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[Fwd: Free And Open Source Software (FOSS) Conference in Amritapuri Campus]
by V. Sasi Kumar 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Dharan P Deepak - <dharanpdeepak(a)gmail.com> To: undisclosed-recipients : ; Subject: Free And Open Source Software (FOSS) Conference in Amritapuri Campus Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:18:14 +0530 Hi all, We are conducting a FOSS (Free and Opensource software) conference in Amritapuri campus on March 28th and 29th . The website is constantly work in progress and will take a while to be done. Meanwhile you can check out http://foss.amrita.ac.in Tentative agenda is at http://foss.amrita.ac.in/site/foss-conference/agenda - We are planning a track 3 as well - social aspects of FOSS and also include mysql. We are targeting 150 non Amrita students, 50 faculty (inviting free of cost), 150 Amrita students and 50 working professionals to attend this conference. The main aim is to promote awareness about foss and help get started with contributing to foss. As you know due to the economy people are finding it difficult to get jobs now a days. But jobs are available still for the right candidate. Getting in to FOSS is an added advantage for students or working professionals as it helps to improve their confidence and resume too. Recently when the VP of Nokia visited our campus he mentioned that he would definitely hire some one who has been contributed to opensource because it implies certain level of skills and attitude the student has. In this conference we have hands on session not just demos. This will help newbies as well as those who want to know how to contribute to FOSS. (Working with source code, making changes building etc). We are envisioning the website foss.amrita.ac.in to be a comprehensive foss portal for anyone who is interested in foss and working with foss. In the coming months we plan to have tutorials, links, video lectures etc to be uploaded and help people get started with foss. If you could inform all your friends, alumni etc that you know about this event. Registration is first come first served. It will definitely help the delegates as we have seen from the experience of our students. There are 4 outside speakers (3 from Sun Microsystems and 1 from InApp solutions - Mr Amrnath Raja) and the rest of them are students sharing their experience with the hands on session. -- print _me; Name error : '_me' not defined print $techblog; http://nextdoornerd.blogspot.com/ print $personal-blog; http://dharanpdeepak.blogspot.com/ pri#t%#*@#; Bad Bad Server, No donut for you! unable to show you the rest of this mail. -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India Please visit http://swatantryam.blogspot.com

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Welcome to Xencio '09
by Abhijith V R 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

Hi Guys, We the Dept. of Information Technology is conducting a National Level Technical Symposium @ TKM Institute of Technology, Kollam Xencio '09 freedom in technology... Dated : 11 & 12 of March 2009 Venue : EDUSAT THEATRE, TKMIT, KOLLAM Seminars will be conducted on : 1. BOSS - Indian version of Linux ( Basics to Administration ) : CDAC Team {registrars will get BOSS dvd's @ the venue} 2. ANDROID - Free mobile software with OS : Satish Babu (President, InApp & Board member,SPACE & FSF India) 3. WEB 2.0 & AJAX using JMaki : Araafat Aboobacker, NIIT PVT. LTD. Bangalore 4. VFX & Animation : Vipin V (Centre Director, Image Infotainment Kollam & TVM) 5. Communication Skill Interactive Workshop : Turning Point Team Contests: 1. Debugging 2. Gaming 3. Poster Designing 4. Quiz Prize Money of Rs 25000/- awaits you and many more benifits.... for more details & registration visit: www.syritz-tkmit.org or contact : Abhijith V R (Event Co-ordinator) mob. +91 9995108454, +91 9809087656 with regards, Haxter

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Re: [Fsf-friends] [FSUG-Bangalore] Microsoft's secret plan behind the TomTom suit?
by Praveen A 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Microsoft can't compete technically with Free Software, and they knew it years ago. Their answer was spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about Free Software. Now they realise it is not working. So they took the next option they got, patents. It is a tactic of picking the weakest one for a fight and scaring others for a deal. On Mar 7, 2009 6:42 AM, "OpenSpace" <use.info(a)gmail.com> wrote: Please can someone explain this to me in plain english please? http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-276211.html Microsoft's secret plan behind the TomTom suit? A very interesting analysis of the Microsoft versus TomTom suit has appeared on veteran journo Glyn Moody's blog. Having established that Microsoft's "it's not about Linux" schtick is transparently wrong - the area covered by the FAT patents is pure Linux, unchanged by TomTom, so any Linux distro with FAT compatibility would qualify - we then get a post from Jeremy Allison, who's well versed in Microsoft's approach to open source. You must read the whole thing yourself - but in brief, he says that Microsoft has been putting all its IP deals under NDA because the cross-licensing of patents is disallowed under Section 7 of GPL 2. Thus, anyone who signs is disallowed from distributing any of the Linux kernel - so Microsoft has them over a barrel. This explains the secrecy behind all the deals - which, lest we forget, Microsoft is promoting as examples of open sharing - and is building up to a situation where Microsoft can detonate a huge improvised explosive device under Linux. What might save things is if TomTom prevails, negating the relevant patents - and there are good reasons to think it would, if it can afford to fight. If it can't afford to fight, then things get just that little nastier. As Allison says: "Tom Tom are the first company to publicly refuse to engage in this ugly little protection racket, and so they got sued. Had Tom Tom silently agreed to violate the GPL, as so many others have, then we'd only hear about a vague "patent cross licensing deal" just like the ones Microsoft announces with other companies. Make no mistake, this is intended to force Tom Tom to violate the GPL, or change to Microsoft embedded software." Rupert Goodwins' blog was originally posted on ZDNet.co.uk. _______________________________________________ FSUG-Bangalore mailing list FSUG-Bangalore(a)mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsug-bangalore

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Adoption of FS based subjects in syllabus at CU
by Vikram Vincent 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

In a major move, the B.Sc. Computer Science Dept. of CU has introduced Python, PHP, GNU/Linux administration into the syllabus. References to M$ and its office applications in the Computer Fundamentals paper were replaced by OOo. There is also a shift from Turbo-C to GCC and friends. Topics related to Free software and open standards have been introduced into the IT paper of BBM. The Free Software based 'Moodle' - a learning management system(LMS) is being implemented as a policy throughout the University in a phased manner. Debian GNU/Linux is being installed in at least one system per department on a trial basis and both teaching and support staff are being trained. The creation of a Free Software Group is being planned as part of the CS Dept. academic activities. FS based projects will be given to the students for imlementation. These changes come after more than a year's efforts in convincing and training the staff and students on Free Software. -- Vikram Vincent +91 9448810822 http://swatantra.org/

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