Any clues on how these compare on mobiles? Particularly Openmoko and
Android? Would the C/C++ thingy be a negative mark for Openmoko? I
understand there are license issues too (Symbian isn't 'yet' open
source, and Android is in Google's grip). But how does this reflect
when it comes to the user's i
Videos from Software Freedom Day at BITS Pilani Goa centre...
Lyx ... and all that
LyX is a document processor following the self-coined "what you see is
what you mean" paradigm (WYSIWYM), as opposed to the WYSIWYG ideas
used by word processors. This means that the user only has to care
about the
SOFTWARE FOR KIDS: A new site focussing on what is freely available
(free-beer, free-speech) for helping children learn. Specially the
young ones, with a focus on India and South-Asia. Current links
include
* Yobler.com … educational videos
* The Digital Study Hall (DSH)
* ET? What's that? (An Aug
Freedom... at a Free Software meet
We invite you for a virtual meet of the India Linux Users Group-Goa at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4sQK7AZyDQ
ABOUT THE VIDEO: On the fourth Saturday of each month, a group of
volunteer-techies meets at the Goa Science Centre (Miramar), to share
knowledge an
-- Forwarded message --
From: Prakash Manandhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2008/6/21
Subject: [FOSS-Nepal] Tutorial for Devanagari Documents in LyX
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Suraj Adhikari (GMail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
I have written a tutorial for Devanagari Document creation in
Free software in schools. Download this from here
http://www.divshare.com/download/4053521-61e
>From Farida Umrani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I am working with Prof. Sridhar Iyer at Dept of Computer Science, IIT
Bombay on content development for school computer science based on
Edubuntu . We will h
Free software in schools. Download this from here
http://www.divshare.com/download/4053521-61e
From Farida Umrani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I am working with Prof. Sridhar Iyer at Dept of Computer Science, IIT
Bombay on content development for school computer science based on
Edubuntu . We w
Check these pages for some fascinating audio interviews:
Joi Ito (CreativeCommons.org). Sunil Abraham (IOSN, Mahiti.org in
Bangalore, etc). Sunlight Foundation. Vera Franz (OSI). Mike
Linksvayer (Creative Commons). Peter Suber (Open Access). Heather Ford
(iCommons.org). John Sullivan (Free
i4donline.net's February 2008 magazine focuses on open publishing.
Some of the articles it has include:
* Gutenberg Project
* Moodle CMS
* Widgit Software
* Open Webcasting
* Open Architecture Network
* Digital Library in India, the million book project
* Cape Town Open Education Declaration
* Inf
Dear All, My journo friend Arnab has just gone in for an Acer with
GNU/Linux and is having some challenges in getting it started. I'd be
very grateful if you could offer any help! Thanks so much... FN
--
Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph +91-832-2409490
The Goa books blog: http://goabook
BYTESFORALL: A LOOK AT SOME URDU DEVELOPMENTS...
Some useful and interesting links from the UrduComputing mailing list
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/urdu_computing
URDU NVU RELEASE
Huda Sarfraz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The current release of
the Nvu localization includes the Urdu Nvu installer for
Win
Could someone kindly point me to some follow up on this initiative?
Just writing on the topic. Thanks! FN
The Delhi chapter of the Indian Linux Users Groups, ILUG-D, has
started a project named LAP. "LAP or Linux Access Project is a project
started at Linux Delhi to provide an infrastructure to sc
Could someone kindly point me to where I could get access to the
following presentations from Freed.in?
Ajith Kumar's Free Software in Science Experiments using Phoenix and
Ajay Kumar's Free/Open Tools for Free/Open Educational Content.
Many thanks in advance, FN
--
Frederick Noronha http://fn.g
Dear all:
I'm working on a paper on Free/Libre and Open Source Software in
Schools and would be grateful if you could point me to useful links
about such ventures, where it has been used successfully or otherwise.
A draft paper (work-in-progress) of what I've put together so far can be read at
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Software/Delhi_FOSS_event_gets_growing_attention/articleshow/2421842.cms
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Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph 0091-832-2409490
List of Indian e-lists http://wikiwikiweb.de/MailingListsInIndia
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Could anyone kindly pass on links of Free Software/Open Source usage in
Indian schools? Am writing on this currently. Tks, FN
IT practical tests on 'open' platform
Anand Parthasarathy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] project of Kerala has developed an operating system based on
the
Linux
Akshaya had raised pop
http://osindia.blogspot.com/2007/08/memo-to-microsoft-stop-wasting-our-time.html
Feedback to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Memo to Microsoft: Stop wasting our time!
Finally word is out and the Bureau of Indian Standards has confirmed
that it will be submitting a "No with comments"
Posted by Vinayak Hegde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at GII-India
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Software/
India_throws_Microsoft_open_format_out_of_the_window/articleshow/2305780.cms
(url has wrapped)
NEW DELHI: India on Thursday gave Microsoft a thumbs-down in the war
of standards for off
Some links you might find useful (FLOSS in education):
* FOSS Education (Wikibooks)
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Education
* Comics... to teach FLOSS?
http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/82/Hai_Ti_Comics_SchoolNet_Namibia.pdf
* Skolelinux 3.0 Terra available for free
http://www.skolelinu
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