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[school-discuss] Re: [IIEP] Links between FLOSS and the 'digital divide'



On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Pamela McLean wrote:

I'm hoping that what they learn in Ago-Are will help to provide more
answers to Frederick's question. Meanwhile Frederick, any suggestions
and ideas you gather from elsewhere will be much appreciated to feed
back to Ago-Are and bounce around under the usual approach of "Good
Idea/Bad Idea?"
Hi Pamela:

Thank you (and all the others on this list) for responding to my query on FLOSS
and the 'digital divide'. Below is a list that we in Goa (on the west coast of
India) put together to share with others getting interested in FLOSS. Though
not directly connected with the world of education (maybe FLOSS education!) am
venturing to send it out to this list.

Please feel free to share it with your friends in Nigeria, or anywhere else.
Our content is copyleft ;-) FN

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(Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute,
study, change and improve the software. To run the program for any purpose.
To study how it works, and adapt it to your needs. To redistribute copies so
you can help your neighbour. To improve the program, and release your
improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.)

ILUG-Goa
http://ilug-goa.swiki.net http://www.ilug-margao.org

Mailing-list
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa

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List of software available in Goa
http://sofall.vze.com (Ajay Cuncoliencar's site)

For CDs in Goa: Clinton Vaz <klintvaz at gmx.net> Ph 2736828 or 9822123535

Possible speakers from ILUG-Goa:

Tech: Gurunandan Bhat (2461520, 2453199), Arvind Yadav (2415460/61), Arvind
Clement (2700891 or 9422018922), Dr Anil Seth (2741872), Prof George Easaw
of GEC (2319185), etc. For an entire list of possible speakers and other
GNU/Linux contacts, ask FN (fred at bytesforall.org).

For links across India

http://www.linux-india.org
Linux India network
Check out the three mailing lists on this site (LIG-Linux India General for
news, LIH-Linux India Help for tech help discussions, and LIP-Linux India
Programming)

Free Software Foundation-India
http://gnu.org.in
http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends
The mailing list, fsf-friends, is as above.

Project Resource Centre
Get ideas on what could be a good GNU/Linux project
http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc

Coverage of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in the tech press:
Linux For You, monthly, Rs 50 with CD
DeveloperIQ, monthly
PCQuest, Digit/Chip, etc also offer occasional coverage.
Mostly available in Panjim. Enquire Varsha Bookstall: 2425832

Free Software and Open Source
Free Software http://fsf.org/
Open Source http://www.opensource.org/

Some useful sites explaining various terms:

http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/frames.html
The New Hacker's Dictionary

http://www.salon.com/tech/fsp/glossary/index.html
Salon's Free Software Project, Glossary

http://www.walthowe.com/glossary/
Walt's Internet Glossary

http://www.tucows.com/help/glos.html
Tucows Glossary

http://www.fdt.net/support/q-z.html
Florida Digital Turnpike Glossary of Terms Q-Z

http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/acro/index.htm
The UNIX Acronym List

Some FLOSS information sites:

GNU
http://gnu.org

Linux
http://www.linux.org/

Linux Journal
http://www.linuxjournal.com

Newsforge
http://newsforge.com

Open Source Initiative
http://www.opensource.org

Richard Stallman
http://stallman.org

Slashdot
http://slashdot.org

Most successful FLOSS projects and technologies

Debian GNU/Linux
http://www.debian.org

SuSe Linux
http://www.suse.com

Red Hat Linux
http://www.redhat.com

Apache (world's most popular web server)
http://www.apache.org

Mozilla (wonderful web browser)
http://www.mozilla.org

Openoffice.org (wordprocessing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, data
charting, formula editing, file-conversion)
http://www.openoffice.org

Koha (integrated library system)
http://www.koha.org/

Sendmail (most widely used mail server)
http://www.sendmail.org

Postfix (newer mail server)
http://www.postfix.org

BIND (program for turning host names into IP addresses)
http://www.isc.org/

PHP (general purpose scripting language, specially suited for Web
development, and can be embedded into HTML)
http:/www.php.org/

Perl (high-level programming language, favourite tool of sys admins)
http://www.perl.org/

MySQL (most popular open source database in the world)
http://www.mysql.com

Samba (file and printer sharing)
http://www.samba.org/

Zope (application server, specializing in content management, portals and
custom applications. Zope enables team to collaborate in the creation and
management of dynamic web-based business applications like intranets and
portals)
http://www.zope.org/

Links contributed by kaushalgoa at yahoo.co.in

fsn url is where u get all distro for linux ...
ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/

counter url http://counter.li.org

deb mirrors for latest stuff:

http://mirror.raw.no/gnome2.2/ //works

http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.3/Debian/pool/main/    (works)

http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386/

                       both work for xfree86 4.3

http://people.debian.org/~nobse/debian/woody/experimental/xfree86/


http://lesbos.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~mleeman/debian/unstable/
                       // winex

http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian/dists/woody/bunk-1/
                       // gcc 3.2 and oowriter

kaffiene(kde xine frontend)
http://members.chello.at/kaffeine/

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# the Goa Engineering College, depending on timings suitable to          #
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TWO LITTLE boys exchanged toys, both went away with one toy each. Two wise
men exchanged ideas, both went away with two ideas each. -African proverb.


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