Fsf-friends July 2003

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Re: WSF and Free Software
by Diego Saravia 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Hi, yesterday we setup and email list to discuss wsf and free soft. The idea is to involve people from 3 wsf with india free soft comunity towards 4 wsf. Do you like to be included? Do you know another people that must be included? > Dear Diego Saravia > > We do have a Free Software Foundation of India, and I am one of the > Directors staying in Mumbai. I saw your query to Frederick > (bytesforall) who forwarded the email to us. Do let us know what you > have in mind for the WSF program, and what we could do. We think that > WSF India event should exclusively use free software, and if needed > FSF India can help in this as a support organization. I am copying > this mail to Arun (arun(a)gnu.org.in). > > Nagarjuna > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > nagarjun at hbcse tifr res in. http://www.gnowledge.org/ > I support Public Library of Science http://www.plos.org/ > > -- Diego Saravia dsa(a)unsa.edu.ar

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TeX, SchoolForge, FreEduc... and even Susegado
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

FORMER GOA BOARD for SSC & HSSC Education chairman Raghuvir Vernekar was waiting for the meeting to get up seat, as was Animesh, Alwyn and Mario. Others walked in somewhere between the appointed hour of 3 pm, scheduled for the launch of a proposed TeX Users Group in Goa. Normally-silent Alwyn Noronha was in full-bloom, explaining why he opted for TeX. "It's a way of creating documents that wil last over the years. Size of the documents is small. It's typesetting, not wordprocessing. You can get LateX to work with computers ranging from mainframes to Windows. Indexing and table-of-contents are very easy to create. You can even forward refer." We discussed the ways of creating PDF books. With so much content floating around, perhaps this might be a good idea. Prof Vernekar gave some ideas of how we could get in touch with Goa school principals (Goa Headmasters' Association) to introduce them to the idea of Free Software for education. One idea is to link up with the principals, teachers associations (AGSSTO, AGSSTA), and the higher secondary principal's forum. Any volunteers? Rizaplaystation, which was lugged in earlier, was demonstrated with FreEDUC. FN demoed some of the Gcompris games his daughter enjoys. Animesh ran through some other programs on this CD (www.ofset.org). This was followed by a discussion on the Goa government's approach towards GNU/Linux was discussed, as was whether have Goa's own 'base CD' would help. Albert Gouveia of NIO gave his inputs, as did educationist Dr Anil Seth and Bijon Shaha. Some pointed out that in view of the limited functionality of proprietorial software tools offered to students under the Cyberage scheme, a demand should be made for installing dual-boot systems on the PCs. Mario@Alienwiz gave an interesting explanation of his plans to create a 'virtual Goa' community game, perhaps aptly titled 'Susegado' (a difficult word to translate, but reflecting the relaxed state of the Goan mind). More about this later. Everyone adjourned for the customary tea-and-snacks at Navtara restaurant, leading to another session of informal discussions. Randall, a young student, was also present along with his friend from Don Bosco's IT college. Looking forward to seeing more young faces at the LUG. Let's take Free Software to your colleges too... Some plans: o St Xavier's Free Software talk and demo, possibly on 19.7 o Randall is checking out possibilities at Damodar's o Prof Bhat promised to follow up more IT-in-college initiatives -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[OFFTOPIC] INDIA-KERALA: Akshaya's plan for 500 community technology centres
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

KERALA STATE IT MISSION Department of IT Government of Kerala has put out an ad (Express Computer, June 16, 2003) requesting proposals to provide connectivity "to over 500 community technology centres (AkshayaECentres) in Malappuram district, Kerala". It says: As part of Kerala's ambitious e-literacy campaign, Akshaya e Centres are being set up throughout Kerala. These centres will initially provide e-literacy to one member from every household and eventually act as ICT Dissemination notes and IT Enabled Service Delivery points in every village. All Akshaya e Centres need to have quality internet connectivity and will have to be networked with a centralised operating centre. Implementation of the first phase of the project is now on in Malappuram District. The second phase involves setting up of over 6,000 Akshaya e Centres in all the district of the State, which is expected to be over by December 2004. Kerala State IT Mission, the nodal agency of the Department of IT, Government of Kerala invites proposals from connectivity providers with similar project experience to provide connectivity to over 500 Akshaya e Centres in Malappuram. Deliverables: Providing 128 Kbps connectivity at each centre to ensure smooth internet services ranging from broising, voice over IP, to video conferencing. Setting up Network Operating Centre linking Akshaya e Centres for management and monitoring of connectivity, and bandwidth management. How to apply: Interested service providers should send their proposals as per detailed RFP on or before June 25, 2003 along with service level agreement to be signed with details including guaranteed uptime, bandwidth, response time, maintainence plan etc For detailed RFP, contact: Director, Kerala State Information Technology Mission, ICT Campus, Vellayambalam Jn, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala State, India 695033. Tel -91 -471 - 272 6881, 232 4307. Email itmission(a)vsnl.com Website: www.keralaitmission.org www.akshaya.net -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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