Fsf-friends January 2010

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Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
by ck raju 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

Oracle has embraced. ------------------------------- " MariaDB is a backward compatible, drop-in replacement branch of MySQL® Database Server which includes all major open source storage engines, including the Maria storage engine. You can find the MariaDB code at Launchpad, and download binaries at Download. MariaDB is community developed, in collaboration with Monty Program. Our ambition is to make MariaDB the best open and free branch of MySQL Database Server for the enduser, developer and partner communities..." Details at http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB -- CK Raju

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Spoken-tutorial.org launched
by V. Sasi Kumar 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

IIT, Mumbai, has launched http://spoken-tutorial.org to popularise Free Software and to bridge the digital divide. Right now they have uploaded some spoken tutorials on LaTeX, Camstudio and dubbing. All of them are in English. Some are available in other Indian languages also. Best -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India http://swatantryam.blogspot.com

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FSMK News Letter Edition 7
by Nidhin Sasi 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

Dear Friend, FSMK News Letter's 7th issue is here. FSMK News Letter Edition 7 <http://fsmk.org/NewsLetterEdition7> We are bringing up some hot issues in this edition. Through the editorial, we are discussing the issue of Digital Divide. Even though this subject is holding highest relevance in our society, no other groups were ready to discuss it. Read further articles and find out how we are trying to solve this issue from the very scratch. For the first time we have published a Kannada article as well. Expect more in the coming editions. This is as part of our commitment to bring localization of free Software to the Kannada space. Also we are covering lot of News happened in and around the software field. For FSMK, issues are not just to be discussed over mails or to be kept only in paper. We are trying to work among the people in need. So in this efforts we need you to carry the flag to newer heights. Regards, FSMK EB-Team.

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Announcement: Free Software Media
by ஆமாச்ச ு|amachu 01 Jan '10

01 Jan '10

Free Software Media is an initiative to publish, promote & distribute, Free Software related text, audio and video contents across India, professionally. Inspired by the work of Network theory Ltd[1], We are pleased to announce this initiative with a similar objective for India. To commence We are happy to bring out three selected Titles from Network Theory Ltd themselves, at reasonable prices for the Indian audience. And they are, * An Introduction to GCC, by Brian J. Gough, foreword by Richard M. Stallman * An Introduction to Python – The Python Tutorial, by Guido van Rossum and Fred L. Drake, Jr. * Comparing and Merging Files with GNU diff and patch, by David MacKenzie, Paul Eggert, and Richard Stallman Currently We support three modes of purchase, Electronic Money Transfer or Money Transfer to our Bank Account Demand Draft/ Cheque Value Payable Post Details of all modes of purchase can be found at our website http://fsm.co.in We offer a portion of our profit to foundations that are related to each of the above mentioned titles or make use of it for appropriate Free Software related activity. Specific details can be found from each book’s page at http://fsm.co.in We hope the Free Software Community of India, Students, Teachers and the General Public would be benefited immensely as a result of this initiative. We thank Network Theory Ltd for the support they extended towards this initiative. So go & grab your copies, of the above mentioned titles, visiting http://fsm.co.in. You can also gift it to your dear ones studying Computer Science. We aspire more. If you are a geek, who could write on Free Software related Titles and is willing to offer it for freely distributable publication, contact us. Would you like to see specific Title to come up related to Free Software, may it be Technical, Philosophical, Legal or in your Language, write to us. If you like to extend your co-operation to us, in other ways, express it through http://fsm.co.in/site/contact. Let us revive the spirit of sharing & sustaining. And above all, help spreading the word across. Website: http://fsm.co.in [1] - http://network-theory.co.uk -- Sri Ramadoss M

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