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Careers in New Media Festival, 1-3 July 2005
by Shekhar Krishnan 26 Jun '05

26 Jun '05

Dear All: Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to interested individuals and organisations. For more information and to register, contact Sonia Nazareth at +91.22.2382.1893 or +91.98199.39820 or write to sonia(a)cometmedia.org Best, S.K. _____ Comet Media Foundation presents CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA seminar and exhibition interactive presentations with the finest minds on the hottest topics in New Media DATES: FRIDAY 1st, SATURDAY 2nd and SUNDAY 3rd July 2005 TIME: 10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. Daily VENUE: Bosco Hall St Andrews Church Compound, Hill Road Bandra West, Mumbai 400050 a COSMOS foundational event CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA is a festival composed of a seminar, an exhibition and scope for many interactions. It aims to create awareness among students about the new and viable professional options unleashed by emerging information and communication technologies. Friday 1 July 2005 NEW MEDIA FOR COMMUNICATIONS Seminar 10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. Saturday 2 July 2005 NEW MEDIA FOR A NEW WORLD Seminar 10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. Friday 1 July, Saturday 2 July and Sunday 3 July NEW MEDIA Exhibition 10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA will have an inter-disciplinary approach, with experts and established professionals from a wide variety of work areas sharing their experiences and visions of the future. This is an unique opportunity for students to interact with experts in order to make a strategic career choices. COSMOS is a recently-launched initiative of the Comet Media Foundation in Mumbai, exploring the complex and densely woven field in which science, technology and society overlap. The educational programme of COSMOS is scheduled to be operational by 2006. For more information on the Comet Media Foundation visit http://www.cometmedia.org The CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA festival is open to all. Entry to the exhibition is free. The seminar presentations require pre- registration, as seats are limited. The registration charges are Rs 200. For more information and to register, contact Sonia Nazareth at +91.22.2382.1893 or +91.98199.39820 or write to sonia(a)cometmedia.org FRIDAY 1 JULY 2005 NEW MEDIA FOR COMMUNICATIONS Seminar (25 minute presentation will be followed by 15 minute question and answer sessions) 10:00 to 10:15 Introduction CHANDITA MUKHERJEE Comet Media Foundation, Documentary Film-Maker 10:15 to 10.45 Keynote Address "the unfolding new media scenario " NINA SABNANI Head, Department of New Media Studies National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad 10.50 to 11:30 "Making it in the games industry" REENA GEORGE Human Resources Manager, Indiagames Ltd, Mumbai HRISHI OBEROI Head of 3D and Console Games, Indiagames Ltd, Mumbai 11:30 to 11.45 BREAK 11:50 to 12:30 "Animation as a career for the future" SHILPA RANADE Faculty Member, Industrial Design Centre (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai 12:35 to 1:15 "Can writing be a viable career? Exploring web-journalism" KIRAN JONNALAGADDA Blogger and Information Architect, Seacrow Labs, Bangalore 1.20 to 1.30 "The power of the portal: a case study" Z. ANSARI rediff.com 1:30 to 2:15 LUNCH 2:20 to 3:00 "Entrepreneurship in the age of new media: entertainment and commerce" TOBY MORNING Chairman, Urban Technology Ventures, Los Angeles, U.S.A. 3:05 to 3:20 BREAK 3:25 to 4:05 "Opportunities in audio-visual post-production" NEIL SADWELKAR Editor and Editing System Consultant, Technical Consultant to Pixion Studio 4:10 to 4:30 Concluding Remarks NIRMALENDU JAJODIA Software Developer, Board Member, Comet Media Foundation SATURDAY 2 JULY 2005 NEW MEDIA FOR A NEW WORLD Seminar (25 minute presentation will be followed by 15 minute question and answer sessions) 10:00 to 10:20 Introductory Note NIRMALENDU JAJODIA 10:25 to 11:05 "Emerging careers in the new information age" GURUNANDAN BHAT Chief Technologist, Synapse, Goa 11:10 to 11:50 "Future prospects for sound specialists" P. BALARAM Audio Engineer, Audeus Studios, Mukta Arts, Mumbai 11:55 to 12:10 BREAK 12:15 to 12:55 "Careers in e-learning" RUPESH GOEL Head, Simulations, Tata Interactive Systems 1:00 to 1:40 "GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications" VINEET SHROFF Founder-Director, Biond Software, Mumbai 1:40 to 2:25 LUNCH 2:30 to 3:10 "New media as an area of research and training" NISHANT SHAH Research Scholar, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore 3:15 to 3:30 BREAK 3:35 to 4:15 "ICTs, social development and business models" JAYALAKSHMI CHITTOOR Editor, I4D Magazine, Centre for Science Development & Media Studies (CSDMS), New Delhi 4:20 to 4:30 Vote of Thanks INDRANIL CHAKRAVARTY Film-Maker and Project Director, COSMOS New Media Initiative, Comet Media Foundation, Mumbai ABOUT THE SPEAKERS NINA SABNANI teaches Communication Design at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. After a degree in Fine Arts from Baroda, she studied animation at NID and in the UK. Later, she did a post graduate programme in Television & Film from the USA on a Fulbright Fellowship. She has evolved with the times to embrace a wide range of subjects in her profile. At present she teaches courses in Visual Scripting for Animation, Interaction Design, Linear and non-linear story telling, Games design, Illustration and Multi-sensory Design. http://www.nid.edu REENA GEORGE currently Manager Human Resources at Indiagames, had extensive experience in the IT industry. A part of the dynamic industry of wireless gaming, Reena has taken Indiagames from an 80 member team to over 250 employees in the past one year. She is an active member of the HR Infotech Association, Mumbai. http://www.indiagames.com HRISHI OBEROI is currently Head of the 3D & Console games at Indiagames. He has specialised in computer graphics and animation and has designed and programmed 2D and 3D games for mobile phones. Hrishi is currently producing a console named "Ashoka". He is active in the International Game Developer's Association, Mumbai chapter, organises gaming events like WCG India and speaks in technical forums concerned with games development in India. http://www.indiagames.com SHILPA RANADE is a faculty member at the Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. A gold medallist from Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, she did her Masters in Visual Communication from IDC, IIT, Mumbai and subsequently completed an M.Phil in Animation from the Royal College of Art, London. Her animation film Mani’s Dying won the critics award at the Bombay International Short Film Festival, 1996 and was nominated for the best British short film award at the British Short Film Festival, 1995. http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in KIRAN JONNALAGADDA is a writer and programmer who works at the crossing of media, technology and the web. Currently a consultant technologist at various organisations, he is also an Independent Research Fellow at Sarai, studying how the user interface affects online communities. He is also a collaborator on the Mumbai Free Map Project of CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust), Mumbai, a member of the Plone Foundation, and a trustee of the Tapovan School in rural Bangalore. An observer and participant in blogging, Kiran is also an occasional journalist and a keen photographer. http://www.seacrow.com http://www.freemap.in TOBY MORNING is an entrepreneur who heads Urban Technology Ventures, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. This group of internet-based companies aims to leverage technology and “serve as a catalyst for creating a more peaceful, healthy, prosperous planet for future generations”. Toby’s passion for music has taken him from event promotion to music distribution and concert promotion to the Internet radio portal djunion.com. Toby’s focus is on developing the company’s internet services, and he is in India investigating various fresh business opportunities with Indian partners. http://urbantechnologyventures.com NEIL SADWELKAR spends most of his waking hours as an editor and edit system consultant, currently at a large post production house called Pixion. Neil started out making sky shows in the Planetarium, moved to 16mm film and then followed video through its evolution as a professional medium. Neil has been associated with documentary and feature film-making in all the possible capacities—sound recordist, editor, camera person, director. He has been a contributing editor at Misenscene, and forum host at the DMN Forums’ Final Cut Pro forum. http://www.sadwelkar.com GURUNANDAN BHATT enjoys working on applications that allow people to organise, share and disseminate data and collaborate in useful, productive and innovative ways. Currently Chief Technologist at Synapse, Goa, a company that “partners with clients to solve their business problems through information-based initiatives” Gurunandan has worked extensively on designing and developing complex yet inexpensive information systems. An ardent proponent of Open Source software, he regularly speaks at events, has authored several books and writes for technology magazines. http://www.plusthought.org BALARAM PONDENKANDATH graduated from FTII Pune in sound recording and sound engineering. He has designed, installed and worked as a recordist at a number of leading sound studios such as Sargam Studio, Audio Bytes of Mumbai, VGP Digital Studios, ABM Digital Studio, Maryan Digital Studio of Chennai and Navodaya of Trivandrum, Jeevan TV satellite channel of Cochin and the dubbing and DTS mixing studios for Easwary Films, Banglore. Currently Balaram is the chief recording engineer at Audeus Studio for Mukta Arts. He consultants with the Music Archive at St. Paul's, Bangalore and does sound engineering for musical shows in India and abroad. http://www.muktaarts.com RUPESH GOEL is Head, Simulations, Tata Interactive Systems, a large developer of custom e-learning solutions. It has a multi-disciplinary team of over 700, including content developers, 3-D animators & modellers, software engineers and instructional designers. TIS e- learning programmes cater to the needs of diverse sectors in the corporate, educational and government arena. Its offerings include business and educational simulations, enterprise applications training, adaptive assessments, story-based learning objects, game- based learning, teacher tools and teaching aids and a host of other applications. http://www.tatainteractive.com VINEET SHROFF trained in aeronautical engineering at IIT Powai. He founded Biond Software in 1994 with Milind Dalvi. Biond is in the space of creating GIS datasets or digital maps for India. His expertise includes procurement and analysis of high-resolution satellite imagery, vectorisation and CAD work, physical field survey and application software development. Vineet is also the founder director of Newreka Chemicals and CEO of Standard Engineers. His special interests include growing exotic fruits. NISHANT SHAH is a researcher in contemporary culture and new digital media based at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore. His interests are in looking at the formation of online communities in the third world through blogging. The construction of identities online and the patterns of social structure that arise due to these activities are of immediate interest to him. Nishant has been designing and teaching courses in contemporary digital cultures for undergraduates at Christ College and St. Joseph's College, Bangalore. His work has been published in various poetry anthologies and he dreams of writing a novel some day. http://www.cscsban.org JAYALAKSHMI CHITTOOR has written extensively on gender, consumer issues, ICT4D, mountain issues and natural resources management and has experimented with new electronic media for community building and networking. Heading the i4d programme of the Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies, she brings out the monthly magazine “i4d” and coordinates two research studies. She also works as regional Asia advisor to Bellanet International, promoting ICT tools to provide opportunities to disadvantaged communities and for providing democratic space in the world of the Internet. http://www.i4d.csdms.in http://www.i4donline.net

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How to start a Telugu Wikipedia
by doxa＠sancharnet.in 25 Jun '05

25 Jun '05

There was a request for help on *how to start a telugu wikipedia* a few weeks back. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_start_a_new_Wikipedia provides solution. CK Raju

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Fwd: Indian patents again
by Anivar Aravind 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rebentisch <arebenti(a)web.de> Date: 23-Jun-2005 10:07 Subject: Indian patents again To: in-help(a)ffii.org Sounds very familiar for us: "The draft also includes guidelines for examining inventions in the software sector. As per the guidelines, claims relating to software programme products are nothing but computer programmes per se, simply expressed on a computer readable storage medium, and as such, are not patentable. However, an invention involving hardware along with software or a computer programme in order to perform the function of a hardware may be considered patentable. For instance, embedded systems." http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?storyflag=y&leftnm=lm… Patents Act draft norms finalised Gaurie Mishra / New Delhi June 23, 2005 The government has formulated the draft guidelines for the newly amended Patents Act, 2005. As per the guidelines, non-inventions, inventions relating to atomic energy, or those contrary to public order or causing serious prejudice to human beings, animals, health or environment will not be patentable. "Any process for medicinal, surgical, curative, diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of human beings or animals to cure them is not patentable under the Indian Patents Act. Patents, however, can be obtained for surgical, therapeutic or diagnostic instruments," according to the draft guidelines which have been put on the official website for public comments. The draft guidelines relate to the practice and procedure to be followed in examination of patents applications in India. They also aim at making industries, research and development organisations, individual researchers and inventors familiar with the patents system in India provide a user-friendly system for obtaining as well as maintaining patents under the existing law. While clones and new variety of plants are not patentable, the process or method of preparing genetically modified organisms are patentable subject matter. The draft also includes guidelines for examining inventions in the software sector. As per the guidelines, claims relating to software programme products are nothing but computer programmes per se, simply expressed on a computer readable storage medium, and as such, are not patentable. However, an invention involving hardware along with software or a computer programme in order to perform the function of a hardware may be considered patentable. For instance, embedded systems. Mere discovery of a scientific principle or formulation of an abstract theory or discovery of any living thing or non-living substances will also not be eligible for a patent. Similarly, a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or any other aesthetic creation, including cinematographic work and television productions, are not patentable, according to the guidelines. When a patent is granted to two or more persons, each will be entitled to an equal undivided share in the patent unless an agreement to the contrary is in force. All can enjoy their rights for their own benefits without accounting for to others but the licence cannot be given to any other person, or their assignment, without the consent of others. Similarly, when a patented article is sold by one of two or more persons registered as grantee or proprietor of a patent, the purchaser and any person claiming the article through him shall be entitled to deal with the article in the same manner as if the article had been sold by a sole patentee, the guidelines said. The Comptroller of Patents can, at any point of time, revoke a patent if the criteria like novelty are not fulfilled. Violation or false information given in the disclosure norms can also lead to revoking of patents. _______________________________________________ In-help maillist subscribe via http://aktiv.ffii.org/ fine-tune via http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/in-help

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why you shoul not call it GNU/Linux
by Mahesh T. Pai 18 Jun '05

18 Jun '05

>From http://www.linuxmark.org/who_needs.html <quote> Similarly, if you are writing a product review, an engineering report, or even printing literature that merely refers to LINUX as the operating system, as long as you indicate at least once by using the circle � symbol that it is a registered mark, it is not necessary </quote> -- Mahesh T. Pai <<>> http://paivakil.port5.com Half knowledge is worse than ignorance. --Thomas B. Macaulay

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Re: [Fsf-friends] why you shoul not call it GNU/Linux
by Mahesh T. Pai 18 Jun '05

18 Jun '05

(replying to the list) Rakesh 'arky' Ambati said on Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 11:39:49AM +0530,: > Dear Pai, > > Please explain more clearly, even when I read the link I didn't get the > idea. > >From http://www.linuxmark.org/who_needs.html, and quoting from what I already quoted:- ``...review, an engineering report, or even printing literature that merely refers to LINUX as the operating system,'' ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Got it?? If you refer to Linux as _the_ operating system, you do not need a (sub)license from linuxmark.org. So, the chap who writes a book called ``Debian GNU/Linux for ....'' requires a license to use the term ``Linux'', and the g[uy|al] writing ``FooBar Linux for lUsers'' does not. To be fair, this move by Linus seems to be a safeguard against corporate entities (the which need education about what `free' means, that is) (mis)appropriating the term, though. On a more serious note, this (and the developments at Mozilla*) mark beginning of the new problem in Free Software world - trademarks. (*) see http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html -- Mahesh T. Pai <<>> http://paivakil.port5.com Man's most judicious trait, is a good sense of what not to believe. --Euripides

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Debian Project at OSS Symposium, LinuxTag and DebConf
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martin Schulze <joey(a)infodrom.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/events/ Debian at OSS Symposium, LinuxTag and DebConf events(a)debian.org June 17th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050617 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Project at OSS Symposium, LinuxTag and DebConf The Debian project will attend the Open Source Software Symposium in Stuttgart and the LinuxTag in Karlsruhe next week, both in Germany. June 20th - 21st Symposium OSS 2005 Ostfildern, Germany http://www.debian.org/events/2005/0620-oss2005 The Debian project will run a booth and will present the distribution at this symposium for business and public administration.. Michael Meskes will also give a talk about the use of the Debian system in companies and in public administration. June 22nd - 25th LinuxTag Karlsruhe, Germany http://www.debian.org/events/2005/0622-linuxtag This is the largest and most important Free Software exhibition and conference. The Debian project will maintain a booth in the exhibition area and organise a mini conference called Debian Day with the schedule below. The new and shiny release of Debian 3.1 alias sarge will be demonstrated at the booth where visitors can get pressed DVDs with the release on it for the i386, amd64 and powerpc platforms. In addition to this, there will be several other talks that cover Free Software and Debian in particular. There will also be a keysigning party again on Saturday which requires to submit the keys before. There will be a release party to celebrate the release of Debian 3.1 and their new Debian book at the booth of Open Source Press (B107) on Thursday 17 o'clock to which all Debian people are invited. In the evening, the new Debian release will be celebrated at the KaLUG party, starting at 20 o'clock next to the AKK. July 10th - 17th Debian Conference Helsinki, Finland http://www.debian.org/events/2005/0710-debconf The Debian conference aims at Debian developers and interested users who would like to know more about the inner structure of the project and the distribution. The schedule will be available shortly before the conference. In the wek before a work camp will be organised. On July 9th a public conference will be organised at the same place. Schedule for the Debian Day The Debian Day has been extended to two days and will take place on Thursday and Friday in room 2.05. In general the talks will be held in English if not denoted otherwise. Thursday, June 23rd, 2005 Time | Speaker Title ------+------------------------------------------------------------- 10:00 | Norbert Tretkowski Backporting Practice 11:00 | Joey Schulze Debian Security 12:00 | Luk Claes Internationalisation & localisation 13:00 | Goswin von Brederlow Debian Archive Structure 14:00 | Martin Zobel-Helas The volatile Archive 15:00 | Meike Reichle The Debian Women Project 16:00 | Enrico Zini CDD: Current and Future Friday, June 24th, 2005 Time | Speaker Title ------+------------------------------------------------------------- 12:00 | Yutaka Niibe Porting to the m32r Architecture 13:00 | Mike Wiesner Kerberos V5 with Debian (German) 14:00 | Stefano Zacchiroli OCaml @ Debian 15:00 | Florian Mo"llers Knowledge, Power and free Beer 16:00 | Hauke Goos-Habermann m23 Distribution System 17:00 | Michael Banck The Ubuntu Development Model Additional talks with Debian connection at LinuxTag Some talks will be delivered outside of the the Debian Day in the regular conference schedule or the community schedule. Several of these talks will be given in German. Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005 10:00 Fabian Franz Introduction into Knoppix (EG) Thursday, June 23rd, 2005 13:30 Florian Schie?l Migration to Linux in Munich (UG2) Friday, June 24th, 2005 12:00 Fernanda Weiden Free Software with a female touch (UG2) 16:00 Mako Hill Financing Free Software Projects (UG2) 17:00 Fabian Franz Introduction into Knoppix (PLF) Saturday, June 25th, 2005 14:00 Key Signing Party (R 2.05) 15:00 Debian Developers Debian Projekt intern (UG3) 16:00 Alexander Schmehl Howto pay back (Community Forum) 16:00 Mako Hill Debian and Ubuntu: fork or not to fork (UG3) 17:00 Michael Kofler Ubuntu - The human Linux (EG) 17:00 Gregorio Robles Quo vadis, libre software? (UG3) We invite all interested people in these areas to attend these conferences, meet Debian developers and users, exchange GnuPG fingerprints, discuss various topics on Debian and Free Software, and otherwise participate in our vibrant community. --

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Advice Needed: Use of FSF logo
by Sameer N Ingole 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

Hi All, I am currently communicating with few collages in my region (Nagpur, Wardha) about conducting a seminar to mark Software Freedom Day. I want to know if I can use GNU logo and FSF's name for further communication? Is there any registration required for official membership? I am a member of this list since almost 2 years now and a promoter of Free Software. Any inputs appreciated. Regards, -- Sameer N. Ingole /******************************************************************************/ The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. -- F. Dostoyevski /******************************************************************************/

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by Dr.Mayank Trivedi 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

-- Dr.Mayank Trivedi mjt_123(a)emailplus.org -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again

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Update on GNU/LINUX acitvities of IT@SCHOOL at kannur
by swathantra software 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Dear Friends, A core group for supporting GNU/LINUX in schools of Kannur District was formed in the last meeting of the KSTA (Teachers Association).In the beginning we could make a seven member team only to support schools in seven sub districts.S2S2 has given extensive training to the group members on installation and configuration of Ubuntoo based IT@SCHOOL CD.As the support system progress we hope to get more members to cover all schools in all Sub districts. Regards Sujeevan,S2S2,Kannur, 9447449107 ------------------------------------------------------------ CDs available from S2S2 CentOS 4,Mandriva LE2005,Gentoo 2005,FC3 32&64 bit ,FC3 Source,K12 LTSP,Ubuntoo,HOWTO CD Etc ------------------------------------------------------------

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(no subject)
by Dr.Mayank Trivedi 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Dr.Mayank Trivedi -- Dr.Mayank Trivedi mjt_123(a)emailplus.org -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again

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