RE: [DAKF] FMSI is born on 20-03-2010 at Bangalore Shikshak Sadan - FMSI shall Live till it is relevant. Let the vested interests shiver at its thought, continue to do it and meet with their destiny, we shall march ahead.
prasad mathew
We the Palakkad group is very happy to congrajulate Sri. Joseph Thomas as national President and also very happy to get Sri. Aravind our Convenor sa the member of the national Council of FSMI.
On 3 rd April we are planning for a district committee to chart out programs for next 3 months. Our main agenda is to conduct a work shop on linex and to get aspirants to come forward to form a cooperate society in connection with free software development just like OSS at cochin. Since Palakkad is going to become the No. one industrial area in the kerala. The BEML unit is ready for starting production from April 2010 ie from next mont onwards. They are producing artillery equipment and RAILWAY COACHES. It is another coach factory. The connected works of 400 kv SUBSTATION is 50 % completed. The handing over work government land for avoiding public protest of 1000 acre to the RAILWAY COACH FACTORY authorities is almost started. Hence the work will start smoothly since the land is Govt. land.
So hundreds of small and connected industries are coming to Palakkad or rushing to palakkad. So forming a Open source software development society will flourish in Palakkad.
If anybody is interested in our group Please come to Palakkad on 3 rd April or contact me over phone
Aravind - 09880777659
Prasad Mathew - 09446008316(o), 09447234080(p)
Thanking you all
PRASAD MATHEW
Chairman
DAKF
Palakkad
From: thoma...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:39:57 +0530
Subject: [DAKF] FMSI is born on 20-03-2010 at Bangalore Shikshak Sadan - FMSI shall Live till it is relevant. Let the vested interests shiver at its thought, continue to do it and meet with their destiny, we shall march ahead.
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FSMI institution conference held at Bangalore on 20th and 21st March, 2010 in which DAKF was an active partcipating organisation.
National Conference on Free
Software, next to the CUSAT conference held on 15th and 16th Nov,
2008, was held at Bangalore Centre College Campus of Bangalore
University on 20th and 21st March, 2010.
Number of Delegates participated from Kerala.
Trivandrum
9
Alleppey 13
Kottayam 7
Ernakulam 8
Idukki 1
Trichur 1
Palakkad 6
Kannur 18
Kasaragod 3
IT@School
9
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Total
75
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Delegate
fee at the rate of Rs. 200/- was paid by DAKF for 62
delegates.
(Excluding speakers, IT@School trainers, poster
exhibitionists who were admitted as guests)
The inaugural
session was attended by around 1200 students from various colleges in
and around Bangalore in addition to around 250 delegates from all
over the country and 250 observers from Bangalore.
The
message of freedom for Information dissemination and the advantages
of free software was very well carried to the students through
speaches delivered by Sri. Gopinath of IISC Bangalore, Prof. Baraguru
Ramachandrappa (Kannada writer), Dr. N Prabhu (VC Bangalore
University) and Sri Umashankar IAS (E-Governance Expert and and
former MD Elcot, TamilNadu).
The delegate session that was
held in the after noon on 20th was attended by around 250 delegates.
Presidium and steering committee was formed with the
representative from participating organisations and representatives
from states.
The proposal for the formation of the all India
movement of a network structure was suggested by Sri. Y Kiran
Chandra.
The house adjourned for constituent level meeting to
ratify or otherwise of the proposal.
It was a very smooth affair,
where the proposal was ratified with few suggestions for
modifications on the concept paper.
DAKF, represented by our
delegates too ratified the proposal.
Thereafter, the number of
council members and number of executive committee members eligible
for various organisations where proposed and the same was ratified by
the house.
The house adjourned a second time for electing the
representatives from the respective organisations.
This again was
conducted very smoothly.
DAKF representatives were unanimously
elected.
The following were suggested
by the convenor, giving representations to as many
sectors/disciplines/organisations possible.
Sri. Ignatius
Kunjumon (Director CIRM, CUSAT, Free Software Activist who introduced
FS in CUSAT way back 1998, initiated FS courses in Kannur
University and various Engineering Coleges right from 1990's, Drafted
syllabus for various FS based IT courses as Chairman of Board of
Studies in Kannur University, Trained over 2000 FS professionals,
himself a developer of FS based multimedia applications, undertaking
off shore projects, president of the organising committee which held
the 2nd National Conference held at CUSAT in 2008.
Sri. K V Anilkumar (State Committee Member DAKF, Manager, Free Software Group, Keltron Controls Aroor, MT Tech Instrumentation by qualification and an Expert who learned FS platforms, tools and Data bases by himself and trained hundreds of FS professional in Kerala, Co-promotor of OSSICS an Industrial Co-operative of Free Software professionals and its honorary president, developed the OSS Swathanthra Software libraries and tools integrating various software development tools for speeding up development of software packages and interfaces, headed a number of successful Free Software projects in domains spread over Plant control systems, ERP, E-governance, Banking, Accounting etc, social entrepreneur, co-promoter and member of Appropriate Technology Promotion Society.)
Hirosh Kumar (State Committee Member DAKF, Technical Officer of Kerala Agricultural University, heading e-governance projects under Information Kerala Mission for Panchayathi Raj Institutions and is leading the team preparing for migration of IKM projects on to FS platforms from Proprietary ones)
Dr. A Sabu (DAKF State Committee
member, a free software practitioner, Program Officer in Kerala State
Bio-Technology Commission on deputation from Kannur University, PhD
in Bio-Technology, specialising in Bio-Informatics, author of 50+
papers, visiting scientist in 5 foreign universities in US, France
and Hungary,former scientist of CSIR, Former University Union
Chairman CUSAT, Former Member Academic Council CUSAT, Former Member
Senate CUSAT, a practitioner of FS)
Sri. P Aneesh Kumar (DAKF State
Committee Member, Secretary of the Kottayam District Committee of
DAKF, an IT professional employed in IT company at Kochi, DYFI
functionary)
Sri. Sivahari Nandakumar (DAKF State Committee member, BTech Final year student, a practitioner of FS and Unit Secretary SFI who lead the delegation of 13 BTech students from Cherthala Engineering College)
Sri. Aravind R (DAKF State
Committee member, Secretary of Palakkad District Committee of DAKF
who himself is an IT Professional employed at Bangalore, former University Union Secretary of CUSAT)
Sri. P V Latheesh (DAKF State Committee member, System Administrator in KSEB, Member of the team which developed the Linux and PostgreSQL based billing system 'ORUMA' in KSEB that replaced the proprietary platform based JYOTHI Package, KSEBOA functionary, himself a developer of Web applications using FS tools)
Sri. Vimal Krishnan (DAKF State
Committee member, Research Fellow in Computer Science (Speach
recognition using Artificial Neural network) at Kannur University, Jt
Convenor of (SFI Subcommittee) AKRSA State Committee, DAKF Kannur
District Jt Convenor, Author of 15+ papers published in international
conferences and journals.
Sri. Joseph Thomas (Convenor of the
DAKF State Preparatory Committee, Retired Telegraph Engineer and
Administrator having hands on experience on various data
communication systems that evolved over the period leading to the
integration of Data, Voice and Image and convergence of ICE (Morse,
Teleprinter, Telex, TRX, SFMSS, intranet, internet etc) including the
advanced systems based on UNIX, Installation and maintenance of power
plant including stand by power systems for UPS, Data Base Management,
accounting, office management and administration and system
re-engineering, former Circle Secretary and President of Telegraph
Cl.III Union of NFPTE, a Free Software Activists since 1998, KRP of
Peoples Plan Campaign during 1997-2000, Organisor of Chottanikkara
Grama Panchayath Vikasana Samithy, the apex body of 84 neighbourhood
groups in the panchayath and 9 Ward development Committees, Promoter
of Panchayath Level Computer education centres in Chottanikkara and
Udayamperoor, social activist engaged in promotion of Appropriate
Technology in different areas, co-promotor of OSSICS of FS
professionals and ATPS Kochi, Introduced FS based collection
management system in CTO as part of its re-engineering into CSC,
General Secretary of Free Software Industries Association, Kerala)
5 others (Dr. Babu Anto HOD IT Dept Kannur University, Sri.
Rajeev, IT Professional, Techno Park, Dr. B. Ekbal (needs no
introduction), Dr. Sasikumar of RIT Pampady and Sri. Anvar Sadath of
IT@School) were suggested by the delegates. Those suggested by others
withdrew themselves, on explaining the logic behind the
suggestions. Those suggested by the
convenor were elected unanimously.
Dr. Babu Anto (HOD, IT Dept, Kannur
University was nominated by Academician Initiative and Sri. V K
Sasidharan was nominated by NCCCT into the General Council to
represent the respective organisations, in parallel sessions held by them while we were in DAKF meeting.
Thus number of representatives from
Kerala in the General council increased to 12 out of 68
The
general council was announced in the delegates session.
The
general council has met and elected the executive committee was
elected.
The following four from Kerala were elected to the executive committee :
Joseph Thomas
K V Anilkumar
Dr. Sabu
Hirosh Kumar.
The following
office bearers were also elected by the General Council.
President Sri. Joseph Thomas (DAKF, Kerala)
Vice presidents Prof Gopinath IISC (IISC, Bangalore)
Sri. Debesh Das (Hon Minister for IT, Govt of WB)
Sri. Prabir Purkayastha (Knowledge Commons, Delhi)
General Secretary Sri. Y Kiran Chandra (Swecha, AP)
Secretaries Sri. Jayakumar (FSM Karnataka, Host for the Conference)
Dr. Nandini Mukherjee (Jadavpur University, WB)
Sri. Sidhartha (FSF TN)
Treasurer Prof. Pratap Reddy
(Academic Intervention, JNTU, Hyderabad).
Elections were all unanimous.
Valedictory session was chaired by
Prof. Gopinath who declared the office bearers of the newly born
organisation Free Software Movement of India.
Sri. Y Kiran Chandra, the newly elected General Secretary presented the joint resolution adopted by the constituent organisations forming the organisation, with a call to all interested in promotion of Free Software to co-operate with the new organisation. The resolution also offered unstinted support to all for the propagation of Free Software and dissemination of IT to the mass of the people.
Sri. Joseph Thomas, the newly elected President
presented the action plan for the immediate future. He observed that, historically, Knowledge has been Free. It was sought to be monopolised by the vested interests. Democratisation of society caused percolation of knowledge down to the bottom. Software has also been free. The new threat in new form, the monopolisation of Software started when the knowledge dissemination has not completed. He declared that the FSMI undertakes the duty to see that Free Software is used widely so that the benefits of IT and the knowledge is disseminated and reached the last of the common people.
The conference
was concluded with vote of thanks to every body including the
volunteers and all those worked for the success of the conference.
Thanks to FSMK and the reception committee for the wonderful arrangements for the conference, facilities for holding the delegate session of the constituent organisations that networked to FSMI, the food, the stay, transportation and all other hospitality extended to the delegates and participants.
Thanks to all the delegates from Kerala, who attended the conference meeting the expenses from their own pocket. Thanks to Dr. B Ekbal and other senior leaders who guided us all through the conference.
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With warm greetings.
Joseph Thomas,
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Joseph Thomas
Go ahead with them.
Especially, the Linux workshop and the software society
.
Anilkumar KV
Regards,
- Anil
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Manilal K M
A poem about freedom in a proprietary document format?
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Babu Dominic
It is typed in open office in fedora
It has been saved with extension .xls
with warm regrds
babu
Manilal K M
> Dear Manilal
> It is typed in open office in fedora
> It has been saved with extension .xls
>
But it appears to be file with .doc format :), as you know both are
proprietary.
It would make more sense if DAKF insists on Open formats, especially
in this week -> http://www.documentfreedom.org/
regards
Pratheesh Prakash
On 29 March 2010 14:42, Babu Dominic <babud...@gmail.com> wrote:But it appears to be file with .doc format :), as you know both are
> Dear Manilal
> It is typed in open office in fedora
> It has been saved with extension .xls
>
proprietary.
It would make more sense if DAKF insists on Open formats, especially
in this week -> http://www.documentfreedom.org/
+1
Dr.B.Ekbal
Ekbal
Attaching the file in ODF format.
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