"Three days ago, I spend a much too short time at a Free Software, Free Society conference in Kerala, which was quite an enthusiastic gathering. Equally present was Stefan Merten of Project Oekonux, who has published a report in Keimform, which I’m partially reproducing below. (see also added comments by co-organizer V. Sasi Kumar) ..."
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Free Software for Movie industry workshop
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The Free Software for Movie industry workshop is scheduled for 10:30 am on 18th December 2008 at Hotel Horizon, Thiruvananthapurum (India). This event is organized during the 13th International Film Festival of Kerala by free software community.
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Rank Your Free Music on Nodes.fm
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"...Nodes.fm encourages musicians to upload their music so that it can be voted upon. Besides operating at no cost to musicians, and using our copyleft Attribution-ShareAlike license, Nodes.fm is free software as its codebase is released under the Free Software Foundation’s AGPL license."
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FSFE announces 4 weeks of translation sprint
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The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) announces a translation sprint for their web pages from 15 December 2008 to 11 January 2009. The aim of this sprint is to provide information about Free Software and FSFE's work in as many languages as possible. Everybody here is invited to help!
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Stallman visits slum computing center
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"...While proprietary software companies are like the colonial rulers who exploited the masses, free software is freedom and liberation. Ambedkar Community Computer center is a model for the other parts of the india in such a way that it gives access to computers for the poor without compromising the freedom.
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Creative GNU!
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These were few snaps we took when we were in kerala.We bought GNU letter key chains and we also bought Sea Shells.chkout what's on the shell!!!
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More than 2500 schools in kerala use GNU/Linux ONLY!
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Recently i visited kerala. I visited some of the schools to see free software in action.I posted a small description of my experience.I uploaded quite a number of photos,videos of school children using GNU/Linux.
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US teacher detains student for using Linux
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A teacher in Austin, Texas has lashed out against the open-source Linux operating system, punishing one of her students for demonstrating and handing out copies of the HeliOS Linux distribution
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RMS Visit to Bangalore
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sujith shares his experiences during the Stallman's visit to Bangalore and captures the event with his Canon PowerShot A720 IS camera powered by free software (CHDK ) !
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A day with RMS
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"Today RMS visited Bangalore again. This is for the first time I am seeing him. I am bit tired after today's programs. So, I will try to provide a brief summary of the program. I hope you know what RMS will be talking about, so I am not going to those details :) ..."
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Wiki-community strives to extend eastward
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"CHENNAI: There are many reasons for Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, to take interest in India. One of them is the need for balance in socio-geographic perspective in Wiki articles.
Read more »Richard Stallman to visit SJCE
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Richard M. Stallman, founder of Free Software Movement will be visiting the Sri Jayachamarajendra college of Engineering...
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Reporting violations of GNU licenses
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"...Once you have collected the details, you should send a precise report to the copyright holder of the packages that are being misused. The copyright holder is the one who is legally authorized to take action to enforce the license..." -- via GNU Affero General Public License
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The Kerala experience
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"Hi list! I'm just on the way back home from this great conference which took place in Thiruvananthapuram in the state of Kerala / India. I must say I'm really deeply impressed. I would wish that Free Software *including* things like Oekonux says would have that backing in Germany / Europe / industrialized countries!
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gNewSense MIPS Port Project Page
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The project will realize the intention of The Free Software Foundation to port the gNewSense distribution (http://www.gnewsense.org/static/homepage/ ) on the Yeelong laptop (http://www.lemote.com/english/yeeloong.html ) manufactured by Lemote Tech (http://www.lemote.com/ ).
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