FSUG-Bangalore September 2008

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Event Update: Gnu/Linux Habba - Mysore
by Omshivaprakash H L 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Friends, We all wished "Happy Birthday to Gnu" while explaining Gnu/Linux and Free Software to all participants. And shared lots of knowledge that we all had acquired all these years. Every one had lots of fun whole day. Now we are sitting here in University of Mysore and chit-chatting with participants and our volunteer team. Final set of of installations going on. I'm happy to announce that event has been completed successfully. More updates are on the way. - -- - -- "A well-directed imagination is the source of great deeds" - -- With Best Regards, Omshivaprakash.H.L | ಓಂ ಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ ಎಚ್. ಎಲ್ | ॐ शिवप्रकाश् एच्. एल् Website : http://www.techfiz.info Blog : http://platonic.techfiz.info Phone: 91- 9902026518 AIM : fizworks ICQ : 265216744 IRC : #techfiz server: irc.freenode.net channel: #linux-india #ubuntu-in #gnu-india #kannada -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjWKT8ACgkQ7OA72yfkJqNpSACeOIjZRZd84Rv6MNJmS8yO0Irp QBsAn1AHabZ9+GZzvo2zkevMvMAb2bHw =iP0Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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SFD 2008: Programming contest for students
by Vimal Joseph 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

As a part of this years Software Freedom Day celebrations<http://space-kerala.org/node/101> SPACE <http://space-kerala.org> announced a programming contest for the students irrespective of the course they are pursuing. The contest is based on the tutorial maSH - the true story of a shell<http://space-kerala.org/node/102>. Please see the contest page for more information<http://space-kerala.org/node/103> . A cash award of Rs. 5000/- will be awarded to the best coder based on the quality of their code and creativity. ~vimal -- Free Software, Free Society സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയര്‍, സ്വതന്ത്ര സമൂഹം <http://fsfs.hipatia.net>

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[OT] OpenSolaris, SUN-CA at Software Freedom Day Celebration, PICT, Pune
by shirish 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Hi all, I don't know whether you guys like or don't like people talking about the SFD celebrations in other parts of country or not. (this directed towards FSUG-Bangalore specifically) so in case if people find it in bad taste or something then apologies. I just posted part of what I experienced in PICT, Pune at http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/opensolaris-sun-ca-at-sfd-… Reactions, perspectives, opinions, flames, suggestions for improvements all invited :) -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

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Update on SFD: Team Swatantra - Christ University
by Vikram Vincent 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Software Freedom Week at Christ University had participants from not only BCA, MCA, MSc-BSc Comp. Science Christ University but also from BMSIT as well. The entire week had students campaigning on the issue in many departments. An unique aspect is that it was primarily led by a dedicated team of girl students. Apart from the GNU/Linux installation session(this will be continued next week too) the "Swatantra Free Culture Showcase<http://swatantra.org/wiki/index.php?title=SwatantraFreeCultureShowcase>" was inaugurated. Christ University's Western Acoustic 'A' band("All the fat children and one malnourished child") entertained the participants while Vineeth performed his beatbox routine. -- Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://swatantra.org/

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Essay Competition on Software Freedom for Schools and Colleges in Bangalore.
by Sunil Abraham 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Apologies for using my Mahiti id for this. Also apologies for posting in HTML. Dear Friends, Greetings on the occasion of Software Freedom Day! I am happy to announce that we have just couriered out the posters and a covering letter to a database of Bangalore schools and colleges. I am very grateful for the support and guidance of the FSUG-Bangalore members. Unfortunately we have not yet managed to launch the new CIS website. So the urls are temporary. I will post permanent urls once the site is up...hopefully on Monday. Please download the files and forward to your contacts in the academic sector. With thanks in advance. Best wishes, Sunil Director - Policy Centre for Internet and Society ---- In partnership with Free Software User Group - Bangalore, the Centre for Internet and Society is organising a essay competition for school and college students from Bangalore. The last date for submitting entries is 30th of October 2008. 3 prizes of Rs. 3,000/- each are available for college students. And 3 prizes of Rs. 1,000/- each are available for school students. Poster and Cover Letter Download an electronic copy of the poster and covering letter that has been sent to around 350 school and colleges in Bangalore city. Process of Judging Volunteers from the Free Software User Group will together constitute a committee that will anonymously and individual score all entries. The score will be consolidated across judges to determine the final winners. Terms and Conditions 1. Copyright: The copyright of the essay will remain with the participant. 2. License: All submissions will automatically be considered licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 India License. 3. The collective decision of the judges will be considered final. Rules 1. Participants must be bona fide students of a school or college in Bangalore. 2. Word limit for essays is 1200 words. 3. Essays can be submitted either in English or in Kannada. 4. Electronic submission should be in an Open Format [ Text - .txt, Rich Text Format .rtf, Open Document Format .odt, Portable Document Format .pdf] Thanks 1. Free Software Users Group - Bangalore for acting as co-organiser for the competition. 2. Renuka Prasad, Professor, R.V.College of Engineering for the concept, providing leadership and organising the databases of schools and colleges. 3. Anivar Aravind for providing advise and support. 4. Hiran Venugopalan, Engineering Student, for designing the poster.

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Software Freedom Day - A Article
by Amit Surana 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Hi All, Do comment on this article if you have time: http://foss.suranaamit.com/2008/09/software-freedom-day.html I guess we could celebrate the "Official SFD" ie 20th September (today), by just meeting on the irc #fsug-bangalore (whose title has not been changed since 7th September), between 9pm to 10pm. I will be awaiting all of you active FOSS enthusiasts. :) -- Regards, Amit M Surana http://blog.suranaamit.com/ http://foss.suranaamit.com GMF: http://gmfdoc.suranaamit.com/

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SFD plans final schedule
by Praveen A 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Hi, What are all the final plans? If we can update details in the wiki page, it would be great. Other than Christ and BMS, do we have any other events happening? http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/SFD/Bangalore/08 I definitely miss this SFD :-( Regards Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Fwd: FOSSCamp sjce-08
by Vikram Vincent 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Hi, Please note the following mail requesting for support. Those of you who can contribute tech talks please raise your hands o/ Vikram Vincent ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: srihari na <namasrihari(a)gmail.com> Date: 2008/9/19 Subject: FOSSCamp sjce-08 To: Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram(a)swatantra.org> Hi, We the members of *Linux Campus Club* is organizing *FOSScamp sjce '08* on *26th, 27th and 28th of September 2008*. We had also invited you for *technical talk* on one of these days. So if you can *confirm your valuable presence* in our event it would be very helpful to make suitable arrangements as the event is fast approaching. Kindly make your schedule free on these dates and join us to make the event a grand succes.The talk shall be on anything on FOSS. Thank you for your support and cooperation. Thank you with regards Srihari N.A -- Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://swatantra.org/

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A CPIM Hijack of Free Software Foundation?
by Praveen A 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2008-September/005460.html My mail is not appearing in the list archive Posting it again ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind at gmail.com> Date: Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:02 PM Subject: A CPIM Hijack of Free Software Foundation? To: Principal Support List of FSF-India <fsf-friends at mm.gnu.org.in> Cc: rms at gnu.org, "Nagarjuna G." <nagarjun at gnowledge.org>, "Nagarjuna G." <nagarjunag at gmail.com> Today I came to know about an event called freedom and software happening in Chennai on 21st September through a blog. The event website is a google site http://sites.google.com/site/freedomandsoftware/ Most of the friends participating are our friends. But this mail is for some clarifications The invitation text says following <quote> M. Subramanian - The Mayor, N. Ram - Editor, The Hindu, Debesh Das - Minister of Information Technology, West Bengal, Kiran Chandra - Director, Free Software Foundation India & Prabir Purkayastha - Secretary, Delhi Science Forum, have been confirmed to be the panel of speakers. The objective of the event will be the launch of the project for the development of a Tamil Version of the GNU/ Linux operating system. The launch will be made by the Mayor, M.Subramanian. The project will be developed by engineering students with able technical support from the IT professionals & professors, and infrastructural support by the entrepreneurs. The logo and caption for the Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu will be launched by Mr. N. Ram. The event will be attended by the IT professionals, Entrepreneurs, Researchers and professors of reputed colleges, from all over the country and the registration will be open to all, so you can bring all your friends as well. There will be no entry fee for the same. </quote> My questions are Following 1.Is this event anyway related with Free Software Foundation? 2. This news is not announced in any Free Software Mailing lists, like FSF-Friends, FSF-Tn(http://mm.gnu.org.in//pipermail/fsf-tn/) ILUG Chennai etc . It is not announced yet in gnu.org.in also. Why This much secrecy around this? 3.. The above invitation text says "logo and caption for the Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu will be launched" in the function. Is FSF India decided to start regional FSFs? If yes why this is organising in a a secret maner? 3. The Invitation text says "The objective of the event will be the launch of the project for the development of a Tamil Version of the GNU/ Linux operating system", why there is a need of another distribution when tamil is well supported in most of the upstream distributions? . Let it be the work of Tamil Localisation groups. 4. The contacts provided in the website contact page is not at all familiar in Free Software Community. And There is no information on who is organising this event. On a quick checkup with friends in Chennai, they says it is an event Organised by Communist Party of India (Marxist) . Thats why the secrecy. I don't have a problem in a political party supporting free software cause. But If it is the case i am very suspicious on following points 1. The exclusion of the Free Software Movement in Chennai in Organising it, 2. Creating a body with power structure before Contributing anything . I dont think a free software Foundation is not needed for releasing a Localised GNU/Linux Distribution 3. Secrecy in whole process of a Public event I am expecting a reply from FSF India on this Anivar -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Fwd: Participate in ODF Olympiad for schools
by Anivar Aravind 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jaijit Bhattacharya <Jaijit.Bhattacharya(a)sun.com> Dear All, ODF Olympiad 2008 is open for submissions from Sep 20, 2008 (Software Freedom Day). Your children and their schools can win many prizes and also contribute to reducing the digital divide. For more information, visit www.odfolympiad.org. Please forward this mail to all relevant people and organizations. Thanks and regards Jaijit -- [image: Sun Microsystems] <http://www.sun.com/>Jaijit Bhattacharya, PhD Director, Government Strategy India and Asia South Sun Microsystems India Pvt. Ltd. The Capital Court, Olof Palme Marg, 5th Floor, R Wing, Munirka New Delhi - 110 067 Direct: (91) 11 4219 1089 Board Number: (91) 11 4219 1100 Fax: (91) 11 2616 0928 Email: jaijit.bhattacharya(a)sun.com Open Document Format is an important standard for ensuring computer literacy and is fundamental to enabling computer education globally. ODF is easy to learn and anyone who has used any presentation software can immediately start using ODF software such as OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, IBM Symphony etc. We, along with IIT Delhi, Knowledge Commons, IOTA (Government of West Bengal), MAMPU (Government of Malaysia), JNU, IIM Ahmedabad and other organizations are conducting the ODF Olympiad 2008. ODF Olympiad tests the proficiency of school students in their usage of basic computers. The students are required to submit presentations using ISO complaint ODF format on specific topics which will be evaluated by an eminent jury based on specific parameters. Participate in the *ODF Olympiad' 2008*- an open standard inter-city contest to win : - Participation Certificate for All - Attractive prizes for 3 winners in each category - Silver Plaque for school of the winner in each Category - Prestigious ODF Olympiad Trophy for the winning School - Software Freedom Trophy for inter-country winning School ODF Olympiad is open to students from all countries. Submissions for ODF Olympiad will be open from* September 20th which is the Software Freedom Day.* I would request you to encourage your children and their schools to participate in ODF Olympiad 2008 *For details & submissions log on to: *www.odfolympiad.org

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