Free Software Movement Karnataka ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಆಂದೋಲನ

The start of the year 2012 brings in a lot of new tasks and activities for FSMK, and we want to keep ourselves busy for the rest of the year with more enthusiasm and more encouragement.

We present to you FSMK Newsletter - January 2012.

Dear All,

Debian Developer and FreedomBox Jonas Smedegaard has been in Bangalore
and numerous events are being organized.
http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011#Bangalore

As a culmination to this stint of his stay in Bangalore, Jonas will be
handling a Debian Pure Blends packaging session at FSMK Office,
Bangalore.

Agenda:

1. Understanding the differences between Debian Derivatives/Debian
Blends/Debian Pureblends
2. Debian Pure Blend in a hands on session
3. Further interaction with Jonas on FreedomBox and other big plans in
the Free Software community

Free Software Movement of Karnataka, has released a press note expressing regret on the Software raids conducted on the small scale vendors/users in the name of violation of copy right laws.

FSMK appeals to small scale vendors who are dependent on these soft wares for their livelihood to not panic, as there are a number of "Free Software" alternatives for the proprietary software being used.

FSMK assures that its hundreds of free software volunteers would assist and train software users to switch over to Free software almost at free of cost and distribute Copy-left Free software.

FSMK will be organizing a 3 day programming course for students in 2nd or 3rd year in Engineering or BCA at FSMK office from 22nd to 24th July.
This course is based on C Programming language. The following topics will be covered in detail during the three day course:

Part 1:

Introduction to programming With GCC and GDB
Best Programming practices- Naming conventions, comments, creating libraries and header files
GCC - GNU Compiler
GDB - GNU Debugger
Profiling a C Program using GProf to help optimize the code

Part 2:

Data Structures with pointers and memory management

Free Software Movement-Karnataka has been working on spreading the ideology and technology Free Software embodies for a few years now.
As we primarily work with students, we need to encapsulate their ideas and perceptions in a better way.
FSMK Logo serves this purpose, and popular opinion has been that we need to revamp the current FSMK Logo (look at the page header).

The new logo should not drift away from the Free Software ideology and the objectives of FSMK. To clarify the details which will have to be embodied into the new logo, here are a set of specifications/suggestions:

ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ್ಯ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಚಳುವಳಿ ಇಂಡಿಯಾದ ಕಾರ್ಯವೈಖರಿಗೆ ಅನುಗುಣವಾಗಿ ಕಾರ್ಯ ನಿರ್ವಹಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ , ಫ್ರೀ ಸಾಫ್ಟ್ವೇರ್ ಮೂವ್ ಮೆಂಟ್ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ (ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಆಂದೋಲನ). ಈ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯು ತನ್ನ ಸರ್ವ ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಸಭೆಯನ್ನು ೦೭-೦೫-೨೦೧೧ ರಂದು, ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ವಿಲ್ಸನ್ ಗಾರ್ಡನ್ ಬಳಿ ಇರುವ ತನ್ನ ಕಚೇರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆಯೊಜಿಸಿತ್ತು. ಈ ಹಿಂದೆ ನಡೆಸಿದ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಗಳ ಮೌಲ್ಯ ಮಾಪನ ಮತ್ತು ಮುಂದಾಗಬೇಕಾದ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಗಳನ್ನು ಸರ್ವ ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಸಭೆಯ ಮುಂದಿಟ್ಟು, ಈ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗೆ ಅತ್ಯಗತ್ಯವಾಗಿದ್ದ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥಿತ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮವನ್ನು ಕಾರ್ಯರೂಪಕ್ಕೆ ತರಬೇಕೆಂಬ ಗುರಿ ಈ ಸಭೆಯದಾಗಿತ್ತು.

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If you believe that journalistic initiatives such as Wikileaks are important to sustain freedom in the Internet, while more importantly keeping our Democratic Governments at check.

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Dear FSMK GB Members:

While free software movement has caught on in the "backend", it has not yet caught on that much in the "frontend" or desktop. The former is due to mostly the "efficiency" argument but it also has opened an opportunity for the latter. However, even in developed markets,

Free Software Movement of Karnataka is conducting its general body meeting on 7th May 2011(Saturday) at FSMK office.

Address :

FSMK Office
No: 121/17,
Near Old Hari Lekshmi Theater
6th Main Road,
14th Cross,
Wilson Garden
Bangalore- 560030

Former vice-chancellor Prof. Chidananda Gowda will be inaugurating the meeting.
Convener of the organization will be presenting the report of last one year activities.
The general body will be electing new office bearers of the Organization.