Synergised Task-list with Status
Initial FOSSCOMM meeting decided that members would put forward tasks they will be doing and invite other members to join. Here is a list of items , members are/will be doing. Others are free to join and collaborate - Please Add The status update
Challenge a Software patent - CIS, ALF
Create template letters to be written to government departments,advocating foss - ITfC,CIS
Helping with making syllabus vendor neutral - Renuka Prasad, Sriram "Ram" Narayanan, Shyam K
In Bangalore - pilot project to train education department staff on GNU/linux for the ICT in school education project- ITfC,Renuka Prasad, Anivar Aravind Sriram, Harish Singh
Status -Proposal has been submitted to the government and initial approval for the project has been obtained.This project will involve training 20-40 government high school teachers the basics of GNU/Linux and open office suite.Discussions on schedule etc will be done by week of June 8. -- Vinay (June 04 2009)
- challenge bundling of h/w and s/w - ITfC, CIS, ALF
Status -One of the impediments for the success of FOSS is the large number of anti-competitive practices in the software sector. The main problems FOSS faces in this realm are -
- 1.The bundling of proprietary software with hardware. 2.Software Dumping. 3.Non Inter-operability
- An initial legal note has been prepared for the same (to be shared with FOSSCOMM shortly). A meeting will be held shortly to discuss taking this forward. -- Vinay (June 04 2009)
Meeting of VCs(vice-chancellors) and workshop for the same - NRC-FOSS, ITfC, Renuka Prasad, CIS, Kingsly John,Anivar Aravind
Status -NRC-FOSS is willing to arrange for a FOSS workshop for Mysore University. ITfC has spoken to the Mysore VC who has agreed to host the workshop. NRC-FOSS has also written to Mysore VC about the workshop. This project will get started once Mysore University sends out a formal invite which is likely to happen within the next week -- Vinay (June 04 2009)
Offer a framework that can batch convert ASCII Encoded legacy documents to Unicode, .odt format - Santosh, Anivar Aravind, Swatantra Malayalam Computing
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (SMC) developed A bidirectional converter for ASCII <==> Unicode for called as Payyans, which is usuable for any indic languages with the help of fontmaps for each font. Now it only supports text & PDF . Unicode support is being implemented. -- Anivar Aravind Updated on June 20 2009
Solve Nudi kannada software problem technically - Sampada & ITfc with the help of Swathanthra Malayalam computing
Status -Nudi is the official Government of Karnataka ASCII font scheme & Input method . The Nudi software is released by GoK as a non-free windows binary and it does not work on GNU/Linux. Getting the government to adopt GNU/Linux is not possible till we get Nudi to work on the same, since the government uses only Nudi for creating Kannada documents. Hence there is a need to come up with a solution to get Nudi to work on GNU/Linux. A project has been initiated for the same - Vinay
Foss based training modules for community radio - Moving Republic
Organize foss beginner meets in Bangalore - Vidya Ayer, HP Nadig, Abhinav Sahai
Translation of foss training material to Kannada - Arvind, Om shivprakash
Help with designing promotional materials - Harish Singh, Hiran
Technical support - Abhas Abhinav
Will be done in June 09
Meet education and e-governance departments to promote foss - ITfC, Suparna Diwakar
Will be done in June 09
Openstreet map of karnataka - Renuka Prasad