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Software . Free Knowledge . Free Humanity
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FREE SOFTWARE
15th & 16th NOVEMBER, 2008
Venue: CUSAT CAMPUS, KOCHI
National Conference On Free Software 2008
is being organized in Cochin Kerala (India) on 15 and 16 November 2008.
Last years event was held in Hyderabad .Perhaps we should remedy this time around, I request
readers to please spread the word about the conference widely.
The event is organised by Appropriate Technology Promotion Society(ATPS) , CUSAT, Government of Kerala’s IT@School project and Open Software Solutions Industrial Cooperative Society Limited (OSS ICS)
If you like to attend National Conference on Free Software please register as a delegate online.
I think this is my first seminar I an going to attend.
My exams will start on this thursday starting with Economics. Time to study 
Wow I was shocked seeing the post of pramode sir’s BeagleBoard Experiments.
Actually I was in search of the board. Soon i have to visit him to see the board.
Please follow the link to get more details
http://blog.fosstronics.com/2008/10/21/beagleboard-experiments/
Last week i had a try on gNewSense.
It was one of the GNU/Linux distro recommended by GNU on the page linked here.
The one I am giving here is a file in the home folder of the gNewSense CD.
It the story of how gNewSense was made. So I taught of sharing it.
It was a seminar conducted by Brian Brazil on ILUG AGM 4th November 2006.
Please download it from here forking ubuntu
The actual file format is odp. But wordpress wont allow to upload odp.
So please rename it into ForkingUbuntu.odp
I have translated aroud 3 strings for GNOME desktop. So now I am proud to say that I am a proud GNOME contributor now !!
This is the web page of SMC
Visit the page of GNOME malayalam
In my opinion the best way to enter into the FLOSS is by joining a FSUG near you and start with localisation.
Today I had an chat with santhosh chettan. He also said me the same thing.
Here everyone are in a rush of setting up FSUG-Calicut and FSUG-Thrissur.
Visit mail pages of FSUG-Calicut and FSUG-Thrissur
Here are the files translated by myself
at-spi
hamster-applet http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/hamster-applet?view=revision&revision=480
seahorse-applet http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/seahorse?view=revision&revision=2557
If any one wants to join malayalam localisation team please visit http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Smc
