Hello all,

I have given my arguments for using Edubuntu in schools in my blog:
http://scorpfromhell.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-edubuntu-for-schools.html

Request you all to contribute your opinions too :)

For updates/info on Prajna, do check my blog posts:
http://scorpfromhell.blogspot.com/search/label/Prajna

Thanks & Regards,
Prem

--- In linux_schools@..., Sudeesh Nellika
<linux4school@...> wrote:
>
> Hai,
>          I would like to have knowledge on current trend and
utilities available for school.
>
> SN

SN, you could have a look at the following posts about what is
happening in my part of the world :)
http://scorpfromhell.blogspot.com/search/label/Prajna

Also, you could go to this post of mine (july 07) for some pointers:
http://scorpfromhell.blogspot.com/2007/07/satyagrah-for-swatantra-software-in.ht\
ml

-- Prem

Dear All,

I am sure you must have heard about the One Laptop per Child
(http://www.laptop.org/ ) . If you are not in the US or Canada, you can
order the machines at a price which goes down with quantity. Read the
details at http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml .
The minimum quantity is a 100 and the price varies as below:
Give 100+ :$299 per laptop
Give 1000+: $249 per laptop
Give 10,000+: $199 per laptop

In most my conversations, I have found that people are not comfortable
ordering 100 straight away. So, some friends and I have created a portal
where you could place a pin on the the map stating your requirement. If
enough groups from an area place the pins, you could place a collective
order.

Please feel free to use http://www.classgrid.com/laptop , and spread the
word to others you know are interested.

Kind Regards,
Ajay

Hi Fred and all..

We at Janastu have started working on:
  http://janastu.org/school

A project that aims to enable school teachers to perform the school
information management. We are working with CHIREC, Hyderabad to start.

Check out http://www.janastu.org/school/SchoolProject.html

Building proper backend support so the following can happen, in order
to ensure that the staff trusts the system enough to use it will be a
significant part of the project.

1) A flexible teacher/staff friendly "module creator" utility that
will help teachers in a school create the module for their needs. Say,
Student information management module that works with English class
grades management module done by the English teacher for her needs.

2) A tamper detection backend.

3) A reasonably friendly UI for the teachers for the everyday use and
maintenance.

Wanted to mention this and to see if this might be interesting for the
BOF discussion.

d


ps: I had posted this on Oct 16, but it was approval pending until now
and I got a notice about it today!

CBT COMBO: Cbt Combo is a free educational program for teachers
who use Linux. CBT means Computer Based Training. Combo is
short for combination. CBT Combo is a combination authoring
and playback program for courses of instruction. Author:
drland@... (David R. Land) Maintained-by:
support@... (CBTCBT Support) Site:
http://www.cbtcbt.com 538K cbtcombo-0.1.1.bin.tar.gz
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The main GNU/Linux distribution that targets schools are AbulEdu,
SkoleLinux and Freeduc.
http://www.abuledu.org/
http://www.skolelinux.org/
http://www.ofset.org/freeduc
[Source: http://gcompris.net/-About-GCompris- ]
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OSCAR.IITB.AC.IN: FOSS ANIMATION PROJECT AND MORE
----------------------------------------------------------

Another interesting effort by Dr Sridhar Iyer of IIT-B is
http://oscar.iitb.ac.in It is an opensource animation project
with a repository for schools and could be extended to
college level too. It is Java-based, and the beauty lies in
its design to be collaborative. Self-description: "The main
goal of Project OSCAR (Open Source Courseware Animations
Repository) is to create a repository of web-based,
interactive animations for teaching various concepts and
technologies. The Current Goal of project OSCAR is to develop
animations for Classes VIII, IX and X . You can participate
in this endeavour by registering as a Developer with Project
OSCAR. This can also help in enhancing your technical
knowledge." Resource currently available link to biology,
mathematics, mechanism simulation, networking, physics and
chemistry.
http://oscar.iitb.ac.in
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Some interesting stuff out here... via YouTube.com

Symbiosis of Ubuntu & Windows XP using vmware
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=906QZLQ4aj4

Open Office in Marathi/Hindi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QotezW4-AZU

Yudit ... in Indian languages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-tqz6yCSFY

Opensource GIS application for Pimpri Chinchwad municipal corporation
- PCMCGISDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9oKhJlO-TU

Drgeo software ... localised in India
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-J5NFuiG8E
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The FLOSS4Edu project looks at challenges such as: * The
absence of Free content in African Schools * The lack of
skills and knowledge to use FLOSS technologies and *
Difficulties in accessing FLOSS resources, given the high
cost of bandwidth and shortage of FLOSS distribution
channels. FLOSS4Edu says it "is particularly interested in
the power of social software for education in Africa and how
wiki technologies can contribute to the development of free
content by Africans for Africa." It seeks to create the
"largest community of educational practioners in Africa
participating in the development of Open Educational
Resources (OER's). It also seeks to have an inclusive process
of involving everyone willing to participate in content
development including teachers, students, professionals,
experts and all."
http://wikieducator.org/FLOSS4Edu

OSS developers "from schools and colleges"
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For the upcoming (at the time of writing, October 2007)
FOSS.in conference in December 2007 in Bangalore, Vivek
Khurana <hiddenharmony@...> proposed a BoF (birds of
the feather) session for FOSS developers "from schools and
colleges i.e those who are pursuing some degree as well as
working for FOSS.

Said Vivek in a posting to the FOSS.in list: "You could be
coding, testing, bug fixing, managing release or whatever....
Come and talk about your project and your contribution. As I
am not a student, I am not eligible for the BoF, so I request
some student developer to take the role of organizing the
BoF. Why I am proposing this BoF? Because I know for sure
that these lazy school kids wont move by a millimeter unless
someone kicks them in right place."

Thanks guys for your positive responses. You know my weaknesses (lack
of technical skills) and strength (ability to collate information) in
this field. Need a lot of help from the techies, and some prior
planning, so that we all could get the most of later face-to-face
interaction.

So would it be apt if those of us intrested sign-up at some relevant
network [1] and share ideas there more intensively before we meet up
at the proposed BoF, assuming it happens?

Also, kindly note that the proposal is for a FOSS-in-schools BOF.
There's space for others to propose BOFs on FOSS-in-college or
FOSS-in-engineering-education. My feeling is that we in India need to
specifically focus on each of these sectors, so that we could move
from generalities to specifics. I'm putting together a paper on this
topic currently, and am pleasantly surprised with the amount of
details that exist on what has already been done. We have a lot to
learn from one another. I'll share what I come up with the rest of
those who show an interest. Rgds, FN
--
[1] One possibility is
[http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux_schools/] which has 144
members, but could benefit from getting activated.

--- coverify@... wrote:

> Hi Fredrick,
> You can check out "squeak"  at squeakland.org
> I have the mac version but it says linux is
> supported.
>
I have used squeak on Debian Sid, it works like magic.
Squeak is smalltalk-80 implementation which has quite
a bunch of learning applications listed on its site
http://www.squeak.org


Cheers

--arky
Currently Playing With Sid
(http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com)

Hi Fredrick,
You can check out "squeak"  at squeakland.org
I have the mac version but it says linux is supported.

Alice from Carnegie Mellon is a great sw for learning
programming in 3d.

The artice is good thought IMHO it is a bit too long
and gets lost. What is the core strength of FLOSS in
school. Is it for classes, for students, for office
use, for teachers ?

I think if it is for children it needs to supplement
the syllabus that they learn in class. So the list of
sw needs to be categorized accd to grades and then it
looks impressive.

-sanjeev

--- "Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक
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> Dear all:
>
> I'm working on a paper on Free/Libre and Open Source
> Software in
> Schools   and would be grateful if you could point
> me to useful links
> about such ventures, where it has been used
> successfully or otherwise.
>
> A draft paper (work-in-progress) of what I've put
> together so far can be read at
> http://www.divshare.com/download/2205748-36f
>
> Your suggestions, comments and critique is welcome.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you could offer. FN
> --
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I'm working on a paper on Free/Libre and Open Source Software in
Schools   and would be grateful if you could point me to useful links
about such ventures, where it has been used successfully or otherwise.

A draft paper (work-in-progress) of what I've put together so far can be read at
http://www.divshare.com/download/2205748-36f

Your suggestions, comments and critique is welcome.

Thanks in advance for any help you could offer. FN
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http://edge-op.org/grouch/schools.html

Edubuntu: Edubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating
system, freely available with community based support.
http://www.edubuntu.org/

K-12 Linux: Linux is free in terms of cost and in terms of
development because it's based on Open Source software. We
are free to adapt the work of others for use in our schools.
This kind of freedom produces better software and makes Linux
the right choice for schools and agencies concerned with the
ethical use of public funds. http://www.k12linux.org

Linux in Schools Project: Tutorials and guides for using
Linux as a server... Network administration tutorials and
information for new Linux users... http://k12linux.org

Linux Terminal Server Project: Information and Links to
download and install Linux Terminal software for classroom
workstations... http://www.k12ltsp.org

K12 Open Source News: Discussion forums for help, news and
information related to Linux in schools...
http://www.k12os.org/

EmacSpeak -- Complete Audio Desktop: By seamlessly blending
all aspects of the Internet such as Web-surfing and
messaging, Emacspeak speech-enables local and remote
information via a consistent and well-integrated user
interface. Available free of cost on the Internet, Emacspeak
has dramatically changed how the author and hundreds of blind
and visually impaired users around the world interact with
the personal computer and the Internet.
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/

Linux For Schools Project: The goals of this project are to
help schools do the following on their internal networks:

         * Manage Linux user accounts in bulk * Set up PHP and
         MySQL enabled personal webspace * Encourage pupils to
         write their own home pages * Help pupils learn the
         multi-user Linux environment.

http://www.lfsp.org

Live CD-ROM of free software for schools: OFSET has setup
Freeduc, a tool to help to list, to evaluate and to package
only free - non GPL exclusive - edu soft. We have build a
live Freeduc system on CD-ROM which doesn't need any
installation to be used. From the user point of view the
system use XFCE and the applications are available from
various drawers.
http://www.ofset.org/freeduc-cd/

The Linux for School project: Developing a custom
distribution based on Debian for Norwegian, Danish and
Swedish schools.  http://www.skolelinux.org/

Eduforge: Eduforge is an open access environment designed for
the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and
open source software for education.
http://eduforge.org/

ITeachNet: ITeachnet.org is a community of those working or
interested international education.
http://www.iteachnet.org/

LINKS COURTESY:
http://edge-op.org/grouch/schools.html

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Some links you might find useful (FLOSS in education):

* FOSS Education (Wikibooks)
  http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Education

* Comics... to teach FLOSS?
  http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/82/Hai_Ti_Comics_SchoolNet_Namibia.pdf

* Skolelinux 3.0 Terra available for free
  http://www.skolelinux.no

* Roadmap for next merging of LinEx and Debian-Edu:
  http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/LinEx2DebianEdu-Roadmap

* Tech to the aid of autistic children: Recent research has
  shown that computer/digital technologies can help children
  with autism (and other disabilities) learn and communicate
  better. A computer training workshop for parents and
  children was held recently at Bangalore. Shuchi Grover
  reports. Mehta and colleagues shared various software and
  hardware by which children could communicate with the
  computer through non-traditional means. Also shared were
  several other software tools such as a 3-D and role-play
  software developed by C-DAC, simple visual programming
  environments such as Scratch (recently released by MIT
  Media Lab), simple image and audio manipulation using
  everyday Windows software, and Edubuntu â?? a free and open
  source Linux-based operating system designed specially for
  children that comes packaged with several child-friendly
  games and educational software.
  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa/message/16049

* TELECENTRES IN THE MADRASA: The school based telecenter
  project of RI SOL has launched internet-enabled telecenters
  in two Bangladeshi madrasas (Islamic religious schools), in
  Khulna and Dhaka. See Khulna Alia Madrasa Advocates for an
  Inclusive Information Society on World Information Society
  Day Link to the news story and photos of the celebration:
  http://www.connect-bangladesh.org/content/view/418/101/
  Source: Nazrul Islam <nazrul07@...>

* Richard D'Souza is based at St Paul's in Belgaum, with the
  mandate to extend the school's computer centre there. This
  educator is very pro-GNU/Linux....
  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa/message/15830

* Create a comprehesive set of education tools customised for
  Indian environment. This include localization, improving
  features, adding new features, developing new tools... The
  project is co ordinated by FOSS Community India
  (http://fci.wikia.com)
  http://sarovar.org/projects/foss-edu-in/

* Reclaiming ICT education: why free software is a necessity
  in schools? Tim Cowlishaw talks about education and free
  software?and why IT education shouldn't be a how-to for
  using the Microsoft suite. Read more...
 
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/reclaiming_ICT_education_why_free_soft\
ware_is_a_necessity_in_schools

* "K12OS.org is all about open source news in education.
  You'll find news, links, resources and discussion here to
  help promote the use of open source software in schools."
  http://k12os.org/

* Speaker Name, K. K. Subramaniam. Company. Type, Talk.
  Scope, General. Slides, Click to download. FOSS tools in
  primary schools.  This talk is aimed at FOSS enthusiasts
  promoting its adoption in their local community,
  particularly in primary education. It presents the
  experience of deploying a FOSS desktop in a small public
  primary school in Bangalore. It presents the initial
  approach for FOSS deployment, the steps which worked and
  those that didnt in getting the teachers in the school to
  use FOSS desktop and tools like KDE, Kile and LaTeX to
  enhance the quality of teaching and integrate a PC into
  daily sessions in the school.

  In India, most deployments of computers in primary schools
  use canned 'games' software on PCs to teach students or
  expect teachers to use office automation software. For
  already overburdened primary class teachers, PCs became
  just another distraction. In a grassroots experiment, a
  FOSS desktop was offered to a small public school in
  Bangalore to use it for any task of their choice. The
  teachers had no prior experience with computers or software
  and their medium of instruction was Kannada. Two teachers
  in the school chose to automate preparation of term
  question papers in Kannada and English as this was a
  recurring and time-consuming manual process. The desktop
  was provisioned with KDE, Kile and LaTeX (with Kannada
  types and styles) but not localized in Kannada. Starting
  from scratch, the teachers took over 100 hours to learn to
  use the tools and complete the first set of
  publication-ready term papers for classes I through IV. The
  second cycle took them less than 20 hours and they continue
  to improve on their time. The FOSS desktop has empowered
  the teachers to generate their own content quickly and
  easily without compromising quality. The system has worked
  without a single crash/breakdown over eighteen months of
  use by curious young children.
  https://foss.in/2006/cfp/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=183

* The Family Guide to Digital Freedom will explain, in one
  place and in normal language, what everybody should know
  about software and other digital technologies, and above
  all the real reasons why they should care: in this modern
  world, our rights and quality of life heavily depend from
  how software is being used around us. The website
  associated to the book, http://digifreedom.net, is now open
  to visitors: besides sample chapters of the book it will
  also host related news, links to existing resources for new
  users of Free Software and a database of Digitally Free
  Schools. For further information, please read
  http://digifreedom.net/node/73

* ClassroomCoders: Building Analytical Capacity through
  Peer-Taught: The goal of this project is to create a
  comprehensive curriculum for learners aged 8 to 18, which
  develops their analytical skills through the use of
  software and software engineering tools.
  http://wiki.tsf.org.za/shuttleworthfoundationwiki/ClassroomCoders

* Linux Spreads its Wings in India: Windows is still No. 1,
  but open-source software is moving into schools and
  government offices.
  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa/message/14196
 
http://www.businessweek.com/print/globalbiz/content/sep2006/gb20060921_463452.ht\
m

* GOA: BASIL FERNANDES had a long and interesting discussion
  on teaching young kids programming, the possibility of
  encouraging schools to do the same, and whether schools
  could have Computer Clubs that work on a build-them-young
  approach. He is keen to get involved with such a programme.
  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa/message/14172

* Kerala logs Microsoft out of schools
  http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/sep/02microsoft.htm

* India State to Dump Windows for Linux
  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa/message/14060

* Riza's desktop... it's not just about eye-candy
  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa/message/14067

* OpenKiosk is an open-source multi-platform kiosk system.
  OpenKiosk is ideally suited for use in locations where a
  controlled computing environment is paramount such as
  public access systems, libraries, school computer
  laboratories.
  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa/message/13846

* Content Creation competition for school and college
  teachers: OSSRC is organising a competition for
  school/college teachers in creating content. Details of the
  event can be found at http://www.ossrc.org.in/c3t.html

* When Free Software ideas spreads to education... see the
  first link
  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa/message/13234

* Site@School is a Content Management System (CMS) to manage
  and maintain the website of a primary school. It is Open
  Source Software, licensed under the General Public license.
  Site@school main features are: * Manage a website without
  technical knowledge. * Editors with a high "Word processor
  look and feel" rate. * Pupils/teachers can have personal
  pages on the website. Teachers can check pupil pages before
  publication. * An intranet for teachers (not accessible by
  the public). * E-mail alerts can be sent to admins when
  pages are updated/created. * Comprehensive manual with over
  300 screenshots. * Extensive number of available modules,
  see Available Modules * Possible to create your own
  template see downloadable example(s).
  http://siteatschool.sourceforge.net/

* Linux in Education: Two Years Later by Peter D. St. Onge
  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa/message/12949

* Education... lessons from South Africa
  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa/message/12821

* Gnu and tux go to primary school....
  http://www.ofset.org/freeduc-ecole

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Prajña : Cognizant FLOSS Corps
I have started a new group (so far unofficial) in Cognizant which
endeavours to help in the upliftment of the rural & urban poor of
India by giving them a digital edge achieved by implementing &
teaching FLOSS based solutions in academic institutions & self help
communities.

We are Prajña : Cognizant FLOSS Corps.

Prajña, in Sanskrit, stands for wisdom, intelligence which we try to
impart & also comes closest to the translation of Cognizant. I plan to
use swan as a mascot. Swan is closest to Hamsa, Saraswati's vahan &
represents wisdom & knowledge too :)

It is still in its infancy (only two days old) and not much has been
setup, except for securing the help of some people who have promised
help in their personal capacities. I am putting a mind map here on my
plans for this group & solicit your feedback & suggestions.

The idea for starting such a group got seeded in my mind while I was
researching for the previous post of mine called " Satyagrah for
Swatantra Software in India". The blog has also been posted in
Cognizant's internal blogs (ch1blogs, short for Channel One Blogs)
where I maintain a blog called FLOSS Bites. I was very much impressed
& driven by the recent efforts of ilug-cal to implement LTSP in rural
schools & teaching the MLAs (I have mentioned it in my post too).

My idea got watered further during my various discussions on these
internal blogs wrt Charity in Hinduism & Cognizant's Corporate Social
Responsibility.
My driving force to start this group is my belief that the greatest
charity we can do in this day & age is to give somebody a job or teach
a job, so that they are self sufficient as well as strive to provide
employment to others too. And this self sufficiency is what will
provide actual freedom to all our poor. No wonder then that I choose
only Swatantra software (FLOSS).

Also, I will not consider using proprietary solutions even if given
away for free. This might seem extremist but that's my belief.
Teaching people proprietary solutions for free is a sure fire way to
get the people hooked onto a solution which they will not be able to
afford once they get addicted. This is pretty much like getting people
addicted to drugs for free & then making them pay heavily.

And finally, seeking all your blessings & well wishes too.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/07/Indian-agency-to-deploy-Linux-in-schoo\
ls_1.html

Indian agency to deploy Linux in schools
ELCOT, whic provides IT services to the south Indian state of Tamil
Nadu, has already migrated its own infrastructure from Windows to Suse
Linux Enterprise

By John Ribeiro, IDG News Service
August 07, 2007

The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) is deploying Suse
Linux Enterprise across 30,000 desktops and 1,880 servers in schools
in southern India.

» Back to special report: LinuxWorld 2007: Open source goes mainstream

ELCOT is a government-owned agency that provides IT services to Tamil
Nadu, a state in southern India. It has already migrated its own IT
infrastructure from Microsoft's Windows operating system to Suse Linux
Enterprise Server and Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, Novell said
Tuesday.

ELCOT said in January that its IT projects in Tamil Nadu will be
deployed around open-source software, including Linux. ELCOT decided
in favor of open-source software because it costs less than
proprietary software, said C. Umashankar, managing director of ELCOT,
in an interview in January. Open-source software is also easier to
operate and has better security, he added.

ELCOT has worked with teachers to design a preloaded set of
applications for the 30,000 new PCs.

A number of Indian organizations have adopted Linux. In another south
Indian state, Kerala, the communist government of the state has said
that it will promote open-source software.

The Indian federal government has, however, not taken sides in favor
of either Linux or proprietary software. Microsoft is working with
some states to train teachers to use computers running Windows.

As more companies in India and abroad are starting to use Linux,
familiarity with Linux will help students get jobs, ELCOT said.

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Gora Mohanty gora at sarai.net
Fri May 25 13:34:49 CEST 2007

Hello all,
   Below is an invitation for proposals for the RGF-Sarai
CSDS programme for short-term FLOSS fellowships. Please feel
to circulate this far and wide. The deadline for submission
of proposals is the 25th of June. Please feel free to address
any queries with regards to this to floss at sarai.net.

Regards,
Gora
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                        Call for proposals:
              RGF-Sarai, CSDS, short-term FLOSS fellowships

1      Introduction

The Sarai programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies, Delhi (http://www.sarai.  net) is pleased to
announce fellowships for projects related to Free/Libre and
Open Source Software (FLOSS) activities.  This year, we have
partnered with the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF) who are
providing support for work in the specific area of computing,
and localisation in five Indian languages, namely, Assamese,
Hindi, Kashmiri, Oriya, and Urdu. We also invite proposals
from projects in other FLOSS areas, especially ones that are
relevant to educational, social, and community needs. Any
project that meets the criteria given below is eligible for
the fellowships, but we are particularly interested in:

     o Indian language computing, including work on fonts,
       rendering, locales, input methods, spell-checking,
       etc., as well as in advanced technologies like OCR,
       handwriting recognition, and speech-to-text.

     o Localisation into Indian languages of user interfaces,
       and translation of help documents for FLOSS
       applications.

     o In the interest of sustained development, we would
       like to see the enhancement of, and extensions for
       projects funded as part of past Sarai FLOSS
       fellowships.  In particular, we draw attention to
       NewsRack (http://newsrack.in), Hindawi
       (http://www.indicybers.com), and ApnaOpus
       (http://apnaopus.var.cc).

     o Documentation for users of FLOSS tools, particularly
       in the area of Indian language computing.  The
       production of video tutorials would be welcome.

     o Development of graphics, multimedia, and publishing
       tools. This would include applications for audio/video
       editing, animation, and desktop publishing.
       Enhancement of existing FLOSS tools is especially
       encouraged.

     o Putting together, distributing, and supporting a
       complete Indian language distribution, using FLOSS
       operating systems, and tools.

     o  Collaboration software, and groupware solutions.

     o Writing Linux device drivers, and front-ends for
       common hardware, such as wireless cards, graphics
       cards, scanners, and printers.

The other significant difference from past practice is that
we will be asking for more of a collaborative approach from
the fellows, both among one another, and with people at
Sarai.  The collaboration need not be in the actual
development, but can consist of an ongoing conversation about
one's work, its direction, and current status.  While this
has been an implicit expectation in the past, this time we
are making the requirement explicit.  The exact details of
these will be worked out with the selected fellows, but will
include things like discussions over IRC, email, and postings
on the Sarai Project Resource Centre (PRC) mailing list.
Fellows will also be asked to prepare a timeline for the
projects, with intermediate milestones, and will be expected
to adhere to them.

2      Applying for the fellowships

We invite students, developers, researchers, and
practitioners interested in the FLOSS arena to apply for the
fellowships.  While there is no prescribed format for the
applications, we expect them to be in sufficient detail for a
reviewer to sensibly evaluate them. Attention to details,
such as a plan of work that addresses what is possible to
accomplish within the limited project period, a projection of
how the work might be continued after that, and a discussion
of the possible impact of the project, is strongly
recommended. In particular, we will look favourably on
projects aimed at eventual deployment, rather than
development per se.  Please mail your application, along with
a resume, to floss at sarai.net , with the subject line of
"RGF-Sarai FLOSS fellowships". As this information is
intended to be public, also subscribe to the PRC mailing list
at https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc, and post a
copy there, failing which your final proposal will be
forwarded there by one of us.  Enquiries are invited at floss
at sarai.net , and on the PRC list, including questions on
how to frame proposals.  The last date of submission is
midnight IST on Sun., June 25th, 2007. The projects will run
for a total of about six months, with a final workshop to be
held at Sarai, CSDS, Delhi, where the fellows will be
expected to present a summary of their work. Besides this, as
part of our engagement with the RGF, we will be holding
workshops in regional locations, and the FLOSS fellows will
be asked to be present at events local to them. The total
amount of the fellowship will be Rs. 70, 000.


3 Conditions

Applicants should have a valid bank account in any bank
operating in India. These are support grants, and the fellows
are free to pursue their primary occupations in parallel, as
long as they keep working on proposed projects.  The fellows
must be willing to make a release of their final work under
any open-source licence approved by the Open Source
Initiative (OSI). Please see under
http://www.opensource.org/licenses for a complete list.
Proposals from teams, partnerships, collectives, and faculty
on the behalf of a group of students are welcome, so long as
the grant amount is administered by a single individual, and
the funds are deposited in a single bank account in the name
of an individual.

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02:49 Whats wrong with... The Coalition * KSIT-Keeping IT Simple

Saturday June 24, 2006

23:05 [COMMERCIAL] Linux Jobs * Delhi LUG
23:05 [OT] [Commercial] Linux job with wipro * Delhi LUG
20:43 Your New ICQ Password * ILUG Jodhpur
20:05 [OT] [Commercial] Linux job with wipro * DubaiLUG
19:50 [COMMERCIAL] Linux Jobs * ILUG Indore
19:25 Re: Hi * Pondicherry GLUG
19:05 ACL's using Squid Server * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
19:05 blocking sites using squid * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
19:05 DomainPop with Qmail * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
19:05 looking for a linux teacher * Delhi LUG
18:56 Re: Linux Server Problem * ILUG-Goa
18:36 Re: Hi * Pondicherry GLUG
18:35 New and hot But without any results? * ILUG Jodhpur
17:44 Re: software wars - something interesting * ilughyd
17:43 Re: Want to know equivalent commands * Linux Bg Programming
17:03 Re: Hi * Pondicherry GLUG
17:00 Tejas Dinkar (gja): 18 till I die * Planet.foss.in
16:47 software wars - something interesting * ilughyd
16:21 Re: Installation and uninstalling Programmes Linux BgTech
15:05 pta cuts bandwidth rates * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
15:05 looking for a linux teacher * Delhi LUG
14:52 Md Hafiz bin Ismail: Xajax and side-projects * Planet MYOSS
14:52 Xajax and side-projects * mypapit gnu/linux blog
14:30 Anush Shetty: GPLv3 Conference in Bangalore Planet.foss.in
14:29 Installation, uninstalling Programmes inlinux * LinuxBgTech
14:07 Shyam Mani (fox2mike): Awwwww. Damn. * Planet.foss.in
14:02 Re: Perlu segera mengantarkan sesuatu... * BaLinux (Bali)
14:01 Hi * Pondicherry GLUG
13:46 What do we advocate? * Sun City Jodhpur LUG
13:37 Open Malaysia: Belgium now heads to ODF adoption * PlanetMYOSS
13:02 Maaf Oot > Cellular phone jammer * BaLinux (Bali)
12:17 Aizat Faiz: ICT Events in Malaysia * Planet MYOSS
12:14 Muhd Najmi A Zabidi * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
11:58 Aizat Faiz: PHP Talk & Meetup 2006 * Planet MYOSS
11:05 Gentoo: Network Configration with ISA Server * LinuxPakistan.Net
10:54 Re: OOT: Distro Linux Baru Minggu ini :-) * Jogjakarta
10:54 Re: OOT: Distro Linux Baru Minggu ini :-) * Jogjakarta
10:54 Re: kompku-gw dan gw-komp... dan diremote * Jogjakarta
10:41 pertanyaan 5 * Jogjakarta
09:04 Re: June BLUG Meet * Linux Bangalore (non-tech)
08:45 Want to know equivalent commands * Linux BangalorePG
08:45 Re: mandriva linux 2006(64bit) * Linux BangaloreTech
08:45 SM56 on SuSE 10.0 * Linux Bangalore Technical
08:45 Re: Anybody got the Ubuntu 6.06 DVD? * Linux BangaloreNT
08:45 Re: Mounting NFS Filesystems * Linux Bangalore Technical
08:44 Re: Help: CD/DVD Repository Ubuntu 6.06 .. * Jogjakarta
08:40 Wahlau: weekend project * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
08:25 GNU/Linux is essential to our students * BytesForAll_FLOSS
07:59 Re: Help: CD/DVD Repository Ubuntu 6.06 ..* Jogjakarta
07:42 design for portable devices based on Intel's PXA270 * Simputer
07:29 Microsoft's hobbled software to poor countries * ILUG-Goa
07:26 [TECTONIC] Open source news from Africa * Linux-Abad-Users
07:05 SUSE 10.1 available now * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
03:26 Lau Kai Jern: Apache Chinese GB2312 * Planet MYOSS
02:17 Re: HP Compaq M2235 Hardware Driver * Jogjakarta
01:25 Re[11]: * ILUG Jodhpur
00:48 Fwd: help -2 * ILUG Jodhpur
00:39 Arroyo and her laptop computer * Dong Calmada,Philippines

Friday June 23, 2006

23:05 Add these line in existing firewall...LinuxPakistan.Net
23:05 malloc failure on x86_64 * Delhi LUG
19:57 Re: Offtopic - Looking for summer job * DubaiLUG
19:46 Liew Cheon Fong: IEs4Linux - Install Internet Explorer
       on Linux with One Script * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
19:42 Re: June BLUG Meet * Linux Bangalore (non-tech)
19:05 Gentoo users meeting. * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
19:05 Software Engineers with 1yr experience LinuxPakistan.Net
18:49 June BLUG Meet * Linux Bangalore (non-tech)
18:19 Re: June BLUG Meet * Linux Bangalore (non-tech)
17:22 Re: Perlu segera ... ada yang bis * BaLinux (Bali)
16:34 Empanelment of translators. * BytesForAll_Readers
15:06 Fedora Panic errors on Intel SE7221 Board with SATA LPk
15:06 imap installation problem * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
15:05 Bio-Informatics workshop at JNU * Delhi LUG
15:05 wi-fi driver required * Delhi LUG
14:59 Re: print area * Jogjakarta
14:23 Re: ## Seminar ## * Pondicherry GLUG
14:21 Aizat Faiz: Global Alliance for ICT and Development
       (GAID) 06: Part 2 * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
14:08 Aizat Faiz: MNCC 18th Annual GM * Planet MYOSS
12:58 Liew Cheon Fong: New WordPress ThemeViewer * PlanetMYOSS
11:51 ## Seminar ## * Pondicherry GLUG
11:32 mandriva linux 2006(64bit) * Linux Bangalore Technical
11:05 C shell and Tcl shell * Delhi LUG
11:05 malloc failure on x86_64 * Delhi LUG
10:53 A judge's blog... on open doc format BytesForAll_Readers
10:03 L&T Infotech Walkin Job Fair Linux India Programmers
09:33 Agenda for June Month * ilughyd : Hyderabad
09:27 Re: Mounting NFS Filesystems * Linux Bangalore Technical
09:22 Re: Problems while installing RedHat Linux 9.0 * ilughyd
09:20 Re: band watch * ILUG-Goa
09:08 Some Ubuntu Help * Pondicherry GLUG
08:53 How to find resourses used by a process * BiharLUG
08:34 Re: June BLUG Meet * Linux Bangalore (non-tech)
07:50 Re: Mounting NFS Filesystems * Linux Bg Technical
06:45 A tiny effort in Bangla Computing dedicated to you * BDLug
06:38 linux toy * Pondicherry GLUG
06:21 Re: Mounting NFS Filesystems * Linux Bangalore Technical
04:33 Yazid Idrus: My W900i automounted ...* Planet MYOSS
04:09 Driver Canon Pixma IP 1200 bwt SuSE 10 * Jogjakarta
04:03 Re: mailing list * ILUG-Goa
03:00 Harald Welte (laf0rge): Last librfid ISO 14443-4
       chaining bug elimitated * Planet.foss.in
03:00 Harald Welte (laf0rge): Some small A780 progress
01:24 HP Compaq M2235 Hardware Driver * Jogjakarta
01:24 Balasan: Booting lilo * Jogjakarta
00:39 The Codebreakers: Conclusion defeats facts * Dong Calmada
00:16 Bakhtiar: Halt! who goes there? »Planet MYOSS

Thursday June 22, 2006

23:22 What would a geek political party look like? *KSIT
23:13 Dual or Single core for laptop * DubaiLUG
22:14 Bill Gates Gets Schooled (long) * BytesForAll_Readers
22:11 Re: Global alliance embraces UNese... * BytesForAll_Readers
21:42 Tejas Dinkar (gja): Congrats Ronaldo * Planet.foss.in
20:28 Lee Chin Sheng: Aget - Flashget? * Planet MYOSS
19:53 NOME Tamil Translation - 81 % * Tamilinux
19:41 Seemant Kulleen (seemant): Gentoo Tests * Planet.foss.in
19:28 GNU/Linux command line * Teach-Yourself-Linux
18:06 Arun Raghvan (fordprefect): What if ... * Planet.foss.in
17:10 Yazid Idrus: Playaround with Bluetooth dongle in SUSE
16:19 Re: Need More Hardware Info * The GNU/Linux-based Simputer
16:18 One Laptop per Child boards... * Simputer
16:17 apps development using qt-embedded * Simputer
16:15 Digital Learning India 2006 Conference * BytesForAll_Readers
16:15 Global alliance outlines work ...  * BytesForAll_Readers
14:30 Kartik Mistry: ASCII Football * Planet.foss.in
14:25 Philip Tellis: Mumbai on the wikimap * Planet.foss.in
13:06 Re: acpi=off in Enterprize Linux 4 ES * Linux Bangalore Tech
12:54 Re: Mandrake 9.1 * Linux Chandigarh
12:13 Re: Suse 10.1 * ILUG-Goa
11:51 acpi=off in Enterprize Linux 4 ES * Linux Bangalore Tech
11:51 Re: configuring a custom vsftpd server * Linux Bg Tech
11:45 Re: Linux SIS 5 * TWLG Thai Linux Working Group
11:06 Invisible Mouse Pointer in FC 5 *86_64 * LinuxPakistan.Net
11:06 Linux as VPN Server * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
11:05 Philip Tellis (bluesmoon): Bangalore floods ...
11:05 Call for mentors for Bio-Informatics workshop at JNU * Delhi LUG
11:05 [commerical] System Admin role * Delhi LUG
10:49 Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin: SAP SummIT'06 Malaysia * PlanetMYOSS
06:27 Bharath Shetty (codo): Social Boundaries * Planet.foss.in
06:07 Kalyan Varma (kryptic): Back from Goa * Planet.foss.in
05:48 Open Malaysia: ...talk on ODF * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
05:40 Wipro ... Solectron Centum Recruits * Linux India Programmers
05:34 qyiux good * ILUG-Nagpur
05:05 (Freshers) Microsoft Contest... * Linux India Programmers
04:57 News on blug.in * Linux Bangalore (non-tech)
04:39 [OOT]Linux ikut WorldCup2006 * Jogjakarta
04:24 Novell open sources its Identity Mgt Solution * DubaiLUG
03:19 Re: Help: CD/DVD Repository Ubuntu 6.06 .. (milisdad?)
03:06 FOSS in Asia-Pacific * Links from the Asia Commons BaLinux (Bali)
03:05 I need some books * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
03:04 SMS saves lives * Dong Calmada, Philippines
03:00 Harald Welte (laf0rge): GPLv3 and Steve Ballmers blood
       pressure * Planet.foss.in
02:37 Re: setting LTSP * ForumLTSPIndonesia
02:32 Muhd Najmi A Zabidi * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
02:18 Re: installing RedHat Linux 9.0 * ilughyd : Hyderabad
01:54 Re: HP Compaq M2235 Hardware Driver * Jogjakarta
01:46 Re: Help: CD/DVD Repository Ubuntu 6.06 .. (milisdad?)
01:12 bandwidth reporting tool * DubaiLUG
00:55 bikin boot disk untuk dlink dfe528tx * ForumLTSPIndonesia
00:20 Re: sharing files * Gnubies-IL Israel

Wednesday June 21, 2006

23:06 FC-5 Mirrors in PK? * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
23:06 configure VPN server of fir linux9 * LinuxPakistan.Net
23:05 Installation issues for Oracle 9i on suse10.1 * DelhiLUG
22:41 Ideas for Projects * ilughyd : Hyderabad
20:57 INDIA: Wavelength disconnect * BytesForAll_Readers
20:45 Wahlau: ruby on rails, on Dapper * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
20:27 Digital Music & Memory... In Dhaka * BDLug (Bangladesh)
18:11 Create a bootable qemu image ...* Linux Bangalore Tech
15:54 Re: Another war between Torvalds and Tanenbaum *LBTech
15:40 Lau Kai Jern: FreeBSD ports tips * Planet MYOSS
15:34 Help: CD/DVD Repository Ubuntu 6.06 .. (milisdad?)
15:05 Samba share woes! * Delhi LUG
14:53 Paul Ooi: Applied Information Management Services
14:48 IOSN: ShahreKord GNU/Linux Conference (Iran FOSS)
14:48 ShahreKord GNU/Linux Conference (Iran FOSS) * IOSN News
12:12 One Laptop per Child boards... * BytesForAll_Readers
12:12 Hackers are Not Crackers (Philip Tellis) BytesForAll
11:25 cellular phone jammer -pembungkam HP * BaLinux (Bali)
08:30 Praveen A: Creating a bootable qemu image... Planet.foss.in
08:22 Mohammad Hafiz bin Ismail: Evolution mail client is now
       available on Windows! * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
07:06 Yusmar Yahaya: the green bug * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
02:00 Re: GNU/Linux books... * ilughyd : Hyderabad

Tuesday June 20, 2006

22:29 Help: PHP-IDE di Linux (support OOP) * Jogjakarta
21:37 Most Microsoft Workers Search With Google * Linux ME
20:42 FOSS in Asia-Pacific * Asia Commons * Linux Middle East
17:45 Meling Mudin... dance floor * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
15:39 ADSL configuration * ILUG-Goa
15:25 Swaroop C H: Linkblog * Planet.foss.in
15:05 Linux installation VMWARE * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
14:06 FOSS gathering in Mashad, Iran * IOSN News
09:24 UN-GAID: One more acronym... BytesForAll_Readers
09:22 Open Video Contest * BytesForAll_Readers
08:32 IT Asia 2006 conference Jakarta Indonesia * LIP
05:02 List of Open Source Games for Windows * mypapit

Monday June 19, 2006

19:50 Re: Amida and Ncore-Tech not responding * Simputer
18:22 Microsoft partners Guj govt for e-Gram project * BfA
18:21 Sahara promises laptops below Rs.25,000 BfA Readers
18:19 Digital divide... here we come * BytesForAll_Readers
10:28 Re: Help me to learn LINUX and OpenSource * ilughyd
11:05 Pradyumna Sampath: Andaman Islands * Planet.foss.in
08:15 Ubuntu India * Pondicherry GLUG

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(FOSS) feeds from Asia. If you have a list that generates RSS
feeds and is not listed above, please get in touch with
fred@... We appeal to all groups to keep their
archives open, share their posts, and make RSS feeds available.

Compiled by Frederick "FN" Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org

Hi,

The European-Union funded FLOSSWorld project aims to enhance the level
of global awareness related to FLOSS among various sectors like
industry, academia, government, etc. As a part of this project, we
plan to conduct a series of surveys related to FLOSS, to understand
the impact and usage of FLOSS among developers, employers, government
officials and educational institutions across India.Please refer to
www.flossworld.org for more details about the FLOSSWorld project.

We are in the process of collecting contacts in order to circulate the
survey questionnaires. We have collected a number of contact addresses
from the internet and from references obtained from our regional
workshop participants.Give your experience in FOSS related
activities.We seek your help in reaching out to as many as people as
possible.Could you please mail back any contacts you know of among the
developer, e-government, academia and employer community, to whom, you
think, we can send the survey questionnaires. Also, let us know if you
would like to partiicpate in the survey.

Thanks and Regards,
FLOSSWorld team, C-DAC Mumbai

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          neeta@...
          mishraneeta1@...
         neeta_mish@...

On 29/01/06, Ashok Reddy Annapareddy <annapareddya@...> wrote:
> Sir,

Who is "Sir" here dude?

.....
> Project TiTle:-  Customising Linux Operating System with college name
> 1. The OS must boot in Command/Graphical mode
> 2. It should be in Live cd (Like Live CD's available in market)

Do you intend to build a complete OS from scratch or just modify an
existing one?

> 3. It should containg a little bit of modified code that the present one
Customize it for a specefic task..

My college project was a directly bootable video/mp3/Audio CD! The OS
size was below 10 MB including ISOLinux bootLoader, The Kernel and the
Initrd. You can try something else.

As the OS was meant only for one and only one task - playing videos,
It was small and other serices were all removed and the videplayer was
put in startup scripts with proper command line ..

  The advantage was if you are using the video to present something,
1)  you had the OS, Drivers, pretested Codec set with you on the CD
itself.. No tension if the PC they provide you will have them. Their
hard disk crashed just before you reached? No problem!
2)  No human internvention except inserting the cdrom. You could go to
any conference place and just boot the cd and let it play.
      No hazzles of waiting for a heavy OS to load, Go to start menu,
run media player, Play the disk.. just boot!
      How much more userfrinedly do you need it? :-)

In 30 seconds flat from the time I switch on my cranky old 500mhz 64
MB RAM machine, the video was playing.. .. to say that it did not even
have a hard disk is another thing :-)

> 4. It should be complete in 20 days
My project completed in 0 days.. I had already done it ;-D .
Seriously, It had taken me 3 months to do with half an hour per day
dedicated to it.

You can try this : A Bare minimum Linux with XPDF, Xvesa and their
dependencies. It should boot up and Display in full screen  the first
PDF it finds in a predetermined Directory.

If you want to modify it, all you would need to do is, change the PDF
in the directory with a new one and burn the CD :-).

> Can you tell me that is such a kind of project is good for my career
If you follow your passion, I don't see why not.

> and the final thing is can you please give me guidance so that i will
> succesfully execute my project

Do google searches for
Movix
Knoppix
Xvesa
xpdf, evince

If the lecturer still says there should be the college name somewhere,
Just create a nice PDF presentation about your college in Open
Office/LaTeX and use that as the sample presentation.

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Sir,

	 Iam a student in an Engineering college in Andhra Pradesh, iam keenly
interested in doing my project in Linux and iam a member of Hyderabad
Linux User group since 2 years.
Iam using linux since 2 and half years, as part of my regular
engineering curriculum iam interested in doing my project on linux so
my Head Of Department (I.T) suggested me to do
the project like this

Project TiTle:-  Customising Linux Operating System with college name

Requeriments:-
1. The OS must boot in Command/Graphical mode
2. It should be in Live cd (Like Live CD's available in market)
3. It should containg a little bit of modified code that the present one
4. It should be complete in 20 days


Can you tell me that is such a kind of project is good for my carrer
and the final thing is can you please give me guidance so that i will
succesfully execute my project


please send me your opinion and necessary links that help me

Waiting for your early reply,


A.Ashok Reddy

annapareddya@...

+91-9885159160

Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment (SPACE),
Kerala, invites applications for its Small Research Grant programme to
projects in the area of FLOSS (Free Libré and Open Source Software).

SPACE invites developers/researchers/programmers (practitioners as
well as students) to propose projects in the area of FLOSS (Free Libré and
Open Source Software) applications. These projects can be
software development or research initiatives, or associated tasks such
as localization or documentation. Some of the priority areas under
this programme are :

- Local language computing
- Solutions for Small and Medium Businesses
- Education
- E-Governance

Some ideas for your thought:

- OCR for Malayalam
- Tools for School Education
- Mini ERP for SMEs
- Software for Microcredit for Self Help Groups

We are looking for original ideas as well as contributions to existing
Free Software projects.

Please send your project proposal to

research-grant@...

or

SPACE
109 Mangalam Lane,
Sasthamangalam,
Thiruvananthapuram 10
Kerala.

a rough format of proposal available at
http://space-kerala.org/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=32

About SPACE
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Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and
Employment (SPACE), is a registered society that has members from
academia, IT
industry, professional societies such as IEEE and Computer Society of
India, and IT Administration of the Government of Kerala. The vision
of SPACE is to promote Free, Libré and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in
academics, governance and individual use, and supporting advocating
the use FLOSS for employment generation in Kerala.

contact@...
www.space-kerala.org

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Vimal Joseph
www.space-kerala.org
Free Software, Free Society <http://fsfs.hipatia.net/wiki>

On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 06:00 +0100, anil mp wrote:
> How can I use cd player & other multimedia
> applications in linux os? Whether I have to download
> the software ?
> from which site? Pl. send the answer in detail. I am a
> new linux user
>

Start from here.

http://howtos.linux.com/howtos/Sound-Playing-HOWTO-2.shtml


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arky

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How can I use cd player & other multimedia
applications in linux os? Whether I have to download
the software ?
from which site? Pl. send the answer in detail. I am a
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(June 16, 2005)

Issue 4 is finally free!
by Tony Mobily

All of issue 4's articles have finally been released under the free
license chosen by their authors

Issue 4 is finally available for download.

(June 12, 2005)

Finding alternatives in developing software
by Martin C Brown

Comparing free development tools and libraries with proprietary ones

Developing software within the free software model can be achieved with
all sorts of different tools, but choosing the right tools can make a
big difference to the success of your project. Even if you are
developing a proprietary solution, there are benefits to using free
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available, from languages and libraries to development environments, as
well as examining the issues surrounding the use of free software tools
by comparison to their proprietary equivalents.

(June 9, 2005)

The social implications of free software
by Frederick Noronha

In the not-so-affluent world in particular, proprietary software
deserves to be skipped

If you're new to it, free software appears to be tough to shift to. It
also tends to be supported by a smaller pool of techies, and has
something of a steep initial learning-curve. So why shift at all? In any
case, you can easily make do with illegally-copied proprietary software¦
right?

Other articles in this issue:

* Graphic icons
by Marcus McCallion
Graphic icons: symbols of authority, power and control

* Worst case scenario - protecting your computer
by John Locke, Freelock Computing
How to keep sensitive information safe

* Issue 5 is out; get your free subscription and grab it!
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Some important news about our magazine

* A server for education
by Georges Khaznadar
Wims is a 'magic' server

* Unix Power Tools 3rd edition by Shelley Powers, Jerry Peek, Tim
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by Gianluca Pignalberi

* Interview with Fuat Kircaali, CEO of Sys-Con
by Tony Mobily
Fuat Kircaali is the founder and CEO of SYS-CON Media, the company which
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* A laptop, a coffee, and disaster recovery
by John Locke
Why you should have an effective backup strategy

* Guerrilla marketing part two
by Tom Chance
Getting good press coverage

* The risk of mixing free and non-free
by Edward Macnaghten
In a world where anything (even SCO...) is possible, we have to remember
that risks are taken when free and non-free software are mixed

* Free as in 'free speech' or free as in 'free labour'?
by David M. Berry
A philosophical enquiry into free culture

* Running BSD on PowerPC/PPC
by Martin C Brown
Using an alternative Unix on an alternative platform

* net.labels
by Adam Hyde
An introduction to the emerging phenomenon of net.labels

* net.labels
by Adam Hyde
An introduction to the emerging phenomenon of net.labels

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The past, present and future of a battered protocol


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