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Date: 2004-12-07 1:13:02
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Linux-Announce Digest #972, Volume #4 Tue, 7 Dec 2004 01:13:02 EST
Contents:
[SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings (paulf)
[SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings (paulf)
FSF Europe Newsletter (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
eek": GNOME Resource editor for PalmOS projects (ERDI Gergo)
TuxMobil News 11/2004 (Werner Heuser)
Jambo Open Office... ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 05:41:39 CST
Subject: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings
From: paulf@quillandmouse.com (paulf)
*************************************
* Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) *
* Meeting Schedule *
*************************************
TAMPA ****************************************************
7 December 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second TUESDAY of each month)
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 ***************************************
15 December 18:00-21:00 Sarasota
(third Wednesday of each month)
THIS MEETING ONLY:
Sarasota Coffee and Tea Company
5th and Central
Rosemary District near downtown Sarasota
See http://www.sarasotacoffee.com/contactus.htm
USUALLY:
Honeywell
8323 Lindbergh Court
Sarasota, FL
See http://www.bish.net/directions/
DUNEDIN **************************************************
18 December 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 ********************************************
27 December 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.
NEW PORT RICHEY ******************************************
1 January 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.
BRANDON **************************************************
6 January 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.
***********************************************************
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, 6 Dec 2004 05:41:49 CST
Subject: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings
From: paulf@quillandmouse.com (paulf)
*************************************
* Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) *
* Meeting Schedule *
*************************************
TAMPA ****************************************************
7 December 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second TUESDAY of each month)
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 ***************************************
15 December 18:00-21:00 Sarasota
(third Wednesday of each month)
THIS MEETING ONLY:
Sarasota Coffee and Tea Company
5th and Central
Rosemary District near downtown Sarasota
See http://www.sarasotacoffee.com/contactus.htm
USUALLY:
Honeywell
8323 Lindbergh Court
Sarasota, FL
See http://www.bish.net/directions/
DUNEDIN **************************************************
18 December 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 ********************************************
27 December 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.
NEW PORT RICHEY ******************************************
1 January 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.
BRANDON **************************************************
6 January 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.
***********************************************************
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, 6 Dec 2004 11:49:09 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: FSF Europe Newsletter (fwd)
This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text,
while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.
1. FSFE stands firm in Microsoft case
2. FSFE gains observer status at the WIPO
3. Intensifying world wide co-operation
4. Two FSFE members attending SFScon
5. Other public appearances
1. FSFE stands firm in Microsoft case
Microsoft has steadily been soliciting supporters of the European
Commission antitrust case to withdraw their support for the Commissio=
n
by offering a series of financial settlements. The agreement with Sun
Microsystems to withdraw has now been joined by financial settlements
with Novell and the CCIA, after which they also agreed to withdraw fr=
om
the case. In light of these developments, the FSFE reaffirms its
determination to support the European Commission in the landmark
antitrust case, in which a decision is expected soon.
This leaves much of the European Commission case depending on the
independence and reliability of FSFE, but it also increments the
personal and financial resources the FSFE will have to spend.
Everybody can help to strengthen FSFE's position against Microsoft
with a donation.
http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/ms-vs-eu/
http://www.fsfeurope.org/help/paypal.en.html
2. FSFE gains observer status at the WIPO
The Free Software Foundation Europe is now officially accredited as
observer at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), wher=
e
it will be working along with others to question the ideology that
more monopolisation of knowledge is always good. As announced in the
October WIWO statement, FSFE will be working to change WIPO towards a
"World Intellectual Wealth Organisation."
http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/wipo/
3. Intensifying world wide co-operation
Earlier last month, Georg Greve contributed a keynote to the Congress=
o
Internacional de Software Livre (CONISLI) in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He
also used the opportunity to increase communication with the vibrant
Brazilian Free Software community and visit several Telecentros in
Sao Paulo. The Telecentro movement is currently the largest digital
inclusion project in the world and a prime example how Free Software
can sustainably and directly empower people.
4. Two FSFE members attending SFScon
The LUG Bozen/Bolzano/Bulsan decided to enrich their traditional
LinuxDay with the first South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFScon)=
..
This event also addressed people outside the usual target group, for
example with a meeting of Wikipedia authors. The FSFE supported this
conference with three speeches: Werner Koch talked about "privacy and
encryption techniques", and Alessandro Rubini presented "Free Softwar=
e
in teaching" and gave an "Introduction to kernel programming".
5. Other public appearances
On 5 November, a seminar on Free Software was organised in V=C3=A4ste=
r=C3=A5s by
the local LUG, the Swedish Linux Association and the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering at M=C3=A4lardalen University. Jonas=
=C3=96berg
gave an introduction about the four freedoms that make software free.
At a local event in Genova on 11 November, Alessandro Rubini held a
speech about the development process of Free Software. He explained
that while collaborative development is good, smaller projects often
cannot build up a large community. Still, as long as the software is
free, the projects remain useful in their niche problem space even
years after development stopped. Several schools participated in the
event, and the final discussion brought in the topic of Free Software
in education and the problem of software patents.
You can find a list of all FSF Europe newsletters on
http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/newsletter.en.html
_______________________________________________
Press-release mailing list
Press-release@fsfeurope.org
https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/press-release
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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:18:43 CST
From: ERDI Gergo <cactus@cactus.rulez.org>
Subject: eek": GNOME Resource editor for PalmOS projects
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while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.
Dear users of both large and small computing tools,
A new unstable 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:
- String and string list resources
- Dialog resources
- Menu resources
- Form resources
- Bitmap resources
- 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 this release
=================This release is part of the 1.5 development branch, so it's all \
about crazy experimentations and not about providing a polished, well-tested
product -- so don't quite replace your 1.4 Guikachu just yet.
New in this release:
Due to popular request, the ImageMagick dependancy has been
dropped. All image handling is now done by either GdkPixbuf, or
Guikachu's own internal functions.
Guikachu uses the GNOME 2 platform, particularly the GNOMEmm and GTKmm
C++ bindings. 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 bugémons!
Cactus
--
.--= ULLA! =---------------------. `We are not here to give users what
\ http://cactus.rulez.org \ they want' -- RMS, at GUADEC 2001
`---= cactus@cactus.rulez.org =---'
`I can hardly see the relevence of placing something that requires a bit of thought \
to solve on slashdot'' -- comment on Slashdot
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From: Werner Heuser <Werner.Heuser@web.de>
Subject: TuxMobil News 11/2004
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 15:41:17 CST
Hello,
the "TuxMobil News Digest" for November 2004[1] has good news
for Linux PDA, mobile phone, laptop and notebook users. Here is an
extract of the most important or most interesting messages.
If you are missing news, applications or documents, don't
hesitate to contact me.
Werner Heuser
|=| Monthly Highlights
|=| According to LinuxDevices[2] the German company NaviFlash "has
used embedded Linux to build an in-car navigation system ... The device comes
pre-installed with detailed maps of Germany, and the main roads of Europe,
with maps of 17 other European countries also available. The NaviFlash is
based on an Intel XScale PXA255 processor, ... it includes a GPS receiver
capable of tracking 12 satellites." More about Linux and navigation
systems and GPS at TuxMobil[3].
[1] http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_news_2004_11.html
[2] http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4987109591.html
[3] http://tuxmobil.org/navigation_gps.html
|=| Complete Monthly Digest
[1] http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_news_2004_10.html
|=| Daily RSS, Archive, Submission Form, Subscription
You may find the _daily_ TuxMobil News RSS/XML channel, the archiv and
a news submission form at http://tuxmobil.org/newsfeed.html
BTW: You may subscribe to the complete _monthly_ digest there, too.
--
|=| Werner Heuser = Berliner Str. 122 = D-13187 Berlin = Germany
|=| <wehe at tuxmobil.org> T. 0049 - (0)30 - 349 53 86
|=| http://TuxMobil.org UniX on Mobile Systems: HOWTOs,Software
|*| This is no time for phony rhetoric -- Lou Reed
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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 23:29:11 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Jambo Open Office...
SUMMARY
http://www.o.ne.tz - http://www.kilinux.org
Because it could be done, we play our part!
Swahili Free and Open Source Software.
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,
As the Father of Tanzania, the late Mwalimu Nyerere will always be
remembered by his famous saying: "It can be done; play your part".
Today, 4th December 2004, The Open Swahili Localization Project, also
known as Kilinux, is proud to announce the first ever release of a
free office suite software in Swahili, called "Jambo OpenOffice."
Jambo OpenOffice is the Swahili version of OpenOffice.org, a leading
international effort to provide a free and open source office suite
based on open standards and capable of running on all major computer
platforms.
This pioneering effort is funded by the Swedish International
Development Agency (SIDA) and The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM).
It is coordinated by the Department of Computer Science (UDSM),
Institute of Kiswahili Research (IKR) and the Swedish consultancy
company IT+46. The project does not only aim to localize free and open
source software into Swahili, but also to create awareness of the
benefits of using and extending free software.
For more information: info@kilinux.org
FULL PRESS RELEASE in english, swahili, spanish, swedish, catalan,
and french
http://www.o.ne.tz
http://www.kilinux.org
Main project coordinator, UDSM
Dr. Hashim Twaakyondo
Email:htwaaky@cs.udsm.ac.tz
Phone: +255 22 24 10 657 (office), +255 744 386261 (mobile)
Technical project coordinator, IT +46
Dr. Alberto Escudero Pascual
Email: aep@it46.se
Phone: +255 745 88 40 04
ICT Project Manager, SIDA
Jens Nilsen
Email: jens.nilsen@sida.se
Phone: +255 22 21 22 235 (office), +255 744 44 44 80 (mobile)
=======================================
APC Forum is a meeting place for the APC community - people and
institutions who are or have been involved in collaboration with APC, and share
the APC vision - a world in which all people have easy, equal and affordable
access to the creative potential of information and communication technologies
(ICTs) to improve their lives and create more
democratic and egalitarian societies.
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