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Linux-Announce Digest #38
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[SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings (paulf)
FSFE writes Open Letter to International Bank of Settlements because ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.15.8 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?=)
Some FLOSS links. From Asia ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
[SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings (paulf)
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:58:30 CST
Subject: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings
From: paulf@quillandmouse.com (paulf)
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* Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) *
* Meeting Schedule *
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TAMPA ****************************************************
8 February 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second TUESDAY of each month)
***** PRESENTATION *******************************************
* Russell Hires, previewing his newly reworked SLUG website, *
* assembled using Plone and Zope. *
**************************************************************
Hillsborough Community College
Dale Mabry Campus
Student Services Bldg, Room 108
4001 Tampa Bay Blvd
Tampa, FL
See http://www.hccfl.edu/pollock/Docs/DM-Map.htm for directions.
SARASOTA/BRADENTON ***************************************
17 February 18:00-21:00 Sarasota
(third Tuesday of each month)
Sarasota Coffee & Tea Co.
1419 5th St (5th and Central)
Sarasota, FL 34236
See http://www.sarasotacoffee.com/contactus.htm for directions.
DUNEDIN **************************************************
26 February 10:00-12:00 Dunedin
(usually fourth Saturday of each month)
Dunedin Public Library
Community Room A or B (see notice on site)
Dunedin, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#dunedin for directions.
ST PETERSBURG ********************************************
28 February 19:00-21:00 St Petersburg
(usually last Monday of each month)
St Petersburg Public Library, Main Branch
Auditorium
3745 Ninth Ave North
St Petersburg, FL 33713
727-893-7724
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#stpete for directions.
BRANDON **************************************************
3 March 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
Brandon Barnes & Noble
Brandon Town Center
Brandon, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#Brandon for directions.
NEW PORT RICHEY ******************************************
5 March 13:00-15:00 New Port Richey
(first Saturday of each month)
New Port Richey Public Library
(second level meeting rooms)
5939 Main St.
New Port Richey, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#npr for directions.
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ACTIVITIES:
Meetings include:
1) Presentation: As indicated.
2) Question & Answer Session.
3) Raffle and free stuff!
Bring your boxes, questions, problems, and plenty of good cheer!
(And don't forget to start your installs early!)
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:45:58 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: FSFE writes Open Letter to International Bank of Settlements because
========== Forwarded message ==========
"Basel II is a round of deliberations by central bankers from around the
world, under the auspices of the International Bank of Settlements in
Basel, Switzerland, aimed at producing uniformity in the way banks and
banking regulators approach risk management across national borders."
[0] Mr Nout Wellink is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and
President of the International Bank Settlements.
Dear Mr. Wellink,
in our open letter [1] to the head of the Allianz insurance group,
Mr. Diekmann, we explained how software patents [2] are likely to
become a massive cost and risk factor for all money and information
technology intensive businesses like insurance companies. The same holds
true for banks.
Software patents establish monopolies on abstract ideas which are
available to anyone, including those who do no software development but
do have legal departments. Like all larger software projects, all parts
of Basel II consist of a multitude of ideas, each of which may become
subject to a monopoly by anyone. If you for instance check the database
of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), you will already discover
180 patents [3] on software ideas concerning "credit risk" -- the
central issue of Basel II.
There is no compulsory licensing for any of these, the particular
patent holder gets to determine the terms on which they will grant or
deny use of the monopoly on each individual idea.
But the implementations of Basel II will naturally also depend upon a
multitude of standard components, such as file services, databases,
transfer protocols and more. Each of these is similarly subject to
software patents. Since the number of methods to secure computer
systems is limited, this may mean that Basel II will have to implement
its features on a known insecure basis.
Once Basel II becomes widely used, a dramatic increase in software
patent infringement lawsuits for this area is likely to occur on a
global basis. Any bank or any of its customers for Basel II based
software may become target of such legal action -- the risk is
incalculable and can bring about multi-billion Euro lawsuits.
Most banks are still unaware of this threat -- they have not realized
that software patents will affect them to such an extent. When
we were recently talking to a German bank, they were shocked when they
realized what software patents will mean to their business.
Software patents will dramatically reduce the innovation rate and
competitiveness of European economy in general, and to you they mean
introducing an incalculable risk that can generate huge damages.
That is why we ask you to protect your interests and take initiatives
against software patents -- directly and by supporting our work. Also,
should you have further questions, please do not hesitate to get in
touch.
Best regards,
Georg Greve
Free Software Foundation Europe, President
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_II
[1] http://fsfeurope.org/projects/swpat/letter-20041004.en.html
[2] http://fsfeurope.org/projects/swpat/swpat.en.html
[3]
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=%22credit+risk%22&FIELD1=&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=ptxt
About the Free Software Foundation Europe:
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a charitable
non-governmental organisation dedicated to all aspects of Free
Software in Europe. Access to software determines who may participate
in a digital society. Therefore the Freedoms to use, copy, modify and
redistribute software - as described in the Free Software definition-
allow equal participation in the information age. Creating awareness
for these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and
giving people Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are
central issues of the FSFE. The FSFE was founded in 2001 as the
European sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation in the
United States.
When you would like to receive our press releases regularly please
subscribe to our mailinglist at
http://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/press-release.
Thank you very much for your interest.
--
Joachim Jakobs <jj@office.fsfeurope.org>
Press Speaker - FSF Europe (http://fsfeurope.org)
Heinrich-Heine-Str. 3, D-67134 Birkenheide (Tel: +49-179-6919565)
_______________________________________________
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:17:19 CST
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?= <michael@stroeder.com>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.15.8
Reply-To: feedback@web2ldap.de
HI!
Find a new release of web2ldap on
http://www.web2ldap.de/download.html
About:
web2ldap is a full-featured LDAPv3 client written in Python and designed
to run as a stand-alone Web gateway or under the control of a web server
with FastCGI or SCGI support (e.g., Apache with mod_fastcgi or mod_scgi).
Ciao, Michael.
***** 0.15.8 *****
Release Date: 2005-02-07
* Added new plugin class for syntax Interval on MS Active
Directory. This nicely displays timestamp values in the
following attributes:
o accountExpires
o badPasswordTime
o lastLogon
o lastLogonTimestamp
o lastLogoff
o pwdLastSet
* Added new plugin class for attribute instanceType on MS
Active Directory.
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:06:22 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Some FLOSS links. From Asia
This is from the Asia Source camp, just concluced in Bangalore.
See more at http://www.tacticaltech.org/asiasource/blog
========== Forwarded message ==========
Some FLOSS links. From Asia
Meet these good people, and their ventures. At least virtually! Warning:
some of the links might be only distantly related to the field of FLOSS.
* http://www.khmeros.info Making Cambodia "a country that does not
have to change to a new language in order to use computers!" This page
is linked to the work of Hok Kakada (20), Javier Sola, Keo Sophon (24)
among others.
For other Cambodia sites, visit
* http://www.forum.org.kh Open Forum of Cambodia
* http://www.cambodiacic.org Community Information Centre project
* http://www.nida.gov.kh/ National ICT Development Authority
* http://www.itm.edu.kh/ The varsity where Rapid Sun (a young
graduate who passed out in 2001) teaches Linux-Apache-MySQL-PhP
and related technologies.
* http://www.internux.net.id This is Adi Nugroho's Internet Service
Provider in Indonesia. Adi is the guy who built Indonesia's first
only-GNU/Linux cybercafe at the remote region of Makassar, some
1400 kms from Jakarta.
http://linux2.arinet.org Fajar Priyanto (Indonesia) keeps his Indonesian
GNU/Linux tutorial site here. Fajar is a convert from proprietorial
software to FLOSS fan.
And, at the risk of sounding arrogant by linking to myself, here are
some of this blogger's links:
* http://ilug-goa.swiki.net ILUG-Goa, a local user group
* http://linuxinindia.pitas.com Links to FLOSS in India
* http://wikiwikiweb.de/LugsList Listing of user groups
Here's some useful links to Indic localisation guru G Karunakar:
* http://www.indlinux.org IndLinux Project, check it out
* http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/ Wiki for the above project
* http://cartoonsoft.com/blog ("Just a personal blog. You need not
put it there," says GK.)
Indian Plone ace (and many things more) Kiran "Jace" Jonnalgadda's:
* http://jace.seacrow.com/me
Another localisation guru (and many things more, despite the young age)
Sayamindu Dasgupta's links:
* http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/ His home page.
* http://wlinux.ods.org/GNOME-2.6/ One of his often-Slashdotted
Gnome reviews.
* http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/index.php Sayamindu's
weekend hacker's blog
* http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/index.php?p=124 His blog
from Asia Source.
This is Sunil Abraham's NGO-dressed-as-a-company offering FLOSS-based
solutions to NGOs:
* http://www.mahiti.org
Sarai is a Delhi-based organisation that has been giving fellowships to
geeks working on FLOSS.
* http://www.sarai.net
Malaysian young guru Colin Charles -- currently studying in Melbourne --
has his website below. He's experienced with the Fedora Project and
OpenOffice.org, and has authored on lulu.com books on Fedora Core: Made
Simple and OpenOffice.org: Made Simple
* http://www.bytebot.net
Jaclyn 'Jac' Kee Siew Min of Malaysia is with the Association of
Progressive Communicators and other women's groups. FLOSS-linked in many
ways is the APC:
* http://www.apcwomen.org
APDIP is linked to IOSN.net (the International Open Source Network),
and, in turn, Seow Yoke May is linked to APDIP (she's the webmaster --
or webmistress, rather -- there).
* http://www.apdip.net A UNDP body
* http://www.iosn.net International Open Source Network, good
primers related to various aspects of FLOSS.
Khin Mi Mi Aung is from Myanmar (based in Korea, for her PhD) and offers
this LUG link
* http://www.myanmarlug.org
Kuma Raj Subedi "Kamal" from Nepal is a great narrator. Earlier
connected to the Ganesha Project of taking GNU/Linux to a Nepali school.
* http://ganeshas-project.org
http://opart.org/svcs (Silicon Village)
Sufyan Kakakhel of Pakistan is part of the Open Source Resource Centre
in Pakistan and founded an Open Source iinix Solutions company
* http://www.osrc.org.pk
* http://www.iinix.com
And Dong Calmada is the vice president of the Philipine Linux Users
Group, for external affairs. And do point to any links that might have
got inadvertently left out.
============================================================================
Frederick Noronha (FN) Nr Convent Saligao 403511 GoaIndia
Freelance Journalist P: 832-2409490 M: 9822122436
http://fn.swiki.net http://fn-floss.notlong.com
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Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your
vocation. --Aristotle
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 21:59:42 CST
Subject: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings
From: paulf@quillandmouse.com (paulf)
*************************************
* Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) *
* Meeting Schedule *
*************************************
*******************************************************
***** NOTE CHANGES TO TAMPA AND SARASOTA MEETINGS *****
*******************************************************
TAMPA ****************************************************
8 February 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second TUESDAY of each month)
***** PRESENTATION *******************************************
* Russell Hires, previewing his newly reworked SLUG website, *
* assembled using Plone and Zope. *
**************************************************************
Hillsborough Community College
Dale Mabry Campus
Conference Center (far east of main campus)
4001 Tampa Bay Blvd
Tampa, FL
See http://www.hccfl.edu/pollock/Docs/DM-Map.htm for directions.
SARASOTA/BRADENTON ***************************************
15 February 18:00-21:00 Sarasota
(third Tuesday of each month)
Sarasota Coffee & Tea Co.
1419 5th St (5th and Central)
Sarasota, FL 34236
See http://www.sarasotacoffee.com/contactus.htm for directions.
DUNEDIN **************************************************
26 February 10:00-12:00 Dunedin
(usually fourth Saturday of each month)
Dunedin Public Library
Community Room A or B (see notice on site)
Dunedin, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#dunedin for directions.
ST PETERSBURG ********************************************
28 February 19:00-21:00 St Petersburg
(usually last Monday of each month)
St Petersburg Public Library, Main Branch
Auditorium
3745 Ninth Ave North
St Petersburg, FL 33713
727-893-7724
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#stpete for directions.
BRANDON **************************************************
3 March 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
Brandon Barnes & Noble
Brandon Town Center
Brandon, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#Brandon for directions.
NEW PORT RICHEY ******************************************
5 March 13:00-15:00 New Port Richey
(first Saturday of each month)
New Port Richey Public Library
(second level meeting rooms)
5939 Main St.
New Port Richey, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#npr for directions.
***********************************************************
ACTIVITIES:
Meetings include:
1) Presentation: As indicated.
2) Question & Answer Session.
3) Raffle and free stuff!
Bring your boxes, questions, problems, and plenty of good cheer!
(And don't forget to start your installs early!)
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