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sfd 2013,at SSPC, Visnagar,Gujarat

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Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before...

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/09/gendarmerie_linux/.

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FOSS lovers who also love environment

Urban Tree Preservation is Challenged Today. Only people with compassion for the nature and in turn…

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Happy SFD! 2013

Happy SFD! 2013

What is Software Freedom Month ? Software Freedom month is a worldwide…

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Indian Government Promoting Monopoly in Software Industry

Indian Government Promoting Monopoly in Software Industry

  PRESS RELEASE   It has come to our notice that several web sites of government of India agencies mandate the use of pieces of proprietary software such as Microsoft Excel. For instance, the…

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Free Software Foundation founder and president Richard Stallman was inducted into the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame!

  Free Software Foundation founder and president Richard Stallman was inducted into the 2013 Inter…

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Git workshop organised by Women in Free Software India

    WFS – India Women in Free Software & Culture in India

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Rails Girls Summer of Code helps Rails Girls students get into Open Source.

  Just like in Google Summer of Code and Ruby Summer of Code, students will be paid so they’re free…

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R.I.P Atul Chitnis : The Man Who Changed the Open Source World.

February 20, 1962 – June 03, 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atul_Chitnis

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Websites for the Greater Good: Non-Profits on WordPress.com

Websites for the Greater Good: Non-Profits on WordPress.com.

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Linux Released - Linux Mint 15 "Olivia”

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Kubuntu Council Elections 2013

      http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/results.pl?id=E_31619806caaf95b5

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[West Bengal] Free computer course for state youths.

free computer course by spoken tutorial of IIT Bombay and IIIM in west bengal.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Free-computer-course-for-state-youths/articleshow/19924494.cms

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Release date for Wheezy announced

Debian 7.0 “Wheezy”

  Neil McGovern, on behalf of the Debian Release Team, announced the target…

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FSF India urges AICTE to withdraw the circular recommending engineering colleges to use Microsoft Office 365

FSF India urges AICTE to withdraw the circular recommending engineering colleges to use Microsoft Office 365.

This has reference to a recent news report regarding a circular from AICTE that instructs engineering colleges to use Microsoft Office 365 in…

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Against software freedom

Why the AICTE’s decision to partner with Microsoft is unimaginative

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has become Microsoft’s biggest customer for cloud services. By June 30, students and teachers at 11,500 technical institutions will…

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Letter to AICTE

Greetings all,

FSMI’s representation to AICTE http://fsmi.in/content/fsmi-representation-aicte-against-deal-microsoft

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SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY IN AHMEDABAD , GUJARAT ,INDIA 15-09-2012

FOSSYATRA

FOSSYATRA successfully completed the FOSS "FREE/FREEDOM OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN IN INDIA " all over Rajasthan , Punjab, Haryana and now in gujarat. What is Software Freedom Month ? Software Freedom month is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere! What is Free Software and why is it relevant to you?Free Software gives users the freedom to use, study, modify and redistribute the software without worrying about licensing and copyrights.This means there is no per-seat licensing unlike proprietary software and you are free to install it on as many systems as you like.

The workshop will cover the following topics ON SFD 14-09-2012 , General sessions :

Introduction to FOSS A]How to install a Linux based operating system B]How to navigate the Linux desktop,using applications and installation. C]How to get help and support How to compute and communicate. D]General office and internet applications E]Linux installation (hands-on) F]Audio/Video editing tools (hands-on) G]Desktop publishing tools (hands-on) H]New-age licensing concepts (Creative Commons etc) I]Migration to FOSS with minimal hassles J]Compatibility of FOSS software with proprietary ones K]Distribution and exchange of FOSS software CD/DVDs

Venue: SFD AT :

POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN OPEN-SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES I.A.S. , TRAINING CENTRE , B/H . SBI BANK, GUJARAT UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, NAVRANGPURA, AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT , INDIA, PIN-380009

Venue Locator Link:

https://maps.google.co.in/maps?q=damodardas+IAS&hl=en&ll=23.039219,72.547596&spn=0.005667,0.010568&sll=20.984928,82.752628&sspn=46.005077,86.572266&t=h&hq=damodardas+IAS&z=17

Date: 15th September, 2012, 6pm to 9pm.

Regards, Team fossyatra AHMEDABAD http ://fossyatra.wordpress.com. email : netwebsteps@gmail.com mobile:91-7737031761

लिनक्स: नि:शुल्क और खुले स्रोत सॉफ्टवेयर आप के लिए और दुनिया के लिए अच्छा है. ना कोई adware,ना कोई spyware, सिर्फ अच्छा सॉफ्टवेयर. Linux(લિનક્ષ ): મુક્ત અને નિઃશુલ્ક(મફત) ઓપન સોર્સ સોફ્ટવેર તમારા માટે અને વિશ્વ માટે સારું છે. ના કોઈ એડવેર , ના કોઈ સ્પાયવેર, માત્ર સારું સોફ્ટવેર.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has been taken into preventive custody for violating Section-144 during his march to Parliament.

"free/freedom open source software awareness programe in " , GUJARAT, INDIA

Greetings all,

What is Software Freedom ? Software Freedom  is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business --in short, everywhere! What is Free Software and why is it relevant to you?  Free Software gives users the freedom to use, study, modify and redistribute the software without worrying about licensing and copyrights.This means there is no per-seat licensing unlike proprietary software and you are free to install it on as many systems  as you like.

Gujarat University launches Open Source Technologies Post Graduate Diploma course

The use of Open Source Technologies Software in America,European countries,Germany,India and also in Gujarat creates job opportunity for open source technologies students.

Gujarat University has launched Post Graduate Diploma Course on OPEN SOURCE Technologies based on LINUX.Linux Administration,Linux Networking and Linux Programming based on PYTHON and related software to Linux will be taught to the enrolled students.The students graduated from Arts,Commerce,Science or any other faculty can enroll in one year Post Graduate Diploma Course.There is no age bar for enrollment in the Post Graduate Diploma Course. Due to the expensive software,monopoly of the software and growing virus issues /problems,European countries and many other countries including India have migrated to OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIS SOFTWARE.The demand of OST persons is increasing day by day in different parts of the world.There is a huge possibility that Open Source Technologies will be the future of tomorrow in the world.Gujarat University is the first university in India who has started the OST course. The big companies in Gujarat also migrate from very expensive popular software to the free available and free from virus Open Source Technologies software.Right now so many companies in Gujarat have started using Linux platform as the operating system and the related software.Trained persons in this field get great opportunity and Gujarat,too,requires more and more trained persons.Howard University System Administrator will teach OST Software to the Gujarat University students through video conference.There is no monopoly on OST Software,and there is no copyright violation in using OST Software.

THE OST COURSE INCLUDES:

Basic knowledge of Open Source Technologies The difference between Proprietary software and OST Software.The advantage of OST Softwares The detailed knowledge of Linux Desktop and Servers How to manage Linux Based Servers and Desktops.How to work with Linux Community How to become Open Source Community Developer & Support The Linux Programming based on PYTHON which is used by GOOGLE Windows to Linux Migration Training Linux based Securities & Firewall Technologies Linux Based Web Server,Mail Server,File Server,Database Server Linux Networking Open Source Telecommunication (Ip Telephony).

Regards,

G.T.RAO

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