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Flock, a great browser...

Posted: January 15th, 2007, 3:25am GMT by fredericknoronha

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Flock is a great browser!

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Free/Libre and Open Source Software contributors ...

Posted: July 8th, 2006, 2:30am BST by fredericknoronha

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Free/Libre and Open Source Software contributors from India is a page to focus on who's contributing code in/from India to the world of FLOSS. Let's see how far it can go....
Warren Brian Noronha, GNUgeek

Posted: July 8th, 2006, 1:25am BST by fredericknoronha

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Warren Brian Noronha, GNUgeek
Originally uploaded by fredericknoronha. Warren wrote to me about the plans to have a Drupal coding fellowship programme in India. And BTW, we have launched a new blog called SouthAsiaICT4D. It came real following the idea and promptings of Reba Shahid, an ICT journalist in Karachi's SPIDER magazine about the internet.
Am just trying to build up

Posted: July 8th, 2006, 6:59pm BST by fredericknoronha

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Am just trying to build up this page on the helpful Wikiwikiweb.de, to catalogue code contributions to the FLOSS world from India, and by Indians. We had a big discussion on the Project Resource Centre (PRC) list on Sarai.net about whether this is happening at all, in propotion to the sector here, and if not -- why! My hunch is that this field is simply invisible... but growing. We need to make it grow faster!
Warren, Drupal... and training Warren Noronha, a ...

Posted: July 5th, 2006, 3:52pm BST by fredericknoronha

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Warren, Drupal... and training
Warren Noronha, a geek (no relation), whom I met in Belgaum years ago and subsequently learnt was in Silicon Valley, recently wrote in about a Drupal Internship for India.
His note says:
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With 75,000+ Drupal power websites and an emerging industry supporting over 150 professionals, the open-source [read: free software] Drupal project and community is exploding. At the heart of this community is an incredibly active and productive group of contributors. Creating contributed modules, themes, bug fixes, and core enhancement, these individuals define the course of the Drupal project and the ecosystem of users, tinkerers, and professionals around it. The type of candidate we are looking for: * Doesn't have to have a formal higher education in computer engineering * Doesn't have to be pursuing personal projects relevant to Drupal * Doesn't have to have job experience * Has to be a self starter * Has to be genuinely curious and interested in developing software * Has to have web application development experience * Has to be social and willing to provide support to others. Through this internship program we will attempt to train students from India the ins and outs of Drupal and help them established themselves as long term contributors to the Drupal project. Over two months the selected students will work closely with project mentors on real world Drupal projects; contributed modules, and core patches. They will learn the Drupal development process and gain extremely valuable experience interacting with a live open-source project. Students will be paid a stipend of 4,600 INR to 8,000 INR a month depending on the level of their contributions to the Drupal project. More Information: http://drupal.in/training CLOSEQUOTE
Very interesting! Learn skills and get paid for it, eh! And above all, contribute to a socially-useful project. FN
Digit April 2006... and FLOSS

Posted: April 10th, 2006, 5:32pm BST by fredericknoronha

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For a long time, I had this impression that DIGIT was too Windows-focussed. The April 2006 issue (www.thinkdigit.com price Rs 125) was a welcome change.
Below are some details of what the issue contains. Go for it:
* Fast track to [GNU]Linux, a 178-page handy guide small-sized. Includes What is [GNU]Linux, getting GNU/Linux running, inside Linux, the X Windows system, tools and applications, multimedia and gaming, networking, distributions, system administration, resources. (My only regret is that page 178 lists just five user-groups in big cities -- Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Trivandrum... while completely overlooking smaller but active user-groups, Goa for instance.]
* On the CD: Gentoo 2006.0, AmaroK, Drupal 4.6.x, Damn Small Linux, Fluxbox, GNOME Sensors Applet. Also Byzantine OS, Puppy Linux 1.0.8r1, Epiphany, Evolution, Galeon 2.0.1, XFCE4, Ubuntu 5.10. Portable Firefox 1.5, OpenOffice.org.
* Damn Small Linux has a nearly complete desktop, and many command line tools. All applications are chosen with the best balance of functionality, size and speed. Damn Small also has the ability to act as an SSH/FTP/HTTPD server right off of a live CD.
* Kplayer is the KDE media player based on MPlayer. With Kplayer you can easily play a wide variety of video and audio files and streams using a rich and friendly interface that follows KDE standards.
--------------------------------------------------------- Articles in the magazine... ---------------------------------------------------------
* Fandom of the Opera. (Not really Free Software, but comes with a version for GNU/Linux.) * Enjay Network Solutions www.enjayworld.com offers solutions for ThinClients, supporting Win2K,2K3, Linux, fullscreen DOS and Citrix MetaFrame (ICA). * Digital Tools | Tips & Tricks covers (i) Damn Small Linux (ii) View HTML mail in Dillo * Set up an Internet Connection on DSL (iv) Keeping track of network traffic on GNU/Linux (v) MP3 in text mode, MP3Blaster. * Mix tracks using Audacity. One-page article. * Life in a USB nutshell."Portable applications are built for the sole purpose of being run off a USB stick -- no installation, no writing settings to anything other than its own folder, and best of all, nearly all of them are free." Talks a lot about OpenOffice.org, AbiWord, i.Scribe, Firefox, MPlayer, etc. * An article: "Is Piracy Good?" "Let's say Microsoft makes a Windows version that is un-crackable. Let's say it's Vista for this example. What happens then?... a lot of people start using Linux! Lindows, SuSE, Ubunut, you chooose..."
Levering FLOSS... a judge's view Ramanraj K ...

Posted: March 3rd, 2006, 12:58am GMT by fredericknoronha

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Levering FLOSS... a judge's view
Ramanraj K -- ramanraj.k at gmail.com -- points to a recent talk by Honb'le Mr.Justice Yatindra Singh on Leveraging Open Source Software was delivered at 9th e-Governance held from February 2-4, 2006 at Kochi (Kerala) and which is available at [www.allahabadhighcourt.in]
FSF-India's associate fellowships Recently (some three weeks ...

Posted: March 3rd, 2006, 12:40am GMT by fredericknoronha

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FSF-India's associate fellowships
Recently (some three weeks ago), the Free Software Foundation of India started offering Associate Fellowships to individuals and organisations. Details are here: [www.gnu.org.in] In brief: you support FSF India, gain karma for promoting software freedom, and get some discount on FSF-I merchandise. But the main concern is promoting software freedom, of course! I should be putting my money where my blog is...(Thanks to Baishampayan Ghose for letting me know.)
FLOSS parallel database project... Sharad Maloo, maloo ...

Posted: March 3rd, 2006, 12:33am GMT by fredericknoronha

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FLOSS parallel database project...
Sharad Maloo, maloo at cse.iitb.ac.in, is a Dual Degree (B.Tech. plus M.Tech.) student at IIT Bombay. Says he: "I will be working on the project titled Open Source Parallel Database. See details of this at this URL: [mail.sarai.net]
Maloo explains: "The project will try to build an open-source parallel database, by extending PostgreSQL using a Shared Nothing (SN) architecture. Parallel database is a paradigm where the database is distributed across multiple servers which have to communicate with each other in responding to user queries and in executing transactions. If multiple such servers are integrated into a single cluster of nodes such that the entire cluster offers a "single system" image to the number of clients connected to such a cluster, and if a single logical database is implemented on such a cluster with each node storing a predefined segment of database and a single query issued to this database is handled by breaking the same into multiple sub-queries issued to individual nodes, then we have a "parallel database system"."
RSS links... from India What are techies ...

Posted: March 3rd, 2006, 11:55pm GMT by fredericknoronha

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RSS links... from India
What are techies and geeks in India saying about Free/Libre and Open Source Software? Take a look at... [feeds.goa-india.org]

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