A long awaited welcome to the FLOSSToday List
Hi,

A warm welcome to FLOSSToday - a mailing list dedicated to spreading the word about Free/Libre Open Source Software events in India and South-East Asia.

In recent times, the FLOSS movement has seen tremendous activity from South-East Asia and especially India. With applications and usage of FLOSS in the domains that are socially relevant, such movements play a pivotal role in the ICT4D initiatives that are being implemented across the region. New business models, methods and processes have emerged which challenge existing ideas and come across as true representatives of the "disruptive" aspects of FLOSS. Each brings new events, happenings and thoughts. The true champions of such a globally distributed movement are the countless road warriors who toil away with unbridled enthusiasm to make a dream come true. They cherish an ideal and work ceaselessly at attaining their objectives.

FLOSSToday aims to be a medium to disseminate information about such events, roadshows, conferences, symposia and meets. Nothing is too small to be posted here, no event themed around FLOSS is irrelevant. At the end, it also aims to provide visibility to the bands of developers, volunteers, enthusiasts, FSUGs, LUGs, GLUGs, technocrats, who contribute in their own unique way to take the movement forward.

All mailing lists follow a general protocol, and FLOSSToday is no exception. The following general rules apply ::

* no HTML or otherwise non-plaintext formatted mails
* no spams (spam filters are in place, but this is a formal announcement all the same)
* no attachments to the list (unless requested beforehand to the ListAdmin)
* no mail over 40KB in size
* no commercial mail (unless the ListOwner feels it merits posting)

We hope that together we will be successful in talking about what is happening today, thus defining the roadmap for the future.

Have a wonderful day and may the source be with you

Warm regards
Frederick Noronha :: fred at bytesforall dot org
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay :: sankarshanmukhopadhyay at vsnl dot net
- posted by sankarshan @ 12/01/2003 09:59:00 PM 0 comments

 
Announcing the GNOME India list :: GNOME Marketing
Hi,

A warm welcome to the GNOME India list.

What is GNOME?
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The GNOME Project is an effort to create a complete, Free and easy-to-use desktop environment for users, as well as a powerful application development framework for software developers.

To learn more about GNOME, please visit http://www.gnome.org/about


GNOME is part of the GNU project which goal is to build a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system.

To learn more about the GNU project , please visit http://www.gnu.org

In recent times, the development efforts and initiatives in the domain of localisation has seen tremendous development activity with the GNOME platform. We believe that this list can thus help in promoting the use of GNOME desktop and development platform among general public (users) and developers in India. The medium for such an effort is this mailing list ::

gnome-in-list@gnome.org

This mailing-list is kindly provided by the GNOME project as a place for advocacy, chit-chat, event planning, and promoting the use of GNOME desktop and development platform in India.

This is a regional list of GNOME Marketing Team -





Why this mailing list?
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The list aims to analyse, visualise, strategise and ideate on the various aspects of promotion of GNOME in sync with the aims and objectives of the GNOME Marketing team. Through a collaborative effort incorporating the best element of the classical F/L OSS model, the list aims to reflect the vibrant and emerging interest in GNOME.

We hope to provide a place for discussing the regional advocacy and event organization efforts of GNOME in India.

This list may work as the central place of discussion for the Indian GNOME hackers (may their tribe increase!!), for planning on local level GNOME advocacy, demo sessions, and for the discussion of the various GNOME localization projects going on in the various corners of India.
Moreover India wide promotion campaigns/activities for GNOME can also be discussed here.

Your presence on this list reflects your abiding passion for GNOME and we hope that together we can share our knowledge and experiences to create a community of believers.

How to subscribe?
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http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-in-list

Receipt of this mail generally indicates that you have been subscribed to the mailing list. As is the norm, regular monthly reminders of the password will also be made available. The above link is a shorthand that we encourage to use in mail signatures so as so 'talk about GNOME India'.

Have a wonderful day and may the source be with you,

Warm regards

Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay :: sankarshanmukhopadhyay@vsnl.net
Sayamindu Dasgupta :: sayamindu@clai.net
- posted by sankarshan @ 12/01/2003 09:59:00 PM 0 comments