Hi All,
Some of you may have seen (in other LUGs or elsewhere) a draft FOSS
manifesto which has been circulated.With elections approaching in April
2009, it was time to create a FOSS manifesto for Indian political
parties. This manifesto calls upon political parties to support FOSS in
India through certain suggested policy measures/actions.
The FOSS manifesto has been put up as a petition -
http://www.public-software.in/FOSS-manifesto
The idea is to collect as many signatures as possible and then submit
the petition along with the list of signatories to various political
parties.
Hence, more the number of signatures, greater the weight of the petition.
Please go ahead and view the petition and endorse it if you are ok with
this petition.
Please also pass on this message to anyone else you know outside of the
community, who might be willing to endorse the petition.
Thanks to Deeproot Linux for helping put this up!
Thanks,
Vinay.
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Please can someone explain this to me in plain english please?
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-276211.html
Microsoft's secret plan behind the TomTom suit?
A very interesting analysis of the Microsoft versus TomTom suit has
appeared on veteran journo Glyn Moody's blog.
Having established that Microsoft's "it's not about Linux" schtick is
transparently wrong - the area covered by the FAT patents is pure
Linux, unchanged by TomTom, so any Linux distro with FAT compatibility
would qualify - we then get a post from Jeremy Allison, who's well
versed in Microsoft's approach to open source.
You must read the whole thing yourself - but in brief, he says that
Microsoft has been putting all its IP deals under NDA because the
cross-licensing of patents is disallowed under Section 7 of GPL 2.
Thus, anyone who signs is disallowed from distributing any of the
Linux kernel - so Microsoft has them over a barrel.
This explains the secrecy behind all the deals - which, lest we
forget, Microsoft is promoting as examples of open sharing - and is
building up to a situation where Microsoft can detonate a huge
improvised explosive device under Linux.
What might save things is if TomTom prevails, negating the relevant
patents - and there are good reasons to think it would, if it can
afford to fight. If it can't afford to fight, then things get just
that little nastier. As Allison says:
"Tom Tom are the first company to publicly refuse to engage in this
ugly little protection racket, and so they got sued. Had Tom Tom
silently agreed to violate the GPL, as so many others have, then we'd
only hear about a vague "patent cross licensing deal" just like the
ones Microsoft announces with other companies.
Make no mistake, this is intended to force Tom Tom to violate the GPL,
or change to Microsoft embedded software."
Rupert Goodwins' blog was originally posted on ZDNet.co.uk.
Hi, I am doing C.S engineering , I would be happy to help you people in
things you do. There are few of my friends who would join too, I guess.How
do we possibly contact you.
Thanks in advance.
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arvind_khadri (on irc.freenode.net)
fsug-bangalore-request(a)mm.gnu.org.in wrote:
> In a major move, the B.Sc. Computer Science Dept. of CU has introduced
> Python, PHP, GNU/Linux administration into the syllabus. References to
> M$ and its office applications in the Computer Fundamentals paper were
> replaced by OOo.
>
> There is also a shift from Turbo-C to GCC and friends.
>
> Topics related to Free software and open standards have been introduced
> into the IT paper of BBM.
>
Congrats Vikram.. can you please share how you went about doing this (an
article/blogpost) and also share the syllabus?
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IT for Change
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vinay(a)itforchange.net
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In a major move, the B.Sc. Computer Science Dept. of CU has introduced
Python, PHP, GNU/Linux administration into the syllabus. References to
M$ and its office applications in the Computer Fundamentals paper were
replaced by OOo.
There is also a shift from Turbo-C to GCC and friends.
Topics related to Free software and open standards have been introduced
into the IT paper of BBM.
The Free Software based 'Moodle' - a learning management system(LMS)
is being implemented as a policy throughout the University in a phased
manner.
Debian GNU/Linux is being installed in at least one system per
department on
a trial basis and both teaching and support staff are being trained.
The creation of a Free Software Group is being planned as part of the CS
Dept. academic activities. FS based projects will be given to the
students for
imlementation.
These changes come after more than a year's efforts in convincing and
training the staff and students on Free Software.
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+91 9448810822
http://swatantra.org/
*Free Software Camp for Ngo's and Civil Society Groups*
*NGO In a Box*
*5 day residential workshop on free software tools and methodologies*
*March 24 - 28 ,2009,Madhya Pradesh,India *
*Call for Participation*
*What is Ngo in a Box?*
NGO-in-a-box is a collection of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) tools
selected for use by non-profit organizations,along with workshops conducted
to help users effectively deploy the software in their organizations.The
software is distributed in down-loadable form and as a physical box set of
cd's. Several customized editions of NGO-in-a-box exist to provide
organizations with the software they need in relation to different topics
and requirements.
*This is a Call for participants* for our *7**th* workshop.Make use of this
free software camp to enrich your knowledge and help your organization
effectively leverage free software without the licensing hassles.Learn about
free software components and methodologies and how to enable it in your
everyday work.
*Limited number of scholarships are available for select participants based
on past work,area of expertise and ability to spread the concept to other
voluntary organizations*.These participants will receive free training,food
and accomodation.Travel expenses will be reimbursed at the end of the
workshop.
For details of our previous workshops, visit http://ngoinabox.mahiti.org
*Organizers:* The workshops are being organized by Mahiti, Bangalore with
the support of HIVOS, Netherlands and in collaboration with Tactical
Technology Collective.
*Participant profile: *This event is geared towards the technology
professionals working in Ngo's and similar voluntary organizations;
consultants and tech support groups providing IT service and support to such
non governmental bodies.
The workshop will cover the following broad domains:
1.
*Free Software*: What to consider when migrating to free and open source
software(FOSS), installation of a Linux operating system, commonly used
office and internet packages.
2.
*Open Publishing*: Desktop publishing, image editing, web publishing and
collaboration, content management.
3.
*Audio Visual*: Audio-Video editing and distribution, media capture,
audio visual playing tools.
4.
*Security*: Internet security, passwords, data storage and backup,
communication and encryption.
5.
*Techniques and methodologies:*To help you effectively communicate with
your audience in india and across the world.
*Date and Place: *This event will be* *held in the state of Madhya Pradesh
from March 24 - 28, 2009. Participants are required to attend* *the entire
event, which means arriving at the venue on
or before 24 March and* *leaving on 28 March evening. The exact venue will
be communicated to successful applicants.
Last date for submitting application forms: March 5,* *2009
Intimation of final list of participants by : March 10, 2009
*Interested? *Visit http://ngoinabox.mahiti.org and fill up the online
application form .
For any questions or clarifications contact :
Rajeev Nair
Project Coordinator
Ngo in a Box
Mahiti Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
# 33-34, Hennur Cross
Hennur Main Road
Bangalore, India - 560043
Phone: +91 80 4148 5080/1 41150580/1
Mobile: 096113 44374
E mail: ngoinabox(a)mahiti.org
Hi, I would like to help you out, I am a engineering student..
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 12:00 +0530, fsug-bangalore-request(a)mm.gnu.org.in
wrote:
> Hi all
> I am happy to inform you that as part of our technical fest
> TECHNOHOLICS-09
> we are planning to set up a Linux Help Desk with the help of our
> senior
> students. Here we planning to help out junior students with installing
> Linux. Since we are having about 250 new students who will be
> installing
> Linux on there laptops. As part of this i thought we could distribute
> some
> Linux distros as well so that we have a larger reach. So could u help
> me
> regarding this.
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Sorry for not giving the complete details. We at CMRIT are conducting an
Technical Fest named TECHNOHOLIKS 09. As part of this we have an event LINUX
YELP DESK through which our students will help out first year students in
installing Linux on there laptops. I thought we could distribute free
software (possibly Linux Distros) to the participants.
*Event : LINUX YELP DESK
Date : March 20 2009
Venue : CMR Inst of Technology
#132, IT Park road,
AECS layout,Kundalahalli
Bangalore - 37*
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> Hi all
> I am happy to inform you that as part of our technical fest TECHNOHOLICS-09
> we are planning to set up a Linux Help Desk with the help of our senior
> students. Here we planning to help out junior students with installing
> Linux. Since we are having about 250 new students who will be installing
> Linux on there laptops. As part of this i thought we could distribute some
> Linux distros as well so that we have a larger reach. So could u help me
> regarding this.
>
Hi All,
We had the meeting for the national network/coalition for FOSS on the
22nd of February. Around 30-35 people attended and we had a good
discussion.The details are put up at - http://fosscom.in
Please do have a look.
Thanks,
Vinay.
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IT for Change
91-98805-95032
vinay(a)itforchange.net
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