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 7th 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

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SafeSquid, Linux based Content Filtering Internet Proxy, Version
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Highlights:
A memory leak in request forwarding has been fixed. The disk cleaning
mechanism has been rolled back. Logs have been fixed to report
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Cheers.

Here's some great news that I (on behalf of the Linux For You team) wanted
to share with all of you...

The Gist...

Top 20 winners for FOSS India Awards were finalised on 15th of Feb during
Open Source India Week's Delhi edition. NRCFOSS

sponsored these awards by taking care of the prize money, which is Rs 5
lakh-- where each winner will get Rs 25,000!

Here's what M.R. Rajagopalan, director, NRCFOSS, shad to say w.r.t. the
awards, “Through such incentives, NRCFOSS expects to

stimulate young minds, encourage innovative contributions to the FOSS
ecosystem and address the digital divide."

Complete details about the awards announcement can be had at:
http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/24867/news.htm

<snippet from the announcement>

Here is the complete list of the winners:

* Hindawi Indic Programming System
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* Dhvani Indian Language Text to Speech System
* Fedora (games and localization spins)
* KDE 3.5 Hindi
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* DeepOfix
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* WanEM
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* Anjuta
* HarvestMan
* Get it I say
* KIWI-LTSP
* Ffmpeginstall
* Belenix
* TVTK: Traited VTK
* GNUSim8085

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For more details about the FOSS India Awards, visit: www.openitis.com/awards/

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Regards,
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Dear Open Source Enthusiasts,

Here's more good news from Open Source India Week (aka LinuxAsia).

Though our quota of 500 Community Passes got over last week, OSIW team
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This Visitor Pass will entitle registrants to:

1. The Keynote & Star-Speaker sessions
2. The Expo

Register at: http://www.osiweek.com/users/delegatetemp.php

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**********************************
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Klaus Knopper, Knoppix (B'lore and Delhi)
David Axmark, MySQL (B'lore and Delhi)
Paul Kangro, Novell (B'lore and Delhi)
Louis Sourez Potts, OpenOffice (Delhi)

This year, LinuxAsia has grown into Open Source India Week -- a
week-long event spanning three cities: Bangalore (11th-12th Feb),
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Dear Readers,

To begin with apologies for posting the October 2007 Sneak Preview
rather later.

Now, were were we? Yes! I'm sure you know that virtualisation is the
latest buzz. And therefore we've dedicated our October 2007 issue to
detailed articles on various Free and Open Source virtualisation
technologies to give you an idea of what's the reason behind the
"buzz". Following are the five articles you can check out in this
special issue:

* A Hitchhiker's Guide to Virtualisation, where we briefly cover the
technology and how hardware assists come into play. Then, we try and
analyse how Xen can take advance of a virtualisation-capable processor.

* Xen Live Migration Using iSCSI Target: Here we show you how to
successfully migrate a live Xen virtual machine from one physical
server to another, without interrupting any service.

* Virtualise with Bochs and QEMU: In here we try and analyse how to
use two easy-to-follow technologies, and have tried to avoid too much
technical jargon - it's as simple as follow the instructions and set
up a virtual guest OS in no time.

* Spartan Virtualisation with Lguest: So, who's heard of Lguest? It's
a mare 6,000 line virtualisation solution that has been integrated
into the mainline kernel, and you can get a sneak peak once Linus
releases keenel 2.6.23. However, since we couldn't have waited that
long, we straight away went ahead with an RC release to give you a an
idea of what's coming.

* High-Speed Virtualisation with KVM-How it Works: Well, KVM was the
first solution that was added to the mainline kernel back in the days
of kernel 2.6.20. Here we try and find out wot's ...uh the deal with it.

The October issue of LFY has already hit the stands! So if the concept
of virtualisation intrigues you, then we can assure you this issue
won't disappoint you.

Also in this issue you'll find:

For You and Me
~~~~~~~~~~~
* ODF SPAT: IV's Version
* Desktop Linux Redefined: SLED 10 SP1
* SPACE-A Society that Promotes FOSS
* Making Sense of the Many Caesars - An interview with the autopackage
developers
* All About Linux Certifications
* OOXML: The Anti-Common Man Standard


For Developers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Introduction to C++ Templates
* Getting Familiar with RPC
* Getting Started with the Trolltech Greenphone SDK


For BizUsers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* GnuCash: A Freeway to Managing Money
* Make Screencasts for Building a Business Training Programme
* Software as a Service is the Next Big Trend - An interview with
Raven Zachary, research director for Open Source, 451 Group

Players
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* IBM's Bob Sutor On OSS and Standards - An interview

For Geeks
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* I Like Making Strong Statements - Interview with Linus Torvalds
(Part II)
* Multimedia Dynamite
* KDE-enliven Your Videos
* The Ultimate Linux Home
* A Music-Playing Daemon Called MPD

The LFY CDs
~~~~~~~~~~~~
LFY DVD - SLED 10 SP1: Find out what makes Novell say "Your Linux Is
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LFY CD - A collection of best-of-the-breed virtualisation software,
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1. Debian
2. Fedora
3. Freespire 1.0, 2.0
4. Linspire 5.0, 5.1, 6.0
5. OpenSuse
6. Ubuntu 7.04

Hey Brad,

Try Freespire 2.0. Does the name ring a bell. IF yes, then it is
because it has sprung out from the Linspire project. Linspire is a
purely commercial distro. I don't find it any different from MS
philosophy-wise. Though Linspire is impressive. But a lot of new
developments took place. The heart of Linspire -CNR (which stands for
Click-N-Run) has now become a free service. Though commercial Linux
softwares are also available at CNR, but that is not too bothersome.
Thne Linspire initiated a community driven project, totally free
called Freespire. Now recently Freespire  2.0 has come out. It is
based on Ubuntu as ts base. CNR client is also there however the CNR
warehouse is being currently ported to an open source platform so the
CNR service is not available yet on it but will soon be.

My strong recommendation if you want a complete Desktop Linux OS would
be to go for Freespire. Its strong Debian foundation, easy and
pleasing Desktop, support for Multimedia (DVDs to Analog Audio CDs) is
exceptional. Freespire, I feel will be a winner. It needs a lot many
refinements. But the process is already on. It is evolving very fast.
I feel you should give it a try. For details and to download follow
this link:
http://freespire.org/

Cheers
-Tarun



--- In SunCityJodhpurLUG@..., "Brad Stone"
<bmestone@...> wrote:
>
> Hey,
> I got a new Laptop, and they would only sell me it with XP.
Annoying. Now,
> nearly a year has passed and I'm getting itchy for Linux again. Getting
> nostalgic for security. So I'm planning to do a partition and run a
> dual-boot. I only wanna give 10-15Gb to Linux (the hard-drive on
this thing
> ain't that big, and windows can be such bloat-ware), so I'm
pondering what
> to get. I had Mandriva before, which was good. I'd happily go with that
> again. But then going with the same thing just cos that's what I did
before
> feels a bit unadventurous. Does anyone have any other
recommendations? What
> are the favourites nowadays?
>
> I'm looking for something:-
> 1) slim (like I said, wanna give Linux about 15Gb. maybe 20Gb MAX);
> 2) which can play CDs without giving me all kinds of hell - Mandriva
used to
> play them silently unless you used this really crappy player which would
> only play one track then stop and wait for you to pick another... >:/
> 3) with Mozilla, firewall, and a decent Open Office, obviously...
> 4) DVDs would be nice too...
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> B
>

Dear Members,

A couple of months ago, when we held our editorial meeting to discuss
about the August issue, an interesting point was made, and it came
almost like a revelation. We realised that we have published myriad
articles on popular distros like Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu, but
probably never done due justice to the true community distro - Debian
Linux. So, here we are, with the Debian special issue.

This issue is special, both on the editorial as well as the DVD front.
Not only does it bundle the full set of three DVDs containing the
complete Debian package, it also features the best of articles on the
Debian project

Apart from Debian, embedded development seems to be the pseudo theme
for this issue. In addition to an article on debootstrap, we have a
couple of more articles on this topic that should be of interest to
the developer community, especially those working in the field of
Embedded development.

Talking about the industry, probably the biggest news that made
headlines this month was CUPS' creator Michael Sweet's announcement
that Apple has acquired the project. Though nothing seems fishy from
the outside and community also seems to be pretty cool about it, we
have tried our bit to explore the pros and cons of this move.

We have put in our best to make this issue extra special for our
readers. We used to get a lot of requests for bundling the complete
Debian distro with LINUX For You. This time, not only we have done
that, but also got the best of authors to write about Debian. That's
why, I hope that our readers will be able to appreciate our decision
to price this issue at Rs 125. Though the subscribers remain
unaffected from this price change. Another reason to subscribe, I must
say Wink

FOR YOU & ME

* Flock: The Web 2.0 Ready Browser
* Debian GNU/Linux: A Free Software OS in its Purest Form
* Debian-IN: Debian for India
* 'To Infinity and Beyond' with Debian GNU/Linux
* Cooking with Debian
* Apple Stirs Storm in the CUP(S)
* MySQL: Eleven Million Users, including some in Antarctica
* User-Driven Innovation: That's What It is All About - (Interview):
William Hurley of BarCamp Fame

BIZUSERS

* How To Evaluate Open Source Software
* Inside GIC, There's A FOSS Mantra
* Linux Servers for SMBs
* Communication Breakdown? E-Mail Power, Go, get It!

DEVELOPERS

* Making Life easier for a Programmer: Servlets That Use Jython
* Need Some Embedded Linux Guidelines?
* Assembly Programing on Linux: A Primer
* Build Your Own 'Open Source' DSL Modem
* Got an Embedded Project in Mind? Check Out Debian Debootstrap
* Building Debian Packages
* Roll Your Own Firefox Extensions

ADMIN

* OSSEC HIDS: Neutralise Attacks that get Past Your Network's Defence
* Dynamic Tracing Your OpenSolaris

GEEKS

* Build Your Own Arcade Game Player and Relive the '80s!
* Supercomputers Powered by gaming Consoles!
* Some Cool Apps on the Radar
* The Linux Kernel Random Number Generation

COLUMNS

* BraveGNUIndia: LUG Crisis
* Silicon Valley: Building a Web 2.0 Start-up with Open Source
* FreedomYug: Quit India. 2007
* Writing Beautiful Programs: ASCII Arts and Fractals - Part II

ON LFY DVD

* Debian GNU/Linux 4.0

Debian is a free operating system for your computer. An operating
system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your
computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating
system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project;
hence the name GNU/Linux.

Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over
18,733 packages, precomplied software bundled up in a nice format for
easy installation on your machine.

To start the installation, boot from the DVD. Make sure your BIOS
setup is configured to allow booting from DVD. To try out the new
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LINUX For You

In the latest (Aug 2007) issue of Linux For You. Other interesting
things I want to look up in my just-received issue:

    * Flock: The Web 2.0-Ready Browser (I use it!)
    * Debian-In: Debian For India.
    * User-driven innovation: That's what it is all about.
       Interview with William Hurley of BarCamp fame.
    * How to Evaluate Open Source Software
    * Inside GIC, There's a FOSS Mantra

Editor Rahul Chopra writes: "A couple of months ago, when we sat down
to discuss the August issue, an interesting point was made, and it
came almost like a revelation. We realised that we have published
myriad articles on popular distros like Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu,
but probably never have done due justice to the true community distro
-- Debian [GNU]Linux. So, here we are, with the Debian special issue."

Thanks LFY, from a long-term Debian user (minus some flirtation with
Ubuntu recently, due to some compatibility issues). --FN

PS: Great value for money at Rs 125
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On 7/19/07, Brad Stone <bmestone@...> wrote:
>
> I got a new Laptop, and they would only sell me it with XP. Annoying. Now,
> nearly a year has passed and I'm getting itchy for Linux again

Ubuntu

--
H.S.Rai
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