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Linux-Announce Digest #925
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Linux-Announce Digest #925, Volume #4 Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:13:04 EDT
Contents:
IOSN FLOSS primers ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.1.7 Development Release (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
Debian project at conferences and expos in Europe (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
FLOSS in Asia ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 07:49:55 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: IOSN FLOSS primers
Please visit http://www.iosn.net
The IOSN is producing a series of primers on Free/Libre and Open Source
Software (FLOSS). The primers serve as introductory documents to FOSS in
general, as well as covering particular topic areas in greater detail. Their
purpose is to raise FOSS awareness, particularly among policy-makers,
practitioners and educators.
FOSS General Introduction Primer FOSS in Education Primer FOSS Government and
Policy Primer
Pre-publication copy for public review and feedback
FOSS Licensing Primer
Draft for public review and feedback
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Frederick Noronha (FN) Nr Convent Saligao 403511 GoaIndia
Freelance Journalist P: 832-2409490 M: 9822122436
http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks http://fn.swiki.net
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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:11:43 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.1.7 Development Release (fwd)
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Hi,
a new development snapshot of GIMP 2.1 is now available from
ftp.gimp.org and it's mirrors:
http://gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors
This is not yet the awaited pre-release since we haven't yet sorted
out the last changes we will need to do. We are however feature and
string frozen now. Or at least we will try to keep string changes and
new features to a minimum so that we can get out the first pre-release
for 2.2 out by the end of this month.
Please note that you cannot install gimp-2.1 side-by-side with
gimp-2.0 into the same prefix. A number of files will clash, so please
use a separate prefix to install this development version! For
details, please read the file INSTALL.
Please help us to get 2.2 out soon by testing this release. Please
also have a look at the documentation files we distribute with the
tarball, read the man-pages and let us know what needs updating for
2.2. We need your contributions to make 2.2 happen soon and to make it
a success.
Here's an overview of the changes since 2.1.6 was released:
Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.1.7
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- Added even more plug-in previews (Value Propagate, Cubism, Colorify)
and ported existing previews to the new widgets (AlienMap2, FlareFX,
Jigsaw, NL Filter, Waves, Scatter HSV).
- More PDB API cleanups.
- Allow to specify the batch interpreter on the command-line.
- Improved selection-round script and moved it to the Select menu.
- Don't switch the active layer when using the Move tool.
- Updated libgimpthumb to support local thumbnails as introduced by
version 0.7 of the thumbnail spec.
- Automatically create thumbnails from the Open dialog.
- Added entries next to most viewable buttons.
- Added a bunch of scripts to manipulate guides.
- Improved confirmation and warning dialogs.
- Lots of bug fixes.
Contributors:
Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, David Odin, Manish Singh, Kevin Cozens,
Alan Horkan, Jakub Steiner
Happy GIMPing, Sven
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Debian project at conferences and expos in Europe (fwd)
Date: 15 Oct 2004 19:35:08 GMT
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The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/Ne=
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Debian project at conferences and expos in Europe press@debian.=
org
October 15th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/News/2004/20041=
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Debian project at several conferences and exhibitions in Europe
Seven exhibitions and conferences that will cover Free Software and
GNU/Linux will take place within the following weeks in several citie=
s
in Europe.
October 16th - 17th Mini Italian Debconf
Sesto S. Giovanni, Italy
http://www.debian.org/events/2004/1016-minidebc=
onf
This mini Debian conference is dedicated to talks, workshops,
development and translations with the common interest to
contribute to the Debian project.
Saturday, October 16th
14:00 Mattia Monga Introduction to the project Debia=
n
15:00 Carlo Contavalli Introduction to TLA
16:00 Stefano Melchior User Mode Linux (UML) for debuggi=
ng
17:00 Stefano Zacchiroli OCAML programming and packaging
18:00 Question from the audience, answer by Debian Develope=
rs
Sunday, October 17th
10:30 Marco Presi Custom Debian & Debian NP
11:30 Enrico Zini Debtags and guessnet
14:00 Key Signing Party
16:00 Installation party, questions and answers
October 18th - 22nd Systems
Munich, Germany
http://www.debian.org/events/2004/1018-systems
The Debian project will be present in booth 534 in a special
area dedicated to Free Software projects in exhibition hall A=
2.
Skolelinux / Debian-Edu will also have a booth.
We have received a bunch of coupons that can be turned into
gratis entrance tickets (after leaving private information at
the systems website). Contact events@debian.org if you are
interested.
October 22nd - 23rd Berlinux
Berlin, Germany
http://www.debian.org/events/2004/1022-berlinux
The Debian project and its subproject Skolelinux / Debian-Edu
will both run a booth in the exhibition area. There will be
additional talks with Debian related topics:
Sa. 10:00 Frank Ronneburg Software management with Debia=
n GNU/Linux
Sa. 12:00 Nico Golde Creating Debian packages
Sa. 13:00 Alexander Schmehl News about Debian GNU/Linux 3.=
1 "Sarge"
October 22nd OS04
Graz, Austria
http://www.debian.org/events/2004/1022-os04
Debian will be represented with a small booth and an
introduction talk about the Debian project and the Debian
GNU/Linux distribution given by Gerfried Fuchs.
October 26th - 28th LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
http://www.debian.org/events/2004/1026-lwe
The Debian project, its subproject Skolelinux / Debian-Edu an=
d
the Debian based X-Box-Linux project will be present with
booths in the .org pavilion and show their distributions.
There will be additional talks with Debian related topics:
Tu. 18:00 Jens K=FChnel XBox-Linux
We. 18:00 Alexander Schmehl Debian Sarge - before and beyo=
nd
October 30th Linux-Info-Tag
Dresden, Germany
http://www.debian.org/events/2004/1030-lit-dres=
den
The Debian project and its subproject Skolelinux / Debian-Edu
will run a booth in the exhibition area. There will be
additional talks with Debian related topics:
10:00 Simon Richter Creating Debian packages (workshop=
)
10:00 Christian Perle Knoppix remastering (workshop)
15:00 Alexander Schmehl Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "Sarge"
18:00 Konrad Rosenbaum Keysigning Party
October 30th Practical Linux
Giessen, Germany
http://www.debian.org/events/2004/1030-plgiesse=
n
The Debian project and its subproject Skolelinux / Debian-Edu
will both run a booth in the exhibition area. There will be
additional talks with Debian related topics:
13:30 Wilhelm Dolle Government Desktop ERPOSS
14:30 Martin Herwig EduKnoppix
16:30 Jens K=FChnel Linux for the Xbox
We invite all interested people in these areas to attend these
conferences, meet Debian developers and users, exchange GnuPG
fingerprints, discuss various topics on Debian and Free Software,
and otherwise participate in our vibrant community.
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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:49:12 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: FLOSS in Asia
Journalist writing on Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in Asia
seeks links to interesting projects, people and user-groups in Asia.
Kindly put me in touch with people you know so as to be able to focus on
deserving projects.
Thanks in advance! FN
PS: Earlier work at http://fn-floss.notlong.com
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Frederick Noronha (FN) Nr Convent Saligao 403511 GoaIndia
Freelance Journalist P: 832-2409490 M: 9822122436
http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks http://fn.swiki.net
http://www.ryze.com/go/fredericknoronha http://fn-floss.notlong.com
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