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India eyes own open-source license
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 11 May '05

11 May '05

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5701861.html India eyes own open-source license By Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com Published on ZDNet News: May 11, 2005, 4:00 AM PT MUMBAI, India--In the seemingly never-ending quest to balance openness with profits, one of India's more influential professors is devising yet another open-source licensing program. Deepak Phatak of the Indian Institute of Technology has kicked off an effort to create the Knowledge Public License, or KPL, a licensing program that will let programmers share ideas with one another while at the same time allowing them to retain the rights to their own software modifications. The license will likely function much like the Berkeley Software Distribution or the MIT License programs, he added. The idea is to create an environment where developers can take advantage of the collaborative power of the open-source movement while giving individuals the ability to exploit their own twists. Ideally, such a program could also help ease the raging tensions between the open-source software movement and proprietary software companies. "The free software people are afflicted by what I call the J factor, which is the jealousy factor. The proprietary people are afflicted by the G factor, the greed factor. They want to maximally extract money from the world," Phatak said in an interview here. "I am working to tell the world, 'Please permit these groups to coexist peacefully and harmoniously. There is a tremendous advantage to everyone.'"....

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SOUTH INDIA: GLUG - Madurai & Glugot meet
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 11 May '05

11 May '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- The details of the Glugot & Glug-Madurai meet for the month of May is furnished below. Speaker - S.Senthil Kumaran. Topic - Introduction to Perl Venue - Z0 hall,Dept of CSE,TCE. Date - 14th May 2005. Time - 10.30 am _______________________________________________ glug-madurai-discuss mailing list glug-madurai-discuss(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/glug-madurai-discuss One-Day-One-Command: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ilugc/

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Re: Re: suggestions needed on an initiative
by Arpit Sud 11 May '05

11 May '05

hi friends, the ongoing discussion is of quite interest to me. i am a final year engg. student. i know quite a bit of programming. i had always wanted to contribute to the community, but didn't know how. i had always wanted to work on a free software project, but never got any idea of wat i can do? all i am looking for is an idea, a need for somthing that i can fulfil and a guide whom i can look upon for advise. hope some answers will emerge out of the present discussion. - Arpit -- "The purpose of education is not to memorize facts. The true purpose of education is to train the mind to think" - Albert Einstein

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<incom> New FLOSS tool for online groups - GroupServer (fwd)
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 11 May '05

11 May '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- It would be great to see e-lists like these using the new open source GroupServer tool. Anyone interested? It mixes a smart e-mail list with a simple web forum with a dash of online community features. Here is a post I am sharing around the Net today ... I blogged the open source release of GroupServer today: http://www.dowire.org/notes/index.php?p=17 Read up on E-Democracy.Org's involvement with the tool and watch our 20 minute video tour if you want the inside scoop: http://e-democracy.org/groupserver Visit the official download site in New Zealand run by GroupSense, IOPEN and ZYPE: http://groupserver.org Those with NGOs and governments interested in promoting additional core features that serve all of our needs, are invited join a special online group: http://forums.e-democracy.org/factory/groups/gs-ngogov Whether it is for many-to-many online deliberative discussions or government-hosted e-consultations, GroupServer will grow with your interest and our shared open source participation. With the support of the UK government's Local E-democracy National Project, we funded a number of "democratic" GroupServer features as the well as its path to its first open source release. If you combine this with our new 60 page guidebook on starting a local Issues Forums and our multimedia "E-Democracy Experience" we've never been in a stronger position to help active citizens ready to make an online difference in their local communities. Join us by building an Issues Forum in your community with E-Democracy.Org. Relevant documents for all: http://e-democracy.org/uk Sincerely, Steven Clift Board Chair, E-Democracy.Org P.S. Feel free to forward this to others. Steven Clift - http://publicus.net - Reply to: clift(a)publicus.net Join DoWire: http://dowire.org E-Democracy: http://e-democracy.org _______________________________________________ incom-l mailing list incom-l(a)incommunicado.info http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/incom-l

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Re: suggestions needed on an initiative
by Krishna Pagadala 11 May '05

11 May '05

Fully agree with your suggestions. I was thinking along the same lines. Since all students are required to do some or the other projects. I was thinking that we should try to leverage that time. Especially we should try to encourage CS engineering final year project to be free software. Thanks Krishna --- Puneet Goel <puneet.maillist(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Nagarjun, > > Thanks for sharing about > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc > > These folks seems to be doing the interesting work. > appreciated. and > the best thing is they started some 5 years back. > > For the last 2-3 days i have been discussing this > info with some more > folks and seeing the way this sarai list is going > on. virtually > scanned all the posts till date. > > Without undermining the purpose behind this list, if > we look at the > traffic generated at this place and the kind of > discussion going on, I > feel this is not going in the direction they should > have excelled by > now. And the reason is only one, the way they are > going on. precisly > their operating model. The place is not more than a > maillist. Not too > many people even know about it. > > and the sarai.net itself is in lot of other things. > Particulary their > 'About us' link says "Sarai: the New Media > Initiative - a space for > research, practice and conversation about the > contemporary media and > urban constellations." > > What i am talking is a whole-sole concentrated > approach towards a goal > and that too without any deviation. Not only this we > have some more > points which can be added gradualy. > > we have 2 options either we start on their portal > etc. (but they might > have their own reservations) or we start on our own > with few more like > minded people and take these guy's help, learn from > their experiences. > > As Mr. Raghav said rightly "I agree with Nagarjuna's > email that > instead of coming up with new initiatives, it might > be a good idea to > leverage existing ones. Personally, I see a mailing > list as only one > part of the answer, and for that, we can definitely > use the sarai.net > mailing list. I think what we need to do is to come > up with a > comprehensive proposal and then take it to > FSF-India, sarai.net, > Sarovar and any others out there to see how/where > they can help. There > are lots of people on those forums whose experience > will prove very > valuable to us." > > rest sarover has been just a host for various > projects. it is not > relevent to what we r thinking of. yes! we can > try/will to support it > by hosting some of the projects there. > > but one thing is for sure. whatever we will do we > shall be doing it in > complete harmony with FSF India. > > let me know your comments. > > Thanks and Regards, > Puneet > > Ps: I am looking forward to hear from more people on > this. Please feel > free to flame me if you think i am wrong at some > point :) > > On 5/6/05, Nagarjuna G. <nagarjun(a)gnowledge.org> > wrote: > > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:04:25AM -0600, Ragavan > Srinivasan wrote: > > > On 5/5/05, Puneet Goel > <puneet.maillist(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Puneet, > > > > > > > > > > > Please have a look at the link > > > > http://www.communitycode.org/ > > > > > > [snip...] > > > > > > I was just about to post a similar message to > the list. I definitely > > > share the sentiments, and think this could be a > wonderful opportunity > > > to help spread the awareness/usage of free and > open source software in > > > India. > > > > > > I think instead of targeting specific cities, we > may want to start > > > with specific communities of users. Folks > working in the computer > > > industry and the student community may be two we > can target for > > > starters. > > > > Instead of starting a new initiative, it is better > to strengthen the > > existing initiatives, such as > > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc, and > sarovar.org. > > > > Nagarjuna > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Fsf-friends mailing list > > Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in > > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fsf-friends mailing list > Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends > ===================================== To Reflect, to Inspire and to Empower http://www.employees.org/~krishnap/ The great moral question of the twenty-first century is: If all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information, can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone -- if everyone can have everything, everywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone from anything? -Eben Moglen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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suggestions needed on an initiative
by Puneet Goel 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi All, Please have a look at the link http://www.communitycode.org/ very interesting initiative and a proper utilization of manpower. You may like to go to the link below. This article has been slashdotted also. http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/05/04/2257229.shtml?tid=185&tid=218 you may like to look at http://www.communitycode.org/wiki/moin.cgi for the various levels where people can contribute. I am interested in replicating this model here in India. A start can be done in Delhi and Bangalore side and extended further as we add new members. There are hundreds of projects which can be done atleast at the localization level. I hope if you read all the material listed on the links given above. there won't be any need for me to say more. The purpose itself is enough to justify the cause. Just think! we are the nation of more than 1 billion people and we are largest software factory in the world, how much do we contribute to free/open source software ?? Although in long run we can take the biggest advantages from Free/Open Source Software. Looking forward to hear comments from you folks. Thanks and Regards, Puneet

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Hadn't these guys heard about Free Software?
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 07 May '05

07 May '05

LONDON : JAIL FOR 'ROBIN HOODS' WHO COST MICROSOFT MILLIONS Source: The Indian Express Four Britons were jailed on Friday for being part of a global gang described as ?Robin Hoods? who stole expensive software from rich companies and gave it away for free over the Internet. The group, described by prosecutors as 'sad individuals' who spent their lives in front of computers, were said to have cost firms such as Microsoft Corp millions of dollars in profit and enraged its chairman, Bill Gates. Prosecutors told London's Old Bailey criminal court that the four men, motivated by a hatred of software companies, were the key players in an international ring called DrinkorDie.com, said to be one of the world?s most sophisticated Web piracy groups. The gang allowed Internet surfers to download new software for free, often before it came on the market, including the Windows 95 operating system two weeks before it was released. http://www.nalsartech.org/tikiwiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=4151 _____ _/ ____\____ Frederick Noronha (FN) * Freelance Journalist \ __\/ \ Goa India T +91.832.2409490 M +919822 122436 | | | | \ http://fn.swiki.net http://goabooks.swiki.net |__| |___| / http://www.bytesforall.net http://www.goanet.org \/

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NRCFOSS needs suggestions to design electives for CS in F[L]OSS
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 06 May '05

06 May '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sreekanth S Rameshaiah <sree(a)mahiti.org> Date: Fri May 6, 2005 3:45pm Subject: [Fwd: [blug-non-tech] NRCFOSS need your suggestion to design Electives for CS in FOSS] mukruthi4u Offline Offline Send Message Send Message Edit Membership Edit Membership Apologies for cross posting... Thought this was useful to the list - sree -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Saravanan M K <mksarav@...> Reply-To: linux-bangalore-non-tech(a)yahoogroups.com To: linux-bangalore-non-tech(a)yahoogroups.com Subject: [blug-non-tech] NRCFOSS need your suggestion to design Electives for CS in FOSS Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 17:49:24 +0800 Dear All, The National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software (NRC-FOSS) which has been established at MIT campus of Anna University, is going to conduct training for 100 teachers, from 50 different engineering colleges in Tamilnadu (2 per college) to provide two elective courses for Computer Science students in the area of FOSS. The training will help the teachers to handle the elective courses in their respective colleges. The first batch of 100 teachers, training is planned some time in June 2005. I would like to hear from the FOSS community members what are the things that you want to include in the elective courses (to CS students in the 3rd year). Remember we have only 45 hours per elective. Thus we can't include each and every possible topics in FOSS. I will collect all your suggestions and pass it to the respective authorities at NRCFOSS. It is time for us to react and provide constructive feedback to design a proper elective course for CS/IT students to spread FOSS in India. Let us brain storm the topics first and then come up with a time slot for each topic to fit in 45 hours for each elective. Note: I am not an employee of NRCFOSS and simply doing it voluntarily inorder to provide them the feedback as a member of FOSS community to device some good syllabus for the FOSS electives. -- mks -- -- M K Saravanan -- Sreekanth S Rameshaiah Executive Director Mahiti Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Ph: +91 98455 12611 www.mahiti.org "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi www.mahiti.org/Team/Sreekanth _____ _/ ____\____ Frederick Noronha (FN) * Freelance Journalist \ __\/ \ Goa India T +91.832.2409490 M +919822 122436 | | | | \ http://fn.swiki.net http://goabooks.swiki.net |__| |___| / http://www.bytesforall.net http://www.goanet.org \/

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Directory of Indian Free Software Projects
by Rakesh 'Arky' Ambati 05 May '05

05 May '05

Please visit this URL http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/?IndianFreeSoftwareProjects and you will find the Directory of Indian Free Software Projects here on FSUG Wiki. Please contribute more inputs... everyone's support helps in building our common awareness. FSUG-Bangalore! Thanks FN -- Rakesh 'Arky' Ambati <rakesh_ambati(a)yahoo.com>

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The social structure of FLOSS
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 03 May '05

03 May '05

REPORT: The social structure of free and open source software development Metaphors, such as the Cathedral and Bazaar, used to describe the organization of FLOSS projects typically place them in sharp contrast to proprietary development by emphasizing FOSS's distinctive social and communications structures. But what do we really know about the communication patterns of FOSS projects? How generalizable are the projects that have been studied? Is there consistency across FOSS projects? Questioning the assumption of distinctiveness is important because practitioner-advocates from within the FOSS community rely on features of social structure to describe and account for some of the advantages of FOSS production. - First Monday http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_2/crowston/ _____ _/ ____\____ Frederick Noronha (FN) * Freelance Journalist \ __\/ \ Goa India T +91.832.2409490 M +919822 122436 | | | | \ http://fn.swiki.net http://goabooks.swiki.net |__| |___| / http://www.bytesforall.net http://www.goanet.org \/

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