The latest and the greatest new version of Linux Ubuntu, the server, desktop and laptop operating system preferred by intelligent children and students in Indian schools and colleges is now due out in one more month.
April 24 2008 is the scheduled date for the worldwide release of the free and most useful operating system for Indians who want to learn quality and modern software development and open source software technologies - Ubuntu 8.04 .
The new features for the benefit of those who have already been using Ubuntu Linux for more than one year in Indian markets and on Indian computers are :
1. New Linux Kernel
2. Gnome 2.22
3. Python Software Programming Language version 2.5.2
4. Firefox browser version 3
For more details about using this free and modern Ubuntu Linux version for your favorite computer or laptop - Ubuntu 8.04 code named Hardy Heron see the Ubuntu Wiki
Yes April 2008 - Watch out for the best gift for your computer and printer - Ubuntu Linux
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
How to send an Email to Shri Lalu Prasad Yadav in Hindi ?
How to send an Email in Hindi to Shri Lalu Prasad Yadav ?
LokVidya IT KaryaShala Evam Manthan - July/August 2008 - Dehradoon
Duration - 7 Days
Format - A group of 50 - 60 participants will live together for 7 days and interact in loose group settings.
Costs : Free to participate - Organizations pay for their participants travel, hostel, stationary and food costs - Voluntary contributions welcome
Topic - LokVidya IT and related issues in context of and as relevant to - swadeshi samaj and IT hierarchies.
Access - Open to all age-groups, backgrounds and IT skill levels.
Girls and youth from Hindi speaking and rural background will get priority over English speaking and urban background participants in case hostel accommodation is exceeded.
Breakup - Groups of 10 participants will join together to form Teams. Each Team will have access to One Desktop Computer and Free Software.
Participants should be encouraged to ask questions and actively kill fear of Information Technology.
Leader of each group will be rated by the team on how cooperative and knowledgeable he or she is.
Is knowledge to be shared or to be kept secret and mystified ?
Participants - About 15 from each activist organization - Any participant who has a laptop can bring it along if it has Ubuntu loaded on it or wants Ubuntu loaded on it.
Medium of Instruction - Hindi and English
Proposed Content - A. Karyashala B. Manthan
Rough Outline of LokVidya IT - 1 - Course Content :
A. LokVidyaIT Karyashala and Manthan :
1. Demonstration of component parts of a Desktop Computer and UPS
2. Connecting and Installing a Computer with UPS - Power Connections - Internet connection
3. Examining an Ubuntu Linux CD
4. Installing Ubuntu Linux on a computer - independently by oneself - then reformatting Hard Disk and Reinstalling Ubuntu - Remove fear of Computers - Does Software cause a shock ? Brief discussion of Directory structure.
5. Reading and Discussing about Ubuntu software ownership and Terms of Use - Asking Who is making Free Software for Me and Why ?
Asking who is NOT making Free Software for me and Why ?
6. Tips for teaching others how to Ubuntu - especially children, youth and women
7. Creating a free Email Account and remembering Password details
8. Configuring speaker and multimedia connections
9. Search Engine and how to search for free Information
10. How to download Ubuntu and other free softwares and from where
11. What is Wikipedia - How to make a Wikipedia account and create a page to share information on Wikipedia
12. Writing in Hindi on Desktop Computer and Hindi on Internet
13. Send an email in Hindi
14. How to search and find other Free Softwares - How to search for - and - block pornography -
15. Using a Digital Camera and uploading photos
16. How to compare software features
17. Creating a basic document, spreadsheet and Presentation using Free Software on Ubuntu and Emailing it.
18. Creating a free Blog - Apna Akhbar - MeraAkhbar - Create, Edit, Delete, Search
19. Create a Google Group for family and friends - news and details
20. How to book a Railway Ticket from the Indian Railways website / How to file an Online Income Tax Return / How to send an email to Laloo Yadav in Hindi
21. How to search for information from the Right to Information Act website - How to search for Hindi IT courses offered by Indian Institute of Technology / IIM and other top IT and management training institutes of India
22. How to book a web domain for a website and create a free Hindi website - if time permits
23. Any other interesting topic by Participants Demand
LokVidya IT KaryaShala Evam Manthan - July/August 2008 - Dehradoon
Duration - 7 Days
Format - A group of 50 - 60 participants will live together for 7 days and interact in loose group settings.
Costs : Free to participate - Organizations pay for their participants travel, hostel, stationary and food costs - Voluntary contributions welcome
Topic - LokVidya IT and related issues in context of and as relevant to - swadeshi samaj and IT hierarchies.
Access - Open to all age-groups, backgrounds and IT skill levels.
Girls and youth from Hindi speaking and rural background will get priority over English speaking and urban background participants in case hostel accommodation is exceeded.
Breakup - Groups of 10 participants will join together to form Teams. Each Team will have access to One Desktop Computer and Free Software.
Participants should be encouraged to ask questions and actively kill fear of Information Technology.
Leader of each group will be rated by the team on how cooperative and knowledgeable he or she is.
Is knowledge to be shared or to be kept secret and mystified ?
Participants - About 15 from each activist organization - Any participant who has a laptop can bring it along if it has Ubuntu loaded on it or wants Ubuntu loaded on it.
Medium of Instruction - Hindi and English
Proposed Content - A. Karyashala B. Manthan
Rough Outline of LokVidya IT - 1 - Course Content :
A. LokVidyaIT Karyashala and Manthan :
1. Demonstration of component parts of a Desktop Computer and UPS
2. Connecting and Installing a Computer with UPS - Power Connections - Internet connection
3. Examining an Ubuntu Linux CD
4. Installing Ubuntu Linux on a computer - independently by oneself - then reformatting Hard Disk and Reinstalling Ubuntu - Remove fear of Computers - Does Software cause a shock ? Brief discussion of Directory structure.
5. Reading and Discussing about Ubuntu software ownership and Terms of Use - Asking Who is making Free Software for Me and Why ?
Asking who is NOT making Free Software for me and Why ?
6. Tips for teaching others how to Ubuntu - especially children, youth and women
7. Creating a free Email Account and remembering Password details
8. Configuring speaker and multimedia connections
9. Search Engine and how to search for free Information
10. How to download Ubuntu and other free softwares and from where
11. What is Wikipedia - How to make a Wikipedia account and create a page to share information on Wikipedia
12. Writing in Hindi on Desktop Computer and Hindi on Internet
13. Send an email in Hindi
14. How to search and find other Free Softwares - How to search for - and - block pornography -
15. Using a Digital Camera and uploading photos
16. How to compare software features
17. Creating a basic document, spreadsheet and Presentation using Free Software on Ubuntu and Emailing it.
18. Creating a free Blog - Apna Akhbar - MeraAkhbar - Create, Edit, Delete, Search
19. Create a Google Group for family and friends - news and details
20. How to book a Railway Ticket from the Indian Railways website / How to file an Online Income Tax Return / How to send an email to Laloo Yadav in Hindi
21. How to search for information from the Right to Information Act website - How to search for Hindi IT courses offered by Indian Institute of Technology / IIM and other top IT and management training institutes of India
22. How to book a web domain for a website and create a free Hindi website - if time permits
23. Any other interesting topic by Participants Demand
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Students and Teachers Meetup in Kanpur and Lucknow
Primary and secondary school Indian teachers and students in Kanpur Lucknow -
Those who have been using Linux on their desktop, laptops and servers for some time now will be aware that it is now only 14 days left for the next version of Ubuntu and Kubuntu to be launched. We just cant wait for the greatest Linux desktop ever to hit the Indian markets especially for users in Kanpur and Lucknow.
To celebrate the launch of the Ubuntu and Kubuntu - Gutsy Gibbon Version 7.10 - we are organizing a snacks and soft drinks party for bright school children in Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Agra, Gorakhpur and Varanasi to get together and share Linux tips with other school children. We all know that the school children in Kanpur and Lucknow know more about Linux Ubuntu / Kubuntu than their computer science teachers and instructors who have never even heard of Ubuntu.
We are also organizing a get together for adults interested in computer basics and some samosas - come and join us in end of October. We will be distributing free CD of Ubuntu and Kubuntu - and the first 100 laptops will also qualify for a free learn and install Ubuntu and Kubuntu training session.
Please note all school children from English as well as Hindi medium schools in Kanpur and Lucknow are invited - Methodist, St. Mary, Christ Church, Central schools, Jaipuria, delhi Public school, DPS children who want to learn to play with Linux and learn free, open and non proprietory softwares are all welcome.
Feel free to ask questions - the top three best questions about if Linux is Best for Indian school students will receive designer UBUNTU T-shirts - so polish up your debating skills on Linux versus whatever ...
Contact Email : oskanpur@gmail.com
Check out the Ubuntu website and download your free Ubuntu from the nearest server. Please note that despite all the talk of Indian IT - there is still NO Indian server providing free downloads of Ubuntu and Linux. That is a pity when you consider how many IT professionals the IIM IIT and IIIT produce each year.
Ubuntu download page - http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
Hopefully soon some Indian IT science and technology bureaucrat will wake up from his sleep and offer free webservers for downloading Ubuntu from an Indian server for Indian children who want to learn Linux. Who knows what the S&T bureaucrats are planning once they get time off from teaching old stuff to Indian children ?
Those who have been using Linux on their desktop, laptops and servers for some time now will be aware that it is now only 14 days left for the next version of Ubuntu and Kubuntu to be launched. We just cant wait for the greatest Linux desktop ever to hit the Indian markets especially for users in Kanpur and Lucknow.
To celebrate the launch of the Ubuntu and Kubuntu - Gutsy Gibbon Version 7.10 - we are organizing a snacks and soft drinks party for bright school children in Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Agra, Gorakhpur and Varanasi to get together and share Linux tips with other school children. We all know that the school children in Kanpur and Lucknow know more about Linux Ubuntu / Kubuntu than their computer science teachers and instructors who have never even heard of Ubuntu.
We are also organizing a get together for adults interested in computer basics and some samosas - come and join us in end of October. We will be distributing free CD of Ubuntu and Kubuntu - and the first 100 laptops will also qualify for a free learn and install Ubuntu and Kubuntu training session.
Please note all school children from English as well as Hindi medium schools in Kanpur and Lucknow are invited - Methodist, St. Mary, Christ Church, Central schools, Jaipuria, delhi Public school, DPS children who want to learn to play with Linux and learn free, open and non proprietory softwares are all welcome.
Feel free to ask questions - the top three best questions about if Linux is Best for Indian school students will receive designer UBUNTU T-shirts - so polish up your debating skills on Linux versus whatever ...
Contact Email : oskanpur@gmail.com
Check out the Ubuntu website and download your free Ubuntu from the nearest server. Please note that despite all the talk of Indian IT - there is still NO Indian server providing free downloads of Ubuntu and Linux. That is a pity when you consider how many IT professionals the IIM IIT and IIIT produce each year.
Ubuntu download page - http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
Hopefully soon some Indian IT science and technology bureaucrat will wake up from his sleep and offer free webservers for downloading Ubuntu from an Indian server for Indian children who want to learn Linux. Who knows what the S&T bureaucrats are planning once they get time off from teaching old stuff to Indian children ?
Talented Ubuntu Linux Instructors in Kanpur Lucknow
Calling Kanpur based open source software programmers and website designers. We are looking for 2 User Interface designers with experience in designing easy to use web sites for Indian audiences.
Interviews will be held in Kanpur in first week of October. Please send -
1. Updated resume
2. Links of websites designed
Email to : oskanpur@gmail.com
Desirable experience : Ubuntu, C++ / PHP / MySQL / Zope / PostgreSQL / Plone, Python skills or in interacting with technical programmers in designing new websites
Interviews will be held in Kanpur in first week of October. Please send -
1. Updated resume
2. Links of websites designed
Email to : oskanpur@gmail.com
Desirable experience : Ubuntu, C++ / PHP / MySQL / Zope / PostgreSQL / Plone, Python skills or in interacting with technical programmers in designing new websites
Ubuntu Linux community and Education in Kanpur
Ubuntu Community and discussion group in Kanpur
Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/oskanpur
osKanpur Blog - http://oskanpur.blogspot.com/
osKanpur is a - Learn One Teach One - Ubuntu and Python Users and software development community for Kanpur Lucknow Varanasi Agra Mathura Gorakhpur Kathmandu Pokhara Patna
Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/oskanpur
osKanpur Blog - http://oskanpur.blogspot.com/
osKanpur is a - Learn One Teach One - Ubuntu and Python Users and software development community for Kanpur Lucknow Varanasi Agra Mathura Gorakhpur Kathmandu Pokhara Patna
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