[OLPC India] Some interesting initiative!
Prakhar Agarwal
prakhar.jiit at gmail.com
Sat May 10 16:57:22 EDT 2008
this is a forwarded mail that i got as a subscriber ILUGD mailing lists.
Please refer TOPIC-5. there are some points that OLPC can cover. I hope this
is what OISC has been looking for. Can we have a little discussion about it?
Pour in your comments.
Cheers,
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Today's Topics:
1. Google changed license of libjingle from BSD to GPLv2
(???? ????? Ashish Shukla)
2. Re: Google changed license of libjingle from BSD to GPLv2
(narendra sisodiya)
3. Re: Google changed license of libjingle from BSD to GPLv2
(???? ????? Ashish Shukla)
4. Re: FOSS time in India - Down to Earth covers FOSS! (Sudev Barar)
5. [X-Post] Interaction with Nixi: Planning meeting Fri., 9
(Gora Mohanty)
6. Re: Interaction with Nixi: Planning meeting Fri., 9
(Sandip Bhattacharya)
7. Re: Interaction with Nixi: Planning meeting Fri., 9
(Kenneth Gonsalves)
8. Minutes of yesterday's meeting, Fri., May 9th (Gora Mohanty)
9. Re: Interaction with Nixi: Planning meeting Fri., 9
(narendra sisodiya)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 00:36:39 +0530
From: ???? ????? Ashish Shukla <wahjava.ml at gmail.com>
Subject: [ilugd] Google changed license of libjingle from BSD to GPLv2
To: ilugd at lists.linux-delhi.org
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Hi list,
I noticed a GPL violation (which is reported by some Novell packager
at libjingle's bug tracker) in libjingle. I reported that to
gpl-violations.org 4-5 days ago. And now libjingle is under GPLv2
instead of BSD license.
libjingle contains GPLv2 licensed files, but it was released under BSD
license[1].
Reference(s):
[1] - http://code.google.com/p/libjingle/issues/detail?id=23
Ashish Shukla
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 01:43:49 +0530
From: "narendra sisodiya" <narendra.sisodiya at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ilugd] Google changed license of libjingle from BSD to
GPLv2
To: "The Linux-Delhi mailing list" <ilugd at lists.linux-delhi.org>
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On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:36 AM, ???? ????? Ashish Shukla <wahjava.ml@
gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi list,
>
> I noticed a GPL violation (which is reported by some Novell packager
> at libjingle's bug tracker) in libjingle. I reported that to
> gpl-violations.org 4-5 days ago. And now libjingle is under GPLv2
> instead of BSD license.
>
> libjingle contains GPLv2 licensed files, but it was released under BSD
> license[1].
>
> Reference(s):
> [1] - http://code.google.com/p/libjingle/issues/detail?id=23
>
> Ashish Shukla
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> Ashish Shukla ???? ?????
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Ohh,, its good,
btw,, is there any jabber client which can be installed easily with --enable
libjingle flag for voice chat for gmail account for Linux platform. I have
tried to install psi with support of libjingle & *OTRP* etc but there is no
success.
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Narendra Sisodiya MTech, IIT Delhi
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 02:02:45 +0530
From: ???? ????? Ashish Shukla <wahjava.ml at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ilugd] Google changed license of libjingle from BSD to
GPLv2
To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd at lists.linux-delhi.org>
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,--[ On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 01:43:49AM +0530, narendra sisodiya wrote:
[snip]
| Ohh,, its good,
| btw,, is there any jabber client which can be installed easily with
--enable
| libjingle flag for voice chat for gmail account for Linux platform. I have
| tried to install psi with support of libjingle & *OTRP* etc but there is
no
| success.
I tried modified libjingle (by vu3rdd)[1], which has a sample 'call'
which I tried and it worked fine.
You might need to apply a patch for libspeex to be detected
correctly. Post here if you've any issues with compilation. I tested
it on my Ubuntu Hardy (amd64) box.
References:
[1] - http://www.zerobeat.in/2008/05/04/libjingle-release/
HTH
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 10:25:09 +0530
From: "Sudev Barar" <sbarar at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ilugd] FOSS time in India - Down to Earth covers FOSS!
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2008/5/9 Kishore Bhargava <kishore at linkaxis.com>:
> Good coverage on the state of FOSS:
>
> http://www.downtoearth.org.in/section.asp?sec_id=9&foldername=20080430
Lovely. You must have worked hard with the editors to get this done.
--
Regards,
Sudev Barar
Read http://blog.sudev.in for topics ranging from here to there.
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 23:53:51 +0530
From: Gora Mohanty <gora at sarai.net>
Subject: [ilugd] [X-Post] Interaction with Nixi: Planning meeting
Fri., 9
To: ILUGD main list <ilugd at lists.linux-delhi.org>, "Indian Linux group
," <indlinux-group at lists.sourceforge.net>, Free/Libre and Open
Source
Software Project List <prc at sarai.net>, Ajay Tripathi <
ajay at nixi.in>,
Rajesh Aggarwal <rajesh at nixi.in>, peeyush at indicus.net, Devdas Bhagat
<devdas.b at gmail.com>, secretary at rgfindia.org, Atul Chitnis
<mail at atulchitnis.net>, Venkatesh Hariharan <venky at redhat.com>
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Hello all,
Firstly, a formal meeting announcement:
Event: ILUG-Delhi meeting
Date: Fri., May 9th
Time: 6.30pm
Agenda: o Brainstorming for working with NIXI. Please
see details below.
Participants: All on this list.
Venue: BB/3G, DDA flats, Munirka.
Contact: Me (9868527992)
We had an interesting meeting today with some people from
NIXI, the National Internet Exchange of India, which is now
set up as a not-for-profit company. Briefly, NIXI wishes to
play the role of a bridge between industry, government, and
the FOSS community, and has certain advantages over normal
government agencies when it comes to funding projects in this
area.
Here are some ideas mooted from their side. Please note
that these are open to people from anywhere in India, and
they would like to see country-wide participation:
1. Preparing for roll-out of internationalised top-level
domain names, i.e., web URLs entirely in Indian languages.
ICANN should be approving this in some 6 months time, so
NIXI wants people to participate in an experimental setup
on a private (to India) network which can go public on the
Internet on ICANN approval. This work would include the
preparation of a write-up on potential issues involving
canonical representations for Unicode names, phishing and
other security loopholes, etc. Sarai might be hosting an
informal seminar to introduce this topic, in a week or
two.
2. ipv6 roll-out: NIXI would like to have a parallel ipv6
network in 1-2 months time. They have already done training
and awareness sessions for ipv6 routing, but largely using
proprietary tools. They would like community folk to hold
training sessions for (a) MCA-level students, and
(b) technical folk in small/medium enterprises, universities,
or other institutions.
3. Software for, and management of .in domain name registry:
Currently, they use proprietary software, and databases,
and would like to switch to open-source alternatives.
4. Community participation in the Internet Governance Forum
(IGF) meeting to be held in Hyderabad from 3-6 Dec., 2008:
http://www.intgovforum.org/ NIXI wants the community to be
there, as this is supposed to be a meeting for public
comment, and I think that it is important that we take
part. In particular, names are being solicited for
be part of the advisory group, and the deadline for that
is May 21st. For more on the IGF, please see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Governance_Forum
5. Of particular interest to IndLinux is that NIXI is willing
to (a) fund localisation work carried out by distributed
community groups in the country, (b) fund projects aimed
at polishing open-source Indian language tools, and deploying
them, e.g., making sure that OpenOffice, and Mozilla
Indian language packs get built, and distributed, and
(c) provide bandwidth, and hosting to such open-source
projects.
6. Deployment of Indian language, and other open-source
software developed in India, and/or targeted at an Indian
population. Their examples were Hindawi, Dhvani, etc.
The goal here would be to (a) put together software that
demonstrates the use, and (b) convince people using
proprietary alternatives to switch.
7. Survey of sites in the .in domain: Someone to carry out
a study of .in sites (which are currently some 4.5 lakh
in number), categorise them, and give awards to the best
sites in various categories, e.g., best Hindi/Indian
language blogging site, best open-source site, etc.
8. Rework syllabi at elementary, and middle school levels
to replace references to proprietary applications with
generic teaching, and/or references to open-source
alternatives.
9. Bring your own ideas: NIXI is also very interested in
hearing about your ideas for possible open-source
projects. Please feel free to contact us at Sarai,
or to directly get in touch with Mr. Rajesh Aggarwal,
IAS, Additional CEO, NIXI, or Mr. Ajay Tripathi,
Technical Officer, NIXI. (Their email addresses are
in the list of recipients.)
Regards,
Gora
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 15:24:19 +0530
From: Sandip Bhattacharya <lists at sandipb.net>
Subject: Re: [ilugd] Interaction with Nixi: Planning meeting Fri., 9
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Wow. Got this mail after the event is over :-P. Seems my copy of the
mail(Gaurav Mishra seems to have got it earlier) spent a few days
thinking things over on Suresh's box.
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+++ Gora Mohanty [07/05/08 23:53 +0530]:
>(Please note that this is a rather lengthy message copied to
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>different communities. Please edit the list of recipients,
>and the body in any follow-ups.)
>
>Hello all,
> Firstly, a formal meeting announcement:
> Event: ILUG-Delhi meeting
> Date: Fri., May 9th
> Time: 6.30pm
--
Sandip Bhattacharya
http://blog.sandipb.net
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 19:58:27 +0530
From: Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org>
Subject: Re: [ilugd] Interaction with Nixi: Planning meeting Fri., 9
To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd at lists.linux-delhi.org>
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On 10-May-08, at 3:24 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> Wow. Got this mail after the event is over
I got it this morning
--
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate, NRC-FOSS
lawgon at au-kbc.org
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 13:08:10 +0530
From: Gora Mohanty <gora at sarai.net>
Subject: [ilugd] Minutes of yesterday's meeting, Fri., May 9th
To: ILUGD main list <ilugd at lists.linux-delhi.org>, Free/Libre and Open
Source Software Project List <prc at sarai.net>, ajay at nixi.in,
rajesh at nixi.in, Free/Libre and Open Source Software Project
List
<prc at sarai.net>, peeyush at indicus.net, Devdas Bhagat
<devdas.b at gmail.com>, Venkatesh Hariharan <venky at redhat.com>,
secretary at rgfindia.org, Atul Chitnis <mail at atulchitnis.net>
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Hi,
Here are the minutes of the meeting held yesterday, with regards
to working with NIXI.
1. Internationalised domain names:
o Dinesh Shah to do initial research on RFCs, DNS resolution,
and W3C punicode issues. 2 weeks. Create Wiki by tomorrow.
o Raj Mathur: Study equivalent action in other countries, e.g., China.
o Take a call on further action times.
2. ipv6 roll-out:
o Andrew volunteered to volunteer Ashish Shukla (WahJava) for this.
3. Internet Governance Forum
o Possibly Suresh Ramasubramanian, Devdas Bhagat.
4. IndLinux-related work: Gora
o Server on a long-term basis?
o Funding for admin. of server?
5. Deployment for Indian languages: Gora, in a limited way.
Sudev: Evangelism
6. Survey of sites in .in domain: Sarai?
Sourav to put us in contact with juxtconsulting.
7. Reworking syllabus for removing mention of proprietary
information: Andrew, Raj, Venky?
o Syllabus fixed
o Textbook revision
o Teacher training
o Infrastructure in schools
o Certification in FOSS technologies
8. New ideas:
o Andrew: Distribution mirrors on backbone.
o Andrew, Sudev: NIXI establishing data-centres for open-source work.
o Funding for FOSS projects.
9. Gora: Ping Suresh, Devdas, Venky, Atul, Fred?
Dinesh: Copy to Bombay list
Gora: Sudhanwa, Karunakar, for Pune
Indranil for Calcutta
Regards,
Gora
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 23:18:06 +0530
From: "narendra sisodiya" <narendra.sisodiya at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ilugd] Interaction with Nixi: Planning meeting Fri., 9
To: "The Linux-Delhi mailing list" <ilugd at lists.linux-delhi.org>
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On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org>
wrote:
>
> On 10-May-08, at 3:24 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
>
> > Wow. Got this mail after the event is over
>
> I got it this morning
>
>
I too got it this morning
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Prakhar Agarwal
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