bangalore Hi. Iam Rajeev Nair from Mahiti .We are conducting a free software workshop for Ngo's and similar groups titled Ngo in a Box ,and it is scheduled to be held from March 24-28,2009 in Madhya Pradesh,India. We are inviting applications for the same ,and would like your help in spreading the word.Please forward this invitation letter (attached) to all your contacts,mailing lists and any other sources you are associated with. warm regards Rajeev Nair Project Coordinator Ngo in a box - south asia Mahiti Infotech Pvt. Ltd. # 33-34, Hennur Cross Hennur Main Road Bangalore, India - 560043 Phone: +91 80 4148 5080/1 41150580/1 Mobile: +91 96113 44374 http://www.mahiti.org *Free Software Camp for Ngo's and Civil Society Groups* *NGO In a Box* *5 day residential workshop on free software tools and methodologies* * March 24 - 28 ,2009,Madhya Pradesh,India * *Call for Participation* *What is Ngo in a Box?* NGO-in-a-box is a collection of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) tools selected for use by non-profit organizations,along with workshops conducted to help users effectively deploy the software in their organizations.The software is distributed in down-loadable form and as a physical box set of cd's. Several customized editions of NGO-in-a-box exist to provide organizations with the software they need in relation to different topics and requirements. *This is a Call for participants* for our *7**th* workshop.Make use of this free software camp to enrich your knowledge and help your organization effectively leverage free software without the licensing hassles.Learn about free software components and methodologies and how to enable it in your everyday work. *Limited number of scholarships are available for select participants based on past work,area of expertise and ability to spread the concept to other voluntary organizations*.These participants will receive free training,food and accomodation.Travel expenses will be reimbursed at the end of the workshop. For details of our previous workshops, visit http://ngoinabox.mahiti.org *Organizers:* The workshops are being organized by Mahiti, Bangalore with the support of HIVOS, Netherlands and in collaboration with Tactical Technology Collective. *Participant profile: * This event is geared towards the technology professionals working in Ngo's and similar voluntary organizations; consultants and tech support groups providing IT service and support to such non governmental bodies. The workshop will cover the following broad domains: 1. *Free Software*: What to consider when migrating to free and open source software(FOSS), installation of a Linux operating system, commonly used office and internet packages. 2. *Open Publishing*: Desktop publishing, image editing, web publishing and collaboration, content management. 3. *Audio Visual*: Audio-Video editing and distribution, media capture, audio visual playing tools. 4. *Security*: Internet security, passwords, data storage and backup, communication and encryption. 5. *Techniques and methodologies:*To help you effectively communicate with your audience in india and across the world. *Date and Place: *This event will be* * held in the state of Madhya Pradesh from March 24 - 28, 2009. Participants are required to attend* *the entire event, which means arriving at the venue on or before 24 March and* * leaving on 28 March evening. The exact venue will be communicated to successful applicants. Last date for submitting application forms: March 5,* *2009 Intimation of final list of participants by : March 10, 2009 *Interested? * Visit http://ngoinabox.mahiti.org and fill up the online application form . For any questions or clarifications contact : Rajeev Nair Project Coordinator Ngo in a Box Mahiti Infotech Pvt. Ltd. # 33-34, Hennur Cross Hennur Main Road Bangalore, India - 560043 Phone: +91 80 4148 5080/1 41150580/1 Mobile: 096113 44374 E mail: ngoina...@mahiti.org -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://twitter.com/fn On Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/people/Frederick-Noronha/502514643 640K ought to be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates ___ 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] Openmoko, Symbian, Android
Any clues on how these compare on mobiles? Particularly Openmoko and Android? Would the C/C++ thingy be a negative mark for Openmoko? I understand there are license issues too (Symbian isn't 'yet' open source, and Android is in Google's grip). But how does this reflect when it comes to the user's interests? FN -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org Blog: http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Tech links from South Asia: http://twitter.com/fn M: +91-9822122436 P: +91-832-2409490 ___ 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] Lyx, My Beautiful GNU/Linux, Mind-Maps, and DP
Videos from Software Freedom Day at BITS Pilani Goa centre... Lyx ... and all that LyX is a document processor following the self-coined what you see is what you mean paradigm (WYSIWYM), as opposed to the WYSIWYG ideas used by word processors. This means that the user only has to care about the structure and content of the text, while the formatting is done by LaTeX, an advanced typesetting system. LyX is designed for authors who want professional output with a minimum of effort and without becoming specialists in typesetting. The job of typesetting is done mostly by the computer, following a predefined set of rules called a style, and not by the author. Specific knowledge of the LaTeX document processing system is not necessary but may improve editing with LyX significantly for specialist purposes. DP explains how he uses this tool... (quote from the Wikipedia) http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=F-03AtOx1Ps My beautiful [GNU]Linux BITS-Pilani Goa campus has grown over the past four to five years, and now has over 2000 students on the outskirts of Vasco/Dabolim. At a Software Freedom Day held on the campus recently (Sept 27, 2008) we encounter students, and learn about their interest in Free Software and Open Source. Also some images from an event that saw talks and presentation span the better part of two days. This video starts with a showcasing of the potential of GNU/Linux, the largely volunteer-built alternative computing system... that's in fact better than the 'real thing' (my view)! http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=Py6YdW03YYE Mind-maps? What's all that about? A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing. DP explains at the BITS Pilani, Goa centre. 27 September 2008. http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=k5689nG0FEU --- On mind-maps, please check out some other excellent presentations also on YouTube. On Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map#Origins On YouTube.com: Maximise the Power of Your Brain - Tony Buzan MIND MAPPING http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=MlabrWv25qQfeature=related Mindmeister - Mindmaps with team spirit http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=FChJkOch0Fwfeature=related Getting Things Done (GTD) with Mindmaps http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=THxauHwtUpMfeature=related Mind-Maps How to mindmap http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=qWz88RHQS4sfeature=related Smarter Mind Maps http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=3zdBkVvJkFUfeature=related Mind Maps and Self Coaching http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=K2xezdpNifUfeature=related Make Mind Maps with revolutionairy software from the creator http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=yY9IZoDjRwMfeature=related How Mindmaps can help you learn a language http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=XVYDcTNI-_sfeature=related MINDMAPS - my experience http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=mch8H7LHkHUfeature=related --- DP-1 at SFD (BITS Pilani Goa campusa, Sept 27, 2008) Talk by young ILUG-Goa/ILUG-Ponda volunteer DP. He explains issues of documentation that could be useful to any student and researcher. http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=QktwiBicJ1E Other video shorts at: http://in.youtube.com/user/fredericknoronha -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org M: +91-9822122436 P: +91-832-2409490 ___ 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] Software For Kids
SOFTWARE FOR KIDS: A new site focussing on what is freely available (free-beer, free-speech) for helping children learn. Specially the young ones, with a focus on India and South-Asia. Current links include * Yobler.com … educational videos * The Digital Study Hall (DSH) * ET? What's that? (An Aug 2008 conf in Bangalore) * Educational power points…. http://pppst.com/ Pete's Power Point Station. * Educational resources… from azimpremjifoundation.org * Taking sharing to the classroom (downloadable FLOSS report) * The 4000-rupee computer shows up in Goa * Why Free Software makes sense in education * Computer education for rural kids riddled with obstacles http://softwareforkids.wordpress.com -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org 784 Nr Convent, Saligao 403511 Goa India Ph +91-832-2409490 M: +91-9970157402 ___ 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] A virtual visit to ILUG-Goa...
Freedom... at a Free Software meet We invite you for a virtual meet of the India Linux Users Group-Goa at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4sQK7AZyDQ ABOUT THE VIDEO: On the fourth Saturday of each month, a group of volunteer-techies meets at the Goa Science Centre (Miramar), to share knowledge and ideas. Strangely, this free-to-join, non-profit group has been effective over the last eight years in building skills, sharing talent, and keeping it going. More details at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa DETAILS: ILUG-Goa was launched in February 2000. It has 583 members on its mailing list, and upto 15 turn up each month for the meetings, hosted generously by the (Government of India's) Science Centre, Miramar. Anyone can join this network, and all it costs is a ten-rupee entry fee to the venue for each meeting. The mailing-list is also open to all. Please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4sQK7AZyDQ -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org Ph +91-832-2409490 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Goa http://www.linkedin.com/in/fredericknoronha ___ 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] Tutorial for Devanagari Documents in LyX (from FOSS-Nepal)
-- Forwarded message -- From: Prakash Manandhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/6/21 Subject: [FOSS-Nepal] Tutorial for Devanagari Documents in LyX To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Suraj Adhikari (GMail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I have written a tutorial for Devanagari Document creation in LyX at WikiHow. LyX/LaTeX is a word processing alternative that is completely open source and free. Summary: With the incorporation of XeLaTeX in all major distributions of LaTeX including MikTeX, it has become easy to incorporate Devanagari and other Unicode characters in LaTeX/LyX documents. Here we describe a point-wise summary to help you do just that. http://www.wikihow.com/Create-Devanagari-Documents-in-Lyx-Using-Xelatex - Please help me expand/test the how-to. Thanks, jaH. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- -- Frederick FN Noronha * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org * Phone +91-832-2409490 ___ 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] FLOSS in schools... a syllabi for the Third Standard (eight/nine-year-old) student from India
Free software in schools. Download this from here http://www.divshare.com/download/4053521-61e From Farida Umrani [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am working with Prof. Sridhar Iyer at Dept of Computer Science, IIT Bombay on content development for school computer science based on Edubuntu . We will have the content for elementary class ready in 2008. I am sending you a draft of a textbook for class I (the file is bulky; hence split and send in two mails). [DOWNLOAD FROM URL ABOVE] At present, I am implementing this curriculum in one of the pilot schools. We have included Scratch as a programming language for students in Grade 3 4. Currently we are focusing on elementary classes and plan to scale it up in the next academic year. We are facing difficulties in getting the teachers familiar with open source. Most schools do not have a system administrator or even a regular Internet connection to get the regular updates and prefer an installable CD that gives them everything. But to a windows user, this does not appear intuitive and hence they are put off by it. I wanted to know about your experience with Goa schools? I have read that GCSP trained engineering students and teachers. Did these students help the local schools? We announced a training program for school teachers, but got poor response and therefore deferred it. Did you face similar problems? How did you deal with them? I myself have a Psychology background... and it has taken me several hours of work and reading up the forums to understand the installation and getting all the dependencies right. However, what is encouraging is that students have received the open source applications very well. I hope to learn from your experience at Goa. -- -- Frederick 'FN' Noronha | Ym/Gmailtalk: fredericknoronha http://fn.goa-india.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Independent Journalist | +91(832)2409490 Cell 9970157402 -- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] FLOSS in schools... a syllabi for the Third Standard (eight/nine-year-old) student from India
Free software in schools. Download this from here http://www.divshare.com/download/4053521-61e From Farida Umrani [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am working with Prof. Sridhar Iyer at Dept of Computer Science, IIT Bombay on content development for school computer science based on Edubuntu . We will have the content for elementary class ready in 2008. I am sending you a draft of a textbook for class I (the file is bulky; hence split and send in two mails). [DOWNLOAD FROM URL ABOVE] At present, I am implementing this curriculum in one of the pilot schools. We have included Scratch as a programming language for students in Grade 3 4. Currently we are focusing on elementary classes and plan to scale it up in the next academic year. We are facing difficulties in getting the teachers familiar with open source. Most schools do not have a system administrator or even a regular Internet connection to get the regular updates and prefer an installable CD that gives them everything. But to a windows user, this does not appear intuitive and hence they are put off by it. I wanted to know about your experience with Goa schools? I have read that GCSP trained engineering students and teachers. Did these students help the local schools? We announced a training program for school teachers, but got poor response and therefore deferred it. Did you face similar problems? How did you deal with them? I myself have a Psychology background... and it has taken me several hours of work and reading up the forums to understand the installation and getting all the dependencies right. However, what is encouraging is that students have received the open source applications very well. I hope to learn from your experience at Goa. -- -- Frederick 'FN' Noronha | Ym/Gmailtalk: fredericknoronha http://fn.goa-india.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Independent Journalist | +91(832)2409490 Cell 9970157402 -- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] OFFTOPIC: Voices on the alternative side... options to copyright, proprietorial software, and much more.... (Sunder Raman, Open Views on KRUULP)
Check these pages for some fascinating audio interviews: Joi Ito (CreativeCommons.org). Sunil Abraham (IOSN, Mahiti.org in Bangalore, etc). Sunlight Foundation. Vera Franz (OSI). Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons). Peter Suber (Open Access). Heather Ford (iCommons.org). John Sullivan (Free Software Foundation). Matthew Todd (The Synaptic Leap). Matthew Cockerill (BioMedCentral). Ethan Zuckerman (co-founder, GlobalVoicesOnline.org). Bill Witherspoon (TheSkyFactory). Ronaldo Lemos (CreativeCommons, Brazil). Dean Jansen (Participatory Culture Foundation). Doc Searls (Senior Editor, Linux Journal). David Lipman (National Institute of Health). Heather Gallagher (Burning Man). Lawrence Liang (AltLawForum.org). Wendy Seltzer (OPenLaw.org). Richard Baraniuk (Cnx.org). Laurent Kratz (CEO, Jamendo). Cory Doctorow (sci-fi author, copyright reform activist). Michel Bauwens (Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives). Melissa Hagemann (Open Society Institute). Ethan Zuckerman (GeekCorps). Jennifer Papin Ramcharan (UWI). John Wilbanks (Science Commons). Kembrew McLeod (author, filmmaker, professor). Wayan Vota (IESC-Geek Corps). Richard Poynder (freelance journalist). Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu, etc). Mark Patterson (Public Library of Science). Richard Jefferson (creator of BiOS license). Abhas Abhinav, founder Deeproot.in. Siva Vidhyanathan, author and historian. Janet Hope, author of Open Source in Biotechnology. Mike Linksvayer, CTO, CreativeCommons.org. Prayas Abhinav, CreativeCommonsIndia. Moore Wells. http://kruufm.com/station/archives/4 http://kruufm.com/station/archives/4?page=1 http://kruufm.com/station/archives/4?page=2 http://kruufm.com/station/archives/4?page=3 Sunder Raman. On KRUULP 101 FM, the voice of Fairfield, Iowa... Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph +91-832-2409490 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] OFFTOPIC: From India, a magazine that looks at Open Publishing ...
i4donline.net's February 2008 magazine focuses on open publishing. Some of the articles it has include: * Gutenberg Project * Moodle CMS * Widgit Software * Open Webcasting * Open Architecture Network * Digital Library in India, the million book project * Cape Town Open Education Declaration * Information on the Farm Front * Interview: Gregory Newby and Michael Hart * Workshop on Science Commons * ACIA: Intl Workshop on Asia and the Commons in the Info Age * Training programme on biomedical info retrival * BytesForAll summaries * Books: Community radio guide, empowering tools * Etc You can download it at http://i4donline.net/feb08/feb08.pdf FN -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph +91-832-2409490 The Goa books blog: http://goabooks.wordpress.com Goa1556 (alt.publishing.goa): http://goa1556.goa-india.org ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] Help with laptop in Delhi
Dear All, My journo friend Arnab has just gone in for an Acer with GNU/Linux and is having some challenges in getting it started. I'd be very grateful if you could offer any help! Thanks so much... FN -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph +91-832-2409490 The Goa books blog: http://goabooks.wordpress.com Goa1556 (alt.publishing.goa): http://goa1556.goa-india.org ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] Taking a look... at some recent developments in Urdu computing (from BytesForAll, South Asia)
]: In 1980 Mr. Ahmad Mirza Jamil developed a ligature based Nastaleeq writing system. He has written about 18,000 valid ligatures of Urdu and developed a Noori Nastaliq font. Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP) is releasing a soft copy of these ligatures in Unicode format. CRULP has extensively used these ligatures for testing the fonts developed at the center and realised that it will be a valuable resource for other font developers. These ligatures are grouped in 2 to 8 characters and are sorted in the end character order. The ligatures can be downloaded from www.crulp.org. Reference: Noori Nastaliq computerised Urdu calligraphy (list of ligatures), calligraphically designed and compiled by Ahmad Mirza Jamil, Elite Press, Karachi. * * * URDU AND PHOTOSHOP CS2: Imran Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why Urdu isn't supported in Photoshop CS2: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Adobe-Photoshop-1028/Urdu-Images-Photoshop.htm * * * SEVERAL KEYBOARD LAYOUTS: Imran Ahmad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For the past couple of years I have been trying to find easy way to type in Urdu on computer. For these reasons I tried several Urdu keyboard layout such as pakUrdu, Bhurgri, NLA, Phonetic, phonetic-2, Ishaque, Olympia, Urdu Mahir, and MS_UR_KB. The fact that there are so many Urdu keyboard layouts while not having any standard set, made it more complex to achieve my goal. Finally I end up sticking with Microsoft Urdu keyboard, but the options for clear fonts type still lacks. * * * -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph +91-832-2409490 Links from Goa: http://goalinks.livejournal.com/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] LAP or Linux Access Project, Delhi ILUG
Could someone kindly point me to some follow up on this initiative? Just writing on the topic. Thanks! FN The Delhi chapter of the Indian Linux Users Groups, ILUG-D, has started a project named LAP. LAP or Linux Access Project is a project started at Linux Delhi to provide an infrastructure to schools to shift over their computer labs on to open source software, explains Supreet Sethi, a member of LAP. [Source: LFY] -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph 0091-832-2409490 List of Indian e-lists http://wikiwikiweb.de/MailingListsInIndia ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] Presentations at Freed.in
Could someone kindly point me to where I could get access to the following presentations from Freed.in? Ajith Kumar's Free Software in Science Experiments using Phoenix and Ajay Kumar's Free/Open Tools for Free/Open Educational Content. Many thanks in advance, FN -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph 0091-832-2409490 List of Indian e-lists http://wikiwikiweb.de/MailingListsInIndia ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] FLOSS in schools: a query (and seeking your help)
Dear all: I'm working on a paper on Free/Libre and Open Source Software in Schools and would be grateful if you could point me to useful links about such ventures, where it has been used successfully or otherwise. A draft paper (work-in-progress) of what I've put together so far can be read at http://www.divshare.com/download/2205748-36f Your suggestions, comments and critique is welcome. Thanks in advance for any help you could offer. FN -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph 0091-832-2409490 List of Indian e-lists http://wikiwikiweb.de/MailingListsInIndia ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] Delhi FOSS event gets growing attention
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Software/Delhi_FOSS_event_gets_growing_attention/articleshow/2421842.cms -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph 0091-832-2409490 List of Indian e-lists http://wikiwikiweb.de/MailingListsInIndia ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] IT practical tests on ‘open’ pl atform
Could anyone kindly pass on links of Free Software/Open Source usage in Indian schools? Am writing on this currently. Tks, FN IT practical tests on 'open' platform Anand Parthasarathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] project of Kerala has developed an operating system based on the Linux Akshaya had raised popular expectations Kerala, first State to use Edusat satellite channel — Photo: Special Arrangement IT WORKS: Students of the Government Girls High School, Ernakulam, doing self-paced computer 'practicals.' BANGALORE: In the largest such simultaneous deployment of 'free-and-open' software in India, over 15 lakh Kerala schoolchildren on Friday start taking their quarterly practical tests in Information Technology on personal computers using a special Linux version. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] project of the State Education Department has developed an operating system based on the Linux version Ubuntu. Called [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU Linux Version 3.0, it was distributed to 2,832 high schools — over a thousand of them government schools, the rest aided and unaided ones. Between September 7 and 22, children of Classes 8, 9 and 10 will use some 30,000 PCs to do their quarterly practical examinations in IT. Test skills In Class VIII, for example, the examination will test skills in the use of the mouse; the 'Tux' paint software for drawing; word processing and spreadsheets. A trained cadre of over 70,000 teachers will help them. The project has created a whole ecosystem of computer-aided tools for self-paced learning, online testing, instant evaluation, marks generation and so on. All this is done using royalty-free Open Source software. For example, the Open Source picture editing tool Gimp, rather than a pricey proprietary option like Photoshop, is in use. The State's path-breaking e-learning initiative Akshaya had raised popular expectations, but the cost of proprietary software licences in bulk was unaffordable. This led to the State emerging as a pioneer in the use of Open Source resources in a host of education and e-governance projects. In July 2005, Kerala was the first State to use the Edusat satellite channel to connect schools in all its 14 districts under the Virtual Class Technology on Edusat for Rural Schools, or VICTERS, programme. [EMAIL PROTECTED] executive director K. Anvar Sadath, a veteran of the Akshaya programme, said on Thursday that the Central Government had underwritten almost the entire cost of the school computerisation programme to the tune of Rs. 6.2 crores, while the State had spent Rs. 75 lakh this fiscal year. Printer friendly page http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/07/stories/2007090755131600.htm -- Frederick Noronha Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org In Hyderabad. Ph 040-23132176 SMS: 9822122436 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] Memo to Microsoft: Stop wasting our time! (Venky Hariharan's blog...)
http://osindia.blogspot.com/2007/08/memo-to-microsoft-stop-wasting-our-time.html Feedback to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, August 30, 2007 Memo to Microsoft: Stop wasting our time! Finally word is out and the Bureau of Indian Standards has confirmed that it will be submitting a No with comments vote to International Standards Organization on Microsoft's OOXML proposal. This brings to a temporary close five to six months of hectic legwork to prevent a sub-standard proposal from getting the coveted tag of an ISO standard. I doubt if Microsoft realises it, but its actions are only making it the Union Carbide of the global IT industry. Microsoft is the world's largest software company but if you flip through their 6000+ pages of OOXML documentation, you'll be justified in wondering how they grew so big if the rest of their work is as shoddy as OOXML. The extremely flawed proposal certainly does not befit its stature in the IT industry. But, does Microsoft learn from all the feedback given to it or does it learn anything from it. No. Humility and Microsoft are like oil and water -- never shall they mix. According to reports coming in from countries that are involved in the ISO vote on OOXML, Microsoft is busy stuffing the ballot boxes. Read Andy Updegrove's blog post The OOXML Vote: How Bad Can it Get? (Keep Counting). Originally, only 30 ISO members were supposed to vote on OOXML. However, as the September 2nd date for the final voting comes close, another ten more countries have joined the committee. Updegrove says: As someone who has spent a great part of my life working to support open standards over the past 20 years, I have to say that this is the most egregious, and far-reaching, example of playing the system to the advantage of a single company that I have ever seen. Breathtaking, in fact. That's assuming, of course, that I am right in supposing that all of these newbie countries vote yes. I guess we'll just have to wait and see a few more days to learn whether that assumption is true. Want to place your bets? Sitting here in India, it is difficult to influence countries like Malta, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Pakistan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela in the two days left before the final votes are submitted, but we shall try. I checked with the IT ministry in Pakistan and brought to their attention that Pakistan is now a P member of ISO which entitles it to vote on OOXML. This was news to them as they were not consulted on the OOXML issue. I hope that Pakistan's vote will be cast only after thoroughly reviewing the arguements for and against OOXML. Coming back to India, I am extremely proud of the fact that my country has voted against this proposal. To accept such a poor document would have been to denigrate the very meaning of standards. The academia, the government bodies, industry organizations and non-profits like the Free Software Foundation spent countless hours debating and discussing this issue. Some of the best brains in India burnt the midnight oli to review this 6000 page proposal and the final consensus was that none of Microsoft's answers to the 201 technical issues raised was found satisfactory. I hope the Microsoft bosses in Redmond take note of this and make a genuine attempt to rectify the issues instead of trying to stuff the ballot boxes. For wasting the collective intellect of India's best IT brains, Microsoft and ECMA must be blacklisted. Just as a person with a bad credit history has to redeem himself or herself before applying for subsequent credit, any standards proposal submitted by these two organizations should be thoughly vetted before it is even accepted for review or voting in India. India has more pressing problems to tackle than OOXML. Therefore, Microsoft, please do us a big favor and stop wasting our time. Next time, do your homework before you submit something to India. PS: This is an old joke in the IT industry and shows how little Microsoft has changed in decades. Q. How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb? A. None. Microsoft declares Darkness(TM) an industry standard. End of forward... -- Frederick Noronha Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: +91-832-2409490 M: +91-9970157402 Yahoo: fredericknoronha Skype: fredericknoronha GTalk: fredericknoronha Saligao 403511 Goa India http://www.linkedin.com/in/fredericknoronha ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] War of formats: India shows thumbs-down to Microsoft
Posted by Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] at GII-India http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Software/ India_throws_Microsoft_open_format_out_of_the_window/articleshow/2305780.cms (url has wrapped) NEW DELHI: India on Thursday gave Microsoft a thumbs-down in the war of standards for office documents. In a tense meeting at Delhi's Manak Bhawan, the 21-member technical committee decided that India will vote a 'no' against Microsoft's Open Office Extensible Mark Up Language (OOXML) standard at the International Standards Organisation (ISO) in Geneva on September 2. We unanimously agree on the disapproval of OOXML with comments. The same will be submitted to ISO, National Informatics Centre head and BIS technical committee chairperson Nita Verma said after a marathon meeting that lasted over six hours. There was no need for a voting as only Infosys Technologies and CSI supported Microsoft. The Open Document Format (ODF) alliance, enjoying widespread support from academia and corporates like Oracle, IBM, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, Google, were in a jubilant mood having succeeded in stalling OOXML from being accepted as a standard in India. Microsoft said it respect's the government's decision. There were only three options `Yes', `No' and `Abstain' to be taken and we respect the government's decision, Microsoft's legal affairs head Rakesh Bakshi said. He, however, added that India's 'No' vote will become a 'Yes' if Microsoft is able to resolve all technical issues with OOXML before the ballot resolution committee of ISO. Prof DB Phatak of IIT Mumbai, who was instrumental in conducting the meetings, looked relieved after being flooded with calls from both camps over the week. Speaking to ET outside the BIS premises, the Microsoft camp complained that when ODF was being standardised by ISO, they did not oppose it and now the ODF camp refused to return the favour. ODF supporters said they would have no problems with OOXML if all the 200 technical issues were taken care of. Amongst hectic lobbying from both camps, the US government on Thursday said that it will abstain from voting. China has already voted a 'No' against Microsoft, while Malaysia, Denmark and Switzerland are supporting the software major. A global alliance of Sun-IBM, Oracle, Google, Red Hat have ganged up against Microsoft which is being supported by Apple, Quark, Accenture and Novell. On Indian soil, Infosys, HCL, Skelta, Sonata Software and Sify have come out in support of Microsoft. September 2 is the last date to submit the vote with comments to ISO. About 123 counties are participating in the vote. Votes from most are still to come. Canada, Czech Republic, Iran, Japan, Libya, Cuba, New Zealand, UK are likely to back the IBM-Sun's ODF Alliance. On the other hand, Belgium, Finland, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Singapore, Korea, France and Australia are likely to abstain from voting. -- Frederick Noronha Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: +91-832-2409490 M: +91-9970157402 Yahoo: fredericknoronha Skype: fredericknoronha GTalk: fredericknoronha 784, Sonarbhat, Near Lourdes Convent, Saligao 403511 Goa India ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] The Perfect Replacement For MP3 (Stanley Thomas' blog)
Feedback, praise, brickbats to: Stanley Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED], -- Forwarded message -- http://perfector.wordpress.com/ The Perfect Replacement For MP3 Digital music is probably the only kind of music everybody is listening to these days. The reason being that its smaller in size and thus makes it easy to share and store. Imagine downloading a 4 minute track thats approximately 40 Mb in size in a place where access to the internet is terrible and costs a bomb (thats usually the case in most places in the world). Thankfully, compression algorithms exists that can compress the same audio track to one-tenth its size, thus we do not have to imagine the above. Few weeks back I downloaded 2 albums, My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings and Slayer - Christ Illusion. The Slayer album was ripped at a very low bitrate and was not sounding too good. The album contained 14 tracks and obviously it was ripped at a lower bitrate to reduce its size. Many thanks to all the people who shared the album with me, but it was just not to my liking. There was no quality and I was furious because it took me a long time to download the album as not many people were sharing it. Boy, what a waste of time and a killer of expectation. Well thats what made me write this. Mp3 is an audio compression format that has taken the world by a storm. Mp3 is almost a synonym for music nowadays as Google is for search. Now, here comes the problem.. MP3 was good at one point in time, but not anymore. What's better? OGG VORBIS. AAC, Lame, MP3Pro neither of 'em match up to Ogg Vorbis' standards. Don't take my word for it, you can do simple tests to prove it. Take your favorite audio cd, select a track that you have heard a million times and don't mind listening to a hundred more and rip it to ogg vorbis as well as to mp3. Compare the mp3 and the ogg file to the track on the cd by listening, well now you know what I'm talking about. The ogg file is a much faithful reproduction of the cd than the mp3. An ogg file of 80kbps (bitrate) is equivalent to an mp3 encoded at 128kbps. Hey, there is still one more issue called size. Ofcourse here again the ogg file beats the mp3 hollow. For the same size one can achieve a higher bitrate with ogg vorbis than with mp3. The best part ogg vorbis by default encodes in variable bitrate (which deliveres better quality than constant bitrate). Isn't this a great piece of information for any music lover? There are a more advantages in using ogg. Ogg is patent-free. Ok, we are just not bothered about patents here in India, but in this case we have to be because a lot of music that we listen to everyday is coming from outside India. Musicians who sell their songs in mp3 have to pay royalties. They could just save a bit more of cash by selling all over the world their songs in ogg vorbis. Not just does it benefit them but it also benefits listeners and fans. But do you think that they are seriously bothered? Music is become a business rather than an art form. Nobody cares about the quality of music their fans are listening to as long as they are minting big bucks and are being voted for the Grammy's. Portable players like ipod's also have to pay royalties but still are unwilling to support patent-free formats like ogg. Why? Because they too are doing well in selling their products. Neither the musician nor the manufacturers of players are bothered about the listener. As a guy on one of the mailing lists puts it if only all the music in china was ripped into ogg vorbis, surely then a lot of players would be supporting it. There are a few portable players available that support ogg vorbis. Many of the game developers are using ogg vorbis and are very happy with the quality of sound and even happier because they are getting away without paying licenses. e.g. Doom 3. Ogg is only the container just like avi. It can contain several data streams at once, like video and the corresponding audio. Vorbis is the name of an open source audio compression format. There exists Theora for video compression and Speex for speech. I haven't really tried these though. If you notice I haven't mentioned anything about Windows Media Audio (wma) and Real Audio (ra), thats because I find these to be very cheap proprietary formats. I would never recommend these to any music lover. The best part about using ogg is that its open source. A lot of intense development will continue to take place to ensure that ogg vorbis remains the best. Its going to be literally impossible for any other proprietary format to beat ogg in the future. Almost all linux distributions play ogg out of the box. Things are looking bright for ogg, especially with all the Dell machines being sold with Ubuntu, we can expect a lot of vorbis encoded music from the US. Happy listening! June 25th, 2007 Categories: General . Author: stan . Comments: No Comments -- FN: Frederick Noronha Phone 0091-832-2409490 http://wikiwikiweb.de/MyContacts
[ilugd] Stanley Thomas' blog: GNU/Linux Performance Tweaks
/inittab' and issue the command init q as root to make changes done without rebooting. In most of the modern machines with 512MB and more ram a lot of swapping is not required. The more the swapping done when there is enough ram to do the job is a waste of performance. The default value is vm.swappiness=60. To change it issue echo 'vm.swappiness=value' /etc/sysctl.conf as root. Then issue #swapoff -a and #swapon -a. Generally a value from 20-30 is great for most modern machines. Find the right value that suits your needs. The swap partition has to be created roughly in the middle of the harddisk for it to be easily accessed. Since the swap partition is accessed in very short bursts occasionally its the best option. Yeah, this is not one of those easily experimentable suggestions. Coming to the harddisk.. Oh no, this is my most hated piece of hardware in a computer. It has moving parts, its unreliable and its a pain to maintain. Sometimes i wish i had an external usb hub with max capacity thumb drives built into it to use as a storage medium. I guess it would be enough for my day to day work. I dont know if it would be faster than a 1 rpm hdd, but im sure its much more reliable because it can withstand more shocks, it does not heat up as much and it has no moving parts. To increase hdd performance there's nothing better than 'hdparm'. It tests speeds of the drive and give you a quite a bit of control over the hdd's parameters. With 'hdparm' you can set the readahead, configure power management, enable/disable dma, display drive geometry, speed up/down the head movement, set spindown time and a whole lot of other neat stuff. Once you have got all options to your liking, add it to the end of '/etc/rc.sysinit' so that it gets executed towards the end of the system's booting process. For example a line like this could be added: hdparm -a1024 -c3 -d1 -m16 /dev/hda Like i said earlier there are a lot of ways to improve the system's performance. These are only a few i can think of. Try out 'powertweak' its good. Readahead, preload, upstart, teardown are good for boot-up, shutdown, and faster application loading times. Do not forget to inform me of something that i could add to this list. June 15th, 2007 Categories: Linux = Desktop . Author: stan . Comments: No Comments -- FN: Frederick Noronha Phone 0091-832-2409490 http://wikiwikiweb.de/MyContacts ___ 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] 'Software ought to be free, free, free' (http://infotech.indiatimes.com/)
http://infotech.indiatimes.com/Tech_News/News/Software/Software_ought_to_be_free_free_free/articleshow/msid-2102785,curpg-1.cms 'Software ought to be free, free, free' IANS[WEDNESDAY, JUNE 06, 2007 01:15:17 PM] 'Software ought to be free, free, free' IANS[ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 06, 2007 01:15:17 PM] NEW DELHI: Eben Moglen, an architect of the GNU General Public License and one of the greatest legal minds in the world of free software, is currently touring India on a mission to promote his message: anything that is worth copying is worth sharing. Hacker-turned-law-professor Moglen has argued that free software is a fundamental requirement for a free society over-dependent on technical devices. Moglen, professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, served pro bono as general counsel for the Free Software Foundation. He is also the chairman of Software Freedom Law Center. New Delhi-based lawyer Mishi Choudhary has been working to build an India branch of the Software Freedom Law Center. Called the 'legal guardian of the Free Software movement', Moglen now oversees the crafting of the crucial General Public License, version 3. Free software is at the other extreme away from proprietorial software. Legal protection for creating and sharing free software is seen as having become more important at times when dominant market player Microsoft has alleged patent violations by the free software camp. The GNU General Public License is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. Moglen is the legal brain behind strengthening the GPL and making sure it works. GPL allows users of a free software computer programme the rights for it to be used, studied and modified without restriction, and be copied and redistributed in a way that ensure that further recipients also have these freedoms. Version 3 of the GPL (GPLv3) is being written by Richard Stallman, with legal counsel from Eben Moglen and his Software Freedom Law Center. Moglen was in India last year too, when he revved up activities for a Software Freedom Law Centre in New Delhi. In India this time, Moglen spends two weeks till mid-June, meeting policy makers, lawyers and software professionals. India is itself seen as a fast-rising battleground, where the growing army of software programmers will crucially help decide the software future of the planet, whether it turns proprietorial or free. Others like free software movement founder Stallman and Microsoft founder Bill Gates have also been making repeated trips to India in recent years. Free software enthusiasts term proprietorial software unfree and the political influence of this technology movement is visible from the logo of the Free Software Foundation-India, which has a computer-age CD shaped in the form of a spinning-wheel charkha (the symbol of Indian independence) and a motto which says weave your own code. Moglen holds a discussion on 'The Death of Proprietary Culture' at Thiruvananthapuram (June 6) and holds an address again on software patents in New Delhi (June 9). On June 11, he moves to Hyderabad, to address the legal fraternity at the Andhra Pradesh High Court and give a talk at the NALSAR University of Law. One of the purposes of his visit is setting up (of the Software Freedom Law Centre in New Delhi), said Free Software Foundation-India campaigner Arun M. In Thiruvananthapuram there will also be a symposium on June 6 on Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Commons organised by Kerala State Planning Board, Kerala State IT Mission and Free Software Foundation of India, organisers of the event announced. While speaking in New Delhi, during his August 2006 visit, Moglen had remarked: Anything that is worth copying is worth sharing. He also argued: The more we give away, the richer we become. He argues that the idea of proprietary software is as ludicrous as having proprietary mathematics or proprietary geometry. This would convert the subjects from something you can learn into something you must buy. Moglen has criticised what he calls the reification of selfishness. He has said: A world full of computers which you can't understand, can't fix and can't use (because it is controlled by inaccessible proprietary software) is a world controlled by machines. He also disapproves of trends that result in excluding people from knowledge, and has called for a sensible respect for both the creators and users of the software code. See also: http://news.google.com/news?hl=enned=usie=UTF-8ncl=1117006446filter=0 -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST) Skype: fredericknoronha Yahoochat: fredericknoronha http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Email fred at bytesforall.org Res: 784 Saligao 403511 Goa India ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:
[ilugd] Fwd: Software Programs / Developers needed
-- Forwarded message -- From: Karmayog.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19-May-2007 18:19 Subject: Software Programs / Developers needed To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.karmayog.org is a unique website for concerned citizens - for social and civic issues - since June 2004. We would like to enhance the site with many more useful features which can help citizens, government organisations, ngo's, etc. to better fulfill their needs in their areas of interest. We invite your suggestions also about features that you would like to see. For this we would like to buy useful ready-made software programs for internet and mobile applications. If you can offer any, please email details. We also have our own ideas and would like these to be implemented by free-lance or full-time software developers and companies. If you are interested, please send us your profile. --- To unsubscribe or change your preferences goto the Mailing List Management Centre at the following address:- http://www.karmayog.org/mailing/default.asp?email=fredericknoronha%40gmail%2Ecom -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST) Skype: fredericknoronha Yahoochat: fredericknoronha http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Email fred at bytesforall.org Res: 784 Saligao 403511 Goa India ___ 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] Unusual mobile applications or services...
The Institute for the Future is holding a roundtable of developers or programmers working on usual mobile applications or services in Delhi. If you know anyone working in this sphere, please ask them to get in touch with Steve Cisler, Center for Science Technology and Society, Santa Clara University http://scu.edu/sts/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST) Skype: fredericknoronha Yahoochat: fredericknoronha http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Email fred at bytesforall.org Res: 784 Saligao 403511 Goa India ___ 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] eINDIA2007 – Indian forum on Informati on Communication Technologies for Development Jul y 30-Aug 3, 2007
Would be nice to see some FLOSS participation here... FN -- Forwarded message -- From: Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] eINDIA2007 – Indian forum on Information Communication Technologies for Development 30 July – 3 August 2007 **Please also feel free to forward this message to anyone who may be interested in attending or presenting.** eIndia 2007 is an inclusive, consultative and constructive ICT for Development (ICT4D) forum – the largest and only one of its kind in India – promoting and propagating the use of ICT4D through its seven seminal thematic track conferences. o eGov o Digital Learning o Indian Telecentre Forum o mServe o eHealth o Community Radio o eAgriculture The conference will address the issues of digital divide and identify and explore the opportunities for Digital India. Register now at www.eindia.net.in. Call for Papers We would like to invite individuals working in central/state government departments, national/international government agencies, bi-lateral/multi-lateral organisations, research and academic institutes, development organisations and NGOs and IT/Telecom companies involved with ICT for Development and/or public sector ICT projects, technology development, policy research, implementation etc. to submit abstracts of original papers for presentation in the conference. Last Date for Abstract Submission: 25-05-2007 Please visit our website at www.eindia.net.in for individual track themes and guidelines for paper submission. i4d Film Festival The unique feature of the event is an attempt to organise a film festival featuring movies based on the use of ICT tool in poverty alleviation, gender issues, health, sexuality, human rights etc. The development-focused features, long and short, will be gathered from around the world through the well-established networks that we already foster. Grassroots representation from not only India, but from all around the world, in the various cinematic forms will constitute the world's first ICT4D film festival. The film festival will cater to all sections of the ICT4D domain. The grassroots representatives including filmmakers as well as consumers will form the most important constituent in the audience base for this event. As mentioned previously, the entire motivation for this festival is to bring out the nuances of ICT4D at the grassroots level, as well as to build capacity for the same. Log on to www.eindia.net.in/films for Submission guidelines and application forms. Last Date for Film Submission: 01-06-2007 For any queries contact: Sulakshana Bhattacharya, +91 9811925253, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Konkani Wikipedia (under incubation) needs your help! http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/kok Please take a look http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OURMedia/NEUSTROSMedios ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[ilugd] LUGRadio, OpenMoko, and more....
Saturday, Feb 24, 2007's meeting at Goa Science Centre focussed on these issues: * Demo of LUGRadio programmes via a Chinese-clone of the iPod. http://www.lugradio.org/episodes.rss Feedback: difficulty in following the programmes, and a bit of excessive laughter on the episode we were tuned into. * Talking about devices, Arvind suggested the OpenMoko phone http://www.openmoko.com/ Notice to Developers If you are interested in developing Free Software applications for the OpenMoko platform, please send information regarding embedded Linux projects you have contributed to, and the work you have done to [EMAIL PROTECTED] We had some hardware issues that set us back about a month. But now we're back on track and should start shipping in February. All of our efforts are focused on getting the device out, so please forgive our delays in replying to your emails. * Queries about web-to-SMS international gateways. Some suggested using Yahoo (only Windows compatible). BSNL is offering SMS within India for 40 paisa per SMS. * Brief discussion about using 'sleep' mode under GNU/Linux, while transporting laptop with a GNU/Linux distro. * Fedora and its marketing strategies. * Debate about new distros. Stanley is on the search for some. * Some of us remembered Prakash Advani, earlier with FreeOS.com and now with Novell. He has an interesting photo blog. See: http://cityblogger.com/archives/category/photography/ * We also thought of the photography work of Tariq Sani (Nagpur) and Kalyan Varma (Bangalore), two other FLOSS techies. http://tariquesani.net/ http://www.kalyanvarma.net/photography/ * We had a brief discussion on the Simputer and also the plans of Geodesic, where Atul Chitnis is now vice-president See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/simputer The visit of Dr Vinay Deshpande to Goa was remembered too. There was a debate over the $100 computer (OLPC), and whether the it was really unsuted to India, or whether the opposition to it could be from those eager to block the spread of Free Software/Open Source among the younger generation. See http://www.laptop.org/ or http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home * Someone raised the question about the Mobilis. The Mobilis, is Encore's inexpensive mobile PC http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/11/the-mobilis-encores-inexpensive-mobile-pc/ * Arvind was keen to get access to the book 'Linux Kernel: In A Nutshell' Apologies to the lady who missed our meeting, because we started late! Ashwin Naik phoned, and was eager to come to meetup (at the bhel-puri informal meet-up following the indoors meet at the Goa Science Centre, Panjim). FN -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com 7500+ sharable pics from Goa http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/ ___ 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] Web based feed aggregators -- Gregarius vs Planet (by Derek Cordeiro)
http://derek.profusehost.net/ Web based feed aggregators -- Gregarius vs Planet Wed, 2006-12-13 19:29 — Derek Cordeiro It has been a while that Gregarius has been set up on feeds.goa-india.org and has been working pretty fine with minor downtime due to mysql and memory issues. Today I have set up Planet at planet.goa-india.org. How do these two feed readers compare? Gregarius is a PHP/MySQL based script. Its got buzzwords written all over... Ajax! Pros: * Web based admin with adding a feed with just about one click * support for themes * support for plugins * opml import/export makes switching to Gregarius a piece of cake * support for tags and categories * additional functionality like sticky articles, flagged articles, etc Cons: * Requires MySQL database * requires cron Planet is a python based feed reader powering a lot of planets Pros: * setting up is very straightforward for a geek.(just a few commands will get it done) * support for Author Photos * requires only python 2.2 * generates static html output(easier on the server) Cons: * No Web based admin, feeds have to be added to a config file. * requires cron. * no theme switching available, templates are available though. * since feeds have to be added manually, there is no direct opml import. * no readily available plugins or themes(to my knowledge) Please visit the sites http://feeds.goa-india.org/ and http://planet.goa-india.org/ and give your opinion -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com 7500+ sharable pics from Goa http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/ ___ 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] ShowMeDo ... learning by seeing
http://showmedo.com/ Welcome to ShowMeDo! This site is dedicated to showing demonstrative videos produced by our community. For many subjects seeing something done is the most effective way to learn, whether it's peering over an expert's shoulder while they explain how to program or watching while someone grinds beans and makes coffee. Please watch, learn and perhaps share your knowledge back. http://showmedo.com/ Videos on: * Python * Java * Linux * Ruby * Blender * Graphics * Screencasting * Others -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Community Radio in India list: http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/cr-india ___ 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] Fwd: Choice of scripting language on http://courtnic.nic.in
-- Forwarded message -- From: Mahesh T. Pai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 07-Feb-2007 21:56 Subject: Choice of scripting language on http://courtnic.nic.in To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sirs, I am trying to view http://www.courtnic.nic.in, and find that the information relating to Kerala High Court cannot be accessed. I find that the pages use VB script, and I would like to remind you that VB Script is a scripting language specific to Microsoft Internet Explorer. As an organisation in charge of maintaining the web pages of several (almost all), I trust to know already that Microsoft's Internet Explorer is not the only web browser used by citizens of India, and that Microsoft's Internet Explorer will run only on Microsoft's operating system. By using technologies which are specific to vendors, the web pages are shutting out users of other, competing operating systems, and I submit, with due respect that your actions amount to unduly favouring Microsoft Corporation. As a citizen (and a former lawyer) who does not have access to, or afford software from Microsoft, (and avoids products from Microsoft by choice) your use of VB Script is excluding me from the information of web site, and thus, you are discriminating against me. As a state organisation, you have the obligation to ensure that your choice of technology does not compel citizens to use software from any particular vendor. Hence, I humbly request you to discontinue VBScript on the about site at the earliest, and trust that I will not have to take this matter up in judiciary. With Warm Regards, Mahesh T. Pai, NANDINI, SRM Road, Cochin - 18. Kerala. -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Community Radio in India list: http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/cr-india ___ 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] Internet par Khawateen Ki Masroofiat / What do (Pakistani) women do online
Does anyone know a FLOSS tool or solution that would allow me to convert Urdu into Roman script text? Was thinking that articles like these would be of wider interest in South Asia (where Urdu/Hindustani/Hindi can be followed beyond script differences). --FN Internet par Khawateen Ki Masroofiat What do (Pakistani) women do online The article, by Reba Shahid, focuses on how Pakistani women from different walks of life and age groups utilise the internet. It asks random women girls...an engineeer, the naib-nazima (next to the mayor) of Karachi, a journalist, students, a model, an educationist about what do they do online. Farah Mahmood, an engineer teaches at FAST Peshawar. She started using the internet in 1999-2000 when she was in college. Initially her internet usage was limited to a half an hour or an hour of surfing, mostly for entertainment purpose. Searching for game cheats and cracks online for PC games was a prime activity in those initial days She says: I was quite ignorant of the true potential of the internet those days and actually no one taught me (my elder brother won't let me use the computer because long before I was in college I some how screwed up the system, so he put on password which I always cracked) how to use it either, I just learned how to use computer and internet myself and only later figured out that internet has a lot to offer other then what I saw during my early days of usage. Over the years Farah's internet usage has increased to an average of 6 hours daily…mainly at her workplace (which has an always on broadband connection). Internet usage at home is one to two hours on an average working day. But on a holidays it can be four to five hours at home throughout the day. More interviews too... [Text in Urdu] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/science/story/2007/01/070119_reba_diary_ns.shtml] -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com ___ 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] Fwd: public websites which restrict public access
This issue is getting wider noticed... Keep the flag flying :-) -FN -- Forwarded message -- From: Diabolic Preacher - Damned4Life [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19-Jan-2007 20:09 Subject: public websites which restrict public access To: my friends [EMAIL PROTECTED] there aren't one or 2 to fit in this message...see the list at : http://lug-delhi.org/wiki/HallOfShame/Websites This message was sent to you by Diabolic Preacher - Damned4Life. To see Diabolic's profile click: http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=8638599557452205073 * * * To control notification emails, access your Account Settings: http://www.orkut.com/Settings.aspx If you are not an orkut user, you can block all orkut users from sending you email by visiting: http://www.orkut.com/Block.aspx * * * * Dong B. Calmada to Frederick More options 06:29 (15 hours ago) Hi Frederick, hi all. I hope that all bloggers and webmasters in this list would spread this initiative and call on others to follow suit in their respective countries. Dong According to Frederick Noronha (FN): Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:40:53 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asiasource-l] 'Hall of shame' blasts websites that block surfers access 'Hall of shame' blasts websites that block surfers access -- My Work: peace.net.ph My ICT Advocacy: linux.org.ph bukas.kom.ph spaceworm.blogspot.com My Self: dungkal.multiply.com dongcalmada.livejournal.com GPG Key: 0xA4DC0797 Linux Registered User #317296 --- All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. -- Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://www.goa-india.org http://feeds.goa-india.org/index.php ___ 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] Huge New Study On Free/Open Software
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 ___ 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] Festival... talking in Hindi and Marathi
[From http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers ] Priti and team: Congrats! It's nice to have Festival in Indian languages. Just what is needed. Hope this news will be shared with all the GNU/Linux user groups and others interested. (Have sent it to ILUG-Goa http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa already.) For those who might not know Festival: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Speech_Synthesis_System Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed at Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh. It is distributed under a free software license similar to the BSD License. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It is written in C++ with a Scheme-based command interpreter for general customization and extension.[1] The Festvox project aims to make the building of new synthetic voices more systematic and better documented, making it possible for anyone to build a new voice. It is distributed under a free software license similar to the MIT License. --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], priti patil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Get it from here http://janabhaaratii.org.in:9673/indicbhaaratii/Members/Priti_Patil/festival-hi-0-1-tar.gz http://janabhaaratii.org.in:9673/indicbhaaratii/Members/Priti_Patil/festival-mr-0-1-tar.gz Priti priti patil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, On this upcoming special occassion of new year I am very happy to announce a new year gift on behalf of janabhaaratii team :) festival_mr (Marathi Text-To-Speech engine) and festival_hi (Hindi Text-To-Speech engine) are in their alpha state. Working crudely for both Marathi and Hindi, now under refinement process for it's next version. Will be available for testing on an eve of new year (most probably) !!! After testing, please do revert back to us since your valuable inputs can make it BETTER. Acknowledgments to Dr. Alka Irani (Chief Investigator, janabhaaratii), Sunil Mohan and Chaitanya Kamisetty (telugu l10n team), DONLab, Dept. of CSE, IIT Madras, our team, karunakar (indlinux) and many Warm Regards Priti Patil janabhaaratii Language Computing Group C-DAC, Mumbai -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com ___ 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] 'Hall of Shame' Blasts Websites, etc...
http://news.google.com/news?hl=enned=usie=UTF-8ncl=1112401020filter=0 'Hall of Shame' Blasts Websites Tech2, India - Jan 2, 2007 It is called the Hall of Shame. Within its cyber walls are pilloried a long list of websites, Internet service providers and websites which do not treat .. 'Hall of shame' blasts websites blocking surfer access Mangalorean.com, India - Jan 1, 2007 New Delhi, Jan 2 (IANS) It is called the hall of shame. Within its cyber walls are pilloried a long list of websites, Internet service providers and ... 'Hall of shame' blasts websites blocking surfer access DailyIndia.com, FL - Jan 1, 2007 By Indo Asian News Service. New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) It is called the 'hall of shame'. Within its cyber walls are pilloried a long list of websites, ... 'Hall of shame' blasts websites blocking surfer access RxPG NEWS, CA - Jan 1, 2007 By IANS, [RxPG] New Delhi, Jan 1 - It is called the 'hall of shame'. Within its cyber walls are pilloried a long list of websites, Internet service ... 'Hall of shame' blasts websites blocking surfer access Andhra Cafe, India - Jan 1, 2007 New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) It is called the 'hall of shame'. Within its cyber walls are pilloried a long list of websites, Internet service providers and ... IIT, MTNL, AIR websites in 'hall of shame' list Daily News Analysis, India - Dec 31, 2006 NEW DELHI: It is called the hall of shame. Within its cyber walls are pilloried a long list of websites, Internet service providers and websites which do ... 'Hall of shame' blasts websites blocking surfer access India PRwire (Press Release), India - Dec 31, 2006 It is called the 'hall of shame'. Within its cyber walls are pilloried a long list of websites, Internet service providers and websites which do not treat ... 'Hall of shame' blasts websites blocking surfer access India eNews.com, India - Dec 31, 2006 It is called the 'hall of shame'. Within its cyber walls are pilloried a long list of websites, Internet service providers and websites which do not treat ... IIT websites in 'hall of shame' list CNN-IBN, India - Dec 31, 2006 CAUGHT IN THE WEB: Some of the websites in the list are government-run ventures. New Delhi: It is called the hall of shame. Within its cyber walls are ... Hall of shame' blasts websites blocking surfer access Telugu Portal, India - Dec 31, 2006 New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) It is called the hall of shame. Within its cyber walls are pilloried a long list of websites, Internet service providers and ... It'sa happy new year – with new resolutions 'Hall of shame' blasts websites blocking surfer access Monsters and Critics.com, UK - Dec 31, 2006 New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) It is called the 'hall of shame'. Within its cyber walls are pilloried a long list of websites, Internet service providers and ... -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com ___ 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] Moodle, elearning and cyberspace...
Hi All: I'm planning to set up Moodle on my server, and encourage educators wanting to run free courses to set up content there. Needless to say, I don't plan to charge (since the server space was made available free by a geek in London ... and the software comes for free). If you would like to start and run some course from here, just get in touch. Take a look at http://elearning.goa-india.org/ and ask me to create a password for you, with suitable permissions. FN PS: Thanks to Derek, an engineering student, for setting up Moodle! MOODLE: Moodle is a free software/open source e-learning platform (also known as a Course Management System (CMS) or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)). It has a significant user base with 18,204 registered sites with 7,270,260 users in 712,531 courses (as of November 15, 2006). Moodle is designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. Its open source license and modular design means that many people can develop additional functionality, and development is undertaken by a globally diffuse network of commercial and non-commercial users, spearheaded by the Moodle company based in Perth, Western Australia. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle] Knowledge is power... share it equitably. -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://www.goa-india.org http://feeds.goa-india.org/index.php ___ 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] FLOSS news and links... from Asia
Want to know what's happening in the world of Free/Libre and Open Source Software around Asia? Check http://feeds.goa-india.org/ --FN -- FN 9822122436 +91-832-240-9490 (phone calls after 1 pm please) FLOSS, geeks, blogs: [http://planet.foss.in/] ___ 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] QUERY: Will this solution work with a Reliance ZTE datacard?
Output is same as this http://www.plug.org.in/pipermail/plug-mail/2006-May/000283.ht ml On 14/11/06, Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14/11/06, Frederick FN Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sudev, Please advice... attached is a PDF which explains the issue (not sure if it's for ZTE too). FN FN Can we keep this on the list? Others can ship in and also help? The procedure described in the way to go. That is why I have been asking out out of /var/log/messages (when card is inserted and then removed) to first determine if the module needs to be loaded or is already getting loaded and device assigned. Once we get the device assigned (/dev/ttyS0 in the article) then we move on to modem initialisation strings. Usually atz is sufficient but this may also involve extended strings just like the article describes for making voice calls. Or as Spoonmans post earlier suggested. Nokia site has a pretty comprehensive document covering lot of extended init string syntaxes. Some getting the feet wet issue to be overcome but likely chances are good to get this working. If any one at ILUGD has ATZ card and is willing to bring t to next meeting we try to carck this but till then we will have to make a attempt on doing this with emails. -- Regards, Sudev Barar -- FN 9822122436 +91-832-240-9490 (phone calls after 1 pm please) Free the airwaves... for India's sake (see the article at the URL below) [http://www.tehelka.com/home/2006/2006.asp?filename=18.jpg] ___ 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] Re QUERY: Will this solution work with a Reliance ZTE datacard?
Nothing quite works with the ZTE card. Am on the point of giving up. Have written to ZTE [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 does work though, and it's setup is documented in the July 2006 issue of LINUX FOR YOU (New Delhi). On the #linux-india chatroom on Freenode, someone mentioned that the Sierra card costs three times as much. But Reliance told me (on the phone) that it is also sold at the same price (Rs 5000). It would make a lot of sense if ZTE had worked out some solution for the GNU/Linux operating system. Incidentally, I came much further on the SuSE operating system (sorry, this is a politically incorrect thing to now say, thanks to Novell!!!) than I did with Ubuntu. We tried everything. Different init strings (including those suggested on the Windows-only setup that comes on the mini-CD enclosed) and blacklisting some possibly-conflicting modules. But nothing much worked. So, in a word: if you want to go wireless on Reliance... don't go ZTE. At least not until China's second largest telecom hardware company decides to be more GNU/Linux friendly. Am not sure, but was told that Huawei also works, but haven't tried or seen this out myself. Just sharing this in case others are stuck at the same point that I have (along with others like Prof Prabhat Ranjan, who has tried quite a bit and given some useful online tips too). FN PS: ZTE, don't ignore GNU/Linux! Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:51:00 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ilugd] QUERY: Will this solution work with a Reliance ZTE datacard? Output is same as this http://www.plug.org.in/pipermail/plug-mail/2006-May/000283.ht ml On 14/11/06, Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14/11/06, Frederick FN Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sudev, Please advice... attached is a PDF which explains the issue (not sure if it's for ZTE too). FN FN Can we keep this on the list? Others can ship in and also help? The procedure described in the way to go. That is why I have been asking out out of /var/log/messages (when card is inserted and then removed) to first determine if the module needs to be loaded or is already getting loaded and device assigned -- FN 9822122436 +91-832-240-9490 (phone calls after 1 pm please) ___ 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] Pankaj Kaushal contact...
Can someone please help me to get the email/phone contact of Pankaj Kaushal, whom I need to interview for an upcoming story? Thanks in advance, FN -- FN 9822122436 +91-832-240-9490 (phone calls after 1 pm please) Free the airwaves... for India's sake (see the article at the URL below) [http://www.tehelka.com/home/2006/2006.asp?filename=18.jpg] ___ 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] FOSS in Asia Pacific [Aug 2006] * Nepal, Mongolia, CJK, Thailand, Philippines, Bhutan...
was reading through the iosn-general mailing list and found out that you just presented a talk / presentation on FLOSS and the Global Community during the launching of Dzongkha Linux. The purpose why I write to you is to ask for your permission to re-use or use parts of your presentation and to have a copy of the presentation. Our open source community is also invited to give presentation on open source and Linux for the coming ICT Fair in our city (30 June until 2 July 2006) and I would like to gather presentations from the open source community to be included in our presentations. I hope that we can have your permission and files for your presentations. -- Nicholas Ng Boon Liang, Kuching Open Source Community, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia Homepage: www.kuchingosc.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - IOSN NEWSLETTER: FOSS in Asia-Pacific is edited by Frederick Noronha -- http://fn.goa-india.org or http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com -- and supported by the International Open Source Network -- http://www.iosn.net IOSN promotes the adoption of free/open source software, open standards and open content for sustainable human development in the Asia-Pacific region. IOSN is a network with a small secretariat based at the UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok and three centre of excellence -- IOSN ASEAN+3, IOSN PIC (Pacific Island Countries) and IOSN South Asia, based in Manila, Suva and Chennai respectively. To find out more, contact the centres of excellence. IOSN ASEAN+3: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IOSN PIC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IOSN South Asia: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IOSN is an initiative of UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information, and supported by the International Development Reserch Centre of Canada. To include Asia-Pacific related news about FOSS in this newsletter, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This newsletter is released under the Creative Commons Attribute 2.5 license. Reproduction of the contents of this newsletter is encouraged, with due acknowledgement of the source(s). - ___ 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] FOSSTimes: Keeping track kof what Asia is talking about...
Free/Libre and Open Source Software __ _ _ ___ _ | / __ \ / / | |__ __(_) | |__ | | | | (___| (___ | | _ _ __ ___ ___ ___ | __|| | | |\___ \\___ \ | | | | '_ ` _ \ / _ \/ __| | | | |__| |) |___) || | | | | | | | | __/\__ \ |_|\/|_/_/ |_| |_|_| |_| |_|\___||___/ ...keeping track of what Asia is talking about --- For links to these posts, visit http://feeds.goa-india.org Sunday June 25, 2006 03:05 Music Player * Delhi LUG 02:53 Re: pertanyaan 5 * Jogjakarta 02:49 Whats wrong with... The Coalition * KSIT-Keeping IT Simple Saturday June 24, 2006 23:05 [COMMERCIAL] Linux Jobs * Delhi LUG 23:05 [OT] [Commercial] Linux job with wipro * Delhi LUG 20:43 Your New ICQ Password * ILUG Jodhpur 20:05 [OT] [Commercial] Linux job with wipro * DubaiLUG 19:50 [COMMERCIAL] Linux Jobs * ILUG Indore 19:25 Re: Hi * Pondicherry GLUG 19:05 ACL's using Squid Server * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum 19:05 blocking sites using squid * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum 19:05 DomainPop with Qmail * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum 19:05 looking for a linux teacher * Delhi LUG 18:56 Re: Linux Server Problem * ILUG-Goa 18:36 Re: Hi * Pondicherry GLUG 18:35 New and hot But without any results? * ILUG Jodhpur 17:44 Re: software wars - something interesting * ilughyd 17:43 Re: Want to know equivalent commands * Linux Bg Programming 17:03 Re: Hi * Pondicherry GLUG 17:00 Tejas Dinkar (gja): 18 till I die * Planet.foss.in 16:47 software wars - something interesting * ilughyd 16:21 Re: Installation and uninstalling Programmes Linux BgTech 15:05 pta cuts bandwidth rates * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum 15:05 looking for a linux teacher * Delhi LUG 14:52 Md Hafiz bin Ismail: Xajax and side-projects * Planet MYOSS 14:52 Xajax and side-projects * mypapit gnu/linux blog 14:30 Anush Shetty: GPLv3 Conference in Bangalore Planet.foss.in 14:29 Installation, uninstalling Programmes inlinux * LinuxBgTech 14:07 Shyam Mani (fox2mike): Aw. Damn. * Planet.foss.in 14:02 Re: Perlu segera mengantarkan sesuatu... * BaLinux (Bali) 14:01 Hi * Pondicherry GLUG 13:46 What do we advocate? * Sun City Jodhpur LUG 13:37 Open Malaysia: Belgium now heads to ODF adoption * PlanetMYOSS 13:02 Maaf Oot Cellular phone jammer * BaLinux (Bali) 12:17 Aizat Faiz: ICT Events in Malaysia * Planet MYOSS 12:14 Muhd Najmi A Zabidi * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia) 11:58 Aizat Faiz: PHP Talk Meetup 2006 * Planet MYOSS 11:05 Gentoo: Network Configration with ISA Server * LinuxPakistan.Net 10:54 Re: OOT: Distro Linux Baru Minggu ini :-) * Jogjakarta 10:54 Re: OOT: Distro Linux Baru Minggu ini :-) * Jogjakarta 10:54 Re: kompku-gw dan gw-komp... dan diremote * Jogjakarta 10:41 pertanyaan 5 * Jogjakarta 09:04 Re: June BLUG Meet * Linux Bangalore (non-tech) 08:45 Want to know equivalent commands * Linux BangalorePG 08:45 Re: mandriva linux 2006(64bit) * Linux BangaloreTech 08:45 SM56 on SuSE 10.0 * Linux Bangalore Technical 08:45 Re: Anybody got the Ubuntu 6.06 DVD? * Linux BangaloreNT 08:45 Re: Mounting NFS Filesystems * Linux Bangalore Technical 08:44 Re: Help: CD/DVD Repository Ubuntu 6.06 .. * Jogjakarta 08:40 Wahlau: weekend project * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia) 08:25 GNU/Linux is essential to our students * BytesForAll_FLOSS 07:59 Re: Help: CD/DVD Repository Ubuntu 6.06 ..* Jogjakarta 07:42 design for portable devices based on Intel's PXA270 * Simputer 07:29 Microsoft's hobbled software to poor countries * ILUG-Goa 07:26 [TECTONIC] Open source news from Africa * Linux-Abad-Users 07:05 SUSE 10.1 available now * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum 03:26 Lau Kai Jern: Apache Chinese GB2312 * Planet MYOSS 02:17 Re: HP Compaq M2235 Hardware Driver * Jogjakarta 01:25 Re[11]: * ILUG Jodhpur 00:48 Fwd: help -2 * ILUG Jodhpur 00:39 Arroyo and her laptop computer * Dong Calmada,Philippines Friday June 23, 2006 23:05 Add these line in existing firewall...LinuxPakistan.Net 23:05 malloc failure on x86_64 * Delhi LUG 19:57 Re: Offtopic - Looking for summer job * DubaiLUG 19:46 Liew Cheon Fong: IEs4Linux - Install Internet Explorer on Linux with One Script * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia) 19:42 Re: June BLUG Meet * Linux Bangalore (non-tech) 19:05 Gentoo users meeting. * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum 19:05 Software Engineers with 1yr experience LinuxPakistan.Net 18:49 June BLUG Meet * Linux Bangalore (non-tech) 18:19 Re: June BLUG Meet * Linux Bangalore (non-tech) 17:22 Re: Perlu segera ... ada yang bis * BaLinux (Bali) 16:34 Empanelment of translators. * BytesForAll_Readers 15:06 Fedora Panic errors on Intel SE7221 Board with SATA LPk 15:06 imap installation problem * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum 15:05 Bio-Informatics workshop at JNU * Delhi LUG 15:05 wi-fi driver required * Delhi LUG 14:59 Re: print area * Jogjakarta 14:23 Re: ## Seminar ## * Pondicherry GLUG 14:21 Aizat Faiz: Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID) 06: Part 2 * Planet
[ilugd] FOSS in Asia-Pacific * June 2006 * Links from the Asia Commons
Believe In... writes Khairil Yusof in MyOSS Community of Malaysia http://www.iosn.net/Members/kaeru/blog/being-involved - Let's be clear. MyOSS community consists of students and developers. Hard pressed for time and other resources. Every now and again, somebody comes up and says that the community ought to do something. They've done a lot already: http://my-opensource.org http://www.my-opensource.org/oss-faq.html http://myoss.iosn.net/ http://foss.org.my Of course these students and developers should give up what little personal time they have left to do what other people tell them to do. I take this personally, because whenever this comes up, it usually comes down to a few people (aizat, ditesh, nsh) who do real things (papers, presenting at conferences and talks, organising meetups). It's unfair to ask any more of them. This won't be the last time we hear such requests, but what I would like to see next time is something along the lines, I want to do this guys, and have spent some time doing it and would like the community to help me out. Taking responsibility for something you believe in is a much better attitude, then just throwing it to the community. - IOSN NEWSLETTER: FOSS in Asia-Pacific is edited by Frederick Noronha -- http://fn.goa-india.org -- and supported by the International Open Source Network -- http://www.iosn.net IOSN promotes the adoption of free/open source software, open standards and open content for sustainable human development in the Asia-Pacific region. It is an initiative of UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme and supported by the International Development Reserch Centre of Canada. To include Asia-Pacific related news about FOSS in this newsletter, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] This newsletter is released under the Creative Commons Attribute 2.5 license. Reproduction of the contents of this newsletter is encouraged, provided acknowledgement of the source(s) is made. - ___ 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] India lays down 'open' challenge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4764565.stm Last Updated: Friday, 12 May 2006, 11:32 GMT 12:32 UK India lays down 'open' challenge After his first trip to India, regular columnist Bill Thompson looks forward to the end of western domination of the free software community Indian computer programmer India's programmers are writing code to meet their own needs The five of us bounced out of the restaurant at around 10, after a great meal, some beers and the usual arguments about preferred programming languages, the future of free and open source software and the merits of Terry Pratchett's later works. It was a warm night so we crossed the street to get something to cool us down - not ice cream, but the best kulfi in the Defence Colony, one of the hippest areas in downtown New Delhi. It was my last night in India after four days making Digital Planet specials with the World Service. My new friends from the Delhi Linux User Group had dragged me out of my luxurious business hotel into the real city for a meal. The sizzling paneer and noodles were excellent. The beer was cold. And the kulfi was as good as Raj had promised. But even better was the chance to make a connection with a group of people outside the US and Europe who are working with the Linux operating system. Indian problems I'd come to India with the sense that, like Brazil and other countries outside the West that are taking free software seriously, India is moving into a new phase in its use of free and open source software. These guys - and it was a boy's night out, though there are women members of the group too - are using the freedom which the Linux distribution licence gives them to build tools and technologies for themselves. They don't have to wait for a far-distant company to decide whether their market is big enough or commercially viable. If they need code that meets their specific needs, they can just write it themselves. They are certainly going beyond the point where they take code from the US and Europe and spend their effort localising it by adding support for local languages. [Bill Thompson: Free software provides a bridge between the affluence of the West and the poverty of most of the world's population.] But according to Raj and Mary, both Linux experts, Indian coders are still isolated from each other, and although they contribute to many projects there is no real focus on solving Indian problems. The website of the Free Software Foundation of India lists a few dozen India-based projects, but there is apparently a long way to go before a real free software community emerges. And while Government support for free software is genuine, government computer departments do not contribute to other projects and do not make their work available for others to build on. The government just sees free software as a way to save on licenses. This is a shame, as there is a political dimension to the use of free software which will be very important for India and other developing countries. Liberal Origins Until now free and open source software has been one of the ways in which the US spread its values around the world, the soft guy approach that seems to oppose, but in fact is symbiotic with hard-edged capitalism on the Microsoft and Intel model. Both are firmly embedded in US cultural values, and the free market is as important to Linux as it is to Microsoft. Linus Torvalds Linus Torvalds: creator of Linux If we consider its origins within the post-hippy hacker culture of MIT then we can see that free software is as parasitic on the larger computer industry and its capitalist ethos as the early hippies were on their wealthy middle-class parents and their Protestant work ethic. All that nice code won't run unless Intel and AMD, neither of whom is particularly noted for being soft and cuddly, continue to make the processors and Dell and Sony continue to squeeze component suppliers and ship the systems. In 1999 Richard Stallman the originator of free software, wrote that he saw 'no social imperative for free hardware designs like the imperative for free software', so the situation clearly does not bother him. Yet, as often happens when the US tries to impose a particular point of view on the world, the results can be the opposite of what was intended. Just as the continued boycott of Cuba after the Soviet Union collapsed forced Castro into alliances with other Latin American countries and has helped promote new left-leaning governments across the continent, so the desire to spread US liberal values through free software may have unexpected consequences. Cultural shift Stallman, Linus Torvalds and Eric Raymond, the three big thinkers behind free/libre/open source software - and one should always be suspicious of any movement that so fails to reconcile its divisions that it needs three names - may have unleashed a monster that will consume them. Because until now the developed world could take the code provided
[ilugd] Coming soon! *The Code Breakers* (BBC)
COMING SOON! The Code Breakers - A BBC World Documentary on Free/Open Source Software and Development COMING SOON! The Code Breakers A BBC World Documentary on Free/Open Source Software and Development http://www.apdip.net/news/fossdoc == The famous digital divide is getting wider. A two-part documentary, The Code Breakers, to be aired on BBC World starting 10 May 2006 examines whether free/open source software (FOSS) might be the bridge? FOSS contains 'source code' that can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed without restriction. It has been around for over 20 years but most PC owners are not aware that the Internet search engines and many computer applications run on FOSS. It's not that FOSS has had a bad press, it has had no press because there is no company that 'owns' it, says executive producer Robert Lamb. But we found that in the computer industry and among the afficionados, it is well known and its virtues well understood. The crew of the independent producers who made the film went to nearly a dozen countries around the world to see how the adoption of FOSS presents opportunities for industry and capacity development, software piracy reduction, and localization and customization for diverse cultural and development needs. Stories from The Code Breakers include computer and Internet access for school children in Africa, reaching the poor in Brazil, tortoise breeding programmes in the Galapagos, connecting villages in Spain, and disaster management in Sri Lanka. The documentary also includes interviews from key figures around the world. Intel, IBM, Sun and Microsoft all seem to agree that FOSS is a welcome presence in computer software. According to Jonathan Murray of Microsoft The Open Source community stimulates innovation in software, it's something that frankly we feel very good about and it's something that we absolutely see as being a partnership with Microsoft. BBC World will air the two-part documentary at the following times: Episode One Wednesday 10 May 19:30 GMT Thursday 11 May 09:30 GMT Friday 12 May 16:30 GMT Monday 15 May 01:30 and 07:30 GMT Episode Two Wednesday 17 May 19:30 GMT Thursday 18 May 09:30 GMT Friday 19 May 16:30 GMT Monday 22 May 01:30 and 07:30 GMT For local times, please lookup your country in the TV Listings on BBC World's website http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_tvlistings.asp?pageid=668. The International Open Source Network (IOSN), UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP), International Development Research Centre of Canada and UNESCO have participated in the production of this documentary. Christine Apikul UNDP-APDIP ___ 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] Internet, tech skills growing quietly in Goa...
INTERNET, TECH SKILLS GROWING QUIETLY IN GOA PANJIM, April 30: Goa's BSNL internet service provider is already providing some 3000 broadband connections in the state, and roughly another 24,000 people dial-up to get access the Net using this central government-run service. These figures emerged during an informal discussion at the monthly meeting of the India Linux Users Group (Goa), a network promoting Free Software and Open Source in the state. ILUG-Goa, which holds its meetings usually on the fourth Saturday of each month at the Goa Science Centre at Miramar, sees a range of tech issues -- usually directly related to Free Software and Open Source in Goa. During it's meet on April 29, a range of issues came up for discussion, from how to partition your hard-disk (to install GNU/Linux side-by-side with Windows), to software tools to ehance productivity, and various internet and broadband options available to users in diverse parts of Goa. For instance, there are some useful Free Software tools to monitor your bandwidth usage on BSNL's broadband. One such tool is available for free download at http://tinyurl.com/qgu9p Called the Data One Broadband Statistics, this is a screen-scraper written using Perl to download usage statistics of BSNL's Data One (www.bsnl.co.in/service/dataone.htm) broadband service and total it. Generally, BSNL (www.bsnl.co.in) allows only the Microsoft-based IE and has no monthly total. But trust Indian software talent to find a work-around. This solution comes from the Free Software/Open Source network in Chennai. Meanwhile, the Goa free software network stays connected and announces its event via http://iluggoaannounce.notlong.com There are no fees for joining, all are welcome, and encouraged to form parallel user-groups in diverse parts of the state. Meanwhile, the Fedora Core 5 Free Software distribution has just become available on DVD in Goa. Number of foreign magazines are also available. Members of ILUG-Goa such as engineer Bijon Shaha and software pro Arvind Yadav gave diverse views on techies-only distros like 'Gentoo'. Debopriyo 'DP' Sarkar pointed to a 'mindmap' of various Free Software distributions or 'distros' available, which was illustrated at linuxhelp.blogspot.com Earlier, there was a brief presentation on FreeMind. FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. It has the potential of playing the role of a high productivity tool. Operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster because of one-click fold/unfold and follow link operations. Other members raised a range of issues -- from how to get started in GNU/Linux, to playing around with tools like StumbleUpon, and how to encourage Free Software usage in schools and educational institutions. Remy Furtado of Rosary College, Navelim expressed an interest in working on the Free Software tool Moodle, ideal for distance education, as the Goa University moves to a pattern of semisterisation. Goa Engineering College's Prof George Easaw has done work on this platform, as have others. Reacting unofficially, BSNL officials said Goa now had six STMS 155 MBps connectivity, which was resulting in a speedy expansion of broadband to many parts of the state. But for broadband facilities to become available in village areas, at least 60 subscribers were needed to make operations viable. So far, broadband from BSNL is available in a growing number of areas in Goa: Panjim, Vasco (except Cortalim, but including Sada, Mangor, Bogmalo, Sancoale and other areas), Ponda, Bambolim, Merces, Dona Paula, Porvorim, Mapusa town, Calangute-Candolim, and Saligao, among others. Equipment has already been installed in Aldona exchange, and broadband facilities are expected to go functional -- - | India Linux Users' Group, Goa | | Join the friendly user group | | Mail list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa/join | -- | | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teach-yourself-linux| | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa-announce | | http://www.iosn.net/country/india/organizations/ilug-goa/ | - ,, / \.-. * SOFTWARE ((__-^^-,-^^-__)) (. .) * FREEDOM `-_---' `---_-' / V \ * SHARING `--|o` 'o|--' // \\ \ ` / /( )\ KNOWLEDGE IS POWER ): :( '.^^_^^.' SHARE IT EQUITABLY :o_o: \_/ \_/ - ___ 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] INDIA: What drew my eye... LFY, April 2006
Some issues that caught my eye in LFY April 2006 issue. LFY, or Linux For You, is published from New Delhi. See http://linuxforu.com And LFY team, can you have more content for newbies please? Software features: * Ntop, excellent monitoring tool that makes remote configuration and administration of networks easy. * GnuPG Hacks. GnuPG does a lot more than just encrypt and decrypt e-mail and attachments. * Getting started with the Linux Intrusion Detection System (LIDS). * An SELinux Primer. In the world of Linux, SELinux is the new buzzword... * Hunt down bandwidth hoggers with iptables * Setting up a CCTV system with motion detection on GNU/Linux. There are many practical situations in modern life that necessitate CCTV surveilance. * Subversion, not just for code anymore. Subversive way to handle multiple version of your personal information, instead of just versions of code. * Asterisk, build an entire telephony system around computers. Page 62. * Pepping Up KDE with KDE-Look.org * Panel tips * This was an interesting article: What makes [GNU]Linux tick as a programming stronghold? Takes a look at all the offerings [GNU] Linux has in store for programmers The goodies on offer -- languages. Libraries, making the developer's life easy. Programming tools. Also a small box item on 'how to get started with programming on GNU/Linux. Page 118 OPENOFFICE.org BASE: Version 2 of OpenOffice.org adds a new tool, OpenOffice.org Base, to the already impressive arsenal of the suite. Base is a full-featured database tool, which is fun to use and can help you manage your data with ease. Also, another feature on OpenOffice.org Math: Seamless Equations for Technical Documents. VectorLinux: a distro meant for aging machines. It infuses new life into old systems, making the prospect of expensive upgrades a thing of the past. Page 44. Tips and tricks: Mounting ISOs * Krusader file manager (emulates Norton Commander) * Compress, uncompress files * Mouse emulation * Keeping a copy of syslog on a remote server * and more... Stories from India and Asia: * Savings and reliability at Intercontinental Consultants and Technocrats (Delhi). * Migrating to GNU/Linux at Clearock Enterprises (for freedom from viruses). * Serving farmers at Jagriti e-Sewa in Punjab, with FLOSS * Searching for TuxHeroes at http://www.linuxforu.com/tuxhero/faq.htm * Go [free software and] open source for e-governance, father of India's telecom revolution Sam Pritoda says * $187 laptop for the Chinese, courtesy Linux from the Menglan Group. Laptop will be called Longmeng (Dragon Dream). * Red Hat commits to modernising the education system in India. * GiveIndia.org, FLOSS strengthens a donor-portal for non-profit organisations. * A smart phone reference platform from India's GDA Technologies, this is a modular PDA phone reference design based on the Freescale iMX31 multimedia application processor. * Motorola has launched a new Linux-based smart phone in Hong Kong, christened Ming. It comes with email and personal information management software, and Chinese character recognition. * RTLinuxPro is calling itself the hard real time OS for mission-critical real time systems and embedded systems. Its offices are at Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore www.fsmlabs.com or www.altosys.co.in This month's cover focuses on FLOSS in South Africa. This writer too was impressed by the work going on there. Perhaps a good exchange of ideas would arise if some group like LFY could manage to distribute (with permission) the two DVDs that tell the story of what's happening in that country via the first FLOSS TV programme in the world. http://www.biz-community.com/Article.aspx?l=196c=11ai=5214 We've viewed some of those programmes in Goa...and it's great! * Wind River Linux in Bangalore (Miller's Road) is offering device software optimisation (DSO), and more. www.windriver.com * Red Hat authorised training partners in India are at: http://www.in.redhat.com/training/service/locations.php3 * Go straight here to register your LUG/GLUG/FSUG http://linuxforu.com/AddLug.php Numbers of user-groups are growing, and this listing probably needs more space! * Daily tech updates: http://www.efytimes.com * Customised onsite training for corporates from EDASolutions in Hyderabad http://www.techveda.org * Wanted: writers. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] AT THE END OF THE PAGE: What's the Jerk-O-Meter? On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you rate yourself as a conversationalist? Do you know when you are being a smooth talker or a distracted 'jerk' over the cell phone? An innovative application, the Jerk-O-Meter tells you exactly that. A group of researchers, led by Anmol Madan (24), a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, has
[ilugd] XAMPP query
I have set up XAMPP[1] (a distribution of Apache+PHP+MySQL+ProFTPD etc) via SSH on a server located outside. It doesn't give any errors on start-up, but images fail to load. Images are broken links. Help? FN PS: There's no error in the logs... [1] http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html -- -- Frederick 'FN' Noronha | Yahoomssngr/Skype: fredericknoronha Saligao, Goa, India | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Independent Journalist | +91(832)2409490 Cell 9822122436 -- ___ 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] [Fsf-friends] No Software Patents (People's Democracy)
No Software Patents People's Democracy (Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Vol. XXIX No. 50 December 11, 2005 No Software Patents Govt Assures FSF India UNION minister of commerce and industries, Kamal Nath has assured that the Indian government is committed to its stand of not allowing software patenting for the time being and that it would reiterate this stand in the forthcoming meeting of WTO ministerial at Hong Kong. This was conveyed to a delegation of Free Software Foundation of India (FSF India), which met the minister on December 6 in New Delhi and discussed with him about the proposal for software patenting which came up early this year. It comprised M Arun, secretary and Y Kiran Chandra, secretary FSF AP Chapter. CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and MP, Sitaram Yechury and CPI(M) central committee member and MP, P Madhu accompanied the delegation. A memorandum was also submitted to the minister on this issue. In a statement released to the press, the FSF India representatives termed the discussion with the minister as fruitful. The minister informed the delegation about his opinion that copyright provides reasonable protection for the software industry. However, pointing out that there was a strong demand from sections of the Indian IT industry to allow the patenting of software in conjunction with hardware, the minister expressed the need to find a via media between arguments of different groups. The FSF India stated that in the coming days it will interact with industries, particularly small and medium industries, to highlight the harmful effects of generic software patenting and also in order to understand the needs of the industry. It would be working with the industry to find a via media which will protect the larger social interests and at the same time protecting economic interest of industries, the statement assured. (INN) ___ Fsf-friends mailing list Fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends ___ 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] can you help me pl. for LINUX SUPPORT JOB
Hi Satish, Have you tried posting to the Linux-Delhi.org network and asking around? Unfortunately, I'm almost 2000 kms away. FN From: satish kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/01/30 Mon PM 01:07:48 GMT+05:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: can you help me pl. for LINUX SUPPORT JOB Dear sir / madam, I got your reference through 'Linux for you' magazine, I got Linux training from RHCE authroised training centre and having full confidence to work as a Support Staff in LINUX environment, presently I am working as a Sys Admin. in 30% LINUX platform and 70% Windows platform, but I am vigorously trying 70 - 100% LINUX PLATFORM job, if you think that you can hlep me to find a Linux job, requesting you pl forward my bio (attached herewtih) to your friends and help to get a LINUX PLATFORM so that I can maintain, update and impliment the linux knowledge. If you need any clarification, pl. feel free to contact me anytime @ 0990402. thanks satish -- G.R.Satish Kumar RZ-14, Gali No.3. Dabri Extn.Main New Delhi - 110 045 Ph: 990402 Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Freelance Journalist TEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks fred at bytesforall.org http://www.bytesforall.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] COMMENT: Google may not go Simputer way
From HINDUSTAN TIMES January 5, 2006 GOOGLE MAY NOT GO SIMPUTER WAY Venkatesh Ganesh Mumbai, January 4 GOOGLE's ENTRY into the sub-Rs 10,000 PC market has rattled the cage of existing players. But the search-engine giant's entry into the hardware sector in India with a thin-client model (a PC with no hard disk and computing) may not be a walkover. HT was the first to report on December 15, 2005 about the Google's plans to enter the Indian market with thin-client model. Early entrants like the Simputer and other low-cost PCs are being still viewed skeptically. Globally too, thin-clients have managed to make only small inroads. But the real fight is for a different space. Google appears to be looking to dethrone Microsoft from its desktop throne. Thin clients have been viewed in a cautious manner primarily due to the price factor. But with Google entering the fray at such an attractive price point, things might change, says Nitin Mukadam, an e-commerce consultant. The advantage with thin clients is that the storage happens in a central server. For example, all data and applications (like word processors, spreadsheets, etc) are hosted in a central server. This solves a lot of problems right from storage to viruses. Also, with bandwidth prices coming down, the commercial viability of a thin-client device is now more feasible. Then, therere are issues with regards to Random Access Memory (RAM) that can run with even small memory space. Industry analysts opine that Google has a rough road ahead. Delivering complete functionality in a thin-client is most challenging, Sameer Kochhar CEO of Skotch told the Hindustan Times. Translated, it would imply that since Windows is the pre-dominant operating system, operating on non-Windows system would take some getting used to (Google would bundle Linux-based applications). Sanjeev Sharma, managing director, Fujusan Technologies, an Indian representative of Fujitsu, the Japanese IT and communication solution provider, feels that the acceptance of a device of this kind will be predominantly in the small office-home office.(ENDS) ___ 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] INDIA: FN's Eye on FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) 2JAN2006
FN's Eye on FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) 2JAN2006 Please forward this to FLOSS groups you know... help it grow -FN [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] LFY, DELHI AND LINUX ASIA... SEEKING COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: LINUXForYou editor Rahul Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] reminds us of the forthcoming LinuxAsia event in Delhi. Rahul writes: This email is w.r.t. LinuxAsia, and to seek your help in building the community side to it. LinuxAsia has managed to become the biggest B2B event, where top industry players meet customers at a national level. I am tempted to try and see if we can help drive the community push further in Delhi through LinuxAsia. We have planned the following community initiatives for LinuxAsia 2006: * The Dot.Org mela where [free software and] open source projects will be provided a FREE booth space subject to registration and approval by the technical committee. * The [GNU]Linux Newbie sessions where new comers sit through a one hour session, which is presented by the [GNU]Linux/[FL]OSS community takes them through a series of presentations, which would help the newbies to understand [free software and] open source and Linux better, and the benefits associated. We need good speakers who WANT TO TAKE LINUX TO THE MASSES, and can do a good job at that. * Free LUG booths where we want more and more LUGs to be represented at Delhi to tell the world that India rocks when it comes to [GNU]Linux/[FL]OSS. MORE ABOUT LINUX ASIA: You can submit your conference proposal for LinuxAsia 2006 till January 8, 2006. Deadlines for speakers as below: * January 8, 2006: Proposal deadline * January 15, 2006: Notification of acceptance to speakers * January 22, 2006: Final presentation materials due * February 8, 2006: LinuxAsia 2006 Conference begins Submit your conference proposal at http://www.linuxasia.net/speakers LinuxAsia Conference Expo 2006 February 8-10, 2006 | New Delhi, India http://www.linuxasia.net [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] FREE SOFTWARE AND MEDIA, OPTIONS FOR B'LORE: Anivar Aravind [EMAIL PROTECTED] an active member of the Free Software Foundation of India has this to write: I got a mail from Jaromil (the creator of dyne:bolic, http://rastasoft.org/) saying that he will be in Bangalore by March/April 2006 for some programme of Mahiti. Can we plan some free software amd media workshops at that time? Any one interested? Any collaborators? [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] FSF-INDIA DIRECTOR Dr G Nagarjuna [EMAIL PROTECTED] of the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education at the TIFR in Mumbai, announces that the FSF is entering 2006 with a very important task, drafting GPLv-3. GPLv-2 was released in 1991, and it is the most widely used free software license. During the course of time, the computing environments are transforming, particularly with the entrance of webservices and embedded devices. In the context of these changes, it is possible that user's freedom may not be preserved. FSF says it is committed to protect the software freedom even under the transformed conditions in future. A draft of the GPL-v3 will be released during the First International Public GPL-v3 launch conference to be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on January 16 and 17, 2006. Dr Nagarjuna is expected to represent FSF India. He writes: I invite the free software community in India to actively participate in shaping the new license. If you would like to share any specific inputs let us discuss them here in the list. You may also want to send me your thoughts directly. Wishing you all a success in protecting software freedom. Visit http;//gplv3.fsf.org/ [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] CHECK THE PROJECT RESOURCE CENTRE, which is meant to be a network to discuss GNU/Linux and FLOSS projects for students. It has recently been looking at the Sarai.net offer for support for those taking up such initiatives too. https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] NepaLinux IS OUT: It was released on December 22, 2005. NepaLinux is a Debian and Morphix based GNU/Linux distribution focused for Desktop usage in Nepali language computing. It contains applications for Desktop users like: OpenOffice.org, Nepali Gnome Desktop, Nepali input systems etc. http://www.nepalinux.org/ It is drawing some early praise too. Our Greek friend Simos Xenitellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Congratulations to everyone contributed in the work! I tried out the Live CD and I must say I am really impressed with the level of integration and completeness of localisation. You use a consistent colour theme
[ilugd] Using [GNU]Linux with Kids from 3 to 7 -- an introduction
The Community-Linux Training Centre: Practice Briefing 2 Using Linux with Kids from 3 to 7 – an introduction By the Free Range Comunity-Linux Training Centre Project, CLTC-P02, version 1.1, December 2004. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.fraw.org.uk/cltc/ Using computers with kids can be problematic. On Windows machines problems arise when they start fooling around with system files or donâ €™t respond appropriately to warning messages. By contrast, the greater security provided by Linux means kids can play, largely unsupervised, with little risk to the system. This briefing looks at various aspects of using Linux with kids – both in terms of software and playing with hardware. Gnu/Linux is a really good computer operating system – especially if you like playing with networks or programming languages. But there is one area where both the resources available with Linux distributions, and the efforts of the Linux support community to provide assistance, are a little thin – using Linux with young children. This briefing has been developed to address this shortfall in support. The development of this briefing has not been a formal study. It has emerged as a result of the experience gained in studying how two young children (right) have been able to learn how to use the computer, and the functions of the graphical desktop. What follows is therefore a documentation of the knowledge gained from observation rather than an in-depth study. It is also the reason why this briefing is limited to the ages three to seven. However, it is hoped that the idea presented here will spawn other projects to provide support for the use of Gnu/Linux with young children -- Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Independent JournalistTEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 [] Check out my bookmarks at http://del.icio.us/fredericknoronha ... [] Links to many subjects, specially Free Software in education. -- Copylefted. Knowledge is power; share it equitably! - ___ 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] FLOSS 3D animation...
This is something interesting I read in the linux-magazine.com: Not so long ago, professional quality 3D animation required expensive workstations. The software they ran, for example, Maya (Unlimited Vision), cost more than $15,000 early in 2002, and the software technology was hidden behind restictive licenses. What's the 3D animation process? The process starts with modeling the shape of the 3D object. The next stage is texturing, that is, adding a kind of skin. This step gives the model a natural looking surface with light reflexes and a surface structure. UV mapping projects 2D bitmaps (such as wood grains) onto the 3D surface; in its simplest form, this is like posting a bill on an advertising column. The 3D model can then be animated. In the rigging process, joints are added to the figure. The joints allow the the artist to move a complex object like a puppetter moves a puppet. After completing the basic animation scene, the animator adds special effects, such as water, fire, or smoke. The scene is then lit by positioning light sources, just like in conventional movie making. The post production is concerned with optimizing the nearly-finished product, coming it with the movie or video scenes, and adding a soundtrack. Also: Normally, many different programs are used to create a 3D animation. First of all, you need a program to create the 3D models. In most cases, animation and rendering (conversion of finished models to photo-realistic images) are handled by separate programs. Rendering is so vastly complext that it typically requires a specialized tool. Some useful software: Wings3D, simplifying complex shapes http://www.wings3d.com Blender, the only FLOSS program that covers all steps in 3D production http://blender.org [Blender's strengths is its speed, which is superior to commercial products. But Blender mainly uses subwindows that are full of buttons and slide controls. The itnerface design lacks logical consistency. Even such simple functions as cut and paste take some getting used to in Blender, as they use [Alt] + [C] or [Alt] + [V], rather than the more typical [Ctrl] keys. This is due to the fact that Blender was designed as an in-house solution for the NeoGeo animation studio. K3D, one more recent developments in the 3D fields. K3D's major strength is it's a targeted new development based on current experience http://k3d.sourceforge.net Yafray, currently the most powerful free rendering tool http://www.yafray.org Toxic, a rendering tool based on physically exact computing http://www.toxicengine.org Aqsis, provider most complete support for RenderMan standard syntax for 3D model definition http://www.aqsis.org Povray (documentation, community) http://povray.org Jahshaka, might close the gaps in the near future http://www.jahshaka.org Cinelerra, another possible candidate to allow studios to handle whole prodocution cycle for computer-generated movie making with FLOSS software. http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 - ILUG-Goa meets next on December 17, 2005,3-5 pm Science Centre -- - | India Linux Users' Group, Goa | | Join the friendly user group | | Mail list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa/join | -- | | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teach-yourself-linux| | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa-announce | | http://www.iosn.net/country/india/organizations/ilug-goa/ | - ,, / \.-. * SOFTWARE ((__-^^-,-^^-__)) (. .) * FREEDOM `-_---' `---_-' / V \ * SHARING `--|o` 'o|--' // \\ \ ` / /( )\ KNOWLEDGE IS POWER ): :( '.^^_^^.' SHARE IT EQUITABLY :o_o: \_/ \_/ - ___ 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] Some thoughts on LUGs (globally)...
One of the biggest challenges facing LUGs at the moment stems from the fact that a growing number have existed for ten years or more. Many of us know each other quite well, and newcomers often find it difficult to get a word in without feeling that they're somehow offending those to whom their problem seems trivial and not worthy of detailed discussion. Some LUGs occasionally flare up into completely pointless flame wars that start over trivial macho tendencies of many members to prove their technological prowess at every opportunity. This tendency has led to some community fragmentation, with a single group forking into a group for veterans and one for newcomers. The problem is that such segregation comes at a cost and is often detrimental to the overall community because it discourages the involvement of newer members who might in time come to pass valuable information to those who come after. -- Jon Masters, in www.linux-magazine.com January 2006 issue. - ILUG-Goa meets on Dec 17, 2005 (Saturday). Wanted: lightening talks. ___ 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] LinuxQuestions.org Launches Redesigned Website
LinuxQuestions.org Launches Redesigned Website LinuxQuestions.org launches redesigned Website. (PRWEB) December 6, 2005 -- LinuxQuestions.org is proud to announce the launch of its redesigned website. Along with the new look comes a variety of new features and sections. LQ currently has over 60 forums, with topics ranging from Linux Newbies to Linux in the Enterprise, and has participation from twenty-five Linux distributions. There is also a Linux hardware compatibility list, a tutorials section, a reviews section and more. New to the site is an Articles and Editorials section that contains original content and a blog for every member. The site runs on the LAMP stack and utilizes a variety of Open Source software. This is the first complete redesign we've done in over four years. Thew new site utilizes many newer technologies and enables us to serve our members in a way that just wasn't possible before, said LinuxQuestions.org founder Jeremy Garcia. About LinuxQuestions.org: LinuxQuestions.org is a free, friendly and active Linux Community with over 200,000 members and over 1,900,000 posts. Founded in 2000 LQ offers forums, reviews, a Linux hardware compatibility list, a Linux knowledge base in wiki format, Linux tutorials, a free Linux download site, a Linux podcast, a Linux Radio show, a social bookmarking site and more. LQ has forums for everything from Linux Newbies to Linux in the Enterprise and has 25 officially recognized Linux distribution forums. -- Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Independent JournalistTEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 [] Check out my bookmarks at http://del.icio.us/fredericknoronha ... [] Links to many subjects, specially Free Software in education. -- Copylefted. Knowledge is power; share it equitably! - -- Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Independent JournalistTEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 [] Check out my bookmarks at http://del.icio.us/fredericknoronha ... [] Links to many subjects, specially Free Software in education. -- Copylefted. Knowledge is power; share it equitably! - ___ 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] ITITI... in Dehra Doon
Can someone in the Delhi network see if it's possible to help here? FN Forwarded Message From: Frederick Noronha (FN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alex M Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Tuxers, Doon Doon Tuxers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hi gnu/linux Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:42:39 +0530 Sure, Alex. I remember. How time flies! I think we also met at a conference at the Taj hotel on Race Course road sometime in 1999 or 2000. Where are you now based? Permit me to copy your maili to the Doon Tuxers list, which I believe is based in Dehra Doon. More details about the list is http://lists.asiaosc.org/mailman/listinfo and also at http://lists.asiaosc.org/mailman/listinfo/dglug Please could you ask your friend to get in touch with the team there? Best wishes in your work. FN On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 16:07 +0530, Alex M Alex wrote: Dear Frederick Noronha, I hope you remember me My name is Mr Alex M Alex. I met you first time in IISc 7 years back. I was part of the Simputer project in IISc bangalore. Reason, Why I am writing to you is, My friend who is running a free residential school in Dehra Dun (http://www.ititi.org/ )wants to switch over from Windows to Gnu/Linux as early as possible. Currently I am not in the field of software or computer related sector for the last 5 years. It will be nice if you can direct me to some of your known people in Dehra Dun who are experts in GNU/Linux. Regards Alex Ps : It will be nice if you can send me your contact telephone numbers: Alex M Alex +91-9818306070 ___ 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] ITITI... in Dehra Doon
Can someone in the Delhi network see if it's possible to help here? FN Forwarded Message From: Frederick Noronha (FN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alex M Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Tuxers, Doon Doon Tuxers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hi gnu/linux Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:42:39 +0530 Sure, Alex. I remember. How time flies! I think we also met at a conference at the Taj hotel on Race Course road sometime in 1999 or 2000. Where are you now based? Permit me to copy your maili to the Doon Tuxers list, which I believe is based in Dehra Doon. More details about the list is http://lists.asiaosc.org/mailman/listinfo and also at http://lists.asiaosc.org/mailman/listinfo/dglug Please could you ask your friend to get in touch with the team there? Best wishes in your work. FN On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 16:07 +0530, Alex M Alex wrote: Dear Frederick Noronha, I hope you remember me My name is Mr Alex M Alex. I met you first time in IISc 7 years back. I was part of the Simputer project in IISc bangalore. Reason, Why I am writing to you is, My friend who is running a free residential school in Dehra Dun (http://www.ititi.org/ )wants to switch over from Windows to Gnu/Linux as early as possible. Currently I am not in the field of software or computer related sector for the last 5 years. It will be nice if you can direct me to some of your known people in Dehra Dun who are experts in GNU/Linux. Regards Alex Ps : It will be nice if you can send me your contact telephone numbers: Alex M Alex +91-9818306070 -- Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Independent JournalistTEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 [] Check out my bookmarks at http://del.icio.us/fredericknoronha ... [] Links to many subjects, specially Free Software in education. -- Copylefted. Knowledge is power; share it equitably! - ___ 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] FN'sEyeOnFLOSS *** Nov 10, 2005 * FreeBSD and India... opendocumentfellowship... Phoenix... astronomy... FOSS.in...
FN's Eye on FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) 10NOV05 Please forward this to FLOSS groups you know... help it grow -FN [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] FREEBSD ... AND INDIA: When FreeBSD 6.0 got recently released, one thought of checking out its links with India. Dru [EMAIL PROTECTED] responded to a query to to say, While I don't know about Indian involvement with the FreeBSD project, I know there is involvement with BSD Certification (http://www.bsdcertification.org). One of the members of the bsdcert mailing list will be at FOSS India -- http://foss.in -- handing out 1500 copies of our brochure. We also have two translators who are starting translations into Hindi, Bengali, Tamil and Telegu. As the current chair of the BSD Certification Group, I am interested in spreading the word about BSD certification to India. See [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Their website http://bsd-india.org/ was established in 1999 and has 111 members. Joseph Koshy [EMAIL PROTECTED] says, There are indian programmers who have been working on FreeBSD since 1998. Craig Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] who's an old-time friend in another context (Goa's first Usenet newsgroup soc.culture.indian.goa) had this to say, I am a FreeBSD committer, and PIO (Person of Indian Origin), with roots in Goa. FreeBSD is an open-source project which produces a very high-quality, rock solid, operating system. FreeBSD traces its roots to some of the earliest Unix work done at ATT and the University of California, Berkeley, and is built on solid and proven technology. You can see the history of BSD here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree Many people from around the world and from different backgrounds contribute to the FreeBSD project, including Indians. * Joseph Koshy ( http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy/ ), in Bangalore, contributed a Performance Measurement Framework -- http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy/projects/perf-measurement/index.html -- to FreeBSD. Joseph has also contributed other things to FreeBSD. * Mohan Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] works at Yahoo, and has contributed many fixes to the FreeBSD networking code. FreeBSD is the primary platform that Yahoo operates its servers on, so high performance networking code in FreeBSD is very important to them. You should contact Joseph and Mohan directly, to get the most accurate information about their involvement in FreeBSD, since I might have made some mistakes. As for myself, Craig Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED], I contribute to FreeBSD in different areas. For FreeBSD 6.0, I have contributed bugfixes to various areas of the FreeBSD code. For FreeBSD 7 (which has not been released), I am collaborating with Alexander Kabaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] to port the high performance XFS filesystem to FreeBSD. Unfortunately, we were not able to finish our work for FreeBSD 6. XFS was originally written by SGI (Silicon Graphics Inc.) for their IRIX operating system, but they have ported their code to [GNU]Linux. Alexander and I are working to port this code to FreeBSD, and we have a project web page at: http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/xfs/ [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] Marco Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] who has worked on the RULE project [1] says he is rebuilding that site from scratch right now, but have also started in another FLOSS-related project. It's the OpenDocument fellowship, its mission and and its petition to add OpenDocument support in Microsoft Office http://opendocumentfellowship.org Says Marco: Please let me know your opinion, and let the news circulate in India as much as possible if they already haven't. You're obviously encouraged to tell people to contact me, and to let me know anything OpenDocument related happening in India. Marco Fioretti OpenDocument Fellowship Committee Member http://opendocumentfellowship.org Everybody's Guide to OpenDocument: www.linuxjournal.com/article/8616 [1] What is the RULE Project about? The problem: Hardware is not cheap. There are plenty of single users, schools and non-profit organizations with null or very little money for computers. Furthermore, PCs pollute a lot, hence they should be used as long as possible. Not with older Free Software, however, which is useless and dangerous: null support, security holes, no IMAP, GPG, HTML4... Our solution: Hardware is only as old as the software it runs. RULE wants to make modern Free Software useable even on 5 or more years old machines, on which current Linux distributions won't
[ilugd] FreeBSD Project Launches FreeBSD 6.
FreeBSD Project Launches FreeBSD 6.0 - Raises the Bar for Open Source Operating Systems Berkeley, CA (PRWEB) November 4, 2005 -- The FreeBSD Project announces the availability of FreeBSD 6.0, an open source operating system derived from BSD UNIX, which offers a powerful alternative to Linux, Solaris, and Windows. FreeBSD enables enterprise organizations to utilize open source technologies that focus on reliability, security, and scalability. Yahoo! is impressed with the performance and stability of FreeBSD 6.0, says David Filo, Yahoo! co-founder. Yahoo! is one of many enterprise companies that rely on the world-renowned stability and performance of the FreeBSD operating system. One of the new features in FreeBSD 6.0 is a multithreaded filesystem, which greatly improves data access times for local disks, RAID configurations, network filesystems, and SANs. Recent performance benchmarks show that FreeBSD 6.0 outperforms Linux in raw data throughput. Additionally, FreeBSD 6.0 extends support for wireless devices such as Intel Centrino and adds supports for the popular new WPA wireless security protocol. Several improvements are incorporated into NDISulator, a component of the operating system that allows Windows network drivers to run natively under FreeBSD. FreeBSD now scales much more efficiently across multiple processor systems. Support for 8 or more processors, such as the new dual core AMD Opteron configurations, gives consumers a viable alternative against more expensive, proprietary hardware platforms and operating systems from IBM, HP, and Sun. About the FreeBSD Project The FreeBSD Project provides a free, open source operating system for several platforms, including Intel x86 and AMD64. FreeBSD is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX developed at UC Berkeley. The unencumbered BSD license permits modification and redistribution of the software while allowing an individual or company to retain intellectual property. ___ 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] Free and Open Source Software for E-learning (long)
?group=2/ Edutools compares open source and proprietary learning content management systems in terms of their features. Content management systems b2evolution http://b2evolution.net/index.html b2evolution is a content management system anchored around the blog concept. A blog is a journal that is available on the web. b2evolution allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. b2evolution is fully featured with multiple blogs, content/presentation separation, full user management. B2evolution is extending to provide features in Wikis, Trackers or hierarchy driven content management systems. Drupal http://drupal.org/ A dynamic web site platform which allows an individual or community of users to publish, manage and organize a variety of content. Drupal integrates many popular features of content management systems, weblogs, collaborative tools and discussion-based community software into one easy-to-use package. EZ Publish CMS http://www.ez.no/ez_publish/cms/ eZ Publish Content Management System (CMS) needs the EZ Publish Content Management Framework (CMF). EZ Publish CMS and CMF allow you to build a standard web shop site and incorporate functionality from different packages like forums, polls, newspapers, weblogs and image galleries. Jetbox http://jetboxone.sourceforge.net/ Jetbox uses a well tested user interface to integrate a content management system, WYSIWYG editor, mailing list, website statistics, user registration, search engine, and a document manager. PhP-Nuke http://jetboxone.sourceforge.net/ PhP-Nuke allows you to develop your own portal. A powerful assembly of tools allows the administrator to maintain an active and 100% interactive web site using databases. Postnuke http://news.postnuke.com/ Postnuke is a system that manages communities, content, and collaboration. It is a set of tools that allows you to build a dynamically generated web site that five years ago would have cost thousands of dollars SPIP (système de publication pour l'internet) http://www.spip.net/ SPIP is a publishing system for the Internet. SPIP enables you to build and update a website using a very simple user interface. Learning Management System (LMS) Technical Evaluations- advanced users Eduforge Technical Evaluation- Part 1 http://eduforge.org/docman/view.php/7/7/Shortlisting%20of%20LMS.pdf Eduforge Technical Evaluation- Part 2 http://eduforge.org/docman/view.php/7/17/Evaluation%20of%20LMS%20-%20Part%20II.pdf Technical Evaluation- The Open Polytech of New Zealand http://eduforge.org/docman/view.php/7/18/LMS%20Technical%20Evaluation%20-%20May04.pdf Reports on Standards for LMS-advanced users Making Sense of Learning Specifications Standards http://www.masie.com/standards/s3_2nd_edition.pdf Open Educational Resources (Open Courseware) MIT OCW http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/technology.htm Harvey Project http://harveyproject.org/ Open Course http://opencourse.org/ Merlot http://www.merlot.org/Home.po Intellectual Property Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/ Learning Objects Canadian Network of Learning Object Repositories http://www.edusource.ca/english/home_eng.html Learning Objects 101 http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/02november/inside-out-1.htm Splash http://www.edusplash.net/ Studies on the use of FOSS in education Open source software and Australian school education http://www.educationau.edu.au/papers/open_source.pdf FOSS Education Primer http://www.iosn.net/education/foss-education-primer/ Free Software in Asia http://www.maailma.kaapeli.fi/asia.html/ UNESCO Resources and Journals UNESCO Resources Free Software Portal http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=12034URL_DO=DO_TOPICURL_SECTION=201/ Information Processing Tools http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=1542URL_DO=DO_TOPICURL_SECTION=201reload=1045822722/ CDS/ISIS http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=2071URL_DO=DO_TOPICURL_SECTION=201reload=1035195531/ WinIDAMS http://www.unesco.org/idams/ Journals First Monday http://www.firstmonday.dk/ International Journal of Educational Technology (IJET) http://www.ao.uiuc.edu/ijet// EDUCAUSE Quarterly http://www.educause.edu/pub/eq/ Journal of Digital Information http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/index.asp/ FOSS for Africa http://www.ngomalinux.com/tiki-index.php NGMO Linux http://www.ngomalinux.com/tiki-index.php Circuits Packets Communication http://www.circuitspackets.com/ Burrokeet project http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/burrokeet-announce/ African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) http://avoir.uwc.ac.za/ Shuttleworth Foundation http://www.tsf.org.za/index.php?option=contenttask=blogsectionid=16 -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ Frederick Noronha | Independent Journalist | Ph 832.2409490 _/ 784 Saligao 403511 Goa India | [EMAIL
[ilugd] Battleground of ideas: FLOSS debate raises tempers at BytesForAll
Battleground of ideas: FLOSS debate raises tempers at BytesForAll
APC member BytesForAll's mailing list[1] recently played host
to a strong, and at times polemical, debate on
proprietary-versus-FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source
Software). In this debate, there were these couple of great
posts here [2] and here [3], that put things neatly in
perspective -- thanks to David Geilhufe who is co-founder of
the SocialSourceFoundation.org [4] and Sunil Abraham of
Mahiti.org [5].
It all started with a rather critical-of-FLOSS post by
University of Manchester's Dr Richard Heeks [6] offering a
link to an eDevelopment Briefing titled Free and Open Source
Software: A Blind Alley for Developing Countries? [7].
It calls the 1980s shareware FOSS forerunner to have had
zero impact, says data from Africa shows only five percent
of computers in developing countries have any Open Source
software running on them, and notes that proprietorial
software dominates even in Cuba... where the US embargo
should make conditions highly propitious.
Besides, the briefing says that piracy and the limited
size of initial purchase price within total cost of software
ownership there is actually no evidence of FOSS delivering
cost savings.
Says the briefing: In particular, proprietary software may
not be open source but it is certainly free for the great
majority of developing country users, thanks to piracy. It
points to the lack of awareness of FOSS in Africa, and the
lack of international links needed to be part of an active,
global community of like-minded developers.
One early response to this brief text came from BytesForAll
co-founder Frederick FN Noronha and is here for viewing
[8].
It argues, The 5% of computer systems overlooks the role
played by FLOSS in servers, in keeping the Internet running,
in giving unprecedented access to developers of the Third
World to take part in a global movement, and more. This
study, argues this post, overlooks the potential of FLOSS in
large 'developing' countries like India, China, Brazil and
South Africa. It points to another study -- from Finland --
which it says is more open to the benefits of FLOSS in the
developing world. See
http://www.maailma.kaapeli.fi/FLOSSReport1.0.html
FN also adds, By saying 'proprietorial software is free' for
the bulk of the 'developing' world, the study is guilty of
both tolerating/encouraging the illegally copying of software
('piracy' is a loaded term, unfortunately accepted by
academia too) and missing the essence of what Free Software
is all about (offering the freedom to be used, copied,
studied, modified and redistributed). We are not fighting
just for the right to remain 'pirates'
Richard RMS Stallman, founder of the Free Software
Foundation joining in the debate with these comments. [9]
There was a longish debate on benchmarking FLOSS. Javier
Sola, a Spanish-Chilean working on Khmer language
localisation in Cambodia, added some interesting points [10].
Javier, who works with APC member the Open Forum of Cambodia,
argues: Academics should make sure that they look at all
factors when they write something like this. In this case the
author has not come even close to it. He has, among others,
completelly ignored the power of localisation, diminished as
techies and amateurs some of the people that have clearer
ideas of what is needed for real migration and used
anectdotal data for his conclusions.
Sunil Abraham argues how proprietorial software could kill --
no exaggeration, due to its delays and restrictions -- in a
post-Tsunami situation. He also argues that because Sahana
(a Free/Libre and Open Source Software project to cope with
disasters) is FOSS, the earthquake stricken people from
Pakistan and India don't have to spend money earmarked for
food on software. Then, in an almost tongue-in-cheek Sunish
manner, he argues that FLOSS increases the responsiveness of
an organisation. This is important whether it is peoples
lives or greater profits. [11]
David Geilhufe has this very interesting response to argue
that FLOSS offers viral diffusion (to enable its
uncontrolled spread, of course in a positive way), local
control and lower barriers to entry. Well put, and very well
argued.
Here's [12] what David argues eloquently: There is no
religious war here, but I think the staunch defenders of
proprietary code get stuck on analyzing the software... this
isn't the important part. One needs to analyze the innovation
and use of software... that, I believe, is where the real ICT
impact lies.
David's Social Source Foundation [13] is here. It is a
nonproft organization that exists to create open source,
mission-focused technology for the nonprofit and NGO sector.
Another link is the OpenNGO.org [14] network. OpenNGO calls
itself an open source project to create a set of web-based
tools designed to meet the needs of small U.S. nonprofit
organizations and non-governmental organizations across the
globe.
Meanwhile, another strong debate continued at the
[ilugd] FSFE: Early comment on new Microsoft Shared Source Licenses
Would you believe this? FN Forwarded Message To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FSFE PR][EN] Early comment on new Microsoft Shared Source Licenses Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:44:07 -0200 [for immediate release] FSFE: Early comment on new Microsoft Shared Source Licenses Since we so rarely have opportunity to say something positive about Microsoft, let me begin by congratulating them, says Georg Greve, president of Free Software Foundation Europe. Microsoft finally seems to have made a step forward on their long march towards giving their users freedom: of the five licenses published, our cursory first analysis suggests that two of them indeed fulfill the Free Software Definition. According to FSFEs first glance, the Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL) and Microsoft Community License (Ms-CL) both appear to satisfy the four freedoms that define Free Software. In particular: The Ms-CL also appears to implement a variation of the Copyleft idea, which was first implemented by the GNU General Public License (GPL). Given previous Microsoft statements about the Copyleft approach and in particular the GNU GPL as 'viral', 'cancerous' and 'communist', seeing Microsoft now publish licenses applying the very same principles seems quite an evolution. Naturally, it is not the publication of licenses, but the publication of software under a Free Software license, that gives people freedom: It is indeed not very useful if every company, administration or author publishes their own license; so it would have been preferrable if Microsoft had made the decision to use the GNU General Public License (GPL) and Lesser General Public License (LGPL) for its Shared Source program. Far more than 50% of Free Software worldwide is published under these licenses, they are very well-known and people trust them for good reason. Microsoft has walked a mile and is now standing mere inches from the GNU (L)GPL: We fully understand that Microsoft is first trying to get the nail of its little toe wet in the Free Software community, and we welcome that, continues Greve. But in the course of time we would prefer to see Microsoft join the large global community of commercial GNU (L)GPL vendors. For now it will be good if Microsoft starts relicensing its portfolio under the Ms-PL or Ms-CL; but we still have to warn people to be careful about the 'Shared Source' label and look at the specific licenses: The other three licenses of the Shared Source program are clearly proprietary and obviously do not qualify as Free Software. Greve finishes. The Free Software Foundations will need more time to study all these licenses and their interactions with other licenses in depth, so this is not a final evaluation -- and the final evaluation may as well reveal problems that were not visible at first sight. Microsoft still has a long way to go, but for now it seems they made a step in the right direction, and the Free Software Foundation Europe hopes they will keep it up. About the Free Software Foundation Europe: The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), founded 2001, is a charitable non-governmental organisation dedicated to all aspects of Free Software in Europe. Access to software determines who may participate in a digital society. The the Freedoms to use, copy, modify and redistribute software - as described in the Free Software definition - allow equal participation in the information age. Creating awareness for these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues of the FSFE. Further information about FSFE's work can be found at http://fsfeurope.org, get active yourself at http://fsfeurope.org/contribute/. ___ Press-release mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/press-release ___ 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] 915 board
How did you get the xserver working? We were having some problem, and then tried copying one of the recent Vesa settings from the Bio-Knoppix live CD. FN From: Yashpal Nagar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/10/11 Tue AM 11:53:18 IST To: ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ilugd] 915 board Oh Yes. I just checked in our data center that one of our network infrastructre server(intel915) working on Debian 3.1 out/inside of the box! :) Regards, Yash On Sunday 09 Oct 2005 1:54 am, Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote: Any idea if Debian 3.1 Sarge would work on a 915 original Intel mother board? Thanks in advance. FN Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Freelance Journalist TEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks fred at bytesforall.org http://www.bytesforall.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] Free and Open Source Software: A Blind Alley for Developing Countries? [With a comment added by FN]
[This came up for debate on the BytesForAll list at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers Please check it out
there. FN]
COMMENT ADDED BY FN:
[A rather dismissive paper of Free/Libre and Open Source Software in
the so-called 'developing countries'. Needless to say the interest in
the 'e-development' community is often out of touch with reality, and
what developers are doing at the grassroots. It's often based on hype.
But that doesn't mean FLOSS is ineffective!
The 5% of computer systems overlooks the role played by FLOSS in
servers, in keeping the Internet running, in giving unprecedented
access to developers of the Third World to take part in a global
movement, and more.
By saying proprietorial software is free for the bulk of the
'developing' world, the study is guilty of both tolerating/encouraging
the illegally copying of software ('piracy' is a loaded term,
unfortunately accepted by academia too) and missing the essence of what
Free Software is all about (offering the freedom to be used, copied,
studied, modified and redistributed). We are not fighting just for the
right to remain 'pirates'...
By focussing on Africa, the report probably overlooks the benefits
flowing to other 'developing' countries from FLOSS. Including countries
like India, China, Brazil, South Africa and a whole lot of other
nations located in an intermediate stage of 'development'.
Whatever the latest fashion among the development network, FLOSS will
probably just continue to make its impact. Significantly, it's growth
till now went largely unnoticed by academia, and researchers, till the
media-blitz post 1998. --FN]
PS: A more detailed and realistic, in my view, study can be found at
http://www.maailma.kaapeli.fi/FLOSSReport1.0.html (this poster had a
role to play in part of the Maailma report).]
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http://www.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/dig/briefings.htm
eDevelopment Briefing No. 1
Development Informatics Group, University of Manchester
Free and Open Source Software:
A Blind Alley for Developing Countries?
There is considerable interest in the e-development community about
FOSS: free and open source software. It is argued to be cheaper and more
customisable than proprietary software; it is argued to be a potential
kick-starter for the local IT industry; it merits a mention in the WSIS
Plan of Action. So what is its likely trajectory?
We can turn first to historical evidence because we have been here
before. In the 1980s, shareware – FOSS' forerunner – was a temporary
source of excitement for exactly the same reasons; even attracting the
attention of the World Bank. Yet the developmental equation for
shareware was Impact = Zero.
What of the evidence today? A recent survey on our eGovernment for
Development Information Exchange plus survey data from Africai suggest
at most 5% of computer systems in developing countries have any open
source software running on them, and that is almost entirely represented
by Linux. Even in Cuba, where the US embargo should make conditions
highly propitious, proprietary software dominatesii.
Because of piracy and the limited size of initial purchase price within
total cost of software ownership, there is no clear, general evidence of
FOSS delivering cost savings. Because, by and large, FOSS means Linux,
the benefits of customisation and IT industry kick-start are also
nebulous.
The lack of strong evidence of FOSS benefits helps explain its lack of
success vis-a-vis proprietary products. In particular, proprietary
software may not be open source but it is certainly free for the great
majority of developing country users, thanks to piracy. Other key
factors uncovered include:
* Lack of awareness of FOSS: the African evidence suggests most IT
managers simply don't know about it.
* Poor international links: to work effectively with open source
code you need to be part of an active, global community of
like-minded developers; links to such communities from
developing countries are weak.
Donors have moved in with interventions to support FOSS, as recently
seen in Tanzania with the development of Jambo Office. Yet such efforts
are found to make little impact. To date, they have been amateurish;
focusing on the techies who write the code, and failing to introduce a
business focus that would draw in needed market research, marketing,
distribution and support skills. As so often, too, donor FOSS projects
have been short-terms flares of interest rather than the required
sustained efforts. They are no match for proprietary firms who are in
for the long-haul, and who will use the carrot of low pricing
[ilugd] FN'sEyeOnFLOSS *** Few hours to midnight... and FOSS.in deadline
FN's Eye on FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] MEET INDIAN FLOSS BLOGGERS: http://planet.foss.in/ FOSS4US blog (NGOs and FLOSS) http://foss4us.org/blog [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] NEWS FROM BANGALORE AND PLANS FOR FOSS.IN: Atul Chitnis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/foss-in-announce/ list: This is it, the last day of speaker and talks registration for FOSS.IN/2005. By midnight tonight (October 8th), we will be closing registration for talks for the technical and community sessions of the event. Speakers who have registered but not submitted any talks will be removed from the speaker database tonight. So if you are planning to submit any talks - you have till midnight tonight (GMT+0530!) FOSS.IN seems to be generating massive amounts of enthusiasm in the Linux community, and *especially* in the BSD community (who have proposed several talks and workshops), the Gentoo community, the Debian community, etc. The FOSS community rulez! I will send in another mail giving you some top level stats about talks and speakers once we close registrations tonight. Once registrations close, we will spend a couple of days sorting things out, checking which talks need work on, and will release the first shortlist (minus work-in-progress talks and star talks) on schedule in the evening of the 12th of October. (See the schedule at http://foss.in/2005/cfp/). Once clashes and WIP talks are sorted out, we will release a second list with these added. Star speakers will be announced as soon as the remaining major sponsor confirmations come in. Call for participation for business sessions and student talks will go out early next week. Stay tuned. Atul --- FOSS.IN/2005 India's Premiere Free Open Source Software Event Nov 29 to Dec 2, 2005 Bangalore Palace. foss.in/2005 Speaker Registration open till Oct.08, 2005 -- [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] WANTED, CODERS FOR AN EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT-ORIENTED GAME: Sunil Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] of Bangalore sent across this note from his friend Dev [EMAIL PROTECTED] who put forward a specific proposal. Dev wrote: I need your help to find young social technopreneurs (in your circle its probably Open source software engineers who might want to design a game like WFP Food Force or other software). Global Knowledge Partnership's Youth Social Enterprise Initiative (YSEI) fellowships are designed to help social entrepreneurs achieve their goals from the initial idea through to project implementation and impact creation. They seek to support projects by young people who are creating impact with innovative solutions to social problems, especially those using information and communication technologies (ICTs) for development. YSEI will support fellows by providing mentorship and training programmes; networking; and seed grants. If you are a young social entrepreneur (age 30) from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Philippines and Malaysia in search for support and opportunities. Please visit www.globalknowledge.org/ysei OR www.futureshifters.net to learn more and submit your proposal by 31st October 2005. Youth Social Enterprise Initiative (YSEI) is a Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) Youth Program supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). Its partners include MITRA, OrphanIT, TakingITGlobal, YoungAsiaTelevision, Philippines Resources for Sustainable Development (PRSD), Development Research Network (D.Net) with TRN as the intiative's lead. Sunil Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] also happens to be manager of the IOSN.net In addition, he's behind the Mahiti group in Bangalore. http://www.mahiti.org 314/1, 7th Cross, Domlur Bangalore - 560 071 Karnataka, INDIA Ph/Fax: +91 80 51150580. Mob: (91) 9342201521 UK: (44) 0200259 [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] YOUNG NETWORK IN GOA: Our friend 'DP' of the Goa Lug rediscovered this abandoned network and is trying to rebuild it. It's in the town of Ponda in central Goa. A place where a small but committed number of techies are deeply interested in GNU/Linux. Please offer your support: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-ponda [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] AN INTERESTING LINK: Guru Prasath [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to the SonaLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] recently, a link that gives an interesting background, in all its graphic detail: Unix history in graphic. http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html
[ilugd] 915 board
Any idea if Debian 3.1 Sarge would work on a 915 original Intel mother board? Thanks in advance. FN ___ 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] FN'sEyeOnFLOSS *** Freedel on Sept 17/18 at New Delhi *** 09162005
FN's Eye on FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software IOSN COMES OUT WITH A PRIMER ON OPEN STANDARDS IOSN's open standards primer. * Download the primer: Open Document format (111KB) http://www.iosn.net/open-standards/foss-open-standards-primer/foss-openstds-v01-1.odt * PDF format (485KB) http://www.iosn.net/open-standards/foss-open-standards-primer/foss-openstds-v01-1.pdf [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] MORE USEFUL URLs AND SOME CORRECTIONS TOO Thanks to Komal [EMAIL PROTECTED] for pointing out that the correct link for xfree86 is www.x.org and for the Linux documentation project is www.tldp.org (and not as rendered earlier). And thank you Prachee Agarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] of the Lucknow LUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] for responding with *your* favourite links: www.indlinux.org www.gentoo.org www.linuxiso.org www.linuxquestions.org ftp://ftp.funet.fi Just shows how *everyone* benefits when something (information, code) is shared! [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] HOW-TO, ON TALKING THIS TIME... COURTESY PUNE Kanti Jadia [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent across this useful tip from PLUG, the Pune GNU/Linux Users Group, which explains *how to talk* http://plug.org.in/articles/articles.php?howtotalk [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] NOVELL COMES OUT WITH SOLUTIONS FOR INDIAN TONGUES AD (Andi) Marshall, out there in Vietnam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] draws attention to this link, which says: Novell is introducing Indian language versions of its Suse Linux distribution, according to an executive of the company... COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=ons=1,1ur7,1,dvc6,kevq,9a65,aayy IndLinux guru Guntupalli Karunakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] responds, to say: Surprisingly, it doesnt mention Punjabi as supported, when Punjabi is most well supported language on any distribution, while Malayalam where l10n effort is slow pending resolution of Malayalam Unicode issues finds place. Maybe they were trying to be different ;) [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] DELHI PLANS AN AMBITIOUS FREEDEL MEET, WITH LOCAL CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE Raj Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] of ILUG-Delhi announces Freedel to be held on September 17/18 2005, 10:00AM to 6:00PM at PHD House, Hauz Khas, New Delhi. Two full days of demystifying [GNU]Linux. PHDCCI and India Linux Users Group - Delhi (ILUG-D) are behind the event. Says Mathur: ILUG-D in the past has conducted very successful events where over 450 participants attended. This year we are expecting much greater numbers. People from all walks of life are expected to attend; students, professionals, corporates, all will be there. What's more, ILUG-D will have something to show for everyone. Technical talks covering issues from installation, to desktop usage to wireless [GNU]Linux, it will all be there. We will even have young school kids showing how they use [GNU]Linux. Its an event you don't want to miss! Several stalls showcasing various aspects of Linux from gaming, to audio/video editing to development, servers, databases and applications. The event is organised by ILUG-D and co-hosted by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It is completely volunteer-driven and supported by several organisations. The event is primarily driven by volunteers of ILUG-D and a committed group of computer professionals from PHDCCI. Apart from all the technical stuff happening, there will also be T-shirts, Linux distributions on CDs, tea, snacks and all the elements of fun available at low or no cost. Be there, be counted! Contact: Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] THOSE FREE CDs IN YOUR HAND, THEY'RE ACTUALLY WORTH MILLIONS Value of Debian GNU/Linux. The paper Measuring Libre Software studying the size of the source packages in Debian 3.1 calculates the size of sarge (close to 230 million lines of source code), the use of the various programming languages in which the software has been written, and the size of the packages included in the distribution. It also estimates cost to create something on the scale of Debian from scratch with a classical and well-known cost method (COCOMO) to be over 8 billion US dollar. http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/issues/2005/3/up6-3Amor.pdf Source: Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2005/37/ [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] IT'S NEW: A WIKI FOR THE FLOSS COMMUNITY IN INDIA Praveen A [EMAIL PROTECTED] has launched a new wiki for the Free/Libre and Open Source Software community in India. See http://fci.wikicities.com [/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/]o[/] AN EXPAT WHO CAN, AND PLANS TO, BUILD BRIDGES Adi Alurkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an Indian expat who could be one of those to build useful bridges. He announced on ILUG-Goa --
[ilugd] Some new news items on LIG's pages
lease visit http://linuxindianews.notlong.com/ * Respected Sir... appeal to the VC (open letter to VTU-Ktaka)) * CHECK IT OUT: IMB announces LinuxPPC64 contest * We'll miss you Mandal Hembrom (Santhali localisation) * When sharing moves beyond software (Ahmedabad) * LinuxAsia2005.com, reflected in a blog, Slashdot, etc * Installing Indic * Languages, local computing, and Tapan * One day, one command * Surprised... at Burdwan * The Times of India higlights the software patents threat * India's newest LUG? AT SREC * I4d, and a study on FLOSS for health * From Mangalore... FLOSS news with love Check it out. You can also visit via http://www.linux-india.org pages _ _/ \Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa \ __\/\ India T +91.832.2409490 M +919822 122436 | | | | \ http://fn.swiki.net http://goabooks.swiki.net |__| |___| / http://www.bytesforall.net http://www.bytesforall.org \/ - Writing with a difference, on issues that really make the difference. ___ 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] Recipe for a Successful Linux User Group
The most recent version of this essay can be found at http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Linux_PR/newlug.html. Recipe for a Successful Linux User Group by Rick Moen See the full essay online ** Really good. -FN 1. You need a Web page. 2. Your Web page needs a reasonable URL. 3. You need a regular meeting location. 4. You need a regular meeting time. 5. You need to avoid meeting-time conflicts. 6. You need to make sure that meetings happen as advertised, without fail. 7. You need a core of several Linux enthusiasts. 8. Your core volunteers need out-of-band methods of communication. 9. You need to get on the main lists of LUGs, and keep your entries accurate. * http://www.ssc.com/glue/ * http://lugww.counter.li.org/ * http://nlug.org/webring/ * http://www.redhat.com/apps/community/LUG/ * http://www.linux.org/groups/ * http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/User_Groups/ * http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Software/ Operating_Systems/Unix/Linux/User_Groups/ 10. You must have login access to maintain your Web pages, as needed. 11. Design your Web page to be forgiving of deferred maintenance. 12. Always include the day of the week, when you cite event dates. Always check that day of the week, first, using gcal [2] (or cal). gcal is your friend. 13. Place time-sensitive and key information prominently near the top of your main Web page. 14. Include maps and directions to your events. 15. Emphasise on your main page that your meeting will be free of charge and open to the public (if it is). 16. You'll want to include an RSVP mailto hyperlink, on some events. 17. Use referral pages. 18. Make sure every page has a revision date and maintainer link. 19. Check all links, at intervals. 20. You may want to consider establishing a LUG mailing list. 21. You don't need to be in the Internet Service Provider business. 22. Don't go into any other business, either. 23. Walk the walk. LUG checklist. The following checklist may be useful for your group, once established. 1. Web page: a. Meetings: [ ] Current meeting info? Is it prominent? [ ] Day of the week? Beginning time? Ending time? [ ] Double-checked day/date matches against a calendar? (E.g., is the Friday, March 28 you listed an error, because the 28th is a Thursday?) [ ] Location? [ ] Map? [ ] Directions (car, public transit)? Parking tips? [ ] Information on the next several meetings? [ ] RSVP mailto link on meetings where this is needed? [ ] Note that meetings are free and open to the public (if they are)? [ ] If there's a special fee, is it disclosed next to the event listing? [ ] If location / time / date formula has changed recently, is this noted prominently? [ ] Have you checked for event conflicts with other nearby groups, or with holidays? b. General: [ ] Includes event date-formulas (e.g., 4th Tuesdays)? Prominently? [ ] Maintainer mailto link? [ ] Last-revised date? c. Periodically (maybe every quarter): [ ] Checked all links on your site for dead links? [ ] Checked your Web server's logs for pages requested but not found? (You'll want to put a referral page at that URL.) [ ] Read all your Web content attentively for outdated content? 2. Other, periodical: [ ] Reviewed/updated all LUG lists that have entries concerning your group? [ ] Reviewed all sites that link to yours? Advised their webmasters of needed corrections? Last revised: 2003-08-04 Having seen (and run) quite a few Linux user groups (LUGs), and observed some thrive and others die, I can hazard some firm recommendations. If you're thinking of starting a LUG, or are running one now, please ponder these lessons, drawn from other LUGs' experience. In fact, please consider reviewing this list from time to time, as a kind of checklist. d8b d8b db Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa India 88' 888o 88 f r e d @ b y t e s f o r a l l . o r g 88ooo 88V8o 88 http://www.bytesforall.org * http://fn.swiki.net 88~~~ 88 V8o88 Phone 0091.832.2409490 Mobile 09822 122436 88 88 V888 784 Nr Lourdes Convent, Sonarbhat Saligao Goa 403511 YP VP V8P Writing ... with a difference, on issues that matter ___ 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] INDIA * http://wikiwikiweb.de/LugsList
Just a brief note to say I've created a listing of LUGs, FSUGs, GLUGs and other user groups around India. If you find any error or omission in the listing, I'd be grateful if you could draw it to my attention. The list is at: http://wikiwikiweb.de/LugsList Needless to say, you are more than welcome to copy, reproduce or improve this listing. Thank you! FN - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - GNU/Linux user groups... from India and Asia A list of the useful user groups that help in spreading Free/Libre and Open Source Software. Would really appreciate any help in updating and correcting this list and keeping it current. Let's try to network all the 'little' GNU/LUGs, who badly need your support to grow. FN (Frederick Noronha in Goa) GNU/Linux links and lists (India) All India networks * Free Software Foundation of India http://fsf.org.in/ * Linux India network http://www.linux-india.org/ * Linux India General https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-general/ * Linux India Help https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help * BSD India http://www.bsd-india.org * BSD India mailing list http://www.bsd-india.org/mailinglist.html * Linux In India http://www.freelists.org/archives/linuxinindia/ Regional networks in India Northern India * ILUG-Delhi http://linux-delhi.org/ * ILUG-Indore http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-indore/ * Kanpur LUGK http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lugk/ * Linux-Chandigarh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux_chandigarh * Sun City Jodhpur LUG http://groups.yahoo.com/group/suncityjodhpurlug * Apart from the mailing list, a website at http://www.geocities.com/sunnylug/ * Linux Lucknow http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-lucknow/ * Raipur http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug_raipur/ * Bhopal http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lug-bhopal/ * LUG of Dehradoon http://lists.asiaosc.org/mailman/listinfo/lugdoon * Address for posting is lugdoon at lists.asiaosc.org * Linux Gurus Bhopal http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux_gurus/ Southern India * Linux Bangalore http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-bangalore/ * Linux Bangalore nontech http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-bangalore-non-tech * Linux - Technical n Tutorials Bangalore http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vtplinux/ * ILUG-Chennai (Madras) http://www.chennailug.org/ * Chennai wiki http://www.chennailug.org/wiki/Main_Page * ILUG-Cochin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-cochin/ * ILUG-KTM (Kottayam) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-ktm/ * ILUG-Belgaum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-belgaum/ * ILUG-Mangalore http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-mangalore/ * ILUG-Hyderabad LUG http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilughyd/ * ILUG-Hyderabad http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-hyd/ * ILUG-Trivandrum (Kerala) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-tvm/ * ALUG - Andhra Linux Users Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alug_linux/ * AP LUG http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplug/ * Linux Hubli http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxhubli/ * GLUG-Madurai http://www.glug-madurai.org/ Mailing list at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/glug-madurai-discuss * GLUGOT (GNU/Linux User Group of TCE) http://cepserver.tce.edu/glugot/ Mailing list at http://cepserver.tce.edu/mailman/listinfo/glugot * Tamil Linux http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tamillinux/ * Tiruvannamalai LUG http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tvmalailug/ * Kochi FSUG (Kerala) http://puggy.symonds.net/~fsug-kochi * MyLUG - Mysore Linux Users' Group http://mylug.org/ * RVCE (Bangalore) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rvcelug/ * Sona College of Technology, Salem Sona LUG http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sonalug/ Western India * India GNU/Linux Users Group Mumbai http://ilug-bom.org.in/ * Mailing list at http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers ILUG-Nagpur http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nagpur-linux/ * Nagpur http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nagpur-lug/ * Linux At Ahmedabad http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxatahmedabad/ * ILUG-South Maharashtra http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug_sm/ * ILUG-Goa http://ilug-goa.swiki.net/ (On Swiki.net) * ILUG-Goa http://iluggoa.iosn.net/ (On IOSN.net) * ILUG-Goa mailing list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa * Linux Goa Help List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxgoahelp/ * Linux Ahmedabad http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-ahmedabad-users/ * ILUG-DAIICT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug_daiict/ Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of ICT, Gujarat * Gnunify, Pune http://gnunify.sicsr.ac.in/ Mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gnunify/ Eastern India * ILUG-Cal Kolkata Chapter http://www.ilug-cal.org/ * Mailing lists link at http://www.ilug-cal.org/?q=node/view/3 Archive of list at http
[ilugd] LFY Feb 2005: Mandrakelinux 10.1 C, Free BSD, Ubuntu, OO.o 2.0 beta
Want to keep abrest with GNU/Linux issues? LFY-February 2004 issue costing Rs 125 (for LFY and LFYPro with one CD and one DVD) has the following software: ON THE LFY DVD: * Mandrakelinux 10.1 Community * Free BSD 5.2.1 * Ubuntu Linux * Systemrescuedisk ON THE LFY CD: * MPlayer * OpenOffice 2.0 Beta * Opera 7.54 * Xfce * Fedora Updates: Kernel 2.6.9, MySQL 3.23, OpenOffice.org-1.1.2.11.5, php-4.3.10.3.2 Postfix-2.1.5-2.4, System-config-services-0.8.17.0 Some articles in this issue: * Personalise Your Desktop (Page 18) * Boost OpenOffice with Macros (22) * Bost Your Linux Engine (24) * AMaViS: A Mail Virus Scanner (26) * Computers that Converse in Indian Languages (38) * Looking Back at 2004 (45) * The Business of Open Source (29) * Software Patents, Jewels for the Rich (34) * Education Goes Open (54) * A Giant LEAP for Linux (58). In the LinuxForYou Pro: * Database Management Using MySQL (part II, 12) * Remastering Knoppix 3.3 Create Your Own Live CD (48) * Hack a Microcontrollers with GNU/Linux (04), The Importance of Exception Handling (10) * Failover Clustering (15) * Multi-threading Programming in Python (20) * PXES Universal Thin Client (24) * Get on the D-BUS (35) * Subversion Organising the Unorganised (38) * Java Refactoring with Eclipse Part I (45) * Software RAID Part IV (52). Frederick Noronha (FN)Nr Convent Saligao 403511 GoaIndia Freelance Journalist P: 832-2409490 M: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://fn-floss.notlong.com Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation. --Aristotle ___ 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] Request to Delhi LUG members... reporting inputs needed
Can someone from the Delhi LUG (or any FLOSS supporter) attending the Linux Asia 2005 please volunteer to send in inputs? This is needed for the linux-india.org news pages. We have the space for all the news that's worth carrying! Even detailed reports (on any FLOSS-related topic) are welcome. Please also visit the refurbished site, that comes courtesy the work of Raju Mathur. Send in your inputs to my address. Don't worry about grammar and spellings! As long as you have the points to make... Regards, FN Frederick Noronha (FN)Nr Convent Saligao 403511 GoaIndia Freelance Journalist P: 832-2409490 M: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://fn-floss.notlong.com Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation. --Aristotle ___ 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] Pune Symbiosis' GNUnify draws big names
Pune Symbiosis' GNUnify draws big names http://www.linux-india.org/index.pl?id=3496isa=Newsitemop=show Brian Behlendorf of Apache will be taking part in the Pune GNUnify event, organisers announced. So will some other big names, include MySQL founder David Axmark. This year's event will focus on localisation projects, PHP5, Python, MySQL and more. There's an awareness-building exercise for school students and teachers on the first day of the event (Feb 13, 2005) followed by an installfest and more. Organisers announced today (February 7, 2005) that they were to have Apache co-founder Brian Behlendorf taking part in the event. (Apache HTTP Server is an open source HTTP web server for Unix platforms -- BSD, Linux, and UNIX systems -- and Microsoft Windows, and other platforms. Apache features highly configurable error messages, DBMS-based authentication databases, and content negotiation, it is also supported by several GUIs which permit easier, more intuitive configuration of the server. See http://gui.apache.org/ The Apache HTTP Server is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation.) In addition, they are to have Robert Adkins and Ms Alolita Sharma from Technetra, California, Ms Danese Cooper from Sun MicroSystems, MySQL founder David Axmark, and others join their event. (MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL (Structured Query Language) relational database server or RDBMS. MySQL is available either under the GNU General Public License or under other licenses when the GPL is inapplicable to the intended use. Unlike projects such as Apache, MySQL is owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company MySQL AB.) This year's event will focus on localisation projects, PHP5, Python, MySQL The Commercial FOSS Database, and more. Visit http://gunify.sicsr.ac.in for details or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNUnify is being organised by students of the Masters of Science in Computer Applications -- MSc(CA) degree programme -- of the Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research. SICSR was set up in 1985, and offers several full-time and part-time courses. Each year, they organise this Free/Open Source Software Event. GNUnify aims at contributing and encouraging the use of FOSS, said a release from the organisers. Initiated in the year 2003, 'GNUnify' is a forum to unite open minds. The event aims at spreading teh philosophy of GNU/Linux -- unifying and strengthening the use of FLOSS, they said. Student-organisers said they were successful over the past two years, and had made this three-day event happen from February 13 to 15 this year. Event schedule for this year is as follows: Feb 13 Linux Eduvantage -- awareness for school students and teachers Feb 14 Install fest, techie talks, workshops and tutorials Feb 15 Seminars, panel discussion. See the story at: http://gunify.sicsr.ac.in Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Freelance Journalist TEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks fred at bytesforall.org http://www.bytesforall.org * ILUG-Goa's other mailing lists * http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa-announce LOW-VOLUME, ANNOUNCE LIST http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teach-yourself-linux FOR NEWBIES http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxgoahelp TECH HELP LIST WEBSITES: http://ilug-goa.swiki.net http://www.ilug-margao.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] FLOSSNews: Bangalore, Pune, Jodhpur, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Kerala...
== News from Linux-India * http://www.linux-india.org --- [Website being relaunched, by Raju Mathur of Delhi. Contributions in terms of content and tech support are welcome!] == Linux India: The India Linux Organisation Portal NGOs, searching long for alternatives, find flavour in alt.software Frederick Noronha reports -- Asia Source, being held in Bangalore from Jan 28 to Feb 4, 2005 hopes to bring together over a hundred people from 20 countries to increase the use and awareness of FLOSS among the non-profit sector in South and East Asia. GNUnify ... at Pune, Feb 13 to 15, 2005 Vidyadutt S vidyadutt at gmail.com has announced the GNUnify festival of Symbiosis at Pune, a regular event that takes place at this time of the year -- and has continued over the past two years -- at the central Indian city of Pune. GNU/Linux... in the life sciences Tarun Kant tarunkant at linuxmail.org from the SunnyLUG from Jodhpur for this useful piece of information. He says: For people who are into life science research/bioinformatics, there are a few good linux distros available. This includes the VigyaanCD, the live Linux CD containing all the required software to boot the computer with ready-to-use modeling software. Says Kant: And let me tell you this (Vigyaan) is an effort by an Indian. Kudos to you Pratul K Agarwal for such a nice package. From software... to culture Crimson Feet coordinator Prayas Abhinav is working on a showcase of audiovisual -- film, animation etc -- work produced by alternate methods, and plans an exhibition on February 5 and 6, 2005 at Ahmedabad. Open Source in Education, Mumbai meet on Feb 11, 2005 Sameer D Saharabudde sameerds at it.iitb.ac.in has sent in an early intimation of a program scheduled for February 11, 2005 on Open Source in Education. Says Sameer: Some 50 people involved in the education system, like university department heads, college heads, etc will be invited. Further details awaited. Sameer is a research scholar, KReSIT, IIT Bombay. Microsoft at the KSEB (Kerala) Satheesh S Pillai satheeshpillai2000 at yahoo.co.in recently drew attention of the Free Software User Group-Kochi to the report made by Centre for Computer Aided Power Sector Studies (C-CAPSS) in Kerala about the billing software developed by a famous consultancy along with M$ as part of the e-Governance project. This report makes interesting reading, and has immense implications for many government computerisation plans. You can find the full report at http://www.kseboa.org/KSEB%20LT%20billing%20computerisation.pdf LaTeX for Malayalam 0.9 released TUG-India -- http://www.tug.org.in -- has announced that an update 0.9 for 'LaTeX for Malayalam' has been released at sarovar. This update enables the use of Type1 Malayalam fonts available with CDAC ISM Publisher, according to Alex. Download the package from: http://malayalam.sarovar.org/ . IITIANS Develop Linux-Based Cell Phone Tracking Software CXOToday.com writer Julia Fernandes has reported on how three young Mumbai-based IITians, who have developed a Linux-based software application that tracks the location of mobile phones. Nithin Kamath's LinTux Newsletter A made-in-Mangalore product. Interesting compiliation of news and updates from the world of FLOSS across India and the globe. Check it out at Now in the 14th issue. Keep it up Nithin. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/lintux THE HINDU: A whiz-kid's tryst with Linux What do people do when they hear that doing a particular thing is very difficult? Most of them try to avoid it. But some people meet the challenge headlong. Sarath Lakshman a Standard X student of the Jawaharlal Nehru Government Higher Secondary School, Mahe, belongs to the second category. This article is from the national newspaper THE HINDU, reproduced here with gratitude to this publication for highlighting an issue which is important to understanding what makes sense to the young techies-in-the-making of South Asia. Low-cost CD outlet http://www.linuxbazar.com is run by Srinivasan LinuxIndia at hotmail.com. Says he: I sell CDs at Rs 50 per CD. Spreading the word on my website is difficult .. still I have managed to ship Fedora to remote corners in India incl. Jammu. L10N How-To and Toolkit On Jan 19, 2005 Sunil Abraham sunil at apdip.net announced that the IOSN-CDAC L10N How-To and Toolkit is ready for a final round of comments and feedback. The main page contents listing of the CD is available at http://anakin.ncst.ernet.in/~aparna/consolidated/CD. It has links to the guide, as well as the list of tools we will include in the CD. You can see the current version at: http://anakin.ncst.ernet.in/~aparna/consolidated in the HTML format. Feedback welcome! Font developer's guide Sayamindu Dasgupta sayamindu at clai.net is offering what he terms
[ilugd] Interesting debate about NGOs and FLOSS...
To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends -- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:49:49 -0800 (PST) From: Krishna Pagadala [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fsf-friends] Please Help Hi All, Can somebody help Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) http://www.freedominfo.org/case/mkss/mkss.htm and National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI) http://www.righttoinformation.info/, and maybe even Right to Food Campaign http://righttofoodindia.org/ make a transition to GNU/Linux. I think (but am not sure) that most of their computer work is done in Delhi, so can somebody from Delhi please volunteer to help. I am thinking that we should first transition them over to using free software applications running on Window$, and then once they are comfortable and trained on GNU/Linux applications switch them over to Free Software. Excerpt from Aruna Roy's email to me Much as we all want to use Linux, we have to be trained to us it and understand the use of such software. There has to be a team that comes to educate us! Thanks Krishna = Books for Disadvantaged Children - $10 Health Care for a Tribal Village - $100 Electricity for a remote community - $1000 Satisfaction of making a difference - Priceless Visit: http://www.oneforindia.org/?r=krishnaact To Reflect, to Inspire and to Empower http://www.employees.org/~krishnap/ Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen -and ask yourself if the next step you contemplate is going to be of any use -to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over -his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to self-reliance for -the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Mahatma Gandhi __ Date: 28 Dec 2004 05:49:44 - From: Kanti Jadia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Please Help Hi, It depends on the way people look at it . The Transition to GNU/Linux is gradual and cannot be achieved by a team visiting each of these organizations. The way i think it would work is these organizations putting a team which works with the local GLUG (Do they have volunteers?). This way they can get their issues clarified. But if you look at it the other way. Is everybody in these organizations proficient in using computers ? Are they still at the curve of learning (learning computers is a lifelong process). So they need to be able to get GNU/Linux work for them in order to make them productive. Starting on Windows and then transition them with the same set of applications should be an absolute NO.Let them identify people who are inclined to take the activity up in the organizations.Rest all will follow. For the initial push. 1. Attend the latest GLUG meet in the nearest city. my 2 cents Kanti - Enjoy your Freedom,use GNU/Linux. http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html - ___ Fsf-friends mailing list Fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends Frederick Noronha (FN)Nr Convent Saligao 403511 GoaIndia Freelance Journalist P: 832-2409490 M: 9822122436 http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks http://fn.swiki.net http://fredericknoronha.stumbleupon.com http://fn-floss.notlong.com Avoid Word/PowerPoint: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ___ 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] NCD primary teachers return to Microsoft classroom
MCD primary teachers return to Microsoft classroom Delhi Newsline - Delhi,India ... Commissioner Rakesh Mehta has signed an MoU today with Microsoft Corporation India Private Limited under the company's India Education programme -- project ... http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=103608 See all stories on this topic: http://news.google.com/news?ie=utf8oe=utf8persist=1num=30hl=enclient=googlencl=http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php%3Fnewsid%3D103608 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[ilugd] GNU/LinuxinIndia * April 25, 2004
e88~~\ 888b| 888 | / 888888 ,e, d888 |Y88b | 888 | L 888 888-~88e e88~\888 /~~~8e __ | Y88b | 888 | I 888 888 888 d888 888 888 88b | | Y88b | 888 | N 888 888 888 888 888 e88~-888 Y888 | | Y88b| Y88 | U 888 888 888 Y888 888 888 C888 888 88__/ |Y888 8__/ X 888 888 888 88_/888 888 88_-888 Formerly LinuxInIndia * Compiled by: Frederick Noronha * Apr 25 2004 --- ### --- Patents and copyrights are totally different, and the way to help people understand them is never to mix them up or lump them together Software patents bring nothing to our community except danger. I am glad that Red Hat is getting some patents to use to defend against Microsoft's patents. (I hope Red Hat never turns around to use them for aggression.) But the only help these patents give us is to block part of the danger of patents -- and only part of it! They have no positive effect. Taken all together, the patents do not play any role in the vitality of our community. Most patents threaten us, and a few may partly defend us from the threat of the rest. We would be much better off if nobody had any software patents. India has wisely refused to allow software patents. Every supporter of free software in India should be helping to support that policy. Would you please help? Please don't invite people to lump together a hypothetical future Indian law (software patents) that can kill our community and an existing Indian law (copyright) that has no such power. -- Richard M Stallman rms at gnu.org --- ### --- FROM BANGALORE, Kartik N kartikn79 at symonds.net sent out a recent reminder about plans for April's BLUG (Bangalore Linux Users' Group) meet, which was held on April 23. The agenda focussed on talks on filesystems in GNU/Linux (by Arun) and the CD file system features (by Sreekiran). BLUG meets usually take place between 6 to 8 pm at Hotel Ashraya International Infantry Road, Opposite Police Commissioner's Office, Phone : +91 (80) 2262921. Map - http://linux-bangalore.org/images/ashraya-map.png Cover charge is Rs.100 per person (includes dinner). More details at: http://linux-bangalore.org/meetings/200404/ LOCALISATION LIST from Bangalore is at http://lli.linux-bangalore.org GNUS GRAZING @ BANGALORE: Fans of the Free Software movement meanwhile announced a meeting at Bangalore. It was called on Sunday, April 18 at the unearthly hour of 10 am (no offence meant, I'm usually fast asleep by then). The rendezvous-point was in front of Gangaram's Bookstore on MG Road. Difficult to miss. You could get more details via Fsf-friends mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends AFFORDABLE CDs ARE AVAILABLE VIA MAIL-ORDER FROM swathantra software [EMAIL PROTECTED] One recent email announced that available CDs included: * CD with more than 2000 HOWTOs just for 100 Rupees (Learn more about server setup, programming, kernel, network, installation, adminstration, troubleshooting, and more.) * Other popular distributions also available RedHat 7.1(2 CDs), 7.3, 8, 9 -set of 3 CDs Rs 120 Redhat 7.3,8 single CD with autoinstallation (GLUE CD) Rs.60 * Fedora Core 1 set of 3 CDs Rs 120 * Mandrake 9.2 set of 3 CDs Rs.150 * Mandrake 10-set of 3 CDs Rs.180 * K12LTSP (a popular distro with terminal server and a lot of educational softwares) set of 4 CDs Rs.250 * GISMorphix Rs.100 * Knoppix 3.3 (Debian) single live CD Rs.70 (HD installation possible) * OpenOffice 1.1, Mozilla 1.5, Mozilla Firebird 0.7 (Linux/WIndows) Rs 80. Shipping charges extra as applicable. (Rs 20 by courier, Rs 10 by ordinary parcel). Send demand draft in favour of Swathanthra Software Solutions and Support payable at Kannur (Kerala) or money order
[ilugd] [LIG] [isdf] Open Source Textbook Initiative (fwd)
From Sam Lanfranco [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Dear ISDF Colleagues, I am working with a group of (mainly) developing country colleagues who are interested in mounting an Open Source Textbook Initiative. They are increasingly concerned about the degree of concentration and prices in the supply basic university textbooks. They envision a scheme whereby individual contributors work on different parts of a subject, with the resulting chapters being posted online as Open Source curricular material both suitable for use as is and available for custom revision to fit the local course context. Material could be used online or downloaded to print, CD, or whatever. I have worked in the past on initiatives to promote open access to Scholarly publications. I have done small things with INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications) and am well aware of initiative like their African Journals On Line (AJOL) See: http://www.inasp.info/ajol/ . I am also aware of the work on online learning objects. We will be having a late May conference (at York University, Toronto) that includes sessions on learning objects. If anyone in ISDF is aware of similar efforts at Open Source Textbook material, or other approaches to dealing with the costs and content of textbooks issue, please contact me. Sam Lanfranco Distributed Knowledge Project York University ___ Isdf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/isdf --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278alloc_id=3371op=click ___ Linux-india-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-general ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [LIG] Asian Open Source Centre : Community web pages launched (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- (Please crosspost to any mailing lists you feel are appropriate) The Asian Open Source Centre (http://www.asiaosc.org) is pleased to announce that we now offer free web space to non-profit community open source projects in Asia. The aim of the new service is to make it easier for members of the community to create web sites to host their own open source projects or other open source related information. Some possible uses: *host a personal 'open source' homepage *host localization projects, downloads etc *build a site showing recommended links, favourite sites etc *host open source scripts, howtos etc you have created For more information or to browse the existing community pages already created, see http://community.asiaosc.org. Please note we also offer free mailing lists to anybody in Asia who wants a mailing list to discuss open source related topics. For this service, see http://lists.asiaosc.org. AsiaOSC is funded by MIMOS Bhd, Malaysia. See http://www.mimos.my -- Imran William Smith Project Manager, Open Source, MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia Asian Open Source Centre : http://www.asiaosc.org MIMOS Open Source: http://opensource.mimos.my --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278alloc_id=3371op=click ___ Linux-india-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-general ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Linux Bangalore/2003 announced
-- Forwarded message -- Linux Bangalore/2003 announced India's biggest annual Open Source event to take place on December 2/3/4, 2003 Bangalore 19-Nov-2003: Linux Bangalore/2003, India's biggest and most popular Linux and Open Source event, will take palce at Bangalore on December 2/3/4, making it the third year that this event has been organised. What differentiates this event from commercial events (that are typically driven by vendors) is that this event is completely conceived, organised and driven by the Open Source community, focussing on technology talks and a technology expo. Linux Bangalore/2003 continues to work on the basis of its low-cost model - delegates pay only Rs.300 (US$6.50 - Rs.500/US$11 for people who do not register on the website) to have access to all the talks and subevents. The registration fee includes lunch and snacks and a conference T-Shirt. The event itself is funded entirely by sponsorships and sale of expo space. If someone would think that low-cost means low quality - think again! Over the three days, this event will feature almost 100 talks from well known Open Source technologists such as Miguel de Icaza (Mono/Ximian), Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP), Nat Friedman (Ximian), Jeremy Zawodny (MySQL/Yahoo), Bdale Garbee (Debian), Harald Welte (iptables) and others, along with a variety of well known community and industry speakers, including Gopi Garge, Kishore Bhargava, Atul Chitnis, Sirtaj Singh Kang, Naba Kumar, Sudhakar 'Thaths' Chandrasekharan and others. And to end each day, the organizers have planned the screening of a movie, a fusion music concert by the renowned fusion group Laya Taranga, and a rock concert by the well known group Phenom. The event, which consistently has drawn thousands of developers, implementors and enthusiasts from across the world, is sponsored by Linux and Open Source supporters HP, Novell and Exocore, with a number of industry and government bodies endorsing the event as well. Bangalore, already the IT capital of India, is quickly becoming a hothouse for Open Source development, with companies like Ximian/Novell, IBM, HP and others setting up development centres there. About Linux Bangalore/2003: Linux Bangalore/2003 is India's premier Linux/OpenSource event. This annual event brings together professionals and enthusiasts from India, Asia and the rest of the world for a three day Applied Technology Conference. For more information about the event, please visit http://linux-bangalore.org/2003 or contact the organizers at http://linux-bangalore.org/2003/contact/ ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] LFY Nov 2003 * GNU/Linux updates from India ...
---LINUX FOR YOUR Nov 2003 - Published from India, Vol 1 No 9 Would you like to contribute articles to LFY? Contact Rahul Chopra below EDITORIAL: Star Office is the latest version of (Sun's) office suite software. We tried it on both Windows and Linux -- and were impressed by its performance and features... Sun has given its battle cry against Microsoft. And, it couldn't be louder. The attach is on three fronts -- the office suite, the operating system and the enterprise server solution. -- Rahul Chopra LFYedit at efyindia.com * Fedora project updates * Kernel 2.6.0-test8 released * Slackware 9.1 arrives * Knoppix 3.3 is here * Linux device remote-controls UPS * SuSE Linux 9.0 released * New features to keep off worms * Samba 3.0 released * Athlon64 debuts * Mandrake Linux 9.2 launched * Linux-based digital media player rolls out * Novell connects Linux desktop users to MSExchange 2003 * XFce 4.0 lightweight desktop environment launched Major updates and releases: ClusterKnoppix v.3.2.2003-09-05-EN * DietLinux v0.1.2 * dyne:bolic v.1.0 * GNOPPIX v.0.5.4-1 * Mailman v 2.1.3 * Chandler IN INDIA a government program in the large state of Madhya Pradesh aims at providing computer-enabled education and teaching basic computer skills to students in primary and middle schools. The unique project harnesses the power of [GNU]Linux-based open source software. Stellar data recovery tool: Stellar Phoenix is a GNU/Linux data recovery tool that runs from Windows. It does a good job of recvering data, but comes at a price. If you manage a network of Linux desktops, then this is a must-have tool for you. CONTEST: Offer a good slogan and win a gold-plated watch. FEW C/C++ competitors exist for GCC in the world of GNU/Linux. Intel's C++ Compiler 7.0 is one such brave-heart. It fails GCC at some points, but by optimising code for faster performance, it has proved its worth. BhavyaOS: This CD which comes from the magazine promises all the Red Hat 9 goodies compressed on a single CD. Feedback from users? Some problems have been reported in the past. INDIA MAY NOT be topping the charts in high performance computing. But with software and hardware costs dipping, a number of research organisations and government agencies are now deploying high performance clusters for innovative applications. OpenOffice WRITE HAS features that can help you track changes and save different versions of the same document, when you are working on it with others. OpenOffice Calc, a spreadsheet app, is filled with functions. How to use some of these functions is explained here. * Motorola and Real tie-up for Linux-phones * Samsung to develop Linux smart phones * SuSE to launch US$449 Linux server for small businesses * Criticism leads to Forrester policy change (towards vendor -sponsored research, following publication of a controversial Microsoft-funded study comparing the costs of Linux) * Analyst company disagrees with Sun's Linux strategy * Dell stands up for new Red Hat Linux * Windows developers feel Linux is more secure, as per study * Telstra selects Sun's Mad Hatter (Linux desktop) * Thai schools desert Microsoft products * Tetra Information Services is first partner for Linux Asia 2004 * HP to back Linux byers * Red Hat widens software choice * Linux users furious over Royal Bank SCO investment * Linux not accountable for security, Microsoft's Ballmer says * Ford mulling over change to Linux-based servers * SCO postpones deadline for taking Linux licences * More governments adopt Linux * NTT to link up with OSDL to develop Linux for telecom use INDIAN TRANSPORT sector treads cautiously on the Linux road. Most transport operators acknowledge the role of Linux-based software not only in cost cutting, but also in offering customers a better experience. However, investment costs, lack of support and knowhow are concerns of potential GNU/Linux users in this sector. IN INDIA, ON THE enterprise desktop front, many enterprises use Linux to manage crucial systems. But no IT decision-maker wants to place it on the desktop of the knowledge worker. Why is it so? FINLAND WORKS ON AN APPLIED Linux Institute: Three Finnish public institutions, including Linux Torvalds' alma mater, are setting up an institute for applied Linux, so that people can use and share open systems, which could also help create an environment empowering poeple in the North and the South. BHARTI TELETECH LTD decided to streamline its
[ilugd] GNULinuxIndia * Oct 18, 2003
--- * BytesForAll * * Indian Linux project* * bytesforall.org * * http://www.indlinux.org * - --- e88~~\ 888b| 888 | / 888888 ,e, d888 |Y88b | 888 | L 888 888-~88e e88~\888 /~~~8e __ | Y88b | 888 | I 888 888 888 d888 888 888 88b | | Y88b | 888 | N 888 888 888 888 888 e88~-888 Y888 | | Y88b| Y88 | U 888 888 888 Y888 888 888 C888 888 88__/ |Y888 8__/ X 888 888 888 88_/888 888 88_-888 Formerly LinuxInIndia * Compiled by: Frederick Noronha * Oct 18,2003 SOME GNU/Linux mailing lists: Linux-India-General, Linux-India-Help and Linux-India-Programming. * Send Linux-india-general mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-general * or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (The LIH and LIP lists can also be reached by replacing the word *general* above by the words *help* and *programming*, respectively.) TRIVANDRUM USERS' GROUP: Rajkumar S [EMAIL PROTECTED] announced the new url of Trivandrum Linux users group: http://triglug.sarovar.org/ GNU/LINUX DEMO DAY: ILUGC conducted a Linux Demo Day @ MIT Chennai on last month 27th and 28th. Nearly 1000 people are visited the event, according to Bharati S of the IndLinux team, DON Lab, TeNeT Group, IIT-Madras, Chennai. Read the report at http://www.chennailug.org/ldd.html PROGRAMMERS WITHOUT FRONTIERS? This is from my friends Geert Lovink [EMAIL PROTECTED] of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia and Seppo Koskela of the Applied Linux Institute in Helsinki, Finland and FN of BytesForAll from Goa, India who say: We would to ask your opinion -- and possible involvement -- in the following idea. A few weeks ago, in Geneva, during difficult negotations about the Plan of Action for the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), an idea was launched--and then dropped -- to create 'Programmers without Frontiers'. Would you be interested to give this idea more shape and actually create such a network? The form of such a networked organization is open and it's aim lies in supporting the spreading of FL/OSS and consolidating the collaboration between users and programmers, especially in the South. If the UN is not able to create and launch it, should we do it? Looking forward to your response. A LIVE-CD IN THE BANGLA LANGUAGE: Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED], the young achiever of the Free Software network from Kolkata in eastern India, recently announced the Ankur Bangla LiveCD version 1.0-beta2 (codenamed DaanpiTe Chhele). He wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, The Ankur Bangla Project is proud announce version 1.0-beta2 (DaanpiTe Chhele) of its Morphix based LiveCD (or if you prefer it in that way -- demo CD). What is it? The Ankur Bangla LiveCD is a 'khichuri' created out of some of the finest GNU/Linux distributions out there. The bootup, hardware detection and shutdown is done by a combination of Debian GNU/Linux, Knoppix and Morphix. The non GUI system is based on Slackware Linux 9.0 while the GUI runs a version of GNOME 2.4, specifically patched and compiled for the Ankur Bangla group to show off its works. (Yep right! - patched means that there is extra functionality and eyecandy) Requirements? The Ankur LiveCD requires 16 MB of RAM and a i486 compatible CPU to run in command line mode. However, to see anything in Bangla, you will have to run the CD in GUI mode, which requires a minimum of 128 MB RAM and a 400 Mhz or better processor to run. You can use it with lesser RAM and lots of swap space, but there's no guarantee this would work! What does it do? With this LiveCD, we aim to provide everything that a stock Windows(TM) install provides. This means, you get a fully functional desktop, a plain-text editor (with beta level support for Bengali spellchecking), a web browser (to render UTF-8 encoded Bangla web-pages perfectly), an instant messaging client, a standalone FTP client, a VCD/DVD/videofile/audiofile/audio CD player, a CD burning software with basic functionality, an image viewer, numerous games, a PDF and PS file viewer, a terminal emulator, a program similar to Microsoft(TM) Netmeeting (TM), a sound recorder, a webcam management utility (being tested), a fancy calculator
[ilugd] GNULinuxInIndia Oct 15, 2003
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[ilugd] NEWS[OFFTOPIC]: U.S. IT firm charged with using unauthorised software
U.S. IT firm charged with using unauthorised software From Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) Astell Infotech Limited, the Indian arm of a New Jersey-based IT services firm, has been charged with using unauthorised software, Delhi Police said Monday. The economic offences wing of the Delhi Police conducted a raid at the office of Astell Infotech on September 3 after another software firm, Macromedia Inc., complained of unauthorised usage of its software. We raided Astell's office located in Greater Kailash here. The company had been using 40 computers that were checked by the authorised representative of Macromedia, said a senior Delhi Police official. It was found that the hard discs of 15 computers were loaded with software of Macromedia. Astell had no authorisation for using the software, the official told IANS, adding the estimated value of the recovered software was Rs.500,000. The official said a case under copyright laws has been registered against Astell Infotech. The investigation is in progress. While top official of the country are not in India, we are trying to gather information from local employees. Astell Infotech officials refused to comment on the issue. The company has offices in New Jersey and New Delhi and provides services to large multinational clients in the U.S. No company should place their hard fought business reputation at risk by using unlicensed software, said Shriram Krishnamachari, country manager (India) of Macromedia Inc. Companies, which use illegal software for their own benefit, are robbing the software developers of their valuable intellectual property and placing the future viability of software industry at risk. Macromedia has operations in more than 50 countries worldwide, and headquarters in San Francisco. The company is a strategic IT supplier to customers in the business, government and education markets globally. India reduced it piracy rate by nine points between 1996 and 2002, creating new businesses, jobs and opportunities. Cutting the country's piracy rate by another 10 points, to 60 percent, by 2006, could create nearly 50,000 high-tech jobs, say industry observers. --Indo-Asian News Service ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [LIG] [COMMERCIAL] GNU/Linux job opportunities in Malaysia...
Something that came my way. I don't have further details... please check up personally if interested. FN On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, VMarco wrote: Dear Linux Advocate, Over here in Malaysia, we are setting up a Linux Training and Solution Centre.We are urgently looking for Linux IT professionals in the following areas; 1. Linux System Engineer ( 5 vacancies ) Primary Job Scope: -Knows How to setup a Mail Server ( Postfix , Fetchmail ) , Web Server ( Apache ), Samba Server -Knows Cabling Techniques -Knows how to physically setup a network ( i.e. install cabling, install switches/hubs/routers , install server / clients ) Minimum Qualification: B.Sc ( CompSc), B.Eng ( Elec) 2. Linux Programmer ( C , C++ , GTK+ , Php, PostgreSQL ) ( 5 vacancies ) Primary Job Scope: -Complete Web Application Develoment on a Linux Backend , Browser Frontend 3. Linux Trainer ( 5 vacancies ) Primary JobScope: -Develop A Teaching Syllabus/Training Manual -Conducts Trainings -Must have hands on experience i.e. capable of administrating Linux Systems ( Mail Server , WebServer, Samba Server ) We hope your user groups will have such personnel for these vacancies. We will pay them more than what they get in India but their pay here in Malaysia must make them more attractive than locals. Bye, Marco. -- - Frederick Noronha (FN)| http://www.fredericknoronha.net Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org http://goalinks.pitas.com | http://joingoanet.shorturl.com http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks - T: 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 M: 0 9822 122436 - --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Linux-india-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-general ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] NEWS: Pirated software, VCDs worth Rs.50 mn seized
The figures sound (are meant to sound?) sensational. Could we suggest that these guys try marking Free Software instead? FN Pirated software, VCDs worth Rs.50 mn seized From Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) Raids conducted by the economic offences wing of Delhi Police have resulted in the seizure of pirated computer software and video CDs worth over Rs.50 million. In the first raid on Vishal Bhawan in south Delhi's Nehru Place area, a huge cache of pirated software, including CDs containing MP3 music files, worth Rs.45 million was seized, a police official said Wednesday. Three men, identified as Sanjay, Sunder and Deepak, were arrested in this raid. In another raid on a shop in Palika Bazar at Connaught Place, police seized 1,030 pirated video CDs of Hindi and English films and 72 CDs of pornographic films. The market price of the VCDs was estimated at Rs.600,000. Police also raided a shop in the Chandni Chowk area in the city's old quarters, seizing 5,202 pirated video CDs, MP3s and audio cassettes worth Rs.4.1 million, the official said. Police arrested a man named Sanjay Kumar Singh in this raid. Police have booked all the arrested people under the Copyright Act and are conducting investigations to ascertain the source of the pirated CDs. --Indo-Asian News Service ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] GNU/Linux reports... from India (Express Computer)
Express Computer - Linux Special (Issue dated 25 Aug 2003) === Linux in the Enterprise http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial.shtml === Tier-one Vendors * NOISE or substance? Tier-one vendors like Oracle, IBM, Sun, HP and others have announced their support for Linux. Venkatesh Hariharan finds out if this is driven by the 'anything but Microsoft' sentiment, or whether there are deeper, substantive reasons. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial01.shtml -- NSE Case Study -- * Linux stars in Mission: Critical Linux is growing out of Unix's shadow and handling mission-critical tasks on its own. The National Stock Exchange recently replaced a Unix-based system for risk management with a Linux-based one and saved a packet in the process. Stanley Glancy reports. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial02.shtml --- Opinion --- * We are seeing more than 100 percent growth From college geeks to huge enterprises--whether organisations like LIC or e-governance projects--many are moving to Linux. And according to Red Hat India, the largest reseller of software and support for the open-source code, the fraternity is growing. Red Hat India CEO Javed Tapia spoke to Venkatesh Hariharan about the company's plans for India. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial03.shtml * Our competitor is not proprietary software, it is non-consumption Rajesh Jain is a visionary who set up India's first portal, Indiaworld, at a time when the Internet was unknown and commercial ISPs were a distant mirage. After the spectacular sale of Indiaworld to Satyam that set off the Internet mania in India, Jain shunned the limelight to focus on Netcore, a company that builds thin-client, thick server computing solutions targeted at SMEs, education and community information centres in rural areas. Venkatesh Hariharan interviews Jain to find out why he argues so passionately for the adoption of Linux in India. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial03z.shtml Security * Open-source software--panacea or peril? Does the open nature of Open Source make it more vulnerable to attack? Or, does the ability to review code and submit bug fixes make Open Source superior to proprietary software? Felix Mohan presents the pros and cons. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial04.shtml -- The Great Windows versus Linux war -- For CIOs, the operating system is the foundation of the enterprise computing infrastructure. The choice of an operating system is therefore a complex one and issues like cost, security, availability of support, etc, have to be carefully weighed before arriving at a decision. We asked two of the leading operating systems vendors, Microsoft and Red Hat to present their views on the subject. * Windows is a better choice than Linux Microsoft India says that all things considered, Windows is a better choice over Linux. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial05.shtml * Open source is a disruptive technology Javed Tapia says that Linux has moved up in the value-chain and has crossed the chasm. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial05z.shtml --- Total Cost of Ownership --- * Everybody loves TCO TCO (total cost of ownership) may be an overused concept, but with Linux on the desktop Prakash Advani says that the benefits are immediately visible. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial06.shtml -- High Performance Computing -- * Linux clusters go upwardly mobile The fastest supercomputer in India runs Linux and the open source operating system has a near monopoly on high performance computing in RD and chip design. However, it still plays second fiddle to Unix in the commercial world, says Prashant L Rao. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial07.shtml -- Software Companies -- * Linux-based software development grows in popularity As customers choose Linux as their IT platform, Indian software companies are seeing a corresponding growth in the demand for Linux-based software services. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial08.shtml --- Application Reviews --- * Applications on Linux If the lack of office productivity software or unfamiliarity with Linux held you back, here are some software packages that could help change your mind. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial09.shtml * No purchase order required! One of the best features of Free Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS) is that no purchase orders are required to test or
[ilugd] GNU/Linux reports... from India (Express Computer)
Express Computer - Linux Special (Issue dated 25 Aug 2003) === Linux in the Enterprise http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial.shtml === Tier-one Vendors * NOISE or substance? Tier-one vendors like Oracle, IBM, Sun, HP and others have announced their support for Linux. Venkatesh Hariharan finds out if this is driven by the 'anything but Microsoft' sentiment, or whether there are deeper, substantive reasons. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial01.shtml -- NSE Case Study -- * Linux stars in Mission: Critical Linux is growing out of Unix's shadow and handling mission-critical tasks on its own. The National Stock Exchange recently replaced a Unix-based system for risk management with a Linux-based one and saved a packet in the process. Stanley Glancy reports. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial02.shtml --- Opinion --- * We are seeing more than 100 percent growth From college geeks to huge enterprises--whether organisations like LIC or e-governance projects--many are moving to Linux. And according to Red Hat India, the largest reseller of software and support for the open-source code, the fraternity is growing. Red Hat India CEO Javed Tapia spoke to Venkatesh Hariharan about the company's plans for India. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial03.shtml * Our competitor is not proprietary software, it is non-consumption Rajesh Jain is a visionary who set up India's first portal, Indiaworld, at a time when the Internet was unknown and commercial ISPs were a distant mirage. After the spectacular sale of Indiaworld to Satyam that set off the Internet mania in India, Jain shunned the limelight to focus on Netcore, a company that builds thin-client, thick server computing solutions targeted at SMEs, education and community information centres in rural areas. Venkatesh Hariharan interviews Jain to find out why he argues so passionately for the adoption of Linux in India. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial03z.shtml Security * Open-source software--panacea or peril? Does the open nature of Open Source make it more vulnerable to attack? Or, does the ability to review code and submit bug fixes make Open Source superior to proprietary software? Felix Mohan presents the pros and cons. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial04.shtml -- The Great Windows versus Linux war -- For CIOs, the operating system is the foundation of the enterprise computing infrastructure. The choice of an operating system is therefore a complex one and issues like cost, security, availability of support, etc, have to be carefully weighed before arriving at a decision. We asked two of the leading operating systems vendors, Microsoft and Red Hat to present their views on the subject. * Windows is a better choice than Linux Microsoft India says that all things considered, Windows is a better choice over Linux. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial05.shtml * Open source is a disruptive technology Javed Tapia says that Linux has moved up in the value-chain and has crossed the chasm. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial05z.shtml --- Total Cost of Ownership --- * Everybody loves TCO TCO (total cost of ownership) may be an overused concept, but with Linux on the desktop Prakash Advani says that the benefits are immediately visible. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial06.shtml -- High Performance Computing -- * Linux clusters go upwardly mobile The fastest supercomputer in India runs Linux and the open source operating system has a near monopoly on high performance computing in RD and chip design. However, it still plays second fiddle to Unix in the commercial world, says Prashant L Rao. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial07.shtml -- Software Companies -- * Linux-based software development grows in popularity As customers choose Linux as their IT platform, Indian software companies are seeing a corresponding growth in the demand for Linux-based software services. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial08.shtml --- Application Reviews --- * Applications on Linux If the lack of office productivity software or unfamiliarity with Linux held you back, here are some software packages that could help change your mind. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030825/linuxspecial09.shtml * No purchase order required! One of the best features of Free Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS) is that no purchase orders are required to test or
[ilugd] GNU/LinuxInIndia (July 01, 2003)
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[ilugd] [LIG] Links from the Gulf... an interesting story (long)
Looks like Microsoft is doing its bit to promote Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in the more affluent parts of the globe, like the Gulf. Some background of an interesting case. Interesting, many of the key players in the Gulf FLOSS movement seem to be expat Indians, at least going by the active posters on this list. FN PS: As typical, the newspaper report has mixed up Free Software with freeware. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 18 21:50:07 2003 - To subscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Movement in the Middle East is sponsored by GoldenSun Internet Consulting Research, Phone :971-4-2728310 /Fax:971-4-2728320 http://www.uaelug.org Moderator GSC Prabhakar James - Linux User Group -Founded 1999. Message: 1 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 04:46:30 - From: prabhags [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Business Software Alliance's faxes to Companies Dear Montuewed, Sorry for the late response. I expected other members would write about BSA 's faxes to companies.BSA is a watchdog for Microsoft and dozen other Propreitary companies. It is not a government organisation. But they think they are government and misrepresent to the companies like that. BSA was founded primarily by Microsoft and they operate from Microsoft office in Dubai. You need not give any information to BSA about the software in your company. They have no authorisation. But they can inform people about legalising the proprietary software and educating about anti-piracy on behalf of their sponsors. Anyway I have taken the arrogant faxes sent by BSA to companies in the UAE very seriously and warned BSA not to send any annoying faxes to Companies asking for Private software details in the guise of Software Audit and passing the information to BSA members. I am forwarding the copies of my letters to BSA and other information to the LUG members. We as Linux Users, who advocate and use Open Source should fight this type of dubious data collection by BSA who threaten companies indirectly to use their proprietary software. regards, Prabhakar --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Montuewed T.F.S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Many companies received faxes from BSA asking the companies to furnish details about the software they have in their company ? They have given deadline to submit information about the software with the copies of licences and invoices to be sent to them. They have also attached newpapers cuttings of people arrested for piracy and warning the companies. My question is What is the role of BSA ? Is it a government company ? Do we have to give information on the software we have in our companies ? Where BSA office is located ? How to answer to BSA faxes? Cannot we use a computer without any Microsoft software ? T.F.S.Montuewed Message: 2 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:52:07 -0700 (PDT) From: John Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: Business Software Alliance's faxes to Companies Dear Prabhakar Thanks for the information , even I thought it is a govt body , actually they are propagating open source in an indirect way. Bulling others and indirectly forcing them to look for alternative OS and application Thanks Joseph John ___ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 08:55:29 +0400 From: GSC Prabhakar \(R\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OOT -Copy of the FAX sent to BSA for their Hello Friends, Following is the copy of the Fax which I sent to BSA . Regards, Prabhakar COPY of the FAX sent to BSA Chairman. 6th May 2003 Mr. Jawad Al Redha Chairman Phone : 8004828 Business Software Alliance Fax: 04-3811948 Post Box 9275 Dubai, United Arab Emirates Dear Mr. Jawad, I happened to see your faxes signed by you sent to our organization asking for details of software installed at our company and also informing that your records (?) currently do not show that our company as having purchased any software ( in all these years of our operation?!) . We would be glad to respond and enlighten BSA on various methods and alternatives available to curb software issues and initiate best alternative solutions available to all the software users in the middle east. Before we respond to your queries please fax the following information to
