September 22nd, 2008
The convention on Freedom and Software, hosted by the Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu (as they claim to be) celebrated 25th anniversary of the GNU on Sunday, 21st September. The principal objective of the event is to launch of the project on the Tamil version of the GNU/Linux operating system, as it would be named later. Did we really need yet another Linux distribution? Why not working with existing localisation team at #Ubuntu, #Fedora so and so’s; this may expand members to enhance productivity.
Moving on, Ramadoss. M launched his book titled “Kattatra Menporul” on the same event. He’s been a friendly member of LUG-Chennai. This book is a translated essays of Richard M. Stallman in Tamil, which it has be published as a Copyleft license. It’s an ambitious work and a commendable attempt to translate to the screen.
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Tags: kattatra_menporul, tamil
September 20th, 2008
Venue:
Sunday 21st September 2008, 04.00PM - 7.00PM
Russian Cultural Center
27, Kasturi Ranga Road
Cathedral Road, Chennai
India - 600018.
You can also register youself at http://freedomandsoftware.info
Key speakers are
N. Ram - Editor, The Hindu,
Debesh Das - Minister of Information Technology, West Bengal,
Kiran Chandra -Director, Free Software Foundation India,
Prabir Purkayastha - Secretary, Delhi Science Forum,
M. Subramanian - The Mayor.
Update: However, there is a little bit of controversy running around in gnu-india mailinglist, #1, #2
Tags: Chennai, Convention, Freedom
April 3rd, 2008
National Seminar on Emerging Trends in Computing Technology (Bharath University, Selaiyur, Chennai): April 04, 2008
A day full of in-depth breakout sessions, paper presentations and gaming, sounds like a pretty good place to have a go. Well, if you like those things, then you’ll probably won’t miss it :-)
Tags: Bharath University, Chennai, College, Symposium, TamilNadu
February 10th, 2008
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January 18th, 2008
Been some time since my last post - I didn’t have anything to write about, so I didn’t. It’s 2008. Over the past year, there are good and bad times. I’m too excited that it’s to settle myself back down, and getting up is considerably from last years pace. Wish that 2008 is a good year for everyone! Happy New Year
Tags: Personal