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Open Source Software Education in India

oskanpur — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:27:38 +0000

भारत मे सार्वजनिक वित्त पर चलने वाली शिक्षण सँसथाएं व खुला सोर्स कोड / लाइनक्स उबुँटू शिक्षा - किसकी जिम्मेदारी ?

How to send email in Hindi to Shri Lalu Prasad Yadav ?

oskanpur — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:50:43 +0000

श्री लालू प्रसाद यादव भारतीय रेल मंत्री को हिन्दी में ईमेल कैसे करें -

LokVidya IT KaryaShala Evam Manthan - July/August 2008 - Dehradoon
Duration - 7 Days
Format - A group of 50 - 60 participants will live together for 7 days and interact in loose group settings.
Costs : Free to participate - Organizations pay for their participants travel, hostel, stationary and food costs - Voluntary contributions welcome
Topic - LokVidya IT and related issues in context of and as relevant to - swadeshi samaj and IT hierarchies.
Access - Open to all age-groups, backgrounds and IT skill levels.
Girls and youth from Hindi speaking and rural background will get priority over English speaking and urban background participants in case hostel accommodation is exceeded.
Breakup - Groups of 10 participants will join together to form Teams. Each Team will have access to One Desktop Computer and Free Software.
Participants should be encouraged to ask questions and actively kill fear of Information Technology.
Leader of each group will be rated by the team on how cooperative and knowledgeable he or she is.
Is knowledge to be shared or to be kept secret and mystified ?
Participants - About 15 from each activist organization - Any participant who has a laptop can bring it along if it has Ubuntu loaded on it or wants Ubuntu loaded on it.
Medium of Instruction - Hindi and English
Proposed Content - A. Karyashala B. Manthan

Rough Outline of LokVidya IT - 1 - Course Content :
A. LokVidyaIT Karyashala and Manthan :

1. Demonstration of component parts of a Desktop Computer and UPS
2. Connecting and Installing a Computer with UPS - Power Connections - Internet connection
3. Examining an Ubuntu Linux CD
4. Installing Ubuntu Linux on a computer - independently by oneself - then reformatting Hard Disk and Reinstalling Ubuntu - Remove fear of Computers - Does Software cause a shock ? Brief discussion of Directory structure.
5. Reading and Discussing about Ubuntu software ownership and Terms of Use - Asking Who is making Free Software for Me and Why ?
Asking who is NOT making Free Software for me and Why ?
6. Tips for teaching others how to Ubuntu - especially children, youth and women
7. Creating a free Email Account and remembering Password details
8. Configuring speaker and multimedia connections
9. Search Engine and how to search for free Information
10. How to download Ubuntu and other free softwares and from where
11. What is Wikipedia - How to make a Wikipedia account and create a page to share information on Wikipedia
12. Writing in Hindi on Desktop Computer and Hindi on Internet
13. Send an email in Hindi
14. How to search and find other Free Softwares - How to search for - and - block pornography -
15. Using a Digital Camera and uploading photos
16. How to compare software features
17. Creating a basic document, spreadsheet and Presentation using Free Software on Ubuntu and Emailing it.
18. Creating a free Blog - Apna Akhbar - MeraAkhbar - Create, Edit, Delete, Search
19. Create a Google Group for family and friends - news and details
20. How to book a Railway Ticket from the Indian Railways website / How to file an Online Income Tax Return / How to send an email to Laloo Yadav in Hindi
21. How to search for information from the Right to Information Act website - How to search for Hindi IT courses offered by Indian Institute of Technology / IIM and other top IT and management training institutes of India
22. How to book a web domain for a website and create a free Hindi website - if time permits
23. Any other interesting topic by Participants Demand

How to send email in Hindi to Shri Lalu Prasad Yadav ?

oskanpur — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:49:28 +0000

श्री लालू प्रसाद यादव भारतीय रेल मंत्री को हिन्दी में ईमेल कैसे करें -

Rough Outline of LokVidya IT - 1 - Course Content :
A. LokVidyaIT Karyashala and Manthan :

How to send email in Hindi to Shri Lalu Prasad Yadav ?

oskanpur — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:48:32 +0000

श्री लालू प्रसाद यादव भारतीय रेल मंत्री को हिन्दी में ईमेल कैसे करें ? -

लोकविद्या आई टी कार्यशाला एवम मन्थन - सन् २००८ - देहरादून उत्तराँचल -

Rough Outline of LokVidya IT - 1 - Course Content :
A. LokVidyaIT Karyashala and Manthan :

Hindi Python MoinMoin Wiki test configuration details

oskanpur — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:44:08 +0000

MoinMoin Version	1.6
OS and Version	Ubuntu 7.10 Fiesty Fawn
Python Version	2.5
Server Setup	Standalone Desktop
Devanagari	Lohit Hindi Fonts
Browser	Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11

India / Indian / Translation / Open source software / Hindi / Python / Wiki / MoinMoin / foss

some words - कुछ शब्द —

परिवर्तन, मुद्ददा, मुद्ददे, पाइरेसी, स्व, स्वशिक्षा, हिन्द, हिन्दुस्तान, भारत, विद्या, विद्यालय, विद्यार्थी, पाठ, पाठशाला, एशिया, विश्व, विश्वविद्यालय, पाइथन, समूह, भाषा, हिन्दी भाषी, शिक्षा, अनुवाद, समाज, समूह, पूँजीवाद, समाजवाद, भाजपा, काँग्रेस, उप्र, उर्दू, पंजाब, पंजाबी, हरियाणा, हरित, हरियाली, कुछ, शब्द,

Developer collaboration - Canonical launches Bazaar based on Python

oskanpur — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:38:03 +0000

Canonical has released the stable version of Bazaar - A Distributed Software Version control system for distributed teams of innovative and open source, modern community based software development.
Bazaar 1.0 has been written in Python software language - a software language that is much in demand and commands a lot of respect in the Open Software community - which sadly is lacking in India presently even though Indian software majors have garnered immense amounts of profits but for strategic reasons are not very happy to promote the spread of free and open source software among Indian schools, colleges and universities due to fear of disturbing their monopolies and business models.
Among the features of BAZAAR are :
1. Software developers who are familiar with ECLIPSE Software development platform, can begin to be very productive as they can learn and use BAZAAR easily and in short learning curve.
2. It is based on stable Python API and is compatible with Python versions 2.4 and above. It already has a set of about 20 Plugins, available for immediate use by communities of software developers.
3. No need for coordination with central code base as Commits can be made independently.
4. Features and fixes can be developed in independent branches and merged into main development trunk at any time. This feature is ideal for teaching distributed software development to students in remote locations of India.
5. Software development can be done in creative models, whether as creative and intelligent individual developers, who contribute more code than others, or as cooperating software teams.
6. Dual level of support is available for the GNU GPL licensed Bazaar as users can buy commercial support, or if their software developers and teams are really world class, they can use freely available and generous shared community support.
More information : http://www.ubuntu.com/news/bazaar-v1-release

Indian Computer Dealers moving away from Piracy towards IT Innovation

oskanpur — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:37:21 +0000

It is really very good news that some computer dealers, assemblers and hardware vendors, have now started downloading, and locally burning Ubuntu Linux 7.10 CD in the small towns of Uttar Pradesh.

What this means is that companies selling tightly controlled, monopoly software which is very difficult to learn, and requires years of experience even to just become data entry operators, will now begin to face real competition and innovation strategies, from places like Lucknow, Allahabad, Kanpur, Jhansi, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Moradabad, Agra, Mathura, Bhopal, Satna, Vidisha, Dehradoon, Kathmandu, Patna, Ranchi, Rourkela, Raipur,, Nagpur, Chandigarh, Bikaner, Jaipur, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Karnal, Panipat, Ahmedabad, Pune, Panjim.

Jhumka gira re, Bareilly ki bazaar mein, jhumka gira re !!

Some of these computer assemblers are now selling these legal CD's for Rs 100 - Rs 200 and hopefully will even learn to add in some local support component for people who are new to Ubuntu Linux. Maybe for another Rs 300 some of these local computer dealers will go and install the Ubuntu software on the computers and laptops, of home users / business users, and configure it for users so that they can use BSNL MTNL broadband Internet, and use printers that have good support for Linux printing.

Internet cafes will also soon start installing the server versions of Ubuntu and Kubuntu and they will then encourage customers to use Firefox browser and openoffice.org Office softwares for presentation, word documents, spreadsheets and databases.

The powerful suite of applications that Ubuntu and Kubuntu make available will soon find devoted followers.

The Google gmail email address has also begun to catch on in some of these small places and this will see people testing and using open formats of documents and spreadsheets, when they start collaborating online. One does hope that Small Businesses will be able to see that they can do most of their document creation work and email needs using public and free infrastructure, without the need for learning difficult to learn pirated software, that imprisons them down into specific document formats.

Links

oskanpur — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:12:38 +0000

Kanpur Lucknow Ubuntu Users and Community Group - Learn and Teach

osKanpur Group - http://groups.google.com/group/oskanpur

osKanpur Blog - http://www.oskanpur.blogspot.com/