FSUG-Bangalore August 2006

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62 discussions

Wide Angle Democracy Film Festival
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 19 Aug '06

19 Aug '06

Hi List, Please forward widely. cheers --arky ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FILMS FOR FREEDOM, Bangalore invites entries for FLASH FRAMES NO ENTRY FEE! NO FORMS TO FILL! JUST SEND YOUR FILM! As part of the 'Wide angle Democracy' film festival, we are proud to present 2 events. The main event features a package of documentary films from the Travelling Film South Asia 2006 (TFSA '06). These films have been screened at the biennial Film South Asia held in Kathmandu, Nepal. Alongside TFSA, 'Wide angle Democracy' will star FLASH FRAMES - a feast of short films for all who have made a film and want to show it! Submission guidelines for your convenience and ours. 1) Films should be submitted in the DVD format. 2) Duration of the film should NOT be more than 10 minutes. 3) The filmmaker should be present for the screening of one's film. Deadline for Submission - September 10, 2006 Venue - Guru Nanak Bhavan Festival dates - 23rd and 24th September, 2006. For programming convenience, films will be previewed by a panel. For details, kindly contact: Arky - rakesh_ambati (at) yahoo.com Jenny Pinto - pinto.jenny (at) gmail.com Contact number: 99862-54490 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Help required!
by prashanth 18 Aug '06

18 Aug '06

hello sir, i have already registered for the conference, kindly guide me plz. 1. venue of the conference. 2. do i need to hold any ticket to show my identity. -- |Prashanth| |B.Tech| |RHCE| http://munichlinux.blogspot.com

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Design of Badges for Delegates / Organisers
by Aanjhan R 18 Aug '06

18 Aug '06

Hello All, Please find enclosed the link for the design of badges for delegates / organisers. Thanks to Baishampayan Ghose (Hope thats rightly spelt). Comments welcome. Also it would be better if these are printed using some Laser colour printer as we do not need too huge a number. We need to finalise on this asap. http://people.ubuntu-in.org/~ghoseb/badges.png Note: Resolution kept low intentionally by Ghose. Will be scaled up/down according to requirement. W.r.t Registrants list, James has already mailed the needed details to Sigma. Somethng thats still pending from Design side are the posters/banners. Reggies -- Aanjhan ---------------------------------- a.k.a Tuxmaniac Locations: #ubuntu-in, #linux-india, #gnu-india @irc.freenode.net CyberHome: http://www.tuxmaniac.com ----------------------------------

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Reminder: Volunteers meeting on Saturday.
by Vikram Vincent 18 Aug '06

18 Aug '06

Hello All, Reminding you all that there is a volunteers meeting on the Saturday at 4pm at St. Joseph's college, Langford road (near Double road). All potential volunteers from Bangalore must attend this as we need to know the status of volunteers, etc.. Please do inform your family and friends who may be interested. Please do keep my number and call up for any clarifications. -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 Bangalore

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[Fwd: IISc: 19 Aug (Sat) 11am: Talk by Richard Stallman in IISc]
by Abhas Abhinav 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

FYI -------- Original Message -------- Subject: IISc: 19 Aug (Sat) 11am: Talk by Richard Stallman in IISc Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:42:16 +0530 From: Prof. K. Gopinath <gopi(a)csa.iisc.ernet.in> Title: Free Software: current status and challenges Time: 19 Aug (Sat) 11am Place: Faculty Hall Speaker: Richard Stallman, Founder of GNU project and FSF (Free Software Foundation) Abstract: Richard Stallman will give a talk on free software and current status on aspects such as GPLv3, DRM (digital rights mgmt), DMCA, etc. Bio: Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project, launched in 1984 to develop the free software operating system GNU. The name ``GNU'' is a recursive acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix''. Stallman graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a BA in physics. During his college years, he also worked as a staff hacker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, learning operating system development by doing it. He wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor there in 1975. He also developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance. In January 1984 he resigned from MIT to start the GNU project. Stallman received the Grace Hopper award for 1991 from the Association for Computing Machinery, for his development of the first Emacs editor. In 1990 he was awarded a Macarthur foundation fellowship, and in 1996 an honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. In 1998 he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation's pioneer award along with Linus Torvalds. In 1999 he received the Yuri Rubinski award. In 2001 he received a second honorary doctorate, from the University of Glasgow, and shared the Takeda award for social/economic betterment with Torvalds and Ken Sakamura. In 2002 he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering, and in 2003 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2003 he was named an honorary professor of the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria in Peru, and received an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels. In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de Salta, in Argentina. About GNU: GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. Non-free software keeps users divided and helpless, forbidden to share it and unable to change it. A free operating system is essential for people to be able to use computers in freedom. Today, Linux-based variants of the GNU system, based on the kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are in widespread use. There are estimated to be some 20 million users of GNU/Linux systems today. Richard Stallman is the principal author of the GNU Compiler Collection, a portable optimizing compiler which was designed to support diverse architectures and multiple languages. The compiler now supports over 30 different architectures and 7 programming languages. Stallman also wrote the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system.

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Meeting with sigma 16th Aug - TODOs
by പ്രവ ീണ്‍‌ [प्रवीण] (Praveen) എ [ए] (A) 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

Hi, Yesterday we went to IIMB to finalise some of the pending issues. Here is the things we discussed with sigma (Arun joined us on phone). * RMS' complete schedule: 22nd evening to 25th night in IIMB - done * List of people attending: Volunteers and organisers - within 2 days we have to send it to sigma, (Vikram) Badge design: delegates, volunteers and organisers - different colour (Aanjhan) List of people staying in IIM and their expected arrival and departure - by today to sigma (James) List of delegates confirmed - by today to sigma (James) * Banner Design: how about Bhaishampayan's black in white design? (by today to sigma) Material: clothes prefered, if not available, then plastic. (sigma) Positions: main entrance, hall backdrop (sigma) * Catering: Menu-> standard without too spicy, no separate menu for speakers, (sigma) * T-shirts - what is the final position? (Abhas) * Cab/car numbers of the travel agent to be give to sigma for security requirements (Shivanand) * Number of people on stage- confirm, to arrange chairs, name plates ... (Arun) * Panel Discussions are held in class rooms (with systems and projector available). Make sure it has GNU/Linux installed. What about recording? * Streaming - (FSF sysadmins got back offering mirrors) (Praveen, Thejesh) Aanjhan, sigma anything I missed? Regards 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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SFI demands Free Software in Education
by Vikram Vincent 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

Hello, In a major boost to the Free Software movement, the students organisation Students' Federation of India(SFI) has demanded that Free Software alternatives must be used in all educational institutions and syllabus must be framed in order to promote the use of free software. The e-handbill in Open Office format has been included. -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 Bangalore

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Re: [GPLv3-Conference] Regarding Registration Desk
by Anurag 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

Sometime on Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:52:58PM -0600, Ramprasad B said: > All, > > As in today's volunteers meeting, discussion on various topics were > done. Regarding registration is concerned myself, krishan and two others > will be taking responsibility of registration counter on Aug 23 - 24, > 2006. > > Here are some points that outline registration task / requirements - > > * We need two registration counters with two computers to verify the > registration of delegates, since 200+ number has to be cleared within > half hour. Alternatively, if computers cannot be arranged, we can have > two hard copies of the list, arranged alphabetically so that we can do > the verification fast enough. Alphabetically sorted soft and hard copy of registrants is available with me and james. We'll send it across to your team. How do you plan to do registration confirmation on computers? Maybe we could do some arrangements. Anurag P.S. Please keep all logistics discussions on FSUG-Bangalore list. -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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Bad News
by Kushal Das 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

Hi, There is a bad news. Ciaran was sent back from the bangalore airport to London. :( There was some problem with his visa. This is not good for anyone. All other who are coming to India, please check your Visa & other documents properly before the journey. Regards, Kushal PS: RMS reached bangalore

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[Fwd: [GPLv3-Conference] Ciaran O'Riordan won't be at the conference.]
by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [GPLv3-Conference] Ciaran O'Riordan won't be at the conference. Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:35:34 +0100 From: Kevin F O'Riordan <kfor(a)compsoc.com> Reply-To: GPLv3 India Conference List <gplv3-conference(a)mm.gnu.org.in> To: gplv3-conference(a)mm.gnu.org.in Hi all, Ciaran's brother Kevin here. I just got a call from Bangalore to say that Ciaran didn't have a visa to enter India, so he's being sent back to Britain (where he flew out from). He therefore won't be able to make it to the conference, and offers his apologies. Right now I think he's in Bangalore Airport, awaiting the flight back. His phone is of no use, and he has no access to email, so can't be contacted. Can someone contact the person(s) who were to meet him at the airport and tell them not to bother? I don't know who exactly to contact; the message from Ciaran said to just post to this mailing list. regards, Kevin - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE4+pXXQZpNTcrCzMRAsM7AJ9RkQlb4rWloOaB3pH3UlFnLeLt4QCgyd3d xrBqzCS/9bKLgKcN98jcwNA= =Il8n -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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