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omshiva is your Yaar! :)
by omshiva 13 Oct '07

13 Oct '07

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Log out of Microsoft tie-up, say open software advocates
by Omshiva prakash 12 Oct '07

12 Oct '07

Check the report http://www.hindu.com/2007/10/12/stories/2007101254810600.htm For full story read the Hindu news paper . -- Omshivaprakash | ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ | ओं शिवप्रकाश् "A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth." TechFiz :::eXcluding eRrors::: Web: <http://www.techfiz.info> http://www.techfiz.info Ircname : techfiz @ irc.freenode.net Phone: +91 9343726518 +91 9343866368 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHDpm27OA72yfkJqMRAsSHAJ95Uwd3D8oKoGE4yYsvCL9g5m36KwCfc29d JwxzCE1B0wizl04DgtS7JOE= =hIVl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Eben Moglen interview in Frontline
by james mathew 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

http://frontline.in/stories/20071019507610000.htm -- HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE!

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OpenStreetMap project ... and India
by Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया] 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

Dear IndiaGII, Rolf Kleef <rolf(a)drostan.org> drew attention to the OpenStreetMap project and wrote something of relevance to our part of the world. Rolf commented as below, but meanwhile could you please help to take these initiatives ahead, if you see something good coming of it? --FN PS: Apologies for cross-posting, just trying to build the links... Rolf Kleef <rolf(a)drostan.org> wrote: - The Dutch company AND has provided their data on Dutch roads, and that data is now included on www.openstreetmap.org. And there seems to be an import underway of public domain data for the US (could take months to complete). - AND said they will also donate their data for China and India (which covers major roads only). I'm copying a message I found with possible contacts, and especially want to point out possible work by FSF India on uploading map data via SMS and possibly developing free GPS devices. I don't know anything further about this. Maybe Frederick or others in APC have access to more information? It could be a valuable development to enable more participation worldwide. /-- Kind regards, /--- Rolf. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] OSM, AND & India Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:50:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Mikel Maron <mikel_maron(a)yahoo.com> To: Ante Wessels <ante(a)ffii.org>, dev(a)openstreetmap.org, Schuyler Erle <schuyler(a)geocoder.us> CC: OpenStreetMap NL discussion list <talk-nl(a)openstreetmap.org> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.devel,gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.region.nl Hi Ante I'm also very interested in mapping India. A couple notes on those data sources... I've talked to Schuyler about this, he's one of the organizers of the Mumbai Freemap. Mumbai Freemap is an impressive data set -- it covers all of Mumbai, from digitized municipal documents. Issue is that it's currently not in a form usable for OpenStreetMap. The digitization was done in CAD, and is pretty directly a trace of those original documents. For example, both sides of the road are drawn precisely, but there's not single object representing the road itself. So a second workshop would need to be organized, to transform the current freemap into OpenStreetMap. Technically this is quite simple -- the mumbai freemap can serve WMS, which can be read into JOSM. In JOSM, that imagery is retraced in the "OSM way". It's a lot of work, but my impression is that there's a lot of people in Mumbai willing to work very hard on this, and that with some organizational effort it's entirely doable. I'd be up for helping on this. AND in India is basically VMAP0. So we're talking major roads, somewhat out of data, but no detail within cities. VMAP0 contains other layers like rail, not sure if that's included in the AND data set. When I was last in India, VMAP0 was actually pretty decent for major roads, though anything built within the last few years was missing. Still a good start, and since that import path is already worked out for the NL data, it makes a lot of sense to push that ahead too. Mikel ----- Original Message ---- From: Ante Wessels <ante(a)ffii.org> To: dev(a)openstreetmap.org Cc: OpenStreetMap NL discussion list <talk-nl(a)openstreetmap.org> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 12:59:47 AM Subject: [OSM-dev] OSM, AND & India I met Nagarjuna G, chairman of the FSF India. One of the projects he is working on is open map data in India. They are experimenting with things like uploading tracks via sms. They would like to buy gps chips and build their own devices. Especially in Mumbai mappers are active. I told him AND offered the main roads of India to OSM. He was very interested. I'm rather ignorant about OSM's international contacts, so I just tried google. This seems to be the project Nagarjuna talked about: http://mumbai.freemap.in/ These pages suggest there are already contacts between openstreetmap.org and mappers in India: http://www.freemap.in/ http://wiki.freemap.in/moin.cgi/HbcseWorkshop The second one mentions the openstreetmap editor JOSM. Actually, I see his name as a workshop leader there too. If JOSM is used in India too, it should be doable to exchange data. India is rather empty on our map yet: http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=15.686938643550643&lon=76.8613690285… Converting the AND data should be rather straithforward since we already have a conversion script. Intergrating it may be not too much work since most of our map is empty. It will be more difficult to integrate it with data collected by the India project. But that is where it starts to become interesting. vriendelijke groet, cordialmente, Ante _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev(a)openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev ======================================= APC Forum is a meeting place for the APC community - people and institutions who are or have been involved in collaboration with APC, and share the APC vision - a world in which all people have easy, equal and affordable access to the creative potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve their lives and create more democratic and egalitarian societies. _______________________________________________ apc.forum mailing list apc.forum(a)lists.apc.org http://lists.apc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/apc.forum -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph 0091-832-2409490 List of Indian e-lists http://wikiwikiweb.de/MailingListsInIndia

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Re: [FSUG-Bangalore] Join your hands with us
by Vikram Vincent 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

Hello, On 06/10/2007, Omshiva prakash <omshivaprakash(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Microsoft has for long ignored issues relating to Kannada on their > Operating Systems. Despite several movements, campaigns to bring the issues > to Microsoft's attention, things have just been the same. What more? To push > its own standards and grab monopoly, Microsoft has signed a "Letter of > Intent" with Government of Karnataka recently. > > Implications? many! Microsoft would get an unfair edge in the state > despite its negligence towards Kannada language. > A few thoughts about the letter: 1. The main points of the letter - gives adequate focus on the Kannada language aspects, talks about "lock-in" and benefit of free software. 2. Can a few point about the ODF vs. OOXML and India's stand on the issue be added? I think this is very relevant to the situation. 3. Can we increase the emphasis of quality of localisation with free software. 4. Maybe quote a few points from the IOSN webpage http://www.iosn.net/ on why developing countries such as India would find it more advantageous to use FOSS based solutions. While the language issue would stir our passions, on its own it would not present a compelling case since Free s/w Kannada localisation is also still backward. Hope these points are taken into consideration when finalising the letter(if this a draft). With fraternal greetings, -- Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://www.swatantra.org/

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Sign the FSF campaign: Free Software Free society
by Anivar Aravind 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Story on new internationalist magazines http://www.newint.org/columns/essays/2006/11/01/software/ New FSF Campaign: Free Software Free society http://www.freesoftwarefreesociety.org/ -- Anivar Aravind http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/about

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Say Libre :-)
by Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया] 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

>From a friend in South Africa. --FN ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kim Tucker <KTucker(a)csir.co.za> Date: 4 Oct 2007 01:16 Subject: Say Libre :-) To: fred(a)bytesforall.org Hi Fred, How is everything? This might interest you (and your friends): http://communities.libre.org/philosophy/saylibre Keep well and in touch Kim -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph 0091-832-2409490 List of Indian e-lists http://wikiwikiweb.de/MailingListsInIndia

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FLOSS in schools: a query (and seeking your help)
by Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया] 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

Dear all: I'm working on a paper on Free/Libre and Open Source Software in Schools and would be grateful if you could point me to useful links about such ventures, where it has been used successfully or otherwise. A draft paper (work-in-progress) of what I've put together so far can be read at http://www.divshare.com/download/2205748-36f Your suggestions, comments and critique is welcome. Thanks in advance for any help you could offer. FN PS: Thanks to all who have offered links already... -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph 0091-832-2409490 List of Indian e-lists http://wikiwikiweb.de/MailingListsInIndia

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[Fwd: [ilugd] Revoking/Objecting to Software Patents in Indian Patent Office]
by Anivar Aravind 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ilugd] Revoking/Objecting to Software Patents in Indian Patent Office Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:02:56 +0530 From: Saurabh Nanda <saurabhnanda(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org> To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org>, GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com/2007/09/spicyip-tidbits_23.html India, prima facie, does not allow pure software patents or business method patents. But that doesn't stop companies from trying. The Indian Patent Office is already being flooded with the patents described as "A web based system to do XYZ" or "A computer system in conjunction with XY to do Z" With no one opposing them (and not enough noise about this, like in the case of pharma patents), there's a high probability that this would get granted. Does anyone know of a concerted effort to keep this kind of cruft out from our country? Any pointers? Nandz. -- Anivar Aravind moving Republic Peringavu.P.O Thrissur-18 Kerala http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/about

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blender compared with other 3D tools - pretty good
by Praveen A 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

"If you ever wanted starting in 3D creation today, you probably need to know with which 3D applications package with you will feel better and which is the most suitable for you and business ? Many new CG artists try many softwares before really starting their 3D business, that's of courses the best solution to try out and know if you feel coMfortable with one than other, so after you can't know all specs of all 3D softwares when starting in 3D... Here is a comparison table with cons. and pro. for the most know today top industries 3D applications. This table isn't intended to be complete with all softwares features available but try to surround the common today 3D cg artist tasks." Full review http://www.tdt3d.be/articles_viewer.php?art_id=99 Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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