Linuxers January 2007

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[Commercial] LinuxAsia is BACK!
by Niraj Sahay 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Dear Members of the community, LinuxAsia 2007 is coming. And this year, we would like to ensure that the Linux/OSS community is fully engaged with the event. What all is happening at LinuxAsia this year? ********************************************* The main track - 'technology.innovation(a)oss.in', which will go on for 3 days from 31st January till 2nd February 2007 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The second track - CXOSummit - is a one-day event being held at Hotel Taj Mahal, Man Singh, New Delhi on the 1st of February 2007. Besides that, there will be an IOSN summit, ODF India Chapter summit, technical workshops, sessions by LUGs, and last but not the least, the Expo. What are the entry charges? *************************** FIRST 500 FREE!!! Ok, this is best news of the day - the first 500 registrants can get the COMMUNITY PASS, which allows them entry to the 'technology.innovation(a)oss.in' track for FREE (subject to availability of vacant seats in the main hall and on a first-cum-first-served basis)! Though there is an element of organisers' checking your details and approving the serious cases only, but then, if you're serious about attending International-level Linux/OSS events - then REGISTER NOW at http://www.linuxasia.net. DELEGATE PASSES FOR SERIOUS PROFESSIONALS For the serious professionals who want 'guaranteed seating' at LinuxAsia 2007, we have the DELEGATE PASS. There is an 'early bird' offer till 25th Jan 07 (subject to availability of seats). Simply opt for 'more info on the Delegate Pass' while registering for LinuxAsia 2007, and our team will get back to you immediately. Plus, there are special discounts on the DELEGATE PASSES for ILUG-Delhi members, EFY subscribers, and students! What about entry to the CXOSummit? ********************************** The CXOSummit is a 'by-invitation-only' event. But, you can opt for that while registering for LinuxAsia 2007, and if your profile matches that of a CXO, our team will connect with you immediately. Who all are going to speak at LinuxAsia 2007? ********************************************* Klaus Knopper (Knoppix), Brian Behlendorf (Apache and CollabNet), Dr Negroponte (one-laptop-per-child programme), are some of the international technology Gurus who have confirmed. We expect 3-4 more global luminaries to be there--their confirmation is in progress. Any facilities for out-station delegates? ***************************************** We have tied up with 'hospitality partners' who can assist you in getting best deals for travel and stay. If you need this support, simply select that option while registering. What is LinuxAsia trying to achieve this year? ********************************************** The goals that have been laid down for LinuxAsia 07 are: Goal #1: Promote open source driven innovation so that India can showcase a minimum of 20 globally recognised OSS projects at LinuxAsia 2008. Goal #2: Accelerate the adoption of Linux and open source software by highlighting their advantages, sharing success stories, and discussing strategies on how CXOs can gain advantage from both "open source" and "proprietary" worlds. Goal #3: To provide a platform where other organisations with OSS-related agendas can hold their own sub-events and network with the entire community. So, we request you to register, participate, and let us know how we fared in achieving those goals. Cheers! Team, LinuxAsia team(a)fosii.org

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Mumbai Free Map Workshop, 13-14 January
by Shekhar Krishnan 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Dear All: We plan to organise an intensive two-day workshop on the use of geographic information systems (GIS) and geospatial web applications based on Free and Open Source software (FOSS). This public workshop will be held on SATURDAY 13 JANUARY and SUNDAY 14 JANUARY 2007 at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) in Mumbai. The objective will be to teach and guide participants through all the steps of producing an interactive spatial database and web map using the OSGeo Toolkit. Through the workshop, participants will build their own Free Map using a combination of open source software, copyleft maps, and community information. The workshop is based on the Mumbai Free Map project collaboration, and is co-organised by the Gnowledge Lab at HBCSE, CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust), the Free Map Collective and MetaCarta Labs. For more detailed information about the workshop and any updates to the programme, please visit http://wiki.freemap.in/moin.cgi/HbcseWorkshop and to browse the Mumbai Free Map please visit http://mumbai.freemap.in REGISTRATION The workshop is free and open to the public. Ideally, participants should be familiar with the open source software and the Linux operating system, web client-server architecture, basic database management, and basic terminal commands -- we hope to cater to different skill sets and backgrounds. Participants should also have an interest in the use of OSGeo for their own work and projects. To register for the workshop, please send an e-mail to freemapworkshop(a)crit.org.in with your name, address, and contact information including phone numbers, and a brief description of your background and your interest in the workshop. Registration will remain open until WEDNESDAY 10 JANUARY, but please contact us ASAP if you would like to participate. For more information, please call Shekhar Krishnan on +91.98200.45529. ORGANISERS Gnowledge Lab http://www.gnowledge.org Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust) http://www.crit.org.in Freemap Collective http://www.freemap.in MetaCarta Labs http://labs.metacarta.com -- Shekhar Krishnan 9, Supriya, 2nd Floor Plot 709, Parsee Colony Road no.4 Dadar, Mumbai 400014 India http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar http://www.heptanesia.net http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar

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Re: A Linux Brochure
by Vickram Crishna 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

--- Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On 03-Jan-07, at 10:52 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > > > * Where do we distribute the brochure(s)? > > the best place would be through hardware dealers. We can request cybercafe operators to keep it, either as a folded A4 sheet (as someone suggested) or stapled/bound multiple sheets, or as a single sheet A4 poster on the wall. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Fwd: Mumbai Free Map Workshop, 13-14 January
by Frederick Noronha 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Courtesy: India-GII list ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shekhar Krishnan <shekhar(a)crit.org.in> Date: 03-Jan-2007 15:10 Subject: [india-gii] Mumbai Free Map Workshop, 13-14 January To: india-gii(a)lists.cpsr.org Dear All: We plan to organise an intensive two-day workshop on the use of geographic information systems (GIS) and geospatial web applications based on Free and Open Source software (FOSS). This public workshop will be held on SATURDAY 13 JANUARY and SUNDAY 14 JANUARY 2007 at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) in Mumbai. The objective will be to teach and guide participants through all the steps of producing an interactive spatial database and web map using the OSGeo Toolkit. Through the workshop, participants will build their own Free Map using a combination of open source software, copyleft maps, and community information. The workshop is based on the Mumbai Free Map project collaboration, and is co-organised by the Gnowledge Lab at HBCSE, CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust), the Free Map Collective and MetaCarta Labs. For more detailed information about the workshop and any updates to the programme, please visit http://wiki.freemap.in/moin.cgi/HbcseWorkshop and to browse the Mumbai Free Map please visit http://mumbai.freemap.in REGISTRATION The workshop is free and open to the public. Ideally, participants should be familiar with the open source software and the Linux operating system, web client-server architecture, basic database management, and basic terminal commands -- we hope to cater to different skill sets and backgrounds. Participants should also have an interest in the use of OSGeo for their own work and projects. To register for the workshop, please send an e-mail to freemapworkshop(a)crit.org.in with your name, address, and contact information including phone numbers, and a brief description of your background and your interest in the workshop. Registration will remain open until WEDNESDAY 10 JANUARY, but please contact us ASAP if you would like to participate. For more information, please call Shekhar Krishnan on +91.98200.45529. ORGANISERS Gnowledge Lab http://www.gnowledge.org Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust) http://www.crit.org.in Freemap Collective http://www.freemap.in MetaCarta Labs http://labs.metacarta.com -- Shekhar Krishnan 9, Supriya, 2nd Floor Plot 709, Parsee Colony Road no.4 Dadar, Mumbai 400014 India http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar http://www.heptanesia.net http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: india-gii(a)lists.cpsr.org To be removed from the list, send any message to: india-gii-unsubscribe(a)lists.cpsr.org For all list information and functions, see: http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/india-gii -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://www.goa-india.org http://feeds.goa-india.org/index.php

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[Project] Syntax Highlighter program
by Nikhil Marathe 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hello everyone, This is for all the coders out there. I have written a small Ruby program to generate syntax highlighted HTML files from a source file in virtually any language (ATM Java HTML C++ Python and Ruby). Its still in 0.1 beta and lacks quite a number of features but is good enough for daily use. I was wondering if interested people in the community could test it out and give me feedback. Homepage: http://22bits.exofire.net/browse.php/code/colourcode Nikhil -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reclaim your digital rights, eliminate DRM, learn more at http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[attn wiki sysadmins] deactivating pacenetrules
by Kenneth Gonsalves 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

hi, if you look at the discussion here: http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Broadband_Pacenet you will find that this guy pacenetrules has broken the rule of three - that is he has deleted matter in the page three times in a row. I request the sysadmins to deactivate him and prevent him from editing pages. Please dont boot him - he will just reregister. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Compiz screenshot
by Siddhesh Poyarekar 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi, Can someone with compiz/beryl make a cool looking screenshot in the cube mode? I'm trying to make a front page design for the brochure. The requirements are as follows: * XMMS/Beep Media or some other media player * A movie in progress, preferably a bollywood movie * Firefox open with a Linux or GNU site; anything that has the right words and the Tux logo * A nautilus/konqueror window with some pictures (in preview mode) * There should be no terminal program running * The shot should be high res, preferably in dark colors but clear looking at the same time. I have been searching for a screenshot on the net but sadly most either have a terminal running, or 'microsoft ipod' searches. One even had Windows 2000 running in VMWare ;-) I would have done this myself but I am not able to install compiz on my system. -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.tk

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A Linux Brochure Re-visited
by Vihan Pandey 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

First of all, great job Rony :-) Its not easy trying to say so much in so few, you certainly have done it. Kudo's to you. However, there are a couple of things i did some checking on that we could deliberate upon: 0)In the paragraph ``Why Free and Open Source Software" the word Freedom and the ethical reasons for why they should be used are very much absent. Not to mention the dangers of using proprietary software besides viruses, security problems, and data loss problems. It is later mentioned that ``Linux is not just software, it is a movement that was started to empower the people, to empower YOU with full freedom to create, distribute and use software without getting locked out until you paid for an 'upgrade' of your commercial software.". The Linux kernel was NEVER started as a movement, it was started as a student project. The only movement which started this is the Free Software movement, from which the Open Source movement offshooted. It was only later that Linus joined up with the Open Source movement. Linus has also admitted that he would never have bothered to make the Linux kernel mainstream if GNU had finished their kernel.This is very much a historical fact. i have have to really thank you Rony for this, as now it makes perfect sense why we just cannot refer to the operating system as Linux even for simplicity. 1)The word Freedom is mentioned in the ``Is Linux widely used?" paragraph right at the end, that too with an entire paragraph of tech praises preceding it. If we are mentioning technical excellence, great usability, and fantastic features everywhere - its only fair to mention the values and ethics of Freedom, the spirit of Revolution and the undying struggle against a tyranical order. Such language has caused change and shaped history in the past through printed books, let your wiki page stir the same passion for those online. 2)The link you quote http://www.linux.org/ mentions ``Linux<http://www.linux.org/#>is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world." which seems to contradict(in the newbie readers perspective) what is written on the Wiki. Moreover the only mention about GNU is with a link on the GPL: http://www.linux.org/info/gnu.html in that page to there are two links ``Foundations Software" and ``free software" both of which point to web ads via some bizweb2000.com site. Why are we putting such pages as links on our Wiki? It gives a very bad impression that we are encouraging adware. 3)The term ``Linux" is trademarked to Linus Torvalds and it should be mentioned. If you are respecting it for Microsoft you can certainly respect it for Linus. comments? Regards, - vihan

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OLPC
by Mukund Deshmukh 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is using linux. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Main_Page That's great, because children will not be poisoned by MS$ stuff. Warm Regards, Mukund Deshmukh, Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd, 10/1 IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur -440022, India. Warm Regards, Mukund Deshmukh, Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd, 10/1 IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur -440022, India.

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Promotional Article
by Siddhesh Poyarekar 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi, Is it possible that we write an article about GNU/Linux on desktop and get it published in some of the famous newspapers like Times of India, DNA, Hindustan Times, etc? It will have to be done by some notable people since it should be accepted by these papers. The theme could be that of a myth breaker, showing how Linux is not difficult to install, better looking, etc. Linux power on servers should get no more than a mention as the aim is to get desktop users to use it. Regards, -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.tk

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Linuxers January 2007