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Linux-Announce Digest #794
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Linux-Announce Digest #794, Volume #4 Tue, 8 Jun 2004 23:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Guikachu 1.4.1: GNOME Resource editor for PalmOS projects (ERDI Gergo)
Virtual forum: FLOSS for e-learning ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
[FSFE PR][EN] FSF Europe newsletter (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 06:37:36 CST
From: ERDI Gergo <cactus@cactus.rulez.org>
Subject: Guikachu 1.4.1: GNOME Resource editor for PalmOS projects
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Dear users of both large and small computing tools,
A new stable release of Guikachu is available.
About Guikachu
==============
Guikachu is a GNOME application for graphical editing of resource
files for PalmOS-based pocket computers. The user interface is
modelled after Glade, the GNOME UI builder.
Catch it all from http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu/
Features
========
* Uses GNOME-VFS, you can load files from anywhere, e.g. from the
Web, from an SMB share, from a tarball.
* Exporting to/importing from PilRC .rcp files
* Support for non-Palm PilRC targets (like the eBookMan)
* Support for the following PalmOS resource types:
=09- String and string list resources
=09- Dialog resources
=09- Menu resources
=09- Form resources
=09- Bitmap resources
=09- Per-application resources (e.g. version number)
* WYSIWYG Form Editor, with drag & drop capability and visual resizing
* Flexible, complete undo support
* Sample file with sample GNU PalmOS SDK-based application
* Documentation (a complete user's manual)
About these releases
====================
* Fixed crashes at startup when using certain locales
* Some fixes in the Undo system
* Pop up context menus from keyboard
* New Brazilian Portugese translation
Guikachu uses GTKmm and GNOMEmm for its user interface. I/O is
implemented via GNOME-VFS, the XML storage format is managed with the
libxml package. Dialog windows are loaded via libglade. GConf is used
to store user preferences. You will need the versions of these
packages available in the GNOME 1.4 bundle (with the exception of
GNOMEmm which you will need to upgrade to the recently released
version 1.2.4). The ImageMagick library is used for managing bitmap
resources. To actually create the PalmOS resource files, you will also
need PilRC (part of the GNU PalmOS SDK) to compile the .rpc files
produced by Guikachu.
Beware of bug=E9mons!
Cactus
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:12:43 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Virtual forum: FLOSS for e-learning
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http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=15841&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1086621897
UNESCO's IIEP Organizes Virtual Forum on Free and Open Source Software for E-Learning
25-05-2004 (UNESCO)
An internet discussion on "Virtual Forum on Free and Open Source Software" (FOSS) is being organized by the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) in response to the interest expressed during the first discussion forum Virtual universities and e-learning Policy issues – What are they? and Whose are they? associated with the IIEP study on the virtual university and e-learning.
At the conclusion of the first forum in February 2004, many participants asked IIEP to maintain its support for the community built around the topic of e-learning. The objective of this second forum is to support information exchange and reflection upon the potential of free and open source software for e-learning and to consider the pros and cons and its applicability for developing countries.
The forum will take place from 1-25 June 2004 and will be organized in two sessions.
Session 1 (1-11 June):
FOSS – what is it and what should you know about it?
FOSS for e-learning – what are the pros and cons?
Session 2 (14-25 June):
FOSS solutions for e-learning
It will be generally moderated by Susan D’Antoni, the editor of the IIEP study on the virtual university, with input from the members of the informal organizing group for the forum:
Tony Bailetti (Carleton University, Canada)
Jean Claude Dauphin (UNESCO)
Ross Gardler (University of the West Indies)
Stafano Mazzocchi (Apache Software Foundation)
Paul West (Commonwealth of Learning).
The format will be informal with an open exchange of information among participants. However, in addition to the informed input from the organizing group, some experts have been invited to share their experience and ideas.
Participants will be given a brief document introducing the forum, with several suggested general background documents.
The discussion and debate will be summarized in a report that will be made available to all the participants as documentation on the issues and concerns related to the potential of FOSS for e-learning.
To join the forum, you can send an e-mail message to: virtual.university@iiep.unesco.org
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: [FSFE PR][EN] FSF Europe newsletter (fwd)
Date: 8 Jun 2004 21:35:00 GMT
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1. Introducing the FSFE newsletter
2. EU Council decision on software patents directive
3. AGNULA
4. Welcoming FSFE press speaker Joachim Jakobs
5. Georg Greve in South America
6. Protecting Free Software from over regulation
7. Other important public appearances
1. Introducing the FSFE newsletter
Around the official general assembly of the Free Software Foundation
Europe on May 15, the core members took the chance to discuss several
ideas on how to improve public information about the activities of the
FSFE. One of the results was the decision to periodically publish a
newsletter, and this is the first one.
2. EU Council decision on software patents directive
The most widely regarded event in May was probably the decision of the
Council of the European Union about the Software Patent Directive. After
the European Parliament made its clear vote against unlimited
patentability of software algorithms, the Irish Presidency proposed a
version of the directive that undoes virtually all of the Parliament's
changes. Even though some countries did not approve it, this version got
the necessary qualified majority in the Council.
The fact that the Council's opposition against software patent was still
stronger than expected can well be regarded as a result of the
successful cooperation of FSFE, FFII and many other organizations in
informing citizens and politicians about the danger of the Presidency's
proposal. As the decision process is still not finished, the FSFE will
continue to work on the software patent issue together with these
organizations.
3. AGNULA
While AGNULA (A GNU/Linux Audio Distribution) is already regarded a big
success by all participants (and also by the European Union, who funded
the project), work is not over with the final release. The FSFE still
supports the project by helping with things like the AGNULA trademark
license.
4. Welcoming FSFE press speaker Joachim Jakobs
To relieve the core members from the increasingly time-consuming press
work, the FSFE hired Joachim Jakobs on a part-time basis as a press
speaker.
5. Georg Greve in South America
Georg Greve is currently visiting several locations in South America,
getting in contact with local Free Software Activists there and
supporting them in building up a Free Software network there like the
FSFE is here. His public activities in South America included an
interview for Argentinas most important newspaper, a speech at the
University of Cordoba about Free Software in Education, an interview for
TV as well as for the largest national radio station in Uruguay and the
keynote at USUARIA, a South American congress on Free Software topics.
We expect these activities to help building up a global network of Free
Software organizations, of which the FSFE will be an essential part.
6. Protecting Free Software from over regulation
The Italian Chapter has been very busy trying to amend a new Italian
law that could harm Free Software. To limit the supposed damages that
the Italian motion picture and record industry claims to come from
peer-to-peer file sharing, the government proposed a law that makes it
illegal to publish any digital content on the web without "declaring
to the SIAE that the publisher has a license to do so". The law also
introduces more restrictions, making a criminal offense punishable
with up to four years of jail sharing without consent of the author
any file on the web, even if it is not "for profit".
The law is so absurd that FSF Europe has been asked by BSA (Business
Software Alliance) to cooperate to prevent its approval.
Unfortunately, though, the law passed despite the fact that in the end
both the government and the opposition agreed that "it is a very bad
law". The government promised to correct it soon and already
announced a revision: FSFE will continue its strong pressure on the
whole Parliament.
7. Other important public appearances
Stefano Maffulli participated at a forum about "Intellectual property"
at the Istituto Bruno Leoni (IBL) in Italy to point out some problems
regarding software patents. At the end of the month he participated
to a "summit of Italian free software organizations" in Avellino where
there was the chance to discuss a better coordination between them.
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