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RE: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 45, Issue 11
by Snehlata Shekhawat 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

If I were Bill gates in that I would like to share my work strategy with my friend and told them how to make more and more money sneh >From: fsf-friends-request(a)mm.gnu.org.in >Reply-To: fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in >To: fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in >Subject: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 45, Issue 11 >Date: 11 Jan 2007 22:35:51 -0800 > >Send Fsf-friends mailing list submissions to > fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > fsf-friends-request(a)mm.gnu.org.in > >You can reach the person managing the list at > fsf-friends-owner(a)mm.gnu.org.in > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Fsf-friends digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. If you are Bill Gates ... ( ?????????|Praveen ) > 2. Re: If you are Bill Gates ... (Ramprasad) > 3. Free CAD program ( ?????????|Praveen ) > 4. Re: CAG takes IKM to new heights ! (VMK) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:48:52 +0530 >From: " ?????????|Praveen " <pravi.a(a)gmail.com> >Subject: [Fsf-friends] If you are Bill Gates ... >To: "Principal Support List of FSF-India" <fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in> >Message-ID: > <3f2beab60701110018x20f02b53t2489a7e814298188(a)mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Hi, > > We have started collection of tips to promote Free Knowledge and Free >Software for a Free Society here. >http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/IfYouAre > >Please pass on this to your friends which ever field of life they are in >also contribute to make it better. > >Cheers >Praveen > >-- >"Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. >`Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." > -- Richard Stallman >Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:52:41 +0530 >From: Ramprasad <ramprasad(a)gnu.org> >Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] If you are Bill Gates ... >To: Principal Support List of FSF-India <fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in> >Message-ID: <1168510961.6450.1.camel@ramprasad> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset= > >On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 13:48, പ്രവീണ്‍‌|Praveen wrote: > > > We have started collection of tips to promote Free Knowledge and Free > > Software for a Free Society here. > > http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/IfYouAre > > > >That's a nice one ! > >- >Ramprasad B > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 3 >Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:41:21 +0530 >From: " ?????????|Praveen " <pravi.a(a)gmail.com> >Subject: [Fsf-friends] Free CAD program >To: "Principal Support List of FSF-India" <fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in>, > "Palakkad Libre software Users Society (+PLUS)" > <plus-discuss(a)lists.sarovar.org> >Message-ID: > <3f2beab60701110511k1a390900k6bd2e7a7bff238a2(a)mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Hi, > > >The BRL-CAD package is a powerful Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid >modeling system with over 20 years development and production use by the >U.S. >military. BRL-CAD includes an interactive geometry editor, parallel >ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, path-tracing for >realistic image synthesis, network distributed framebuffer support, >image-processing and signal-processing tools. The entire package is >distributed in source code form. >http://brlcad.org/ > >Would like to know the feedback from any AUTOCAD users how good this >package >is, as I don't have any experience with CAD tools. > >Cheers >Praveen > >-- >"Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. >`Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." > -- Richard Stallman >Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 4 >Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:12:14 -0800 (PST) >From: VMK <ellakannada(a)yahoo.com> >Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] CAG takes IKM to new heights ! >To: Principal Support List of FSF-India <fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in> >Message-ID: <636700.528.qm(a)web33206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Forwarded Message [ Download File | Save to >Yahoo! Briefcase ] > > To:eGovINDIA@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:47:02 >+0530 From:"EDP Division" <rbedp(a)vsnl.com> Subject: Re: [eGovINDIA] >E-Governance efforts in Kerala : CAG indicting IKM //Alocal state affair is >now part of a global corrupt mafia ! HTML Attachment [ >Scan and Save to Computer | Save to Yahoo! Briefcase > ] > > > >IKM is recruiting 101 fresh candidates on consolidated pay > > Senior Project Laders-3 > Project Leaders-6 > Sr. Programmers-12 > Programmers-12 > Jr Programmers-12 > Sr Tech Officer (GIS)-1 > Tech Officers (GIS)-2 > Tech Assistant (GIS)-4 > Sr. Tech Officer (Support)-4 > Tech Officer (Support)-4 > Sr. Tech Asst (Support)-14 > Tech Asst (Support)-2 > Tech Asst Trainee-25 > > Is this too related > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Venkat Kumaraswamy > To: eGov Corruption ; eGovINDIA Group ; eGov Northeast ; eGov GOK ; >India Wba ; India RTI ; eGovGOM Group ; ella KAVI ; eGov UP > Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 6:13 PM > Subject: [eGovINDIA] E-Governance efforts in Kerala : CAG indicting IKM >//Alocal state affair is now part of a global corrupt mafia ! > > > > E-Governance efforts in Kerala : CAG indicting IKM // A local state >affair is now part of a global corrupt mafia ! http://egovernance. >wordpress. com/2007/ 01/08/e-governan ce-efforts- in-kerala- cag-indicting- >ikm-a-local- state-a > > > > > >doxa(a)sancharnet.in wrote: http://egovernance.wordpress.com/ > >Congrats to "egovernance" for taking the story to a wider audience. Since >the links are genuine, we should also try to view them through different >angles. Perhaps something else would surface. > >CK Raju >Thrissur >_______________________________________________ >Fsf-friends mailing list >Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in >http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends > > > >--------------------------------- >Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. > >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Fsf-friends mailing list >Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in >http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends > > >End of Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 45, Issue 11 >******************************************* _________________________________________________________________ Always wanted to be a writer? Here's your chance! http://content.msn.co.in/Contribute/Default.aspx

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Re: IfYouAre
by doxa＠sancharnet.in 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/IfYouAre Nice idea and neat development. Once ready, we will alert PRESS to take note. CK Raju

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CAG takes IKM to new heights !
by doxa＠sancharnet.in 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

http://egovernance.wordpress.com/ Congrats to "egovernance" for taking the story to a wider audience. Since the links are genuine, we should also try to view them through different angles. Perhaps something else would surface. CK Raju Thrissur

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Free CAD program
by പ്രവീണ്‍‌|Praveen 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

Hi, The BRL-CAD package is a powerful Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system with over 20 years development and production use by the U.S. military. BRL-CAD includes an interactive geometry editor, parallel ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, path-tracing for realistic image synthesis, network distributed framebuffer support, image-processing and signal-processing tools. The entire package is distributed in source code form. http://brlcad.org/ Would like to know the feedback from any AUTOCAD users how good this package is, as I don't have any experience with CAD tools. Cheers Praveen -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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If you are Bill Gates ...
by പ്രവീണ്‍‌|Praveen 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

Hi, We have started collection of tips to promote Free Knowledge and Free Software for a Free Society here. http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/IfYouAre Please pass on this to your friends which ever field of life they are in also contribute to make it better. Cheers Praveen -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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GNOME speaker wanted for FOSS meet.
by Debarshi Ray 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

I got this on the ilug and gnome-list mailing lists. Anybody interested, please mail the original poster, ie. Girish R V, and not me. Happy hacking, Debarshi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ??????|Girish R V <girishrv_at_gmail_dot_com> Date: Dec 20, 2006 10:53 AM Subject: [GNOME-India] Call for Speakers on GNOME for FOSS meet at NIT Calicut To: gnome-in-list(a)gnome.org Hello all, I am girish, a 3rd yr btech student from nit calicut(a dist in kerala). We are conducting a 2 day programme on FOSS( called FOSS meet@nitc ) in the same lines as FOSS.in. We need some speakers who are willing to come over here and give us a talk on Gnome,GTK, and its upcoming features. The event is scheduled on 2,3rd February. We will be paying all the charges expended for travel and stay here**. This is the third edition of this event. Last time we had over 14 speaker from companies like yahoo,google,IBM speaking on various topics. We got a participation of over 300 students from all over kerala. Please do mail me if anyone is interested. Thank You **(Though if anyone is coming from north india we may not be able to cover the expenses. But even if you are do contact us. We will try to cover it.) -- After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box. -- Italian proverb

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Re [Fsf-friends] National Workshop on FOSS in Science
by doxa＠sancharnet.in 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

>An interesting experience was that we came to know that there was >pressure from some sources on the media to not cover the programme. Most often media lives by exceptions. More dangerously, it gets itself into a blindfolded situation after generalising on such exceptions. Perhaps, our movement might have ceased to be an exception. Cheers Dr Sasi. CK Raju Thrissur ------------ PS: Participants loved each and every session and its presenter (incl the Indian RMS ;-)) - feedback from teachers at MES College of Engg.

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National Workshop on FOSS in Science
by V. Sasi Kumar 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

A National Workshop on FOSS in Science (http://www.space-kerala.org/fsc) was held at the Union Christian (UC) College during January 4-6, 2007. There were about one hundred participants including students from the College. There were several presentations on various topics including scientific data visualisation using Python and MayaVi, free applications for mathematicians, LaTeX, and FOSS GIS. Prof. Nagarjuna spoke about gnowledge and symantic web; Prabhu Ramachandran (who developed MayaVi) presented a talk on the use of Python programming and MayaVi for scientific data visualisation; Ajith Kumar of Inter University Accelerator Centre demonstrated Phoenix (an acronym for Physics through Home Made Equipment and Innovative Experiments) which is a small piece of equipment that can be interfaced with a computer and an experimental set up (and both the hardware and software are Free); Ravi Kumar from GSI presented a talk on FOSS GIS; Dr. Manjusha Joshi from Bhaskaracharya Pratishtan presented a talk on FOSS applications for mathematicians; Vijayakumar discussed the use of CVS; Deepak presented a talk on FOSS tools for sharing ideas; Prof. Krishnan from Anna University presented a talk on the efforts taken by NRC FOSS. Dr. E. Krishnan was to have given an introduction to LaTeX, but he could not make it and I had to substitute for him (and I am sure the participants certainly lost out as a consequence). I hope I have not missed listing any lecture. The arrangements were excellent and most of the participants and resource persons (all of whom were present throughout the Workshop) really enjoyed their stay there. The college has a long tradition of standing for freedom -- Mahatma Gandhi was there in 1925 and planted a tree that is still there and Rabindranath Tagore was a member of their faculty in 1921-23. Many of the political and cultural leaders in Kerala were students of this college. And their logo says "The truth shall make you free". On the whole, the location and the proceedings were very interesting -- including a cultural programme presented by the students of the college in which some of the participants contributed impromptu. In the concluding session, some of the participants specifically stated that they are just waiting for the next Workshop here :-) There is a FOSS Cell in the college and they plan to conduct Workshops focussed on some of the topics that were presented there, such as Data Visualisation, LaTeX, etc. The Workshop was organised jointly by the FOSS Cell of UC College and SPACE, and was supported by Kerala State IT Mission and NRCFOSS/CDAC. An interesting experience was that we came to know that there was pressure from some sources on the media to not cover the programme. This means that someone is getting panicky about the spread of Free Software and we saw that as a very positive sign. -- V. Sasi Kumar <sasi.fsf(a)gmail.com> Free Software Foundation of India

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E-Governance efforts in Kerala - II
by doxa＠sancharnet.in 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Its not just an in-house affair, the nexus spreads it wings beyond and extends them to bodies like United Nations - with a different theme altogether. http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/wsis-themes/ict_stories/themes/case_studies/kera… A local state affair is now part of a global corrupt mafia ! CK Raju

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E-Governance efforts in Kerala : CAG indicting IKM
by doxa＠sancharnet.in 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

http://cag.nic.in/cag_reports/kerala/rep_2004/LB_08_CHAPTER_IV_.pdf is the original document of Comptroller and Auditor General indicting (the most dubious e-governance project in the subcontinent) IKM and Government (exposing the links that senior IAS officials have with the project and Microsoft). "A review of the implementation of the project was conducted by Audit during February � July 2003 with reference to records in IKM headquarters, one Grama Panchayat2 and two Municipal Corporations3. The bilingual data base in SQL4 Server in MS Access format was analysed using Computer Assisted Audit Technique and sample test method." ==> Project clearly involves proprietary corporate solution. "Government stated (July 2004) that the unutilised Central assistance of Rs 25.72 crore released during March 2003, according to ways and means position, had been deposited in the PD account of the Director of Panchayats. As IKM had utilised only Rs 2.37 crore during 2003-04, there was no justification to release funds of that magnitude to them." ==> (in this period we have farmers committing suicides) "Wasteful expenditure of Rs 69.78 lakh to train technical persons The expenditure of Rs 69.78 lakh incurred on selection, training and stipend to the apprentice trainees had become a waste. The Government stated (November 2004) that the expenditure incurred on training of technical persons was insignificant compared to substantial cost benefits that would accrue from BOLT mode. The reply is not tenable as the wasteful expenditure represented 22% of funds earmarked for training (Rs 3.15 crore).." ==> 3.15 crore for training - includes food, accommodation, travel and campfire expenses - truly 5 star for a State like Kerala. "Though the administrative control of IKM was transferred from the SPB to LSGD in July 2001, no fresh agreement was executed between C-DIT and LSGD for continuation of the project after 31 March 2001. Government stated (November 2004) that steps were taken to sign the MoU between C-DIT and LSGD with effect from April 2001. Such agreement with retrospective effect will not serve the desired purpose." ==> Conspiracy between State Planning Board and Local Self Government Department "In the absence of higher level suitable provision for validation of data at an upper level, there was a risk of issuing incorrect certificates, as the integrity of the data input cannot be vouchsafed. " ==> Even if it is technically corrected, the platforms and standards are proprietary and the risk would only continue. "The Government stated (November 2004) that online operation of Soochika and Sevana had commenced. But online operation of Sulekha, Sanchaya and Samkhya is yet to start." ==> IKM presenting plain lies before public with Government approval. "Due to inadequate controls for authorizing and capturing system access logs, the security of the system cannot be vouchsafed." ==> Since freedom to access software components is missing, security is not there and can never be there. All this and more at http://cag.nic.in/cag_reports/kerala/rep_2004/LB_08_CHAPTER_IV_.pdf ======== As of now, the Executive Mission Director of IKM has been promoted to be Chairman of IKM and is a member of State Planning Board. The earlier Planning Secretary, SPB is now Secretary to LSG Department (under whose control now IKM also comes). ==> simple switching theory. CK Raju Thrissur

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