FSUG-Bangalore June 2004

fsug-bangalore@mm.gnu.org.in

11 participants
25 discussions

Re: [fsug-bangalore] FSF in Schools
by Suraj 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Nagarjuna wrote: ,---- | PS: it is the magic of emacs that attracted me to free software | philosophy, despite being a student of philosophy, and not philosophy | to emacs. `---- It is the fanatic talk of RMS that attracted me. But later I discovered the real magic of emacs and then realized the genius in RMS. cheers, -Suraj -- ,-----------------[http://www.symonds.net/~suraj/]---o | MS Subbulakshmi has also learned to play the veena. `------------------------------[suraj(a)symonds.net]---o

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Fwd: Re: [Fsf-friends] Celebrating annual day of FSF India
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

--- "Mahesh T. Pai" <paivakil(a)vsnl.net> wrote: > Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:36:11 +0530 > From: "Mahesh T. Pai" <paivakil(a)vsnl.net> > To: fsf-friends(a)gnu.org.in > Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Celebrating annual day of > FSF India > > V. Sasi Kumar said on Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at > 12:01:41PM +0530,: > > > to discuss our activities, so that we could > think of other > > activities in the future at > Thiruvananthapuram, and also > > co-ordinate with people in other places who may > be interested in > > conducting such programmes elsewhere. > > Decentralised celebrations by local user groups > will, IMO be more > effective. > > And we should concenterate on freedom. > > By July 21st, Gimp will 2.1, unstable version 2 > of OOo will be > available, and Scribus will be at 1.3. The Linux > kernel 2.6.8 will be > in RC1, and 2.4.28 will be out. > > My September 21, and for every third month > after that, you can > increment each version number by 2. > > Good thing? Yes. Definitely. > > But, the movement has to focus one issue - > `freedom'. More than > install fests and demos, the occassion should be > used to talk about > freedom and importance of free software. Once > people decide thay want > freedom, the need for instllfest as means of > attracting people to the > GNU will vanish. But to help them actually use the > software, we need > such demos and fests. > > BTW, we keep on forgetting the HURD kernel. > > -- > Mahesh T. Pai <<>> > http://paivakil.port5.com > Buy Free Software -- It gives you freedom! > > _______________________________________________ > Fsf-friends mailing list > Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends > ===== Rakesh 'arky' Ambati Email: rakesh_ambati(a)yahoo.com Bangalore,India Homepage: http://arky.port5.com/ ! ! ! ! ! ( o o ) ----oOO----(_)----OOo---- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

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Event in Bangalore on July 21st...
by Abhas Abhinav 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Have setup a wiki page for this: http://fsug-bangalore.deeproot.org.in/?Plans_And_Ideas [Click: Event in Bangalore on the occasion of FSF Annual Day July 21st] Please add your comments and inputs as well. This could build up towards a firm agenda for our meeting on June 20th when we could come up with specific points-of-action. The following thread from the FSF-Kerela mailing list could also be useful: http://cc4.tifr.res.in/pipermail/fsf-kerala/2004-June/000003.html FSF Kerela is: http://gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsf-kerala -abhas.

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About FSUG-blr Wiki
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Morning Friends, I found that out wiki is __still__ empty.Don't you fancy seeing your name here. http://fsug-bangalore.deeproot.org.in/?action=rc;days=30;all=0;showedit=0 Deprive Abhas the pride of having his name all over that page. cheers --arky __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

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Re: [fsug-bangalore] Knock knock.
by Suraj Kumar 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

sorry, resending again because I screwed up with my dyndns password last time and thats probably why my mail didn't get delivered ;/ --s Suraj Kumar wrote: Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote: ,---- | It was indeed your "lessons" that helped FSUG-blr till now. Abhas | and me had met suraj on a sunday as he was always bunking Gnu(s) | Grazing. | | Going too fast and aiming to high will get faster to nadir.(that's | something I learnt) `---- Aiming too high isn't wrong... but its just that *some* people might get bogged down with the idea of having to work too hard. ,---- | I think that July 21'st event would be great success, now that we | have some great chap'a around here.Wish Ramanraj was in | bangalore,though I'll try to get him shipped here for the event. `---- true. I'm looking forward to 21st July as well. ,---- | PS: Either you teach me tamil or change you sig qoute to a lanugage I | understand.They are interesting but its greek to me. `---- Well, they aren't entirely tamil. I found quite a good collection of Carnatic music related trivia on the net somewhere, so thats my sig ;) cheers, -Suraj -- ,-----------------[http://www.symonds.net/~suraj/]---o | Mysore T. Chowdiah is also a composer with the mudra trimakoota (after his | birth place tirumakoodlu or T.narasipura) `------------------------------[suraj(a)symonds.net]---o ---end quoted text--- -- ,-----------------[http://www.symonds.net/~suraj/]---o | Aahiri is the equivalent of the ancient Tamil pancamam. `------------------------------[suraj(a)symonds.net]---o

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Re: [fsug-bangalore] Knock knock.
by Sreekiran 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

[ Most of my mails are not making it to the group, therefore I'm sending a copy to the list owner as well, please see what the problem is and inform me if the problem is on my side. I hope this mail makes it to the list ] "Abhas Abhinav" <abhas(a)deeproot.co.in> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 21:02, Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote: > > Yes, that a good idea. I can get someone to lend us a > > place after 20 th of this month. Where is it ? Do you have a specific place in mind ? > Any specific topics in mind? > We can meet this Saturday / Sunday and finalise the details. Lets make > some suggestions and agree upon some probable first. > Yes. Speakers can be arranged if we have a specific topic. The problem is in choosing the topic for the meet, cause, come on, we have only 16 members here. > Permit me to share the subscriber list (hope its fine with everyone): > abhas at deeproot.co.in > abhilash_gpillai at hotmail.com > arun at gnu.org.in > avinashss at tatanova.com > dwija at phreaker.net Thats ME :-D > gnu at vsnl.net > listmail at pixelconsulting.net > nishant at deeproot.co.in > prasun at softhome.net > rakesh_ambati at yahoo.com > ramanraj at md4.vsnl.net.in -------------------------- > sajith at symonds.net > sajithts at softhome.net -------------------------- Is this the same guy, if it is, we have only 15 members. > senthil_or at dell.com > suraj at symonds.net > vimalekm at vsnl.net > > [had to remove all the '@' manually here!!!] You probably did a find all '@' and replace with '_at_'. (where _ is a <space> ) > It would be nice if all of us could post a small introduction about > ourselves here - that will ensure that we can have more meaningful > discussion! And can depend on each others' respective strengths and > resources to grow Free Software usage around here. OK, here it goes, I am Sreekiran and I am an engineering student (4th sem, C.S). Studying at Acharya Institute of Technology, Hesarghatta road, and not Acharya Paatha Shala (APS) to which people often confuse it to. I joined B.E after a 3 Year Diploma in Computer Science. If you want more info about me my homepage is at : http://www.geocities.com/sreekirankr. My resume is the index page. and its the only page. > > Btw, friends.Abhas is not well. Send him get well > > cards and wishes. > > Abhas get well soooon !!!! > Well - I'm back in action now! As hungry to 'graze' as ever! Thanks a > lot for your good wishes! :) Those were some really effective wishes in that case. > Abhas Abhinav <abhas(a)deeproot.co.in> > CEO, DeepRoot Linux DeepRoot ? Are you the same guys developing Mandrake. Bye for now. -------------------------------------------------------------- Sreekiran.K.R - http://whitehats.cjb.net/ - dwija(a)phreaker.net Registered Linux User # 335122 at http://counter.li.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------

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Lets go to God's own country
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

Hi Fellows, I know that most of folks are too busy, but a one day trip to kerala should be a great idea. What do you think guys? What else you can do in kerala? (Apart from news below) Am going to hire a boat to go round the back-waters and call it India's first Gnu/Linux curise. cheers --arky PS: top posting, please excuse --- "V. Sasi Kumar" <vsasi(a)hotpop.com> wrote: > From: "V. Sasi Kumar" <vsasi(a)hotpop.com> > To: fsf-friends(a)gnu.org.in > Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:01:41 +0530 > Subject: [Fsf-friends] Celebrating annual day of FSF > India > > Some of us in Thiruvananthapuram met on 6th evening > and decided that we > should celebrate the annual day of FSF India on July > 21st. The group > included Sathish Babu, M. Arun, V.K. Sajith and a > few others. We are > thinking of a one day programme that will include a > public meeting, > discussions and an exhibition. The exhibition will > have posters on > philosophy, posters on software and computers > demonstrating different > kinds of software. We hope that the function will > draw some media > attention and help in popularising Free Software. > Applications like > Blender, Gimp, OpenOffice and Scribus could attract > both the public and > media. > > An email discussion group, > fsf-kerala(a)cc4.tifr.res.in, was also formed > to discuss our activities, so that we could think of > other activities in > the future at Thiruvananthapuram, and also > co-ordinate with people in > other places who may be interested in conducting > such programmes > elsewhere. > > Any suggestions from members are welcome. > -- > V. Sasi Kumar <vsasi(a)hotpop.com> > > > _______________________________________________ > Fsf-friends mailing list > Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

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Software Freedom Day, Aug 28, 2004
by Abhas Abhinav 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ Someone has registered an event in Bangalore as well. We should tie-up and see how we can use this occasion to create a further difference. -abhas.

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Fwd: [blore-linux] Software Freedom Day (Do join! Aug 28, 2004)
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

FYI --arky --- Frederick Noronha <fred(a)sancharnet.in> wrote: > To: blore-linux(a)yahoogroups.co.in > From: "Frederick Noronha" <fred(a)sancharnet.in> > Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:21:44 -0000 > Subject: [blore-linux] Software Freedom Day (Do > join! Aug 28, 2004) > > SFD Team Invites Other FOSS Orgs To Join Forces > Author: Admin > Dated: Tuesday, February 24 2004 @ 10:11 PM MST > Viewed: 196 times > The SFD team has invited several prominent > non-profit Free/Open > Source Software organizations and personalities to > join with us in > our project. > > The following open letter has been sent to the FSF, > OSI, the Mozilla > Foundation, OSAF, OSDL, the Berkman Center, Knoppix, > GNUWin, and > others. > ----------------------------------------------------- > > SoftwareFreedomDay.org > > August 28, 2004 > > Dear Sir or Madam, > > I am writing to ask you to join us in celebrating > Software Freedom > Day in 2004 and beyond. > > In an effort to step up the marketing effort for > Free and Open Source > Software (FOSS), a small group of volunteers [1] > have formed > softwarefreedomday.org with the aim of organizing a > global > celebration of FOSS on August 28th this year [2]. We > hope to involve > a large number of teams, comprised of LUG members > and other > enthusiasts, all around the world. Our role will be > to help > coordinate the event and provide the required > infrastructure, > including a web portal, posters and fliers, and most > importantly, > high quality (pressed) CDs with FOSS that the teams > can give out to > the general public on Software Freedom Day. > > Before we launch this concept to the community at > large, we would > like to reach out to a few key groups and > individuals in the FOSS > world, like yourself, to ask you to join us in this > endevour. Though > we do hope to form a working relationship with you > over time, for now > we can simply recognize our mutual goals. Thus we > respectfully ask > for your endorsement of our effort; this project > will enjoy even > greater success if the FOSS community unites around > it. > > For further information and to observe our project's > progress, please > visit our newly assembled web portal, which will > serve as the hub for > our collaboration in the months to come. We hope > that creative souls > around the world will find varied and interesting > ways of celebrating > FOSS, and that ultimately the public will join us in > that celebration > too. > > Sincerely yours, > > Henrik Omma and Matt Oquist > > ---------------------------------------- > > 1 Software Freedom Day is currently a joint venture > of TheOpenCD.org > (http://theopencd.org) project and Greater Nashua > Sustainable > Software (http://gnss.majen.net). > 2 This will become an annual event to be held on the > last Saturday of > each August. > Software Freedom Day: August 28th 2004 > www.softwarefreedomday.org > contact(a)softwarefreedomday.org > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

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Q: What would you find on the highest motorable pass in the world?
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Talking Gnu/Linux to next level ? A: http://vsharma.net/ljpics/linux-khardungla.jpg courtesy: Raj Mathur --arky __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

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