Hi friends,
Recently I have written an application which can be used in the schools in
kerala as student admission register as per Kerala Educational Rules [KER].
This would make tasks such as T.C issuance, finding details about students
etc easier.
Checkout http://code.google.com/p/school-admin
Platforms: GNU/Linux , M$ Windows
Comments please :)
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Sarath Lakshman
http://sarathlakshman.info
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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.
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Anivar Aravind
moving Republic
Peringavu.P.O
Thrissur-18
Kerala
http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/about
Could someone offer help and advice on this? FN
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From: sajan venniyoor <venniyoor(a)gmail.com>
Date: 21 Sep 2007 11:28
Subject: Re: list of audio software
To: abhijit(a)mudeth.org, Ramnath Bhat <ram(a)voicesindia.org>, Frederick
FN Noronha <fredericknoronha(a)gmail.com>
Cc: "N. Ramakrishnan" <nram(a)ideosyncmedia.org>, Seema Nair <s.nair(a)unesco.org>
Dear Abhijit, Ram, Fred,
Along with the CR Technical Manual, we'd like to provide community
radio groups with free audio software. In his presentation at
Pondicherry, Abhijit had mentioned Audacity but of course there's lots
more available as free downloads.
I have drawn up a rough list (see below) of audio software, but Ram of
Ideosync points out that some of them are not very user-friendly.
Could we test some of these (and others like Ubuntu Studio that
Ideosync Ram has mentioned) pick out the best for our CR people? It
would be a very useful resource that we could club with the Technical
Manual and offer to CR groups.
Let me know what you think.
warm regards,
Sajan
>
>
> Audacity: Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
>
> ZaraRadio: ZaraRadio is a free radio automation system (a 'playout' system). It operates on Windows (but not on Vista). It's not stated whether it works on Mac OS or Linux. http://www.zararadio.com/index.php?centro=main.php&lang=en
>
> Campcaster: Campcaster is a free and open source radio management software. It has been designed for a Linux environment, but could possibly be used on other platforms in future. http://www.campware.org/en/camp/campcaster_news/605/
>
> Ardour: Ardour is an open source digital audio workstation and can be used to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. http://ardour.org/
>
> Sweep: Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool for GNU/Linux, BSD and compatible systems. http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/index.html
>
> ReSound: ReZound is an open source and graphical audio file editor primarily for but not limited to the Linux operating system. http://rezound.sourceforge.net/
>
> Rivendell: It is a complete radio broadcast automation solution, with facilities for the acquisition, management, scheduling and playout of audio content for GNU/Linux operating system. http://www.rivendellaudio.org/
>
> Jokosher: Jokosher is a simple yet powerful multi-track studio which can be used to create and record music, podcasts etc. http://www.jokosher.org/
>
> NGO-in-a-Box: Offers a variety of FOSS audio software. http://audiovideo.ngoinabox.org/?q=taxonomy/term/142
>
>
> Pro Tools: Pro Tools Free is a free version of Pro Tools for Mac. It is a digital audio workstation used for music production, post production etc. http://www.download.com/Pro-Tools-Free/3000-2182_4-3296394.html
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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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The first lawsuit for GPL violation in the USA has been filed yesterday
against Monsoon Multimedia, who were distributing busybox without
making the source code available. This appears to be primarily a
precedent-setting action, since MM had already acknowledged that they
were using GPL source code in their product(s). If SFLC (the
complainant) wins an injunction, it would be a big step for GPL
compliance in the US, and hopefully could also be used to get a
precedent in India and other countries.
Story at: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070920153227686
Regards,
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Freedom in Technology & Software || September 2007 || http://freed.in/
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PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves
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Globalisation Institute Brussels, calls for Unbundling Pre Installed Windows
Computers in the European Union should be sold without a bundled
operating system, according to this submission to the European
Commission. It says that the bundling of Microsoft Windows with
computers is not in the public interest, and prevents meaningful
competition in the operating system market.
Operating systems, it says, are not a natural monopoly, requiring just
one supplier. Instead, in a competitive market, there would be a broad
compatibility between different supplier’s products. “Competition would
encourage open standards and interoperability as vendors would, for
competitive reasons, want their products to interact with other vendors’
products,” the submission says.
Full Report is here
http://www.globalisation.eu/publications/unbundlingmicrosoftwindows.pdf
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Anivar Aravind
moving Republic
Peringavu.P.O
Thrissur-18
Kerala
http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/about
The more recent mainboards from Gigabyte require the M$ Windows for
Bios update, even the MS DOG bios update utility is not offered.
Boards in the GA-Mxxx series for example have this feature,
notwithstanding the few words on Linux drivers on the relevant page.
The right thing for Gigabyte to do is to make a minimal FreeDOS /
Linux standalone utility for the purpose. I am telling them a few
things.
Best
A. Mani
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A. Mani
Member, Cal. Math. Soc
"The GNOME community announced a new release today after six months of
development. GNOME is a desktop environment primarily used on Linux
and other open-source platforms. GNOME 2.20 includes numerous
improvements and new features that benefit users, administrators, and
developers...." News at
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070919-gnome-2-20-officially-release…
"Second Beta Release of KDE 4.0 available.
On 6th September 2007 the KDE Community released the second Beta
release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the feature
freeze and the stabilization of the current codebase. Simultaneously
the KOffice developers have released their third Alpha release,
marking significant improvements in this innovative office suite. ..."
Info at www.kde.org
CK Raju
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From: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshan.mukhopadhyay(a)gmail.com>
Date: 17 Sep 2007 16:50
Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Phoronix] AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs
To: ILUG-Cal's principal mailing list <ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org>
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Ending off the X Developer Summit this year, Matthew Tippett handed off
ATI's GPU specifications to David Airlie on a CD (as reported by Daniel
Stone). However, the specifications are also now available on the
Internet! At http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ is the location of the
documentation where you can freely download the files. Right now there
is the RV630 Register Reference Guide and M56 Register Reference Guide.
The RV630 Reference Guide is 434 pages long while the M56 Guide is 460
pages. Expect more documentation (and 3D specifications) to arrive
shortly. The new open-source R500/600 driver will be released early next
week.
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You see things; and you say 'Why?';
But I dream things that never were;
and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw
www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan
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Swathanthra Malayalam Computing(SMC) got widespread support from
malayalam mainstream print media for the 2 day (14th & 15th september)
software freedom day celebration & the release of 7 software packages
developed during last year. It is the time to look at our history.
SMC is reactivated from a dead state, as a result of personal
discussions with praveen, hiran & vimaljoseph in the sidelines of
GPLv3 Conference in bangalore. The new team is setup at last year SFD
celebrations in Thrissur. Suresh, Baiju(the founder of SMC), Hussain
KH (rachana), Anwar, Students in GEC etc also joined in the team at
that time. Now we have more than 30 developers+localizers. The
astounding progress within the short span of time is described below
* December 2006: Debian Installer is Fully Translated into
Malayalam ( The Work of Debian malayalam, a sub team of Swathanthra
malayalam computing)
* January 2007: Santhosh Thottingal of SMC done a complete
architectural rewrite of Dhvani, the Indian language text to speech
system by Ramesh hariharan & added Malayalam support to It.
* March 2007 : participated & Conducted workshops in FOSS
Meet@NITC, Kozhikkode
* March 2007: Swathanthra Malayalam Computing selected as a
participating Organisation ( and only Indian Organisation) in Google
Summer of Code Project. 5 projects were allotted.
* April 2007: GNU aspell supported Malayalam (major issues are resolved)
* May 2007: Swanalekha: a Phonetic Input scheme for malayalam using SCIM
* June 2007: Lalitha, Bolnagiri based xkb keyboard for malayalam by Jinesh
* July 2007: Added pango support to Tuxtype by Mobin M as part of
GSoC work. Now Tuxtype is usable for all Indian languages
* July 2007:Debian package (Debconf )Translations. Malayalam is
the Most translated indian language with 27% translation of
configuration strings
* August 2007: Malayalam Matrix screen saver Release, & First
Public Release of Aspell- malayalam spellchecker with More than 137000
words list (It is the largest Indian Language Aspell wordlist. Second
is hindi with 25000 words).
* September 2007: Gnome Officially supports malayalam in Gnome
2.20 with More than 80% translations
* September 2007: Sarika : The first Free Indian language speech
recognition engine is developed by Shyam K (as a part of GsoC). It
Currently identifies more than 50 malayalam words
* September 2007: Tuxtype malayalam is Released by Mobin.M &
friends (Vimal, Shreyas, Sreeranj, Prince)
* Meera , a Malayalam Traditional opentype font with more than 900
glyphs is released under GNU GPL by Hussain K.H and Suresh P . It is
developed for Suruma renderering scheme (not compatible with Uniscribe
scheme for windows) . Authors are working on a Uniscribe compatible
(windows) version now
Pramode Sir wrote:
A society and a culture is identified by its language - once the
language is dead, the society starts losing its identity. A good way
to keep a language alive is to take it to the digital world - the
world of the PC/Communication devices and the Internet. This is one
context in which developing regional language computing environments
and popularising them has great significance.
The theme for the 2 day event was "Swathantra Software and Malayalam
computing" . Free software is touching the lives of common man now !!
Digg It: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Wide_spread_coverage_for_Software_Freedom_Day_in…
FSDaily: http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Wide_spread_coverage_for_Software_Freedom_…