FSF-web October 2005

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by Sunil Mohan Adapa

* Finished the Free Software Directory and checked and w3validated the new nodes. TODO for Free Software Directory: * There needs to be a page like the nagivation page (taxonomy_dthml) which exclusively shows the FSD entries (without the news items etc.). This page needs to be linked from the "Software" block. * For all the FSD items, the http:// urls are wrongly shown by Drupal. This needs to be fixed. * for nodes 83 and 87, which contain mailto: maintainer email addreses specified, validator throws warnings because of a weird way "mailto:" is rewitten in the html page by Drupal. low priority fix needed. * "Sentry Linux" project should be put up? if so what are its details. -- Sunil

18 years, 1 month

Search module

by Sayamindu Dasgupta

Hi all, I just enabled the search module at the website. However, to make sure that everything is indexed properly, we need to make sure that the page http://www.fsf.org.in/new/cron.php is accessed regularly (at least once a day). Can someone setup a cron job to do this (just accessing this page using wget would do) ? Thanks, Sayamindu PS: Another item in the TODO list -> we need to enable content caching in Drupal before we go live (and official). -- Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu(a)gnu.org.in> Free Software Foundation of India

18 years, 1 month

Fwd: Link to NewsRack

by Anivar Aravind

Plese include it in our Free software directory ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Subramanya Sastry <sastry(a)cs.wisc.edu> Date: Oct 18, 2005 12:24 AM Subject: Link to NewsRack To: gnu(a)gnu.org.in Hi, Could you add a link to NewsRack: A Tool for News Monitoring in your Applications page. URL: http://floss.sarai.net/newsrack Author: Subramanya Sastry Thanks, Subbu. -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

18 years, 1 month

FSF India IRC Meet Report.

by Vivek Varghese Cherian

Report of the FSF-India IRC Meet conducted on #gnu-india on 5/10/2005. The first FSF-India IRC Meet was conducted in the channel #gnu-india on Freenode on 5/10/2005. The agenda for the meeting was:- o Moving to Drupal - Issues - Sharing responsibilities - Moving the content - Timeline - Integrating the fellow registration system - Integrating the Volunteer & Business DataBases o Merchandise - Decide on what we are going to make - Who's going to do it - Timeline o A new private mailing list for the admins - Viability o Other project ideas The meet started at 16.30 Hrs IST with a routine roll call. The following members were present(in order of roll call) o Baishampayan Ghose o Sunil Mohan o Sayamindu o Anivar Aravind o Vivek Varghese Cherian o Arun.M o Vijay Kumar o Vimal Joseph o Joe Steeve The meeting started with announcement of the main agenda of the meet as regarding the new FSF-India site and migration of old data to Drupal. The gathering appreciated the good work done by Sunil Mohan, Sayamindu and Baishampayan. Baishampayan requested Sunil Mohan and Sayamindu about the status of the data migration. Sunil Mohan replied stating that he had done the migration of the news pages including the news archives and also pages linked from the news items and that minor modifications remain. He also noted that there were issues with the organisation of the content and pointed to the need to improve in areas like RMS's speech buried deep in the news events. Sayamindu stated that he was in the process of migrating the Free Software Directory and he hoped to complete it by the end of the week. A time line of Sunday October 16th was decided for complete migration of data. Anivar, B.Ghose, Sayamindu and Sunil Mohan agreed to coordinate the work among themselves. The next agenda on list was the GNU Merchandise. The following items were decided as GNU merchandise and the following individuals were requested to oversee the task of procuring them. FSF-India T-Shirts- Joe Steeve. Free Software,Free Society- Sunil Mohan (Via Praja Shakti) , Joe Steeve. GNU manuals- Baishampayan (via Shroff Publishers). Holograms- Vimal Joseph. GNU/Linux Custom CDs- Sayamindu. Stickers- Vivek Cherian. However a timeline for the GNU Merchandise procurement was not finalised. The complete logs of the meet are located here - http://bsd.miki.eu.org/~ghoseb/logs/fsf-india-meet-05102005.txt It was decided to conduct FSF-India IRC meetings every second saturday of the month from (16.30 PM IST to 18.30 PM) IST. The next FSF-India IRC meeting will be held on Saturday, Nov 12th 2005, 16:30-18:30 Hrs IST. __ Vivek Varghese Cherian Free Software Foundation of India <www.fsf.org.in>

18 years, 1 month

Site update

by Sunil Mohan Adapa

I did the following changes. Thought I would update you on it. - checked the main page and nodes 1 to 69 with w3 validator and fixed the errors - edited event/event.module (old file in event.module.bak) to make it confirm to XHTML - updated quick links section to point to content in drupal rather than old content - added a couple of pages - updated the new items to have information in the "related information" section of the old content -- Sunil

18 years, 1 month

[Press Release] [Fwd: [Fsf-friends] Software Freedom Day.]

by Sayamindu Dasgupta

-------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Arun M <arun(a)gnu.org.in> > Reply-To: Arun M <arun(a)gnu.org.in>, Principal Support List of > FSF-India <fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in> > To: Principal Support List of FSF-India <fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in>, > fsf-press(a)gnu.org.in > Subject: [Fsf-friends] Software Freedom Day. > Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:02:13 +0530 > > Software Freedom Day Celebration calls for the decolonisation > of Indian minds from Proprietary Software. > > Commemerating the 136th birth anniversary of Mahatma FSF India > AP Chapter celebrated the Software Freedom Day. As a part of > the worldwide activity to celebrate freedom in software > development, Free Software Foundation of India has organised a > seminar on "Free Software and India". The seminar aimed at > spreading the spirit of Free Software among young minds at > Engineering collges throughout the state. > > > Kiran Chandra, Convenor FSF India, A.P. chapter presided over > the event. Prof. D.N. Reddy, Pricipal, Osmania University > College of Engineering was the chief guest. Arun, Secretary of > FSF India and Dr.Ravi Kumar, Director of Geodata Division, > Geographical Survey of India were the other speakers. There > was a technical session on "Power of GNU/Linux" with the aim > of showing Free Software alternatives to proprietory software > that we use everyday. Prof. Reddy noted that the availability > of source code in Free Software has a potential to greatly > impact the learning of technology in engineering colleges. He > also listed the four primary freedoms that are the objective > of Free Software in letting the user use, modify and > redistribute software in any way desired. Arun noted the > similarity between the East India companies set up by foreign > countries long back and the current proprietary software > companies that are a threat to our freedom. He described the > proprietary software model as people keeping knowledge to > themselves and building walls around themselves which hinders > the advancement of science and technology in a knowledge > society. Dr. Ravikumar told us how GRASS, a Free Software > Geographical Information System, is creating a revolution at > the Geographical Survey of India. It is zero costs and much > superior alternative to proprietary GIS system that they were > using earlier. He also mentioned that GIS software can be used > as a key to solving problems and regulating the production of > various crops in the > > A Software Freedom Campaign rally started at 9:35 AM from the > University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli and touched the premier > institutions like IIIT,JNTU and reached OU College of > Engineering at 11.30 AM. The Freedom Campaign Flag was > received by two children stating that the Freedom Campaign > will continue as and long there is life existing on earth. The > Freedom Campaign rally was led by M.Naveen the core member of > FSF AP. > > An Oath was taken up by the one thousand participants. The > pledged to take forward the freedom campaign and shall strive > for a world with clear stream of reason breaking the narrow > domestic walls that curtail this freedom. The pledge was taken > from Rabindranath Tagores greatest work Geetanjali. > Stalls were arranged for the participants, and they were > demonstrated Free Software that could replace the currently > being used proprietary software. Seven stalls covering common > learning tools used by engineering students were setup. They > include compilers like GCC,G++ integrated development > environments like KDevelop, Anjuta, Eclipse , 3D modelling and > animation tools like blender, installation of GNU/Linux > operating system etc. > > This seminar was attended by one thousand engineering college > students from all over the state. FSF AP core members co- > ordinated the activity and GNU/Linux Osmania University > Campus Club. > > _______________________________________________ > Fsf-friends mailing list > Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends > >

18 years, 2 months

FSF-India IRC Meet Tomorrow

by Baishampayan Ghose

Hello GNUHeads! This is to inform you all of the date and agenda of the first ever IRC meet of FSF-India web developers, admins & the working group. The date / time and the agenda is as follows -- Date - Wed Oct 5, 2005 Time - 16:30 - 19:30 Hrs. Place - #gnu-india on irc.freenode.net Agenda - o Moving to Drupal - Issues - Sharing responsibilities - Moving the content - Timeline - Integrating the fellow registration system - Integrating the Volunteer & Business DBs o Merchandise - Decide on what we are going to make - Who's going to do it - Timeline o A new private mailing list for the admins - Viability o Other project ideas The actual meet might not be 3 hours long, if we all come at the right time, we will finish within an hour or so, I have kept the time flexible so that people can drop in their own time. This is done only because this is the first meet, and it will not be the case for the next meets. Also, please make sure you all come to the meet. A consensus is necessary to get the things going. If anybody has problems, please speak up now! Have a nice day all, Regards, BG -- Baishampayan Ghose Free Software Foundation of India b.ghose at gnu.org.in

18 years, 2 months

Mail Headers

by Anivar Aravind

On 10/1/05, fsf-web(a)mm.gnu.org.in <fsf-web(a)mm.gnu.org.in> wrote: > Anivar, > > Regarding the date i suggest we meet 05.10.2005 (Wednesday) 16:30-19:30. > Ok. Let's make it Wednesday. > > BTW Why are u from this id <fsf-web(a)mm.gnu.org.in>? and not from your > > gnu.org.in id? Dear BGhosh, That mail was written b vimal actually. The error was due to a misconfigured header replace option on Mailman. I fixed it now. this mail also have a testing purpose Anivar Aravind -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

18 years, 2 months

Re: Can we have an IRC meet?

by fsf-web＠mm.gnu.org.in

> So I'd request you all to agree on a date / time when we all or at least > most of > us can come online on IRC and discuss a few things. Once the date / time is > fixed, we can fix the agenda. Dear BG, Can u Fix a Date for meeting . I am ready for any day in the first week of October after this sunday. Moving Fully into Drupal is wonderful Idea. I am suggesting a draft agenda. Please add/modify Moving Into Drupal - issues - sharing responsibilities - Moving the Content - Timeline Other Project Ideas It is better to Move this discussion to fsf-web mailing list. Please Ensure all of us are subscribed. ~ Regards Anivar

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