Fsf-friends September 2007

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[off-topic not] vision of an enlightened indian mystic on copyleft
by Linux Lingam 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

dear all, just discovered this, thought it worthy to share with you: "Things can be copyrighted, thoughts cannot be copyrighted, and certainly meditations cannot be copyrighted. They are not things of the marketplace. Nobody can monopolize anything. But perhaps the West cannot understand the difference between an objective commodity and an inner experience. For ten thousand years the East has been meditating and nobody has put trademarks upon meditations." - Osho http://oshoworld.com/copyleft/copyleft.asp as a private study, have been researching past two years on the indian philosophical view and 'darshan' on copyrights. haven't found much. anyone else stumbled across something? :-) niyam

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a new road for AMD and ATI
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=302 AMD is making the commitment to do two major things: * To develop of a fully functional 2D and 3D driver that supports all of their newer radeon chipsets. This will be done in full collaboration with the open source community and will have the direct participation of hackers from companies like Red Hat and Novell. * To release documentation that anyone can use to build and support drivers for their chips. Regards, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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OOXML failed to get approval of ISO/IEC
by Praveen A 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Great News! Hats off to all who worked hard for this. "The five-month ballot process ended on 2 September and was open to the IEC and ISO national member bodies from 104 countries, including 41 that are participating members of the joint ISO/IEC technical committee, JTC 1, Information technology. Approval requires at least 2/3 (i.e. 66.66 %) of the votes cast by national bodies participating in ISO/IEC JTC 1 to be positive; and no more than 1/4 (i.e. 25 %) of the total number of national body votes cast negative. Neither of these criteria were achieved, with 53 % of votes cast by national bodies participating in ISO/IEC JTC 1 being positive and 26 % of national votes cast being negative." http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1070 Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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SELF Platform Launch - Sept. 7
by Nagarjuna G. 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

Hi all, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR) is participating in an international project "SELF: Science, Education and Learning in Freedom", wherein we are developing an E-learning Platform. It has been planned by all the partners that the SELF Platform will be launched simultaneously all over the world for the community. In India we have scheduled the official launch of the SELF Platform on September 7, 2007 (3-6 pm), in some countries it is happening on 5th and 6th. On this occassion, we cordially invite you to participate in the official launch of an E-learning Platform developed by Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR). Program Schedule : 3:00 - 3:30 Welcome Address Prof. Arvind Kumar Centre Director Homi Bhabha Centre For Science Education 3:30 - 4:00 SELF Platform Launch Prof. Shobo Bhattacharya Director Tata Institute Of Fundamental Research 4:00 - 4:30 Keynote Address on FOSS & Collaborative Culture Prof. D. B. Phatak Subharao M. Nilekani Chiar Professor Kanwal Rekhi Institute of Information Technology Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 4:30 - 5:00 Special lecture on Semantic Web and Collaborative E-learning Prof. G. Sivakumar Professor and Head, Computer Science and Engineering Department Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 5:00 -5:30 Live Demonstration of the SELF Platform SELF Platform Development Team Homi Bhabha Centre For Science Education 5:30 - 6:00 Vote of Thanks & High Tea Venue: Shri V. G. Kulkarni Auditorium Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education V. N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd, Mumbai 88 RSVP: self(a)hbcse.tifr.res.in hbcse(a)selfproject.eu 25555242/25554712 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About the SELF Project: http://www.selfproject.eu SELF: Science, Education and Learning in Freedom Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), TIFR is participating in an European Commission funded project on Science, Education and Learning in Freedom (SELF) from July 1, 2006 to July 2008. The SELF platform is initiated by an international consortium of seven partners --- three universities: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain), University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (India); and four non-profit organisations active as Free Software advocates: Internet Society (Netherlands), Free Software Foundation Europe (in all European countries), Internet Society (Bulgaria) and Fundación Via Libre (Argentina). The SELF project aims to provide a platform for the collaborative sharing and creation of open educational and training materials about Free Software and Open Standards. About the SELF Platform: http://www.slefplatform.eu Homi Bhabha Centre's gnowledge lab developed the SELF Platform, a graphical web based multi-lingual platform for collaborative authoring of courses and lessons, to organize them and distribute them widely to various educational institutes all over the world. The SELF Platform comprises mainly of a knowledge management application for authors, and instructors. During the course of time, it will also have course delivery system for learners. The SELF Platform conforms with the e-learning standards such as LOM, SCORM. The SELF Platform comprises of modules for authors, instructors, students. The SELF Platform will provide information, educational and training materials in the form of course material, e-books, instructional and educational videos, manuals, etc. The platform caters to the target groups such as---universities and schools, training organisations, publishers, industrial manufacturers, free software communities, government bodies, public and non-profit organisations, private organisations. The SELF Platform would serve as providing a central access for educational materials alongwith a community participation in a multilingual environment. ----------------- You all are welcome. Thank you. Nagarjuna G. http://www.gnowledge.org/

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