[ilugd] FOSS in Asia Pacific [Aug 2006] * Nepal, Mongolia, CJK, Thailand, Philippines, Bhutan...
--- IOSN NEWSLETTER * IOSN NEWSLETTER * IOSN NEWSLETTER * IOSN NEWSL 8 888 88 88 01010101010101010101010101010 8 88 8 8e e Editor Frederick [FN] Noronha 8 88 8e 8e 8 8 8 International Open 8888 88 88 8e 8e 8 Source Network 8888 e 88 e 88 88 88 8 http://www.iosn.net 8888 8eee88 8eee88 88 88 8 01010101010101010101010010101 .oo o .oPYo.o d'b o Aug 2006 .P 8 88 8 .P 8 .oPYo. o8 .oPYo. o8YooP' .oPYo. .oPYo. o8 o8P o8 .oPYo. oPooo8 Yb..8 .88 .8 8' 8 88 8' P8 'Yb. 8 888 88 8. 8 88 8. P8 `YooP' 8 `YooP88 `YooP8 `YooP' 8 88 `YooP' HTML version: http://www.iosn.net/publications/newsletter/02/ -- IOSN NEWSLETTER * IOSN NEWSLETTER * IOSN NEWSLETTER * IOSN NEWSLETTER * -- IN THIS ISSUE * Tidbits ... from here and there (East Asia, Middle East, South Asia) * Spotlight: Dzongkha Linux launch event, in Thimphu, Bhutan * FOSS campaigners * Asia-Pacific Reports: Fiji's spellchecker waits patiently * Taipei * News you could use * * Beyond Asia-Pacific * Miscellaneous * Issues and concerns (gender ... the internet in the Pacific) * Feedback. * TIDBITS...FROM HERE AND THERE * IN NEPAL: Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya has been organizing a bi-weekly, open-discussion program, where participants can discuss about FOSS, FOSS applications, Open Source, GNU/Linux etc, says MPP outreach officer Ekta Silwal. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Related groups: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Topic: Design and Use of Ext2read Speaker: Manish Regmi Time: August 20, 2006, Sunday, 5-6 p.m. Venue: Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka, Lalitpur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nepalinux.org/content/view/21/41/ Link to MPP: http://www.madanpuraskar.org Discussion Topics: Open Source and Linux (May 14, 2006) Localization and Nepali Aplications (May 28, 2006) How to make a boot loader and OS from Scratch (June 11, 2006) Samba and PDC (Primary Domain Controller) (June 25, 2006) Open Discussion on FOSS and Software Freedom Day (July 9, 2006) Embedded Linux (July 23, 2006) Implementing Firewall in Linux (August 6, 2006) Proposed Topics: Open Office.org and Hunspell * Basic Commands in Linux * Trouble Shooting and FAQ discusssion * NIS, NFS and FTP * Apache * Php * MySQL * Php and MySQL * Programming in Linux (C, C++, Java) * High Performance Computing with Linux A LINK FROM MONGOLIA: Software Freedom Day www.softwarefreedomday.org comes up worldwide on September 16. Many teams from Asia are involved too. This network offered a link to the Mongolian Open Source Dulmandakh of Sukhbaatar, who's interested, among other things in l10n, marketing, GNOME-MN (planning), testing. A Gnome link sees Dulmandakh saying he contributes bugs and patches to GNOME's Bugzilla, contributed translations to GNOME projects, and actively promoted Gnome. Contact: DULMANDAKH Sukhbaatar [EMAIL PROTECTED] OPEN SOURCE SYMPOSIUM: Eugene Teo [EMAIL PROTECTED] informs about planned Open Source Symposia in 14 cities across Asia Pacific. Of the 14 cities, five will have Red Hat Developer Day as well. Writes Teo: We cover Mumbai and Bangalore too! Cities being covered are Beijing, Soeul, Shanghai, Taipei, Guangzhou, Manila, Singapore, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, besides the two in India. Outside Asia, there's Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland. See http://www.opensourcesymposium.org ASIAN CJK GROUP ANNOUNCED: On July 17, 2006, the Chinese, Japanese and Korean native-language projects of OpenOffice.org have decided to join forces to form the Asian CJK Native-Language Group of OpenOffice.org. Kazunari Hirano will act as the communications and technical coordinator of the group. http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_ooonewsletter_archive.html FROM THE MIDDLE-EAST: Linux news and views from Middle East is a free mailing list. Maintained by GSC Prabhakar James and Co-Moderators of Linux User Group - in the Middle East. This Linux User Group Middle East was officially founded in 1999 as the first Linux User Group in the Middle East. But the This list is open to all and not confined to a particular geographical area. Anyone interested in becoming co-moderators please drop a line to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Linux-middleeast/ PERL AND INDIA: Swaroop CH brings to everybody's attention a comment in the
[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
IOSN NEWSLETTER * IOSN NEWSLETTER * IOSN NEWSLETTER * IOSN NEWSL 8 888 88 88 01010101010101010101010101010 8 88 8 8e e Editor Frederick [FN] Noronha 8 88 8e 8e 8 8 8 International Open 8888 88 88 8e 8e 8 Source Network 8888 e 88 e 88 88 88 8 http://www.iosn.net 8888 8eee88 8eee88 88 88 8 01010101010101010101010010101 .oo o .oPYo.o d'b o .P 8 88 8 .P 8 .oPYo. o8 .oPYo. o8YooP' .oPYo. .oPYo. o8 o8P o8 .oPYo. oPooo8 Yb..8 .88 .8 8' 8 88 8' P8 'Yb. 8 888 88 8. 8 88 8. P8 `YooP' 8 `YooP88 `YooP8 `YooP' 8 88 `YooP' June 2006. AsiaCommons issue. Released at Bangkok, Thailand -- IOSN NEWSLETTER * IOSN NEWSLETTER * IOSN NEWSLETTER * IOSN NEWSLETTER * -- IN THIS ISSUE SPOTLIGHT Asia Commons: Asian Conference on the Digital Commons, Bangkok, Thailand, 6-8 June 2006 ASIA-PACIFIC REPORTS Governments, Going Online and Macau IN THE MEDIA Bangladesh, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Asia TIDBITS FROM HERE AND THERE IOSN Grows to Three More Software Freedom Day Partnerships with Asia LPI Certification in Northeast Asia Intel Commits Big Money to Third World Project FOSS Scholarship in India GNU/Linux in Local Languages: Nepali Messaging Solution for Small and Medium Companies in the Philippines Winner from Singapore LINKS FROM ASIA-PACIFIC Open Source in Singapore English-Telugu Dictionary Online UNEGOV.NET, Promoting FOSS in e-Governance Computers, School and Goa Whom is This Coming From? Feeds from Asia Spreading software, the human, low-cost way QUOTE...UNQUOTE South Asia, Malaysia * SPOTLIGHT * AsiaCommons: The Asian Conference on the Digital Commons, was held in Bangkok, Thailand, from June 6-8, 2006. For detailed coverage of the event see http://asia-commons.net Asia Commons' goal was to bring together participants from Asia-Pacific and around the world to discuss, explore and collaborate around three key themes: * Access to Knowledge and Culture in Asia * Models for Collaborative Knowledge and Culture * Towards a Healthy Asia Commons Asia Commons has some interesting perspectives, and their ideals flow in close parallel to the Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) movement. Many resources exist on the conference themes, including: * del.icio.us Links: Del.icio.us is a public collection of web resources which anyone can contribute to. Resources added (or 'bookmarked') in del.icio.us have been 'tagged' by their contributors to describe the resource's content. Participants are encouraged to contribute resources of interest through del.icio.us using some of the tags above in order to discover new resources shared by other del.icio.us users. Using del.icio.us is easy, simply register for del.icio.us * IPR with a Development Focus: http://del.icio.us/tag/ipr+development * Access to Knowledge: http://del.icio.us/tag/a2k * WIPO with a Development Focus: http://del.icio.us/tag/wipo+development * Open Business (models): http://del.icio.us/tag/openbusiness * Open Content: http://del.icio.us/tag/opencontent * Copyright and Access to Knowledge: Consumers Intenational Asia Pacific Office has produced a research report Copyright and Access to Knowledge as well as two country level studies for Indonesia and Thailand. See: http://www.ciroap.org/a2k * The Copy/South Dossier: Issues in the economics, politics, and ideology of copyright in the global South: http://www.copysouth.org/ * P2P Foundation Encyclopedia Resources: P2P Foundation is building an encyclopedia with many topics related to the conference themes: http://p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Category:Encyclopedia * Book Commons: http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Book_Commons * Copyleft: http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Copyleft * Creative Commons: http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Creative_Commons * Diffuse Innovation: http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Diffuse_Innovation * Distributed Creativity: http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Distributed_Creativity * Distributed Intellectual Property Right: http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Distributed_Intellectual_Product_Right * Educational Commons: http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Educational_Commons * General Intellect: http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/General_Intellect * General Public License:
[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/
[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)
http://www.unesco.org/iiep/virtualuniversity/forumsfiche.php?queryforumspages_id=9 Free and Open Source Software for E-learning 1-25 June 2004 Useful Resources Introductory Remarks During the discussion held from 1-25 June 2004 over 200 links were shared and proposed by the participants. More links have been identified and added as the discussion continues. This reference list of links is an outcome of your inputs and has been compiled to provide some guidance on the wealth of resources related to FOSS for e-learning on the web. An attempt has also been made to direct the attention of the more technically advanced user to specific resources. In such a case, the category is marked. General Resources on FOSS Myths on Open Source http://www.cio.com/archive/030104/open.html Ten Myths about Open Source Software http://opensource.oreilly.com/news/myths_1199.html Free Software versus Open Source http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html Free Software Definition http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Terms to Avoid http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html Open Source: Prepare for Attack http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107_2-5225405.html/ Managing the legal risk of Linux http://techupdate.zdnet.com/special_report/Managing_the_legal_risks_of_Linux.html/ Free and Open Source Movements http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/open_source_part_1.htm International Open Source Network e-Primer on Free/Open Source Software for Education http://www.iosn.net/education/foss-education-primer/fossPrimer-Education.pdf Eight FOSS tutorials http://eduforge.org/wiki/wiki/eduforge/?pagename=HomePage United Nations Conference on Trade and Development FOSS pages http://r0.unctad.org/ecommerce/ecommerce_en/freeopen_en.htm Information Society Technologies Workshop on FOSS and International Cooperation http://www.cordis.lu/ist/directorate_d/st-ds/workshop_210405_os.htm [... links to technical sites have been deleted, so that the focus below can be more on education-related resources. -FN] Websites supporting the development of FOSS solutions and Open Learning Objects- advanced users Websites supporting the development of FOSS SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/ SourceForge is the world's largest open source software development website. It provides free hosting to tens of thousands of projects, some of which are e-learning projects. The mission of SourceForge.net is to enrich the open source community by providing a centralized place for open source developers to control and manage open source software development. SourceForge.net uses an open source software by the same name, SourceForge Eduforge http://eduforge.org/ Eduforge.org is to open source in e-learning what SourceForge is to open source. Eduforge.org allows you to organize and manage any number of software development projects pertaining to e-learning. It is best suited to manage large teams of software engineers and/or engineers scattered among multiple locations. Eduforge.org supports online communications, content management tools, including Wiki tools, project management, forum, surveys, Current Versions System (CVS), and document uploading and sharing. Eduforge.org uses the open source software called Gforge. Websites supporting the development of learning objects OpenCourse http://opencourse.org/ OpenCourse.org supports virtual communities that develop, evaluate and use open, non-proprietary learning objects (e.g. animations, simulations, models, case studies, etc.). Articles on the use of FOSS in Learning Management Systems Open Source Content in Education http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/open_source_part_2.htm Why We Should Share Learning Resources http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/why_we_should_share.htm Open courseware and open source software http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=903922dl=ACMcoll=ACM/ FOSS Learning Content Management Systems and Content Management Systems Learning Content Management Systems ATutor (Accessible Tutor) http://www.unesco.org/iiep/virtualuniversity/ATutor%20http://atutor.ca/atutor/index.php ATutor is designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. ATutor complies with the W3C WCAG 1.0 accessibility specifications at the AA+ level, and the IMS/SCORM Content Packaging specifications. Content created in other IMS or SCORM conformant systems can be imported into ATutor, and visa versa. ATutor’s core development team is with The Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto, Canada. The Bodington Open Source Project http://bodington.org/index.jsp Bodington is a free open source virtual learning environement, developed by the Learning Development Unit of the University of Leeds (UK), and in use in learning institutions in the UK and worldwide, e.g. the Universities of Leeds, Oxford, Manchester; UHI Millennium Institute, Eton College, Yorkshire Coast College and St Andrews College Singapore. Bodington enables users to upload
[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/
[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 and
[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
://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-cal/ * ILUG-Burdwan (West Bengal) http://ilug-bwn.org * Mailing list Burdwan http://www.ilug-bwn.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-bwn_ilug-bwn.org Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-bwn Contact mail-id : thecyberzone at gmail.com, webmaster at ilug-bwn.org Bandel LUG -- CSSLUG http://groups.yahoo.com/group/csslug/ * ILUG-Bhubaneswar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-bbsr/ * Bihar Linux User Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biharlinuxusergroup/ * Patna Linux Users Group http://lists.asiaosc.org/mailman/listinfo/plug * Rourkee http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rklug/ * Mizoram http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mizolinxusergroup/ * North East LUG Kokrajhar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nelug-discussion/ * LUG NGFOSS http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ngfossf/ Miscellaneous * Linux Council of India http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Linux_Council_of_India/ * Linux on Yahoogroups http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux/ * AMCLUG http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amclug/ * Codebreaker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/codebreaker/ Indic Computing, localisation * Indic Computing http://indic-computing.sourceforge.net/ Mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux in Education (India) * Gnoware http://www.gnowledge.org/ * By `gnowledge' we mean the knowledge accessible freely for the community in general, and to the users of the WWW in particular. * Gnosys mailing lists http://www.gnowledge.org/Data/ObjectType/mailinglists/index_html/ * Linux @ Schools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux_schools/ LIFE-GNUL in Edn life at mm.hbcse.tifr.res.in LIFE-2life at hbcse.tifr.res.in LIFE-Nagarajuna G.nagarjun at hbcse.tifr.res.in LIFEAdmin life-admin at hbcse.tifr.res.in Magazines, other resources * Linux For You http://www.linuxforu.com/ GNU/Linux links and lists (Asia) * GNU Linux In Asia http://www.freelists.org/archives/gnulinuxinasia/ * Open Source Resource Centre of Pakistan http://www.osrc.org.pk/ * Linux Pakistan http://linuxpakistan.net/ * Mailing list address general at linuxpakistan.net * Israel Group of Linux Users, IGLU http://www.iglu.org.il/IGLU/index.php Mailing lists at http://www.iglu.org.il/mailing-lists/ * Lanka Linux Users Group LKLUG http://www.lklug.pdn.ac.lk/ * Linux com np http://linux.com.np/ * Email address admin at linux.com.np * Malaysia http://www.my-opensource.org * Email myoss at my-opensource.org * Malaysia OSSIG http://www.mncc.com.my/ossig/ * Email ossig at mncc.com.my * Mauritius Linux User Group http://www.linux.mu/ * Mailing list at http://linux.mu/mailman/listinfo/discuss-linux List address discuss-linux at linux.mu. * LUG Myanmar (Burma) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/myanmarlinuxusersclub * Singapore http://www.lugs.org.sg/ * Tajik Linux Users' Group http://68.54.23.240/tajikngo/tlug/main/index-en.html * Tajikistan (non-English) http://www.tjoss.freenet.tj/ * Vietnam Linux Users' Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vclug/ West Asian region * Arabeyes, the Arabic unix project http://www.arabeyes.org/ Arabeyes is a Meta project that is aimed at fully supporting the Arabic language in the Unix/Linux environment. It is designed to be a central location to standardize the Arabization process. Arabeyes relies on voluntary contributions by computer professionals and enthusiasts all over the world. * Linux Middle East http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Linuxmiddleeast * Linux Iran http://www.linuxiran.org/modules/news/ * Linuxarabia.com Yemen http://linuxarabia.com/ * Linux Iran http://www.linuxiran.org/modules/news/ * Saudi Arabia http://www.linux.org.sa/ (Arabic site) * Linux4Arab: http://www.linux4arab.com/ * Linux Egypt http://www.linux-egypt.org/ * Egyptian GNU/Linux Users Group http://www.eglug.org * Palestine Linux Users Group http://www.lugps.org/ * Linuxforus.org Arabic http://www.linuxfocus.org/Arabic/ * Linux Syria http://www.linuxsyria.org/ * Arabiclinux.com http://www.linux.org.sa/ * Haydar, making a new distro for all people including Arabs http://www.haydarlinux.com/ GNU/Linux links and lists (Africa) * Nigeria * NG-LUG, Lagos http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ng_linux/ * LUG-Nigeria http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naija-lugs/ GNU Linux links and lists (Latin America) Brasil * Brasil Total http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-brasil-total/ GNU/Linux links and lists (Miscellaneous) * Linux Announce http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.announce/ Email events to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frederick Noronha (FN)Nr Convent Saligao 403511 GoaIndia Freelance Journalist P: 832
[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...
a preliminary version of a font developer's guide. Check out what this determined young man has to offer at http://sayamindu.randomink.org/conv_guide/ Listing Indian LUGs, GLUGs, FSUGs and more... a list of links to various user groups in the Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) world. Please visit it at http://wikiwikiweb.de/LugsList/ Punjabi translation of Debian Installer comes closer to realisation Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org said January 19, 2005 that the Debian Installer team has been contacted by Amanpreet Alam, who offers to start working on Debian Installer (and further Debian translations) in Punjabi. Says he: The work on Hindi started about two to three months ago after a discussion here where Ravi Shrivastava offered to initiate it. ET's software stories Indian business daily, 'The Economic Times', has this link for software-related stories. Unfortunately just a few related to Free/Libre and Open Source Software in India ... a field where so much is happening! C-DAC launches Janabhaaratii FLOSS localisation project C-DAC, the Indian government-run Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing, has announced in October 2004 the launch of the launch of its janabhaaratii project for localisation of FLOSS. It suggested the goal would be development, deployment and community building, and the work would be put out under the GPL/LGPL licenses. Govt open to open source software ... or just hedging bets? India's business newspaper reported in end-December 2004 that the Government of India continues to evaluate options for using open source software, a move which would proliferate the usage of IT by bringing down its costs. IT secretary Brijesh Kumar was quoted as telling the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, an industry lobby group, that the government continues to consider options available in open source software. There was a suggestion that India should force proprietory software makers to share source code by threatening to shift to open source software, the ET reported, citing the case of China. _ _ _ _ _ | (_)_ __ _ ___ __(_)_ __ __| (_) __ _ ___ _ __ __ _ | | | '_ \| | | \ \/ /| | '_ \ / _` | |/ _` | / _ \| '__/ _` | | | | | | | |_| | _| | | | | (_| | | (_| || (_) | | | (_| | |_|_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\|_|_| |_|\__,_|_|\__,_(_)___/|_| \__, | |___/ == Frederick Noronha (FN)Nr Convent Saligao 403511 GoaIndia Freelance Journalist P: 832-2409490 M: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://fn-floss.notlong.com http://goabooks.swiki.net * Reviews of books on Goa... and more ___ 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] 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. Or
[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, a
[ilugd] GNULinuxInIndia Oct 15, 2003
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 15,2003 INDIA... AT THE LINUX COUNTER: Linux Counter has a total of 138722 people registered. 1407 users have been registered by friends. There are 124367 machines registered. This network guesstimates that between 0.2% and 5% of all Linux users have registered with the Linux Counter. So the total number of Linux users is probably between 2,774,440 and 69,361,000 people. Among the country-wide ratings, India is ranked only 137th overall, when judged by GNU/Linux uers per million population. But in terms of overall number of GNU/Linux users registered, India with 2843 registered users is only behind the US (28514 registered users), Germany (11307), Brazil (9785), France (6479), Spain (5558), Great Britain (5307), Canada (4600), Italy (4517), the Netherlands (3595), Sweden (3300), Finland (3137 users). India is ahead of Russia, Mexico and China. Probably improved connectivity to the Net here would make more people aware of the Linux Counter, and give users a better chance to register. Linux Counter recently completed 10 years of its existance. This compiler (FN) is proud to be associated with this initiative, as a volunteer covering Goa-India. More volunteers welcome for regional Indian states. If you use GNU/Linux, acknowledge your debt to the volunteers who (and the philosophy that) made it happen! Not just Linux the kernel, but also GNU! Register at http://counter.li.org 'INDIA'S BIGGEST OPEN SOURCE EVENT': Linux Bangalore/2003, what is called India's biggest Open Source event, is being held from December 2-4 at Bangalore, India. For details visit http://linux-bangalore.org/2003 Organisers have just announced that speaker registration for Linux Bangalore/2003 is now open. If you wish to be considered to give a talk at Linux Bangalore/2003, check http://linux-bangalore.org/2003/register/ Speaker guidelines at: http://linux-bangalore.org/2003/guides/speakers.php Speaker registration will be provisionally open till November 8th. Some 70+ talk slots will be available. Talks will be selected after that. Those wanting to keep abrest with plans for the event, join the list by sending a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFY ANNOUNCES Linux Asia 2004 IN DELHI, FEB 2004: Linux For You, Asia's first Linux magazine, today announced holding of Linux Asia 2004. The event is aimed at shifting Linux from labs to offices. Linux Asia 2004 will be held from February 11th - 13th, 2004 (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) at The India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. It says it will be the largest ever event on Linux in India. http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/03/09/29/1618251.shtml?tid=52 --- ### --- BUY GNU/LINUX CDs at Rs 30 per CD (plus postage). This network, run by Aniket Navelkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] is supported by the GNU/Linux Users Group of Margao, Goa. To place an order for your personal copy and for further info, pls contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Payment via cash, DD, money order or SBI electronic transfer. Distros currently available include Debian 3.0, Redhat 9.0, Mandrake 9.1, Knoppix 3.3 and 3.2, GNUWin 2.1 (GNU utilities for Windows!), FreeBSD 5.0, Server Optimised Linux (SOL), Dynebolic 1.03a3, The Open CD (for Windows platform), FreEDUC (educational software that boots from a CDrom), SUSE LiveEval, Gnoppix (no, this is not a spelling mistake!), Slackware 9.0, RockLinux 2.0 (lots of Windows Managers Qvwm, Fwvm2, icewm), Conectiva 9.0 (four-CD set), ArchLinux 0.5, ArkLinux, and GSCP Distro (the easy-to-set up version of the Goa Schools Computers Project). http://www.ilug-margao.org/html/cd_library.htm --- ### --- TeXLIVE 2003 CD NOW ON SALE: Radhakrishnan CV [EMAIL PROTECTED] tells us that the TeXLive 2003 CD has
[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)
, and input methods. The KBIPS is directly involved with Free Software Foundation-India (at least, that is what I understand, about the FSF-India's involvement) for enabling Malayalam on GNU/Linux systems. Mahesh, a close and perceptive watcher of the Free Software scene in India, can be contacted via [EMAIL PROTECTED] Says he: I believe that the Indlinux team has spent far less during its entire existence that what (proprietorial software major players have) spent on a single foreign jaunt for its team leader/s. Not that I grudge the individuals' benefits; but I cannot help reacting when the government subsidises efforts, fruits will be controlled by private corporates while giving a cold shoulder to efforts which would be under public control. CALLING VOLUNTEERS: Linux-india.org website is expected to get an overhaul, with volunteers coming forward to support the work of webmaster Raj Mathur. If you'd like to volunteer too, contact Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ ADAPTING LINUX TO INDIA: Venky [EMAIL PROTECTED], a persistent lobbyist on this front, said in a public discussion: One issue that is important in terms of adapting ICT to Indian needs is that the technology should speak the user's language. At IndLinux (www.indlinux.org) we have been working on adapting the Linux operating system to Indian languages and have done a significant amount of work in Hindi. We would like to get an active group going in Punjabi too so that Punjabi-literate individuals too can benefit from using computers. Can you please help us get volunteers who can translate computer terms like files, folders etc to Punjabi? 'PIRACY'... AS A FAKE CONCEPT: The concept of piracy being propagated by multinational companies is fake and do not hold water in the perspective of our social commitment. I feel we have to launch resistance and fight against it, said Manabendra Mukherjee, West Bengal's minister for information technology and environment department, while delivering a lecture at a seminar on `Linux initiative in e-Governance applications'. See http://www.business-standard.com/today/story.asp?Menu=23story=17114 INDIANIZATION, INTERNATIONALIZATION: Jaco Aizenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] of the Free Software Consortium is looking out for Indian supporters to help with the internationalization of their Government Distro. This Free Software package is being launched in July 2003, by this global organisation dedicated to the promotion and commercialisation of Free Software The Government Distro is a compilation of programs widely used by the public sector in Brazil, Argentina and Spain. It contains the GNU/Linux Operating System, an Office-like suite called Open Office, email and instant messenger, a calendar, a database, a web browser application and many other programs. Say its promoters: All these applications have been used and tested previously in dozens of Latin American and European users, in order to certify their functionality. They have all been designed by highly talented programmers from all around the world. -- YOUR INPUTS and criticism to this newsletter are welcome. Contact us at fred at bytesforall dot org COPYLEFT 2003. May be freely circulated provided entire text and credits is left intact. FN -- 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 - ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[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
