Amachu

Was at Salem last Sunday – 11 Oct 09 to introduce Ubuntu to General Public. Thanks to Selva Murali for Organizing the event.

More about the event in his own words http://groups.google.com/group/mintamil/browse_thread/thread/bb2d6315dbe4a553# in Tamil.

Report at Sangamam Live: http://sangamamlive.in/index.php?/content/view/5932/1/

Following the inauguration of SRCFOSS at SASTRA university, a small group has emerged there and is regularly conducting weekly sessions on various FOSS topics.

I was there on Oct 01, to elaborate them the basics of Virtualization & demonstrated it with a Live Migration on Redhat.

Special thanks to Prof. Hari Prakash, HOD of CSE Department of Srinivasa Ramanujam Centre, SASTRA University & the SRCFOSS students for organizing the event.

Myself & Salvadeeswaran (of SSN College of Engineering & Fedora Ambassador) took part at “Linux Poison” conducted as part of Aarush, 2009 held at SRM University today.

We introduced Free Software and its Philosophy to the participants gave an installation & overview of Fedora.

More than 50 participants took part in the event. We thank the student Event Organisers (Shiv Deepak, Vipul Jain, Anisha Kaul and Prakhar Agarwal) of the Linux Poison event for the great enthusiasm they had shown in organising this event.

Today they have a Gaming Session under GNU/ Linux environment & tomorrow a session on Introduction to python

A book on Free Software Philosophy containing selected essays of Richard M. Stallman is being released in Tamil, as part of Software Freedom Day Celebrations, 2008.

The book will be released as part of following events:

1) Software Freedom Day Celebrations – 2008
Jaya Engineering College,
Thirunindravur,
Chennai.

Date: 20 Sep 08
Time: 9.30 AM

Contact Person: Sivaji – +91 99415 71690
URL: http://jayafossclub.org/

2) Freedom & Software Meeting
Russian Cultural Center
27 Kasturi Ranga Road, (near Cathedral Road)
Chennai-600018

Date: 21 Sep 2008
Time: 4.00 PM

Contact Person: N Balaji – +91 98407 87427
URL: http://www.freedomandsoftware.info/

You are cordially invited to attend the event(s) and pass on this message. Lets make it a memorable one.

PS: You can also help organizing a release party at your place with GNU/ Linux enthusiasts around. For more details mail us separately.

Related Link: http://kanimozhi.org.in/kanimozhi/?p=74
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Amachu

Free Software - Richard M Stallman - Tamil

I hope this book will aid the efforts to convince Tamil Nadu to follow the path of Kerala: to migrate the public schools to free software. – Richard M Stallman, Sep 11, 2008

Where, When and How? Just wait the info is on its way

Not all fonts that we use today for Tamil are perfect Unicode fonts. There are make shift that will do the job. Also the total number of Tamil fonts properly free software licensed and made available at GNU/ Linux distributions are also very little. That made us organize a two day workshop on fonts creation at NRCFOSS, Chennai.

Hiren Venugopalan from Swatantra Malayalam Computing came forward to conduct the sessions. Special thanks to him for having done this setting aside Onam celebrations.

The two day session introduced us various free tools involved in font making – fontforge, inkscape, gimp, imagemagick etc., and ways to edit modify, create them. Presentation related to this event can be downloaded from http://hiran.v.googlepages.com/lmb.odp

A project & team has been created at launchpad for making and maintaining better Tamil Fonts available with Ubuntu and other GNU/ Linux Distributions.

Snaps taken at the event can be viewed by clicking here.

Here is a report by Thiyagu on InsydeR-2008 that was held at Arunai Engineering College, Thiruvannamaai, Tamil Nadu on Rural Development through Technology.

Students had exhibited several stalls powered by Debian/ Ubuntu to display their work on how technology could help develop the rural masses of Tamilnadu.

Took part in the last day’s event and the sideshow can be viewed upon clicking this link.

Glad to share with the world we have just launched Kanimozhi, an Online
Magazine to carry the news, events and technical info from the Free Software
World in Tamil Language.

The Website can be accessed at: http://kanimozhi.org.in

We have a set of six articles to begin this initiative.

1) About kanimozhi: http://kanimozhi.org.in/01/01/kanimozhi-arimugam.html
2) A call for to support Open Document Format:
http://kanimozhi.org.in/01/01/thirandha-aavana-vadiva-adharavu.html
3) An introduction to RPM – http://kanimozhi.org.in/01/01/rpm-arimugam.html
4) Technical Glossary Series – http://kanimozhi.org.in/01/01/kanichor-vilakkam.html
5) “When will thy die” series for proprietary software support in GNU/ Linux -
http://kanimozhi.org.in/01/01/mp3-koppugal.html
6) Recent events at http://kanimozhi.org.in/01/01/akkam-pakkam.html

We firmly believe that this will grow further with all your kind support and
co-operation.

Chennai witnessed its first ever FOSS conference from Feb 01 – 03. It had Talks, stalls, demos, tutorial talks etc.,

Srinivasan has more to tell about at the following Links

http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2008-February/039415.html

http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2008-February/039396.html

http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2008-February/039414.html

Snaps of the event can be had from,

http://picasaweb.google.com/tshrinivasan/FossConfDayOne
http://picasaweb.google.com/tshrinivasan/FossConfDayTwo
http://picasaweb.google.com/tshrinivasan/FossConfDayThree
http://picasaweb.google.com/yogeshkumark/Fossconf2008      The range of topics covered can be had from http://registration.fossconf.in/web/browseslides/

At the dawn of tomorrow, the first of Febuary – 2008, Chennai will be witnessing its first ever major Foss Conference.

Indian Linux User Group – Chennai Chapter together with National Resource Centre for Free and Open Source Software Chennai are the joint Organisers for this event.

The event spans over 3 days till February third and covers lot of Talks, Demos, Events and Fun.

We have produced Ubuntu (derivatives too) CD/ DVDs for the participants of the event and there will be talks related to Ubuntu also.

Find much more about the event at http://fossconf.in So if you get a chance don’t miss it