Fsf-friends December 2004

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GoI assurance on GNU/Linux "fully implemented"?
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

http://164.100.24.167:8080/members/website/assu.asp?qref=198270 Government Assurance Details As On: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 SESSION/ASSURANCE NUMBER: 198/270 DATE: 13-03-2003 MINISTRY : COMMUNICATIONS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MEMBER : FALEIRO EDUARDO MARTINHO SOURCE: QUESTION CLICK TO SEE QUESTIONS QUESTION NO: 2331 QUESTION TYPE: UNSTARRED SUBJECT : Free/open source software EXTENT OF ASSURANCE: Based on the deliberations had during the meeting held at New Delhi during December, 2002 on understanding the potential of free/open sources software in making IT affordable to the citizens ,Linux India Initiative has been identified as an effort to be included in 2003-04 plan of Department of Information Technology and has been included. Other follow up actions are being taken. STATUS: FULLY IMPLEMENTED EXTENSION NO: 2 EXTENDED UPTO: 30-11-2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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

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[Fsf-friends] NSS COLLEGE OF ENGG Free Software Fwd:NSS COLLEGE OF ENGG Free SoftwareUsers group
by Praveen A 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

hello, can any one help NSS COLLEGE OF ENGG Free Software Users group to conduct a workshop or awareness program on Free Software philosophy and GNU/linux? -----Forwarded Message----- From: Dileep M. Kumar <dileep(a)symonds.net> To: FSUG-Kochi-Discuss(a)symonds.net Subject: [fsug-kochi-discuss] [Fwd: NSS COLLEGE OF ENGG Free Software Users group] Date: 27 Nov 2004 19:25:30 +0530 Any takers ? Regards -- Dileep -------- Original Message -------- Subject: NSS COLLEGE OF ENGG Free Software Users group Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 05:30:03 +0000 (GMT) From: santhosh thottingal <santhoshthottingal(a)yahoo.co.in> To: dileep(a)kumarayil.net Sir, We have a Free Software users group in our NSS College of Engineering,Plakkad, named as FOX-Free software and Open systems eXtended. We understood that most of the students not aware of the Free software movement and GNU or they are misunderstanding the meaning and the mission. In this scenario we would like to conduct an awareness programme in the form of a seminar or workshop. We think that you are used to conduct these type of programmes and you can help us. If you are interested please reply us in email. Santhosh T R, Coordinator-Fox club, Dept of Computer Science and Engg. NSS college of Engineering, Palakkad-678595. Email: santhoshthottingal(a)yahoo.co.in desert_orion(a)yahoo.com -- ~vimal -- --- A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org http://www.edathanattukara.com Visit me at http://www.pravi.tk

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Indian Linux users cant see constitution in Hindi
by Sandip Bhattacharya 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

[Apologies for cross posting. Please take care while replying] Did you know that you can only see the official online version of the constitution of India in our national language - Hindi, if you use Internet Explorer? That is right. Take a look at the following link. http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/welcome.html I have been hunting down other GoI offenders and listing them at http://www.lug-delhi.org/HallOfShame/Websites Now dont go ahead and moan about difficulties of showing Indian languages on the web.The PTI hindi website (http://www.ptinews.com/bhasha/ptisite.nsf) shows that a standard based alternative already exists. We need more help from every body concerned to list the GoI and private financial institution offenders who discriminate against users of alternative and Free Operating systems from accessing information from our very own government! After all what is the point of evangelising Linux/BSD or whatever as an alternative to newbies if they see that every other web site in India openly discriminate against them? - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya * Puroga Technologies * sandip(a)puroga.com Work: http://www.puroga.com * Home: http://www.sandipb.net PGP/GPG Signature: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 printk("NULL POINTER IDIOT\n"); linux-2.6.6/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_filter.c

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FSF and GNU, and other talks on Free Software
by Ramanraj K 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Recently, the ILUGC organised a demo day for IEEE [pronounced as I-triple-E] at the Central Lecture Theatre, IIT Madras. Brief minutes about the meet is available at: http://www.chennailug.org/meeting/minutes/yr2004/ilugc-112004.html My talk was on on "FSF and GNU", and the slides I used for the talk is available at: http://personal.vsnl.com/ramanraj/FSF_and_GNU.tar.gz [99K] The purpose of the talk was to briefly introduce FSF and GNU to an audience totally new to free software. I should thank Bharathi for organising the event, giving the opportunity and for choosing a nice topic to talk about :) Though I used OO Impress for the talk, I have converted the file for use with MagicPoint, a X11 based presentation tool. The presentation file (FSF_and_GNU.mgp) is just a text file which may be easily modified or improved. MagicPoint allows presentation files to be created quickly with a text editor, building with tag directives for embedding graphics, grabbing command outputs into foils for live displays during presentations etc. After installing MagicPoint, to start the presentation give the command: # mgp <file_name> Official home page of MagicPoint is at: http://www.Mew.org/mgp/ Shakthi Kannan, gave a presentation on "GNU/Linux Software Applications for Engineers and Tech Support" and is available for download from http://www.geocities.com/cyborg4k/ieee1104.tar.gz [1MB] released under the Creative Commons-Attribution/Non-commercial/ Shared-Alike Version 2.0 License:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ Sivasankar Chander also introduced Gnu/Linux to the audience, but I do not have the link to his slides. In all, about 30 IEEE members, 70 IIT-M Students, and few others attended the demo day workshop. __

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